Fit Lizzio Fitness

my poor legs and biceps. They didn’t even know what was coming!!! I ripped them apart, and beat them till they just couldn’t take it anymore. Yes i am a vicious woman so WATCH OUT!

Well peeps, this morning I had my boxing class again. Have I mentioned how much I LOVE IT!! (i know i say it every day hehe) but it really is ROCKIN. My instructor is so awesome! He has been doing this for 23 years and on top of that he used to be a stand-up comedian in Hollyweird. You can’t top a good trainer that is also a funnyman.

After boxing i annihilated my legs and biceps with deadlifts, 45 degree hypers, leg press, squat press, ez bar curls, hammer curls, 21’s and side arm cable curls.

I finished with 30 minutes on the treadmill. (I am learning not to overdo it when i have boxing classes in the mornings. I just become ravenous and tired all day. Considering I have class from 1pm -9pm on Thursdays, I knew I had to be smart and stick to a half hour, instead of my usual hour.)

I have gotten some great compliments in the last few days and I needed them. I have been getting those “why am i doing this/what is the point” type of thoughts lately more than usual, and i need to kick them!! Because the truth is i AM changing. I KNOW this, and even though it may be a slower process than I want it to be, PATIENCE WILL CONQUER. It is the hardest part of losing weight/gaining muscle/whatever your goal may be, but it is what makes LASTING RESULTS.

I can do this. I just have to keep my head in the game!

ONE MORE THING:
I mentioned the other day about my whole “headphones are on don’t talk to me” theory. Today my headphones were on AND i was in the middle of a set of curls. I was OBVIOUSLY sweating and breathing hard and struggling(not just throwing weights around like feathers) and a man starts asking me questions!! Of course, i can’t hear a word he is saying because my HEADPHONES ARE ON, but he CONTINUES TALKING TO ME. I politely say “I’m sorry I can’t hear you. Hold on one minute.” Does this stop him from talking?! NO!! I can still see his lips moving. Again I say, “Sir I can’t hear you just a minute” HE KEEPS TALKING. So i just let him talk until I was finished with my set. Then i politely took off my headphones and said okay go ahead…. Ugh! I’m sorry but that is just so frustrating. I have an idea of what I can do to try to deter these people…muahaha…you will have to wait to hear my idea! 🙂

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In other news, if you watched the Biggest Loser last night you are just as frustrated as I am at those three little words “To Be Continued!” Ahh the anticipation. Those producers are good…real good.

While watching the biggest loser, I had a realization that I am not sure is true, but wouldn’t doubt. I started wondering if Jillian Michaels is taking some type of HGH(human growth hormone) or any type of steroid. I am not saying that she is, but the widening of the jaw/deep voice kind of give me that impression. I could be totally wrong, just a thought.

Do you think Jillian Michaels takes some type of steroid?

Back to real world…..
This morning I had a great chest workout with Dae. Bench press, incline press, pushups, flys. Lots more pushups. (150 total) He also had me do some heavy heavy sets of hamstring curls. He literally had to help me through most of them they were so heavy. I had immediate soreness ha. Then we got done and he said okay 10 sets of hanging leg raises. Yee-haw. I better have some dominant abs in the near future with all of the ab-work I have been doing!! 🙂

I followed my weight training with 60 minutes on the treadmill. I did a steady 15% incline 3.3mph today because Dae wanted me to just go steady today. I enjoyed it and somehow it went by very quickly. Oh and it burnt 702 calories!!! That’s what im talking about.

Today i am going to play hooky from class and go hang out with my mom. I rarely see her because I am always so busy. We are probably just going to go mess around Target or something, but she’s a bigger goof ball than i am so it should be a good time.

That was a close one! I got home from my workout this morning and hopped in the shower. The water pressure was really low, but I was like hmm..oh well. THEN I REMEMBERED. We got a letter yesterday saying that the water would probably be shut off from about 9AM until 1PM. I had just gotten the shampoo in my hair so i immediately rinsed it out with the very little water that was coming down. JUST IN TIME, about 3o seconds later the water totally shut off. Pheww. No conditioner, so my hair isn’t soft and smooth, and brushing it was a pain in the ass. (I have VERY thick hair that is long and hangs to mid back.) At least I got to rinse off though!

