Category: Life

Trainingsplan #1

My first weight trainingsplan goes from November 1st to December 12th 2013. I slowly, slowly increase on weight, yet I have to keep in mind that 15 repetitions is quite a lot! My trainer knows I want to gain muscle so I hope my next plans will slowly go from less weight / more repetitions to more weight / less repetitions.
Currently (I still do the strength circuit as well):

  1. Butterfly: 2 x 15, 10 kg
  2. Pulley sitting: 2 x 15, 15 kg
  3. Pulley standing: 2 x 15, 8 kg
  4. Bizeps pulley: 2 x 15, 5 – 7,5 kg
  5. Trizeps pulley: 2 x 15, 5 – 7,5 kg
  6. Calves with dumbbells: 2 x 15, 8 kg
  7. Adductor: 2 x 15, 30 kg
  8. Abductor: 2 x 15, 30 kg
  9. TRX crunch: 2 x 15
  10. Crunch sideways: 2 x 15
  11. Total Abdomen: 2 x 15, 27,5 – 30 kg

It’s been 6 months since I joined the gym – wow! I’m happy to say that I’ve been to the gym very regularly. October was the only month I didn’t go a lot due to business-projects and not being in town, but other than that there are hardly any gaps. My gym days are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and either Saturday or Sunday (or both, if I don’t go on Friday).
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There’s one big problem I’m facing though – I eat a bunch of sweets every evening. I, as a certified nutritionist, should know a lot better. I do know, I just can’t resist. I know I shouldn’t even buy that crap. I don’t know for how longs it’s been going (my sugar addiction) but I’m guessing since September. I buy too much sweets and can’t stop eating them, which means an additional 500-1000 calories (whoa!!) every evening through sweets. 🙁
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It’s amazing I only have 17% body-fat, I can’t even imagine that the machine is right… My belly, if I don’t flex it after I have eaten, looks like I’m pregnant. It’s a big ball. Also in the mornings it’s a little too big for my taste, and I blame the sweets.
Ok, so, my next goal is to get those sweets out of my daily life. I eat healthy every day so I’m annoying myself that after the gym, after the shower, after dinner, on the couch, I walk into the kitchen and look for which yummy sweets I can eat. And it’s not only one piece of chocolate, no, it’s the whole bar of chocolate! Sigh, this will be hard…

Worst.Thing.Ever

Tuesdays I have one hour of TRX.

It already happened to me once that I go to TRX and noticed – damn, I forgot to shave my armpits!!
It’s not like I have a big bush, but I tend to let it grow a bit before I shave because my skin is way too sensitive there and I will bleed and get pimples and be all red if I shave every day.

So anyway, today was one of those days. I wanted to shave yesterday evening after my shower and forgot. Today at work I remembered.

I then went down to the store which is in the same building as my work and bought a couple of razors. I then, in the first time of history, shaved my armpits in the womens bathroom (sssht, don’t tell). I felt so much better after, there’s nothing more embarrassing than making a workout with a trainer and having armpit-hair!

Now I have about five razors at work.

The day I got stung by a bee

The day I got stung was yesterday. Just thought I’d keep it as a memory on my online diary. The bee flew into my sleeve and after I noticed (and paniced) it stung. So my wrist is swollen. Nothing else happened yesterday, other that I figured out I’m not allergic to a bee-sting.

Today I did nothing. Well, not nothing, I rearranged the living- and dining room, helped my mom in the morning with the great Teamviewer I installed on my and her PC (why did I come up with this idea sooooo late???), helped my dad with his iPad and Skype by Teamviewer this evening, had coffee with a friend. Watched “despicable me” twice (well, I let it run for entertainment while rearranging).
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I didn’t go to the gym today, so I missed step-aerobic and belly-legs-tushy, which I love to do on a Sunday morning but I just wasn’t in the mood. I made a 30 min workout yesterday, I’m happy I did. The BF went cycling in the alps, the weather today is/was quite nice again (after it rained the last two weeks) but I wasn’t in the mood for that either… too cold! 😉

This weekend was full of yummy cakes and sweets. Way too much of course. I’m happy the weather this coming week should be good so I can go to work by bike again, 2 hours of biking, nice.

