Moxie for Life

I feel like garbage today, but I like my arms. Go figure. I may have some muscle to show in May after all.

WTH? Um, Columbus better warm up a bit for this West Coast girl. Holy cow. I do not have clothes for that weather….and a chance of snow. What was I thinking? Arnold, could we move the Expo this way next year? For goodness sakes you live here now!

I think you can see an inkling of Ab muscles peeking out.

Maybe?

And thank you all for your sweet comments about my son.  He is truly a one of a kind! I’m a bit biased. Oh, and yeah, my kids cannot disown me- they all look a lot like me. I like to make them consistent.

I don’t post much family related stuff here,  but I love this picture. Thought you might enjoy it, too. My silly boy Riley in a snow hole.

No, not that election. That’s later.

Should we get this…

or this…

We need a bed. Ours is almost 13 years old, but it doesn’t disturb our sleep much, if at all.

Our treadmill was $80 on Craigslist two years ago. A Sears, bottom of the line, no incline, basic treadmill. It worked, until now. We have outgrown it. It is very narrow and makes changing up the workout difficult. Plus, now and then the motor seems like it gets stuck and you suddenly stop running for a split second. I see myself flying off in the near future.

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What would you do? We can’t do both right now. It may seem obsessive, but I’m leaning towards the treamill. Sick. I’m sick.

Officially 12 weeks away from my third competition. I will be competing inthe Natural ABA  instead of NPC this time, on May 1oth. I may have a better chance of not looking like a scrawny wanna be in this organization. The word on the streets is that many girls NPC use things for enhancement that I will never use. I mean even on the local level? Come on. Have some scruples for goodness sakes. Oh yeah, and I don’t want a penis. I’ve read the horror stories of steroids. Granted they are probably extreme cases of girls wanting to be huge, but still, it’s enough to keep me away. Give me some eggs and oatmeal and I’m good.

I’m still planning to compete in fitness, but that is further on down since I need A LOT of work there. Splits are coming slooooowly. I’ll have to measure tonight to see if there has been any progress. I admit since I have been working on trimming up for the Arnold the splits watch got pushed back, but it needs to come out. I’m gonna try to make it to some Yoga classes to increase my flexibility. I think I need to be a full time gym rat. That would work well for me. Drop the kids of at school and then just go there for like 4 hours.

I took a picture  of my breakfast, but I don’t want to bum anyone out that hasn’t seen fruit for weeks. Maybe later.

14 days ’til Arnold and meeting all the BFL people. I’m very excited, but I won’t get to see two of my main peeps…Beka and April. I’m sad about this. Sad. Very sad.  A moment of silence, please.——————————————————

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Stef has a packed schedule for us. I love it. I feel like I’m going on a tour and she will be the director. All I have to do is show up and participate. I love trips like that. No thinking. Also, Beka said to relax the food then, too.  So that will be nice. Thanks, B.

Alright,  got the day off and full of stuff to do around the house. We are going to the snow Sunday so I gotta gather up snow stuff. We California people don’t have that stuff on hand. Yay thrift stores!

Have a great one!

What do you call the muscle that is on the side of your ribs? Is it a continuation of the lats? Obliques? Well, that’s where I’m sore. And my butt.  And my hams. I did two machines yesterday that I never do. Seated leg curls and those butt blaster thingy’s. Awesome. I seriously love that feeling. It is almost as if the muscle is screaming. “What? Why? We’ve never done this before! Why now? Do you realized you won’t walk right tomorrow?”

Anyway, I took my update pics and am seriously happy. I mean I know I have really been pushing myself with some crazy interval cardio and trying to up my weights as much as possible, so some  progress is in order. I’m only on two basic supps right now, so that is quite cool. Diet and some kick a$$ workouts…that’s it. My body seems to love the eating cycle I’m on.

And…tonight, we cheat! Jared and I will be celebrating our hard work and progress by having some big ‘ole burritos! YUM!

Ok, so here’s the proof. Sorry, not a photoshop pro.

I am so tired right now. I worked my self out so hard. I just kept thinking of all those other girls jogging at 4.2 and ran faster. I did more push ups and pull ups than any of them. Those other girls better be ready to Bring. IT.

My title refers to the fact that I’m trying to do everything I can to make my mornings fast. I’ve got omlettes and oatmeal pre-made. Chicken made and easy pouches of brown rice. I got my haircut…but I think it needs to be a bit shorter. It still took me a bit to dry it this morning.

And, for fun after my killer cardio, I took some arm shots.

This article by Craig Harper is great. I found him through Stef and throughly enjoy his writing style. His posts are super short but they are easy and fun reading with a great point. If you can’t get through the whole thing, at least read the last part. I’m a skimmer and I actually can read all the posts in full, so they must be interesting. Enjoy

Oh yes, and thank you for all the sweet comments about my pictures and progress. Seriously, if I didn’t have you guys to fall back on, I would have been stuffing my face full of Zinger’s Friday night. May you be blessed for your kindness.