I will back track to yesterday. Food-wise, I ate GREAT. LOTS of veggies, LOTS of water, and ended up at 1764 calories for the day. Good split of my macro’s (proteins, carbs, fats), so I was happy with it.

My workout yesterday was Shoulders and Triceps. I did shoulders in the morning (24 sets!! I really was focused and made sure that every rep of every set counted) followed by about 75 minutes of cardio. I didn’t mean to do that much but I started on the stair stepper, and wanted to go to a treadmill but they were all full. So I decided to run through the gym (there is an area that isn’t technically a track but can be used as one) and ran up and down the stairs a few times. I did this for about 10 minutes until a treadmill became available. I did 35 minutes on that.

Thought for Monday: When I am wearing my head phones and have a focused look on my face, am dripping sweat, and working hard in the weight room….Probably not in the mood to chat it up people!!! I actually just started ignoring people and pretending i couldn’t hear them so that they wouldn’t talk to me. Don’t get me wrong, I love the people at my gym and love chatting with other fit-minded people, but there is a time and a place. Don’t get in the way of my workout cuz i will run you over!!! :-):-):-) hehe

This morning was boxing at 6:30 AM! I had a 1/2 cup of oatmeal with some blueberries, cinnamon and 1 scoop of my strawberry protein powder. Sounds like a weird combo, i know, but it was actually pretty good. A nice mixed berry flavor. I also had 2 cuties. 🙂

Boxing was great this morning. I truly love taking that class. It gets my adrenaline pumping and I always am panting for breath throughout the class. It is great!!

After boxing, I hit up the weight room. Today was back and I killed it!! I was going HEAVY and pumping out extra reps that I really thought there was no way I could do. I just pushed through the pain and DID THEM. It is amazing that even when you think your muscles are in total failure, sometimes they have a LITTLE bit left in them. Sometimes not haha, but if you try you might surprise yourself. That is something that I have learned from my trainer. He always makes me go to failure, and then when I truly believe there is no way I can pump out another rep, he makes me do it anyways. Sometimes i can, and sometimes i can’t, but when I can it is exhilarating!!

Anyways after my fantastic back smash, I did about 30 minutes on the elliptical, and then decided to take a cardio kickboxing class that was starting to finish out my cardio for the day. (Lots of boxing today! lol) It was a good class and when it was finished, I realized I had been at the gym for 3 hours now and it was time to get my butt out of there(even though I teetered on the idea of doing a little more cardio.) I have to make sure not to over-train, which I have done in the past—NOT FUN.

Post-workout, I had 5 oz. of chicken breast, 219 grams of sweet potato(kind of high but i was really hungry), and some asparagus.

This post is getting long but I just want to put out some of the goals I have for the next few months:

1. I decided I am going to get my ACE personal training certification by May 1, 2009. It will be a great summer job for me, and it is something I should have done a long time ago.

2. I will also look into getting my group fitness certification.

3. I am really pushing my nutrition into full gear and going to REALLY try to go at it 100%. Not 90%. Although 90% is EXCELLENT, i really want to hit my goals and make sure I am looking good for my competition. I want to go into it knowing i did EVERYTHING i could.

That’s all for now peeps. If anyone is in the Phoenix area and wants to do some hiking on the weekends before it gets too hot let me know!!! I would love to meet some people from my area that have similar goals about their health!

Good morning! So yesterday remember how I said I wasn’t full??? Ummm fast forward to about an hour or 2 later when I went to play volleyball…..let’s just say I could barely move and playing volleyball was the hardest thing in the world. I felt like i had an anchor holding me down. Not allowing me to run and jump. It sucked. But me and all the guys I was playing with just joked about it and still had a good time. Needless to say the only other thing I had was a cutie clementine in the evening because somehow I have never tried them and my brother insisted.

