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Listening to your body – even when it tells you BAD NEWS!
Posted by buffmother in BuffMother, Michelle Berger, Fitness, contests, rally room on January 18th, 2010
Listening to your body- even when it tells you BAD NEWS! is the lesson I’ve learned this weekend. I’ve been pretty much ignoring my body’s plea to STOP and REST due to back/pelvis/hip/sacrum/sciatic pain for the past 2-3 weeks. AND it caught up with me on Saturday. After my workout I was in a ton of pain and have been pretty much IMMOBILE since then.
I got to the chiro first thing this morning and he told me what I already knew that I needed to ICE and REST so that the cycle of pain could stop.
So….I am taking the week completely off of normal workouts. It may KILL ME, but I’m going to submit and do it.
The timing of this is not the best with the start of our 6 week contest being today, but I’m allowing contestants to join in up to a week late, so I’ll do the same.
I posted about the TESTS for the contest in the forum and I’ll be posting a bunch more info as we go along, so STAY TUNED!! It’s going to be a fun 6 week challenge!!
I’m off to ICE!
-M
Just do it! 6 Week Contest
Posted by buffmother in contests, rally room on January 14th, 2010
Just do it! 6 week performance results based contest is set to Start on Monday the 18th!!
The coolest thing about this contest is that it’s YOU competing with YOU!! We are going to have 5-6 TESTS that you will do the first and last weeks of the contest so that you can see how much you’ve improved in each area of your “fitness” over the 6 week time frame. Each TEST will also have a point system attached to it so that you MEASURE your results against others results too also, which will help the judges determine who wins! YOUR goal will be to improve on each of the TESTS as much as possible over the 6 week time frame and therefore get as many points possible. The cool thing is that once you do the contest once you could always repeat it in the future and compare your points from your previous results.
You may be wondering, What are the tests? Well….I’m not going to tell you ahead of time! I don’t want anyone to get a “head start” or be concerned about how good or bad you may do on the specific tests until it’s TIME to do them, lol! The element of surprise is key to getting your baseline, starting test results. I will assure you that the TESTS will be stuff all of you can do! There will be built in substitutions for various fitness levels or physical constraints.
MY goal during the 6 weeks of the contest is to help you with weekly tips on how to improve in each of the TESTS. The first time you test may be the first time you’ve ever done it, that’s okay….that only means you’ll have an even bigger chance of improvement.
The HELP I’ll be giving will be instructional, educational and applicable to making you perform better for your end of 6 week testing session. I’ll be uploading video, photos, articles, insights, tips, exercises, drill, etc… to the Rally Room throughout the 6 weeks so that you can see great gains in your performance!!!
I thin this contest will be a blast! You’ll love it because it’s not all about visual or weight results it’s about PERFORMANCE RESULTS, so anyone can compete and anyone can win!!
Details:
Start date~ January 18-26, 2010
End date~ February 28th, 2010
Prizes; TBA; They’ll be good, promise!!
Judging criteria- Points and Participation (blogging your journey and encouraging/helping others through theirs)
Prize eligibility requirements:
All contestants must be active members of the female only Team BuffMother Rally Room (www.therallyroom.com)
All contestants must officially enter by simply posting a comment in the contest post in the Rally Room(late entries will be allowed through Tues, Jan 26th)
All contestants must submit via e-mail a final entry form to michelle@buffmother.com by March 8th, 2010- I will provide a simple “form” for this and will include your basic information, a photo of you, start and finish testing results and your thoughts on the contest
So…If you want to join us on this fun Fitness Adventure, just sign up at www.therallyroom.com!! Everyone can do this!!
No more seafood for this gal!
Posted by buffmother in Back workouts (bis & shoulders), Fitness, contests on January 13th, 2010
Last night I got to go out on a wonderful date with my hubby, we ate at bonefish and I had the Ahi Tuna appetizer for my meal…That was not a good idea! I woke up this morning early feeling very nauseous and in retrospect have realized almost every time I eat seafood (shrimp, crablegs, ahi tuna) I get ILL! So, no more seafood for me!
It’s now 2pm and I just ate my first real food of the day and am finally able to get something done. I think I’m feeling well enough to do a workout after the kids get home on the bus. My plan is to lift chest, tris and run.
I meant to post more about our contest yesterday, but didn’t get it done, SORRY!! We had ATT U-verse install and that cause me to miss much of my work time… Plus DH and I couldn’t pass up a chance to have a DATE! Grandma Mary so kindly watched the kids so we could go out…she’s leaving next Monday, so this was one of our last chances to have a free sitter 
I’ll miss her when she goes back to MN!
Yesterday did turn out to be a great workout day, I had my MMA class and went to the gym for a Back, Shoulder and Biceps workout plus stairmill intervals!
Here’s sorta how the workout went:
MMA class- 10 mins jump rope, 20mins punching/kicking and some kneeing of the bags. Then grappling drilling and some free rolling.
Paired circuits- buffing
Lat pulls/shoulder press
One arm DB Rows/ T- bar rows
Bicep Curls/ lateral raises
Seated rows/upright rows/hammer bicep curls
I also did some lower back extensions and a bit of abs
20mins of Stair mill intervals- hard mins at level 8; easy at 6
I sure hope all of you are having a better start to your day than I have…nothing worse than nausea!
Love ya,
M
Getting Set!
Posted by buffmother in BuffMother, Michelle Berger, contests, rally room on January 11th, 2010
Hey Ya!! I am getting set on many fronts: life plans, birthday planning, travelplanning, workouts, and most relavently to you- CONTEST PLANNING!!!
Our next contest starts next week!!! it’s going to be 6 weeks long and performance based. I’ll be posting all the details about it hopefully by tomorrow!! The contest will only be open to Rally Room members and will be an amazing way to Catapult us through these next few weeks. Then in March we’ll have to do another conetst to get us Bikini ready for summer!! I just love it!!!
My personal POA for this week looks something like this, no OFF DAYS this week:
Daily- focus on my relationships with #1 God and EXTRA SPECIAL time with one of my kids (Guner=Mon, Gracie=Tues, Tia=Wed, Layla= Thurs)
M- 1/11…cycle day 9=130# YAY!! down a few already since buffing began on Thursday- run outside (maybe??); lift upper body
T- MMA class and cardio plus some upper body and abs
W-lift legs
Th-MMA Class and cardio – RUN
F- workout with a friend at 1:30 upper body and cardio
Sat-legs
Sunday-run
I gotta go get some more work done!! Have a good one!!
Totally Terrific!
Posted by buffmother in Chest workout (triceps), contests, hormonal timing on December 10th, 2009
Life is Totally Terrific!! for me~ Except that…2 days in a row I’ve caused a computer glitch and lost my entire blog post! ACK!!!! I am saving this NOW before anything happens to it!!
I did chest/tri/abs on Mon with a pb of 155×1- the very very first time in my life I’ve ever benched that much all by myself!! 135×7times was another pb that day. I did abs really hard too and ran intervals on the treaddy. Weight was 132
Yesterday I did legs.
Today is Back/sh/Biceps and running intervals- my weight this am is 131 and it’s cday 5- I am down 4 pounds since last Wed– HORMONES!!
The sent the SSS2 entries are TOTALLY AWESOME!! Yesterday I forwarded them to the judges, so we should have the winner decided by next MONDAY!! Watch for the announcement!!
Have a Totally Terrific Day!!
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