COOOOOREEE

Image not totally unrelated. Maaan, I am fighting a battle against something I used to do every damn day. This is entirely my own fault, but damn it I am going to win this war. Damn you "core" routine, you will be my bitch >: I

So this started because I didn't work out at all over Christmas/New Year. I thought that I'd just be able to get back in and keep goin from where I left off? How very wrong I was.

This is what is defeating me:

Stretches/Deep Stretches

Regular stretching routine plus some yoga mixed in, focus on breathing to relax any fatigue from previous day/general household work.

Warmup

Four songs of at least 3 mins length, the key is to start slowly and build up your movements until you're lightly perspiring and your heartrate has increased. It is totally okay to look like you're having some sort of fit at this point, you really need to concentrate on stretching and moving all the muscles you are going to work out.

Core 1

20 of each of the following:

Minicrunches (to get abs to work properly)

Twist Crunches

Push ups

Crunches

Slow Squats

Push Ups

Crunches

Slow Squats

Twist Crunches

Cardio 1

20 minutes of skipping (with rope)

Core 2

Sideways leg lifts (20 on each side)

Push ups

Crunches

Squats

Push ups

Crunches

Squats

Pass-the-pillow

Cardio 2/warm down

6 tracks of minimum 3 minutes in length, with a focus on really breaking a sweat and actually dancing not just waving your arms around in a wild spasm. Your heart rate should really be going at this point.

Cooldown/Stretches

keep moving, and use a further 2 tracks to cool down, make sure you shake out all the bits you exercised properly, and be sure to stretch them all again. At this point you should also rehydrate and take any protein supplements that you are using to accompany your workouts.

I cannot get past Cardio 1. I get to about 150 skips and DIE. If I'd have realised that 6 weeks of not working out at all or even really breaking a sweat could reduce my lung capacity by this much, I seriously would not have stopped. Ow.

So my goal for this week is to be able to do a full Core routine. This is just my monday exercise schedule, every day will be different although this will be the hardest and push me the farthest. So if I can't even do this, then I don't think I'll be able to get to my target weight/bulk for summer. I haven't even started taking the protein yet!

BLEH.

Plus pretty much all I can think about right now is sex. Which isn't helping.

Pictures!

Ahh forgive me reader, for I have been a lazy ass. Ahh~ things got busy again and my blogs always suffer, you'd think that having more to write about would have the opposite effect but apparently my co-ordination is just not that smooth.

Anyway!

Pictures:
And, incase you can't tell the difference between this horribly and somehow totally jaundiced picture (ahh I can't even remember how I saved this, I am so tired) heres some annotations:
I don't know why it is sepia toned. I need to go to bed. Anyway if you can't read the labels: PECS! BIGGER ARMS! TIGHTER STOMACH! :3

- SR

Day 2- uhm... Something.

I've had all sorts of connection trouble in the evenings these past few weeks, and can you guess what time of day I usually get to blog about working out? I haven't stopped but I also haven't been doing a full workout since my last post, so today is day 21 really. I did a full routine and now I am tired and hot but damned do I feel good.

This: omigosh. Is my current favourite thing. And I really want to make an animation for this but I don't really have enough time during the day to do more than one animation a week.

And this week is a my thingie thing for youtube. I'll post on my main blog when its done.

Luff and stuff - SR

OH I'm going to post results pictures HERE next Friday, so thats the 11th of June incase you're confused by that colloquial term. Look forward to some topless britishness or something.

Day 20: Late

Yesterday I only did a light workout, but today I did a full one, but I didn't get time to do the blog until just now, aaaaand now its time to sleep. I'll do two or three days fine and then have a day where its really difficult to work out, not because I am tired but because I just don't feel like it. This could be because results day for my recent hospital appointment is tomorrow, but it might not be. I dunno.

Bleh.

Today's workout was nearly the full one that I posted earlier, though I keep missing bits out, I am getting closer to having a perfect routine for my body. I have added a new kind of situp to the core section which will apparently flatten my abs more, and I have also added a cardio section to the weights using my lightest pair.

So theres progress being made :D

My flex pecs are getting a lot bigger, and its starting to show when I am not flexed, my tshirts drape now which is nice. My abs are also starting to show a little bit, theres still a reserve of fat on my stomach but when I am moving around and doing stuff the shadow of the pecs is starting to show through, my six pack should be perfectly symmetrical and quite large. Oh my.

Things are goin good towards the pride toplessness! Pictures in ten workout days! Woooo!

- SR

Day 19: Flextorals

I've gotten into an odd kind of habit I never thought I would ever have. I am now prone to wanton flexing of my pecs and then gazing at my reflection in various surfaces. So either at some point I fell in love with myself, or this is part of the whole body toning process. Probably more of a than b.

Bleh. My body is in kind of a transitional phase at the moment. I can feel things being built in my stomach region but nothing is emerging from the flat yet. Since I am trying to get used to being topless by being topless, I have noticed that my two uppermost abdominals are emerging first, and that the two little gullies either side of each hip bone have returned (they vanished last year when I was really sick). Yeah I have no idea.

