Sleepy post

Another few days have passed, I have finished another exam, been to the gym a couple of times (maybe only once), and yeah, nothing much really. My life is very uninteresting at the moment, the most fun I’ve had all week was to have coffee with a friend I haven’t seen in a few months.

Anyways, I figured I would try to tell you about my training program. It’s not the most sophisticated but it suits me fine, for now 🙂

I usually warm up on the treadmill with some uphill walking, for about ten minutes. Then, because I’m NO fan of running, I do intervals. I started a little under a month ago with 8 intervals of 20 seconds, with 10 second brakes. Started with the treadmill on 15 km/hr (9.3 miles/hr), and have now increased to 15.5 km/hr and 10 intervals. The goal is to reach 20 intervals at 16 km/hr by the end of January.

Since you should never skip leg day..

I try to start doing squats or dead lifts. I do one or the other, and always at the beginning of the weight training because it’s important to do it correctly, not get hurt because you are tired and do it wrong. I also read somewhere you have better effect of your training if you do legs before the upper body (don’t know if it’s true).

I have been doing dead lifts for a few years, so I’m quite comfortable with the technique, so I lift as much as I can do 3 sets of 5. Which as the moment is 40 kg (88 lbs).
Squats on the other hand is not my strongest suit. So when I’m alone at the gym, the most important thing is to get them right, so I just do 25-30 kg (55-66 lbs).

My goal is to do at least 80 kg (176 lbs) dead lift, and 60 kg (132 lbs) squats, by February. It’s a long shot, but if I’m able to keep training during the Christmas holiday at home, and with some help at the gym, it’s doable.

I’ll tell you more about the rest of my training program another day, right now I must sleep (all those training sessions makes me sleepy).

Sweet dreams

Study break

I don’t really have to time to write much, but I really need a break from studying. It’s been some slow days, still struggling to get energy, yesterday was very bad, but today is fortunately better. Went to the gym and had an okay session, not awesome, but good enough 🙂

I’m always super hungry after I have been to the gym, so a fast meal like this is gold

Might not look to delicate, but is is yummy and good for you. It’s cottage cheese, half an apple, half a cup of blueberries, almonds and walnuts! High in protein, good fat and sort of healthy carbs. Gave me the energy to study for a few hours, and that is not bad.

Oh well, study time again, wish me luck! 🙂

Sunday aint no funday!

The day didn’t start out great, and 6 hours later I still haven’t accomplished anything. Sorry, other than going on the scale and weighing myself, not a pretty sight, but that’s gonna change now!

So the  weight is 77.1 kilograms (169.9 lbs), with a height of 169 centimeters (5.54) it gives me a BMI of 27, meaning I’m overweight. But I’m not too concerned about the weight, it’s the measurements that are important, but being a poor and busy student I haven’t bought a measuring tape yet, hope to do that over the next few days.

The plan for this Sunday was to study and go to the gym. Since I’ve experienced lack of energy, I haven’t studied at all, I’ve been stuck on the coach or in the bed half a sleep. I’m going to go to the doctor to find out if I lack anything.

In an attempt to get something out of the day, I made some protein pancakes with blueberries, raspberries and some lean vanilla quark.

It sort of worked, because I managed to drag my ass over to the gym and the treadmill. It took me 35 minutes to get 5 km on the treadmill, which is very okay for a day like this. At least I went to the gym, and didn’t just stay at home eating. Tomorrow will be a rest day, hopefully I will go back to the gym Tuesday, but we’ll see how the studying goes.

But not I have no more energy left, so have a good one! 🙂

Day 1 (sort of)

I’m a very reasonable girl, being a master student and all, I’m starting a blog instead of studying for the exam I might fail in 4.5 days. Oh well, what can you do?!
I have decided to write this blog in English, but it is not my first language, so please keep that in mind before you get pissed about my spelling or grammar errors (which I become all the time in my native language, I’ll work on that, promise), and there is always Google Translate..

I am closer to being 30 than being 20, but I have decided not to care about that since I’m not behaving my age, or spending time with many people my age. I live in one of Europe’s capitals for the moment, a city where I have lived for a little over three months now, for the previous mentioned studies.

I’m going to start this blog without telling you too much about myself, don’t know if I want my friends or family to see this yet, so at least I can blog while I figure that out (don’t ask).

Anyways, the reason I actually started this blog is to keep track of the progress I might be making at the gym. I’m no body builder nor severely overweight, just an average girls with a little more weight than needed.

I play a sport, which I will probably reveal quite soon, but not today, it is a physical demanding sport, so i also train for that.

I’m going to publish 3 pictures of myself, which were taken a few days ago (promise I don’t look much different now). I have removed my head from them, but don’t worry, it’s still connected to my body 🙂 Don’t know my weight at the moment, but I will tell you, dear reader, as soon as I know.

So here we go, I’m going to let you see what I rarely show anyone.

It’s not that easy taking full body ‘selfies’ but I did my best, and you get the picture, literally. So I hope you will follow me on this journey to hopefully become happy with my body, for maybe the first time in my life 🙂