Fit Lizzio Fitness

I am feeling SO much better. Granted it is only 11AM and my energy seems to peak in the early hours. You know what though? I was feeling shitty walking into the gym today. I work out in a sports bra now because my trainer wants me to see my muscles work and also so that I keep my damn abs in! I just was feeling like a fatty today and just wanted to wear a big baggy t-shirt and sweat pants in there. But i sucked it up and wore the sports bra.

Training:

I trained with Dae today. He. Kicked. My. Ass. It was an hour long session today of chest and biceps. The things he was having me do, I can’t even begin to describe. First of all…he handed me the 50 pound EZ bar to curl…..but instead of just letting me curl that..he was pushing on it so that i had even more resistance. Such a nice guy right? That combined with the pushups, the bench pressing, the flys, more curls, hammer curls, cable curls, YOU NAME IT. oH did I mention the sprints i had to do in between sets?! Yeah those were FUN let me tell ya. I literally was light headed and dizzy finishing each set because i was grunting and using every bit of energy in me to get those last reps of each set out. I thought veins were going to pop out of my head. ANyways, moral of the story….it made me feel GREAT. I am sick and twisted and I LOVE to be tortured like that. (Good thing i train with Dae too because he told me that he likes to watch me be tortured…ok this is starting to sound like the beginning of a porno but don’t worry he is gay and i promise i won’t take this any further!! Haha) He killed me, and it got my head back to where I need it to be.

After my killer sesh, another trainer Noel(the one who gave me the greatest compliment of life) told me he was going to put me through an ab workout. I don’t know how i am able to pull off all this free personal training but i am not complaining!! I guess just spend hours upon hours in the gym working your ass off and eventually, trainers will start offering up their services?! Ha who knows…anyways..he had me doing a lot of things i have never seen or heard of before. Involving hanging from ropes and doing swaying movements and such. It was really hard and he wants to work with me some more. My abs are by far my weakest link. Before December, I did not regularly train them. (Bad, i know) So they have a ways to come compared to the rest of my body.

Before training with Dae i ran for 20 minutes to warm up and I finished it off after the workout with 30 min. on the treadmill at 15% 3.3 mph, and then 20 minutes on the bike at level 8 all out as fast as i could go.

Food for today:

Meal 1: 1 egg, 1 cup egg whites, 2 slices tomato, 1 cup spinach, 2TBSP pico de gallo(its just onions, cilantro and tomato chopped up) and 1/2 TBSP coconut oil

Meal 2:(post workout) Green smoothie: 2 Kale leaves, 1 TBSP Flax seeds, 1/2 TBSP Almond Butter, 2TBSP 100% pure whey protein(NO additives, fillers, NOTHING…it doesnt taste good but it is completely clean..i love it), and 1 heaping TSP of glutamine

Off to shower and get ready for the day!

a vacation!

That is the only thing that I can think of that will cure me of my BLAH-ness.

I am tired ALL the friggin time. As in, i have energy in the morning to work out, and then around noon. DRAINED. Getting off the couch is hard. part of that is the 110 degree weather in this lovely state of arizona and although i have lived here my whole life, it still gets to me. It makes me want to curl up in a ball and nap, eat, sleep, repeat!

So, how will I fix this? Just keep plugging away. Get my workouts in, eat my food, and try to keep some sanity. I could be over training, i could be in a funk, or maybe i just……..

NEED A VACATION!!! 🙂

Today was a great day!! Gotta love those. I am dead tired now though and it is only 7:30 🙂

This morning I headed to the gym after my 1 egg, 1/2 cup egg whites with spinach and pico de gallo omelette.

I ran for 2o minutes to warm up and then headed over to the weight room to do some gluties and hammies. I had an awesome workout!(What workout isn’t awesome when deadlifts are involved?!?) Needless to say my legs were-a-shakin by the end of that sesh.

Finished off with 30 minutes at 15% incline 3.3mph. As i may have mentioned i have slowed down the cardio in order to stay at a lower heart rate level. I will still do HIIT a few times a week as well.

Afterwards, I had a counseling appointment that was really good, and headed to work afterwards. Some unnecessary drama there with the brother, but I can’t help the decisions he makes and I have come to that realization.

I made my way home and took a nap. Then I took a walk around the lakes by my apartment(didn’t get lost today like I did yesterday!!!More on that in a moment) Now I am just vegging out until the new season of Secret Life of an American Teenager comes on! Yeah i said it! Haha the show is a very “highschool-ish” show, but i like it anyways.

So about getting lost yesterday. I set out last night to go on a short 20-30 minute walk by the lakes and golf courses surrounding my apartment. I found a golf cart path that I had never seen before so I decided to take it. I called my sister and chatted away with her for a while. I then realized…..I was lost! I was in the middle of a golf course, with people’s backyards surrounding me. No streets, no people, NOTHING haha. I was telling my sister how funny it was that I was lost. I normally have an awesome sense of direction…but without any roads around me…I had no idea where I was. So i did my best to find my way back. Eventually I caught up to a familiar path and made my way back to my apartment. Yeah…2 HOURS LATER. And I was in flip flops!! Uhhh yeah, blisters on my feet are NOT FUN despite what you might think. Luckily they aren’t holding me back, but OUCH they were hurting last night.

Anyways, thats all I’ve got for today. Diet was SPOT ON, and will continue to be….26 days baby!

Time to kick things up!!!

