^^LMAO. I love working out from home too, I literally haven’t set foot in a gym in over ten years. The gym is only fun for me if I have a workout buddy. Plus I can blast my own music and there’s no one to judge all my Beyonce+Slipknot playlists.
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^^LMAO. I love working out from home too, I literally haven’t set foot in a gym in over ten years. The gym is only fun for me if I have a workout buddy. Plus I can blast my own music and there’s no one to judge all my Beyonce+Slipknot playlists.
Same here, 7+ years of working out from home. I'd go at the gym only if I'd have some specific goals and I'd need a personal trainer (to reduce injury risk). Also, commuting, the fact that I have to change, shower, touch stuff after other people and smell/ feel their sweat. Nooooope :))) I was prepared for pandemic, way before it happened lolololol :)))
Okay I really need to start eating in more. I don't necessarily eat super healthy at home, but I usually make things from scratch and so my meals end up having less ingredients and less preservatives than already prepared food. I have a pimple on my cheek right now that looks like a third nipple, and I don't even normally get breakouts there let alone huge ones, and I have a feeling it has something to do with all the fast food and donuts I've been eating lately..... :detective
I ended up having 3 days off, because I took a way too long of a nap yesterday and I didn't have time to workout anymore. So today, back at it!
Warm up (6 min): https://www.fitnessblender.com/video...cardio-warm-up
Total Body HIIT (15 min): https://www.fitnessblender.com/video...-burn-fat-fast
Butt& thigh Strength (30 min)- it does include cool down too: https://www.fitnessblender.com/video...t-like-a-squat
Extra credit burn- bodyweight total body workout (8 min): https://www.fitnessblender.com/video...l-body-workout
Total: 60 minutes
I ended up doing 45 minutes on the spinning bike, because I had a slow day on cam and felt like watching some Netflix.
So I did this yesterday, instead.
Today's workout:
Upper body strength, cardio kickbox and power yoga (49 min): https://www.fitnessblender.com/video...d-yoga-workout
Extra credit challenge - chest workout with body weight only (10 min): https://www.fitnessblender.com/video...ithout-weights
Total: 59 minutes
I'm annoyed.
Got on the scale at the doctor yesterday. I lost 1 lb. since last December, despite working out 5 days a week. Wtf?
I had some blood drawn for some labs to see if I'm having issues with my thyroid and organs.
Hmmm, then let's take a survery test :D:D:D
1. How are your clothes fitting? Tigher/ looser/ same? When you work out and replace fat with muscles, muscles are more dense and you may be slimmer, while having same weight.
2. Have you measured yourself with a measuring tape? Same reasons as no. 1
3. Are you aware of your TDEE and your calorie intake? I mean, are you aware of how many calories are you eating, vs how many are you burning in a day? You may not have any calorie deficit and maybe that's why you don't lose weight. Maybe you're eating the calories you're burning at the gym and for that, you don't lose weight, because you don't create a deficit?
Let's debunk the mystery :))
For example, I burn about 1500 calories a day when I am completely sedentary and 2000 when I workout. So, for now I am eating 1200 calories, to have a 300-500 calorie deficit and lose weight. When I will reach my desired weight, I will increase my calorie intake at 1500 for sedentary days and 2000 for active days. So I don't gain or lose weight.
Doing it today. It was Easter here, this weekend, so I was busy, also spoiled myself a little, not gonna lie, I wasn't in the mood to workout. It was sunny outside and warm for the first time, so I went at the country side, both saturday and sunday and layed like a pig on the grass, doing nothing :)))
Thankfully, I was mindful of my calorie intake. Except yesterday, but I ate so little, that I don't think I ate more than 1600 calories (traditional food is calorie dense). I got used to eat like a bird, lol.
I have been doing good with my workouts, I also switched up the way I do them to where now the muscle group I'm trying to hit is toast WITHIN 30 minutes so it's easier to get them done with them being so much shorter. Food-wise........oh lord. Ate another dozen Krispy Kreme's the other day and made a batch of homemade donuts today, and when I do that that means donuts are the only thing I'll eat the whole day since they have to be eaten the same day and they're so filling. I've also been making a lot of mac and cheese trying to use up the extra cheese I have laying around and when that's gone I want to make some more vareniki to use up more ingredients. So basically it's a carbfest over here. When I have used all the ingredients up I do plan to start eating more meats and vegetables.
Why are donuts so good :ashamed: :ashamed: :ashamed:
New goal is cutting way back on coffee because I can tell I have been drinking too much. I still want my placebo effect though so every time I make a batch I am just making it weaker and weaker, eventually it will get to where there the amount of caffeine is marginal.