I have to go draw comics now because I was outside all day and not doing what I was supposed to be doing. But it was so nice I couldn't stay indoors! Though the heat has meant that I am drinking a lot more, I am suprised I haven't started to bloat from water retention yet.

- SR

Hrrm this was supposed to be entertaining. I'll work on that.

Day 18: (Part two) Baked Potato

With my newfound gymspiration I found that working out became more of a focused thing than a "hey I want to do this today because its fun and I like it". However I forgot to factor in the heat. Bleh! Apparently summer is going to be much hotter than our current heatwave, so I am going to start working out in the morning. Around about 9 - 10 am the house is still quite cool, and theres plenty of time to get hydrated and take a cool bath or shower.

Man.

I was so overheated I wasn't even able to complete a full workout session, I started getting cramps in my obliques so I had to stop early on my core workout and move onto the weights and final cardio. The cramps have gone now, but I seriously thought that I was going to pop like a sausage.

Speaking of I think its grilled food and salad tomorrow. Lush.

- SR

Day 18: (Part one) Gymspiration!

Okay so I am double posting today. I lost motivation due to fear over the results of an STI test, though now that I have had the test done, I am much calmer and able to actually function again. My day for taking the one month pictures has now moved but that might work out a bit better because now I have found some new inspiration for working out.

Today I was at Bradford Pride, and its a shame that I didn't take any pictures of him, but there was a dancer on stage. He had the body type which I want, and not only was he not super camp but kind of masculine, he was also a hypnotic dancer, and I spent at least three songs just staring at him with admiration.

One day I will do that.

My next goal is to be able to go topless in public for at least a little bit during Leeds Pride, so before then I am going to make sure that I build my pecs to a decent size and get some definition on my abs as well as a little colour into my skin. If the current heatwave continues that will be awesome and entirely possible.

I have until August. Two months to achieve the results I want? Bring it!

- SR

Another post later with todays post-workout show. Oh my.

Day 17: Juuust not feeling it.

I was just not in the mood today. I tried, but things weren't loosening or warming up and the mdolphins just weren't swimming. Its probably related to anxieties about friday. Anyway heres the before pic I was too self conscious to show you before:

Aaaand I think I know why my ex and I didn't have sex at all really in the final months. Or ever. Great.
I wish I could fast forward through the gum clinic testing and just get to the results and have them be good ARGH! I hate this bit. I always stress out and ruin everything. I'll try with some stretches later. Bleh. ... I need a hug.

- SR

Day 15: I meant to do this yesterday-

-but I was too drunk. Ahh man it felt soo good to let go and get completely hammered. Unfortunately all that plonk is still in my system, and I can't even do a push-up right now without meandering on the way up so I have to wait till I return to sobriety. Ahh~ I talked to the boy I like all night.

And THIS and THIS and also THIS.

...

Oh right this is about exercise. Uhm. I discovered that I have a really bouncy bed. When I switched to doing situps on the floor (I had to wait until I had accumulated enough of a butt so that I wasn't scraping my spine out on the carpet), so now 20 situps is kinda difficult, but on the bed its way too easy. I wonder how much of my sexual prowess is down to this matress and its bounce.

Well my ex didn't complain.

But my neighbour did.

Hahaha!

- SR

Day 13: Can I have my lung back?

Ahh mum. You know how she greeted me today? "Oh, maybe you have consumption". Thats nice. She also told me I looked like a corpse and that I should be in bed. After working out today, I think I should be in a morgue.

God.

Exercising through the flu was much easier than this.

- SR

No links today, but I might embed a funeral video tomorrow. You know, gotta continue them themes.

Day 12: Okay so...

Yesterday was a total non-event. I can't work out if I am hungry, and it was my parents turn to cook. We ate at a quarter to twelve. For serious. So yeah, I'm gonna put a stop to that one in the name of pecs and abs, because I can't build muscle without fuel.

I think I need to up the number of reps I am doing even though I only just established the routine. I am doing everything the same as usual but I am just not feeling it. Normally 20 of one and 20 of the other would make me feel a definate burn but now its just like "oh... uhm wanna do ten more?". Saaa. 18 (workout) days till 1 month pics :O

Ahh bathtime: this and this are currently piquing my interest. - SR

Day 9: Well what the hell do you do with these?

I used to have pretty amazing legs and a butt that was bouncy and delicious, but since walking 2 miles up and down hill every day is no longer a necessity, I'm finding it difficult to exercise them properly. Now that my routine is starting to have changes I can feel on my upper torso, I don't want to leave my legs un-challenged, because having a ripped top half and a reedy bottom half is totally lame-o.

I mean, they get a pretty good workout when I do my cardio, which at the moment consists of chasing a dog around a field trying to get whatever is in his mouth, and about 5 minutes of dancing as a warmdown. But I really want to do something which specifically targets them. I will have to look something up.

Today I feel pretty good. I actually catch myself smiling when I am working out now. Though I could do with a neck massage... for serious.

I wonder if this grinning thing has anything to do with my crush...

- SR