Cycling the carbs….100-150g carbs each day…1500 calories total…135-150g. protein each day…the rest is good fats.

30 minutes of cardio per day…..heavy ass strength workouts.

I am excited!! Gotta stay motivated!

I had an awesome shoulder/bicep workout yesterday. Had to go light on shoulders which sucked(still hurting) but my bicep workout was KILLER.

My veins were popping out of my skin…..20 lb DBs for hammer curls….50lb ez bar curls….gotta love it!

27 days of pure greatness are ahead of me. I will shed off this last bit of fat..not “try to”…I WILL.

Wish me luck and keep me motivated. You guys are the best support system i have!!! :):) Thank you so much!

Workout today was great 🙂

Quads/Calves/Plyos/abs–supersets–4 sets each

Front squats/hanging leg raises
leg extensions/decline hip ups
DB Step ups(15 lb DB’s)/ knee tucks
Jumping lunges/decline sit ups
15 Tuck jumps/20 bench jumps-side to side/15 burpees (3 sets)
Seated calf raise
Calf Machine
Standing calf raises

Finished this up with 30 minutes of incline walking—15% at 3.3 mph

I have slowed the cardio down and will be doing 1 30 minute session every day for a while. I have been overdoing it (when i add in the rock climbing, wakeboarding, and extra cardio sessions) and my body is hating on me. I’m tired all the time and i just need to stick to heavy-ass-strength workouts and less cardio for now.

Dropped the cals down a little bit too, but hopefully i can burn off the rest of this fat before my comp!!!
Happy Friday!! :):)

tastes like frosting to me. yummmmm.

that’s all.

I know this will sound like a weird combo..but it’s AMAZING.

2-3 cups of spring mix lettuce
3-4 oz. of turkey or tuna or chicken(whatever protein source you want)
2 TBSP fresh salsa or pico de gallo(i use my sister’s boyfriend’s salsa which has no salt…whole foods makes pretty good salsa too!)
a few slices of tomato
about 1/4 of an avocado
1/4 cup of black beans
1/2 TBSP raw, Extra virgin, unrefined coconut oil

I know most of you are thinking thats a really weird combo but i swear by it!

You could also add hard boiled eggs or really whatever you feel like adding to it…that is just my mix for today(minus the black beans because i am all out)! Yummmy!

Tomorrow marks exactly one month until my first competition. I am so nervous. One day my abs are popping, the next they aren’t. My thoughts consist of “Will i be ready? will the fat come off? will my abs look good? will my legs look good?”

I went to my posing practice today. Umm, all of the girls look fucking great. There were 2 new girls today, and they are both doing figure, so i won’t be competing against them. One of them is totally show ready, the other’s abs are perfect, but her legs need to lean out a bit.There is also my friend Lisa(she looks show ready right now) and then another girl who is much older who looks like she could take the masters stage with ease. We watched some videos of figure/fitness america today and then worked on posing and turns. It is scary. Really, really scary.

I wanted to give up today. Not gonna lie. I sat at home, was bumming all day(not just about that, but about a few other things) The bumming stemmed from me being TIRED. i know i over did it yesterday, and i continuued working out hard this morning. I’m so close though, and I read Rae’s Blog and it inspired me to not even THINK about giving up. If i get last place, who cares. I know I am in the best shape of my life and it will only get better from here on out. I love the way I eat, and although it’s hard sometimes, in the end, I LIKE IT. I don’t mind eating egg whites and chicken all the time. I have grown to love veggies(honestly even more than fruit now!) and i can honestly say i don’t worry about ever turning back to the “dark side” I don’t like the way I feel when I eat like that and in moderation, fine, but i don’t even desire that anymore. (Except a little ice cream here and there…in a month i will actually eat it instead of staring at it in the grocery store!)

Long store short: I NEED A VACATION. After this competition…i will take one to visit my brother in california. He is a health nut like me and loves fresh fruit and vegetables, and exercise. He tends to over do it just like me, but in different ways. I.e. mountain biking for 8 hours straight. Yeah, he’s more nuts than me!

Anyways, this was a lot of rambling, but basically…i am in this to the end, i love my new lifestyle, and shit…I’M TAKING THE STAGE BABY!

Well friends.. i did it! Ha…i know for many of you, this is a daily activity, but for me…i NEVER do early morning cardio on an empty stomach. I just am so hungry in the mornings that I just need to get something in me..do my strength training and then do my cardio afterwards.

This morning I woke up an hour before my alarm clock. I have a training appointment at 8AM….usually i get there early and just chill out on the elliptical or treadmill, but today, I decided, I’m going for a run! And i’m doing it on an empty stomach.

Now I love that I am like a dog or a toddler..however you want to look at it. I tell myself I am going to only do 30 minutes(i do this almost every time i go to do any type of cardio) and always end up doing much more than that. Today i ran for 55 minutes. I did a loop that I knew was going to be longer than a 30 minute run, but I told myself I would stop and walk the rest of the way…..Knowing that I wouldn’t do that. I really was going to stop and walk at around 45 minutes, but I was starving at this point, and I thought to myself “If i walk..its going to take me twice as long to get home and make some food…RUN!!” So i did.

Anyways that’s my story just thought I would share. It really did feel great to run outside again. It’s been over a month since I have done that and I always forget how soothing it is on the mind. I highly reccomend it.

Challenge: Everybody do at least 25 pushups today.(Doesn’t have to be consecutive…but do as many as you can consecutively and let me know how you did in my comment box!!)