I haven't work out yesterday and I also ate more than I burned in a day. I didn't know I am going to burn that little, but it was expected tho, because I did NOTHING. I ate 1700 calories (I actually managed to fit into my 1200 calorie goal, but then there was a leftover desert from my grandma and it was 250 calories, so I said fuck it and ate it. And then 10 minutes later, my bf comes home with 2 ice creams to enjoy while watching some series. And he took care to not exceed 250 calories so i can enjoy it too... and yeah... i didn't want to be a jerk hahaha. So I enjoyed it, lol). I looked at the fitbit stats for yesterday and I see I burned 1600, lol.
Today I must workout no matter what. And not exceed my 1200 calories. I can tell I ate too much sugar yesterday, I am HUNGRY and it's not even breakfast time!
I realised after talking to my sports massage therapist that I haven't used machines in the gym for years and years, but that I could've been getting better results if I had. I've had it in my head that only free weights are any good, but I recently got injured and am accepting that I need the support of machines until I am healed and able to lift with decent technique (poor technique and muscle imbalance being what caused my recent injury). It's a relief knowing I can still train.
Skipped workout yesterday again. And screwed my diet again. Period came and I was feeling like shit so I ate burgers and fries. I closed the myfitnesspal at 2000 calories, while fitbit shown me i burned 1600 calories the whole day. Sweet :)))) But at least I know why I was so damn tired and moody... damn period.
No excuses today.
Yesterday I did a mile on the bike then pretended to work out longer. :/
Today is the real workout ( 4-5 miles ).
Just did 4, May return for one more.
I am back doing my 5-10 mile walks by the ocean.. this is what helped me slowly lose 20 lbs and tone up.. I look so much better now and I'm fitting into my old jeans that I wore when I was at my peak figure and danced 4x a week.
Would definitely recommend this to anyone. It is rumored to have EMDR benefits too so good for dealing with trauma.
Would like to fit in my jeans again, I've gained inches on my waist but don't really need to lose weight. Played Ring Fit for 45 min and walked for 45 min yesterday. Doing the same today, Ring Fit already done.
Been offline from dieting, workout and cam for the past 5 days. I didn't count calories, I didn't workout, I just walked a lot tho... so anyway, back to grind. I didn't weigh myself because I don't wanna get depressed, so for the next 10 days I do my 1200 calorie goal and my 1hours workouts and then see what the scale and clothes look like.
Yep, still at that upper body bitch that I rescheduled for a week already. Time to tackle it!
Apparently I've been super lazy to do traditional workouts lately and I am recognizing that phase, but this time things worked in my favor. Everytime I wanted to skip a traditonal workout, I'd force myself to get on the spinning bike and pedal for 45 minutes. I burn exactly same amount of calories, I sweat like crazy and I get to enjoy some Netflix while pedalling. I already gained some strength and endurance (Started from being totally defeated after 20-25 minutes), so I will increase to 55 minutes, next week.. I guess that's the only workouts I'll do for now, until I get bored of bike and switch back to traditional workouts.
I finally recognize some cycles, where I just need to switch workout types instead of abandoning altogheter.
I got bored of fitnessblender for now, so I am pausing their workout program. Time to tackle someone I never liked (or better said, I have avoided like plague), which is... Chloe Ting.
For some reason, I always got all kind of trashy reviews about her on my youtube feed and in the same time, I get all kind of youtube compilations with before/after tiktoks with her challenges (also a lot of reddit before and afters in weight loss subreddits) and people seem to really get results so, I decided to give a chance. Because we all know that sometimes, someone gets underserved hate. I heard all kind of stuff, from promoting unhealthy workout routines, being clueless about what she does, that she's succesful only because she's pretty and other trash oppinions, but I never actually did cross trough my mind to be like: "Wait, maybe she's not all that and maybe people are just jelaous and hateful". I have enough workout experience to not follow all of the advice she gives and listen to my body and modify movements if something is wrong.
I see she has some free workout challenges and I will start with a 2 weeks one.
I love my spinning bike, perfect for when i am lazy, but I really need to do some upper body and abs stuff, because I am only working on my legs. 2 weeks will be enough to see if I like her workouts and add her to my routines, it's gonna be something fresh!
Here's the link if anyone interested https://chloeting.com/program/2021/2...hred-challenge
I tried some of Chole Tings workouts before. I think she is good. I found them hard but I'm sure someone who is actually fit can do.
So I think my 'split' is: day 1.) glutes & hamstrings, day 2.) upper body, day 3.) quads, day 4.) rest, then repeat. Quad day is both my favorite and least favorite; it's the hardest workout by FAR, but it's so hard that it's my shortest workout. I wish I was able to fatigue my other muscles the way I'm able to fatigue my quads but I haven't figured out how. Although maybe I do fatigue them the same but it just doesn't feel the same since I'm quad dominant.
I play ring fit adventure for the nintendo switch to workout and thanks to a discord accountability group I've done 100 min of ring fit exercise!
I want to get a skipping rope. I had one but have not seen it since moving.