This morning I feel fine. It’s funny because all day yesterday after my massive food intake. (I wouldn’t even call it food, actually. Food is something that fuels and nourishes the body, this was CRAP) So after my crap intake, all day I was thinking about it. Not because I felt bad or guilty, but because for the entire summer and fall, I had somewhat of a problem with binge eating. Now, however, I was realizing that I don’t have that problem anymore. I ENJOY eating clean foods. I am not just saying that because i SHOULD enjoy them, I really do!! Sure pizza now and then would be good, but I don’t feel the need for it. I will have cheat days every few months, but i don’t want them to be weekly or even monthly. Yesterday really opened my eyes to what I am capable of. I am in control of what goes in my body and I feel like a million bucks when I eat clean healthy foods. I am very happy that yesterday happened for many reasons. 1- I have gotten any craving I had out of my system (and then some) 2- I know what I like to eat now. 3- I am thankful for having the healthy lifestyle that I have 4- IM GOING TO THE TOP.

That was my biggest eye-opener yesterday. I have the ability to really train hard and focus on my eating and I can become whatever i set out to be! Whether it is winning competitions, or modeling fitness equipment, I CAN DO IT. Before it was something that I wanted/dreamed, but now it is something that I WILL DO. I am so pumped and can’t wait to get to the gym in a little while!!! Shoulders and Biceps..WATCH OUT because i am going to TEAR YOU DOWN muahaha!

Sorry im a little nuts :):)

(You like my clever title..i told you i’m a nerd!)

I get more full off of 1800 calories of clean foods than I am off of like 4000 calories of crap(i didn’t add it all up but im sure its something crazy like that) that i have eaten today! I’m seriously not that full! So much emptiness. Such an eye-opener!!!

Oh man, did I have a cheat day today or WHAT. The thing is i am not upset at all. I used to get upset about it because I thought it would set me off on a tangent of bad eating, but not anymore friends! I ate..and ate..and ate some more..oh then I ate some MORE…and it was all prety shitty food! Ya know what? I love my clean foods!!! 🙂 So then why did I do it?!? To get it out of my system! I have been eating nothing but CLEAN foods since mid-December. (with the exception of a few protein bars in the last couple weeks of December) But literally have not TOUCHED any processed foods (unless you count my protein powder) in the last like 2 and a half months. So i decided that considering today I was tired, bored, irritable, and feeling like I just wanted to be a normal 20 year old for a day and eat like shit haha….I decided..FUGIT im gona eat some shit.

I was at my dads when I decided to do this (he has all the goods in his house haha) and you ready for this? And keep in mind..im full..but im not even THAT full which is ridiculous. (can you tell im actually really finding humor in all of this haha i don’t know why but i like it.)

probably like 15 chips ahoy cookies..maybe 17 or 18.
2 small bowls of icecream with chocolate syrup
2 kelloggs swirly pastry things with honey drizzled all over them
i think like 4 or 5 tortillas with cheese sprinkled on them
2 small bowls of cereal
an apple and a banana
8 little raviolis
some salt and pepper chips

hmm what else was thereeee….

that might be it. BUT…umm yeah it was alot of food. lots of calories. and its only 1pm hehe.

i played softball this morning and am playing volleyball this afternoon, but no formal exercise, as today is a rest day.

Anyways…just thought i would clear up two things..YES, i am human ….and YES i can probably eat more than most football players i would assume.

I feel like i am forgetting some foods, but you get the idea. Anyways, no need to make me feel better because I FEEL FINE. I really am okay with today because it wasn’t a binge, in the sense of feeling like i had “no control” it was very controlled. I just chose to eat like big fat cow today.