My left knee is causing me problems at the moment, I can hardly hunker down. But it’s been causing me problems every now and again after my joint capsule ripped 10000 years ago. It’s just got to get used to the strength training I guess.

Now I’ll go check on the results of the Bundestag elections which have been today. And wait for the BF to come home with my veggy pizza…

Quotes I love from “Despicable Me”

I LOVE this movie. So much!

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And these are my favorite quotes, taken from imdb.com.

Gru: [to Miss Hattie] You are a beautiful woman. Do you speak Spanish?
Miss Hattie: Do I look like I speak Spanish?
Gru: You have a face… Como un burro.
Miss Hattie: Oh! Well, thank you!

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[repeated line]
Gru: Light bulb!

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Edith: Are these beds made out of bombs?
Gru: Yes, but they are very old and highly unlikely to blow up. But try not to toss and turn.
Edith: Cool!

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Agnes: I like him. He’s nice.
Edith: He’s scary.
Agnes: Like Santa.

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Agnes: Will you read us a bedtime story?
Gru: No.
Agnes: Pretty please?
Gru: The physical appearance of the please makes no difference.

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Gru: [reading book] “Three little kittens love to play. They had fun in the sun all day. Then their mother came out and said, ‘Time for kittens to go to bed’.”
[looks up]
Gru: Wow, this is garbage. You actually like this?

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Agnes: [re the stuffed unicorn] He’s so fluffy, I’m gonna die!

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Agnes: Why are you wearing your pajamas?
Vector: They’re not pajamas! It’s my warm-up suit.
Agnes: Why do you need warming up for?
Vector: For doing stuff.
Margo: What kind of stuff?
Vector: Super-cool stuff you wouldn’t understand.
Agnes: Like sleeping?

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Vector: [stranded on the moon] Oh, poop!

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[repeated line]
Vector: Oh yeaaaaahhh!

This evil thing named “fruit”

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Ok, so this is a “What the Fudge?!” rant.

Why is it sooo weird (or I don’t know what) for some people I work with if I eat fruit (or like to eat fruit)?
I eat fruit and veggies daily.
I eat my veggies for dinner and my fruit at work, seeing I spend most of my active day at work (how sad), it’s a good snack, it’s got nutrients and I’m just not in the mood to eat fruit in the evening (unless I make a shake).
I eat at least three different fruits a day, apples, nectarines, pears, grapes, mangos… you name it. It’s boring to always eat the same. So, at the beginning of the week I go shopping for fruits. Seeing the week has five working days I buy 5 times 3 fruits. Meaning, I’ve got about 15 fruits in my fruit bowl (at the moment I’ve got apples, pears and nectarines). They’ll last for the whole week, I only have to go shopping once.
It’s weird for people who visit me in my office to see that bowl full of fruits. They’ll ask me “LOL are you selling this? Is this just for decoration? What – You are actually EATING this?!?!” When they see me cutting my fruit in the kitchen to mix it with cereal or yogurt they mostly comment. “Oh, you always eat soo healthy” is one of the most comments I get.
It gets annoying after you’ve heard it for a few times. Now I just smile and say “yes” – in the beginning I always felt that I had to justify why I’m eating fruit.

And I wonder why the hell is it so not-normal for people if someone eats a lot of fruit. I wonder if those people never eat fruit? If their wifes (yes, it’s mostly the men who eat no fruit at work at all) never buy fruit for them because fruit is bleh and too healthy and just bleh?!
Are the women who see me eat fruit frustrated because they’d rather eat a sandwich or a candy bar as a snack and know that an apple is healthier than a Snickers?

I don’t know…