Well, after popular demand I have decided to share publicly the ways I stay fit and maintain a fairly "unhealthy" lifestyle. Anyone that knows me understands that I am a fitness freak. I love to workout, play sports, and eat healthily. However, I also drink a lot, go out a lot, don't sleep well and work at least 50 hours per week. I am here to share how I stay active yet keep the life that I like to live. I mean, who seriously eats a strict low fat, low (or no) carb diet rich in fruits and veggies EVERY DAY?? Come on, that's bullshit. I try to the best of my ability to eat well, but let's be honest, I ate an entire buffalo chicken calzone yesterday along with two 40's and multiple shots - it was Saturday!! Although I did hit the gym for two hours. It's all about moderation. I am usually pretty strict with my diet during the work week and slack off on the weekends. I am typically pretty dead after work, so I frequent the gym (I go to the YMCA in Oak Square) before work from 6am to 7. I am going to try to update every day my workouts and diet. I am just hoping some of my friends will learn some new things and share what they do too!
My first entry is dedicated to weight lifting. My BIGGEST pet peeve is chicks that don't lift weights because they don't want to get "big" or "buff". OMG SHUTUP. You will NOT get big from lifting weights. Actually, on the contrary, you will shrink in size. Muscle mass burns calories at rest. Meaning that today while I sit on my ass and check facebook, I am burning more calories than someone who doesn't lift. Girls, pick up the damn weights, and please, challenge yourselves. Five pound bicep curls are not really building muscle. For some perspective, I typically use 20-25 pound dumbbells for bicep curls. So please, next time you're at the gym - jump of the treadmill or elliptical (don't even get me STARTED on how useless the elliptical is...) and hit the weights. Let me share part of my workout from yesterday:
Set of 21 bicep curls - using 25 dumbbells:
- 7 from bottom to halfway
- 7 from halfway to top
- 7 full curls
- then HOLD halfway for 20-30 seconds. The fancy term for that is called isometric contraction.
You should normally work the opposing muscle group as well. In this case that would be triceps.
I did several sets of 10 reps of tricep bench dips. I use two benches. One to place my hands (fingers facing your body) and one to place my feet on.
I also did some hammer curls (20pounds) - this works a little different area of the bicep, so you can look more jacked all over!!
bicep curls using a 60 pound bar
One armed tricep overhead extension (20pounds)
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This is great, so happy you finally got this going!!
ReplyDeletecongrats on starting this blog!!! i am also a boston area blogger - wanted to share bostonbloggers.com w/ you - it'll introduce you to tons of other food & fitness bloggers :) click the 'bloggers' link at the top and you'll get a huge link list!
ReplyDeletei agree w/ you about lifting. i am really big on strength training when i work out, but i don't work out as much as i should!