Yuck i am going to feel so bloated tomorrow, that is the only thing I am worried about, but I meet with my trainer tomorrow morning and then plan on doing some damn good cardio. Plus probably another class in the afternoon tomorrow too, considering I won’t be at work because OH YEA i have no job 🙂

Wow im starting to sound like a big nerd girl 😉

Ahhh the weekend is finally here. The week went by pretty quickly, but I am still happy to be able to enjoy the weekend. It is about 80 degrees outside and the sun is shining 🙂

I woke up very early this morning (my body’s alarm clock doesn’t allow me to sleep in lately :-/) and decided to take advantage of that and get my workout in early. I just focused on my abs today. That took about 20 minutes, and then I did 50 minutes of some good, sweaty, heart-pounding cardio on the treadmill. Then i decided to take a yoga class, being that I am sore and that yoga always challenges me in a much different way than any of my weight training does. That held true again this morning. It was a tough class, but I enjoyed it! My sister tagged along with me, so that made it even more fun.

I told a friend I would hike Camelback Mountain with her this afternoon too. Many of you don’t know what I am talking about, but this is a tough climb! It ain’t no leisurely hike my friends. The last 1/8 mile is all boulders that you have to climb over, and there is a railing half way up that you have to use because it is so steep. It is a great workout, but I am already beat and still sore. My glutes are sore as hell from my leg workout yesterday!! (Lunges on the smith machine are my new favorite glute exercise by the way 🙂 They never fail to make my ass feel like someone took a hammer to it.) Ahh i don’t know what to do. Should i go? Should i try to postpone it until tomorrow? Blech. I don’t know.

I will leave you all with this today. What is the difference on the scale between someone who loses 20 pounds in 2 months and someone who loses 20 pounds in 6 months??? Nothing. My point being that if you lose it quickly, or if it takes you a little bit longer, you are still moving in the right direction. Do what you can today and don’t put it off until tomorrow. If you ate a bunch of cookies at lunch, drink some water, brush your teeth, clear your pallette, and eat a healthful dinner. Every little bit counts and eventually you will reach your goals. The hardest part is being patient, but patience will win every time.

It is funny how little things you say to yourself can completely change your way of thinking. My example of this is when I am doing my cardio usually. In the weight room, I usually don’t need to do this. I LOVE weightlifting, plain and simple. Cardio is different. Although I do love the feeling after a heart-pumping sweat session. And also do occasionally enjoy doing the cardio, sometimes, I don’t want to push as hard as I know I can.

I will use today. I was doing my 15% incline on the treadmill. Usually I start at 3.3 mph and bump it up .1 every 5 minutes. Some days i have to do it every 10 minutes, it all depends on how I am feeling. Well today as it approached the 10 minute mark (in which I would bump it from 3.4 to 3.5mph) I thought of many excuses. “i did boxing today already, this is hard enough,” blah blah. Then i said this…..”are you an athlete?? or are you an average, normal person?” I immediately bumped it up and started pushing hard!! That little phrase threw ALL of my excuses out the window because HELL NO im not a normal average exerciser, I AM AN ATHLETE!! And if I am an athlete, I better be training like an athlete=HARD. Needless to say today’s workout was freaking GREAT. Crushed it in the weight room, and pushed hard on the treadmill and stairstepper. Boxing was awesome this morning too!!!

Here is my food for today:
Pre-workout: Proatmeal and a grapefruit; 1 scoop of Dymatize XPand before boxing
Post-Workout: Protein shake,
Lunch: 1/2 sweet potato, 4oz chicken, a bunch of green beans(didnt measure) and some brussel sprouts
Before class: Protein shake, 10 almonds
Mid-afternoon: proatmeal, egg whites, 1/2 sweet potato, grapefruit (i was starving when i came home from class lol)
Dinner: Will be- 4 oz. chicken or egg whites(haven’t decided yet) and asparagus, and 10 almonds to make sure i get my fats in! (i also took a flaxseed oil, fish oil, CLA, and Green Tea complex supplement this morning)

That’s all for now. Going to a concert tonight. This will be a LONGGG day. 5am until probably midnight. eekk. Then back at it tomorrow at 630am! Thankfully tomorrow is friday so i can rest this weekend!!