Polar Loop

I'm testing the Polar Loop activity tracker.
(Thanks Mom!)
I'm mostly interested in my sleep patterns.
Do I really sleep or do I jump around and play all night....

We'll see soon.

I hope the tracker won't keep me awake. I don't wear jewellery or a wristwatch to bed. They keep me awake and make me jumpy and annoyed.

3 times a week

How to build muscle with just 3 workouts per week... or with just 180 minutes per week:

Eat right.
Sleep.
Rest and stretch.
Drink more water.
Do the minimum amount of exercise.

It's all you need to click your switch to "grow".

I'll be posting my home workouts here.
I'll test myself and we'll see if .......

This is how far I got.
Then my throat got sore and now I am sick. Not super sick. Just sick enough to take it easy (and hate my stupid throat)...

And the worst part is:

My weight crashed. I'm down to 57kg. Shit.

M

I live at my gym

This 'n' that

A hundred things to say but I just don't feel like going through any of them here.

I got a lot on my plate  :)
I'm happy about that. I got my home life, baby things, gym things, food disasters, work lifes #1 and #2... I got things happening on the side and I still write my movie and other novels when I get the feeling. ...

I haven't taken the time to get that Inbody check done. I'm fine with that. I'll do it when I feel like it. In 6 weeks maybe.
My weight is stuck in 58kg. It just sits there but for couple of weeks now I have not given a shit...

I'm starting a new program next week. I'm starting from scratch with Squatting. It's been hitting my back too much so I have to teach myself to squat all over again  :)
I will be doing all my squatting with a bench for the next 4-6 weeks. Box squatting will change the way I come UP with the weights and so on.... it'll help me to sit BACK and not Down.

Meat muffins

I love it when all I have to do is mix things up and stick 'em in the oven.

Lift with good form and wear warm clothes

Training at home can be a bit chilly. .. now it's very warm, +15C. But later it'll get colder and darker and as soon as I get my new gear (they might arrive tomorrow) I'll be giving the neighbours a bb show 2-4 times a week ;)

The beach ball has nothing to do with my workouts. Kiddo left it there. He was too tired to move it I guess :D

Spitting blood

It's never an easy day when you get off your ass and get back on the horse. ..
I was pretty sick for a while. Not super sick but sick enough to keep away from sports.

.....Just tired now.  Oh so tired :/

I'm still not sure if I should train yet but I tested myself today.
Yeahh.... tested.
Nothing felt normal. I hate it when I don't seem to have any of my strength left but I look like a fxcking whale....

I wore a red shirt.  Maybe that was the problem?  :)

Moving back to North Carelia

I've had dream after dream about moving back to North Carelia this week. .. I still have a house there with my friend but we don't use it much.
I was supposed to travel there this weekend but since kiddo and I were a bit sick we decided to stay home.

Usually in my dreams the house up there is always a bit different or haunted :)
Sometimes the house is closer in Lappeenranta but most of the time the dream deals with Joensuu and its thick forests and sparkling lakes...

Last night everything was painted chalk white. Even the windows. I was prepping the place for kiddo's birthday and setting up a place for the magician  :D

We didn't have any furniture so it didn't look too festive but I knew people would understand.

***

I'm starting slow with my workouts. Tonight I'll do 100 squats and 50+50 split squats. Then maybe 50 military presses and some barbell rows, a 100 will do. I'll use the 20kg barbell. That's all. Nothing fancy. If it's too easy I'll slow down my reps to get a burn. If it gets too hard/heavy I'll use rest pause.
Then it's off to do my stretching and abs...

The Horse

I got sick after kiddo's B-day. A small fever and a lot of aches and pains and a gallon of stuff coming out of my nose.

On Tuesday I remembered that we forgot to serve some of the foods we had prepped for the party... they are still in the  freezer   :D

I'm still feeling a bit sick. Even kiddo got sick for the first time.

Well... I started planning for next week. Since (in my opinion) I'm starting from the beginning again and all I gained in the last month or two is gone (I feel so fxcking fat and lazy) I should just repeat the "lots of food and superslow reps" plan :)
I will jump back in the saddle and beat the shit out of that horse ;)

It's his B-day

Kiddo turns 1 just about now... well, on Wednesday. He's a little astronaut.
First round around the sun.
I hope he gets many more :)

Hotttt

It's been nice and hot. I can't be outside much since kiddo would die if he is outside for too long... he gets to play outside for few minutes few times a day. He's better off inside where it's nice and warm/cool depending on the time of day.

He has his back teeth coming in right now so he has bad nights now and then. I do not want him to have even more bad nights just because he got sunburned or dehydrated from playing outside.

We don't have a pool so the only way to keep cool is to lie under a thick tree or stay inside. :)

Mines, a religious group and my sorry a$$

I finally got that flight booked, the long flight to the USA :)

I had a pit stop in Iceland and I found out that my fight had been cancelled but everyone was getting on a big cruise ship and we would eventually arrive a couple days late.

Wow! A cruise!

I was so lucky!

I walked behind everyone else to our ship. They had a lot of luggage. On the way I noticed a military ship that people were using as a "bridge" to get to another ship that was going back to South Africa.

Me:"Why is that military ship blocking that other ship? Don't you guys have any other places for them over here in Iceland?"

Some random soldier:"It works as a Customs office. Move on,"

Me:"Wait, I'm not going to SA, I'm going to the States."

He pushed me through his ship and slammed me to the ship's (SA) floor.

Me:"I said I have tickets to go to the US!"

The guy:"We'll see if you're going anywhere with that attitude, I'll get my CO.Wait here."

I didn't wait. I sneaked back on the military ship and looked for an open window so I could jump out without anyone noticing, but then......

"FXCK!"

Too late. The ship was already moving and we were no longer attached to the pier.

"shiiiiiit"

I was stuck on that GD military ship with the CO of that idiot of a  soldier looking at my clothes that were not (and I quote) "not issued by the official firm".
"Get ready to dive, dive, dive...!"
Once I heard that I shouted "WTF is going on here?"
CO: "Calm down, unwanted lady. We're here to mine the seas with 15 mines. We're here to do our job. So shut up and learn,"

They dove the ship to 50m and started leaving big, round sea mines to the a mathematical pattern just outside Iceland's borders. I didn't understand WHY they would bother. Who was the enemy? But they did look beautiful, floating out there, all round and spiky... dark balls of hell. Just waiting.

***

It took a while but I got to use my charms... I had the upper hand on things and I found a way out through the kitchen. I was stuck at a religious center and the keepers "of the heard" were fxcking nuts! I heard 'em talking about putting us through a systematic "school for the unwilling". It sounded so bad that I ran.
I found an abandoned elevator shaft but there were two guys sitting there talking. At this point I wasn't even surprised to see them... Bruce and Bruce, Well to be specific it was Bruce Oreck and Bruce Willis chatting along about the right way to shoot the bad guys. I heard a voice inside me say "don't trust the other Bruce, he's an actor."

***

I did A LOT of squats last Wednesday. I still felt it on Friday. I FELT it in every move... I need to eat more.

My squatting had a lot of one legged Bulgarian squats in it but with normal weights 25-45kg x10. I did maybe 6-7 sets. I also did a lot of other basic stuff... It took maybe 2 hours.

Numbers and nothing

So the scale at the gym says I'm 60kg. So the scale at home says I'm not.
So what.
It's still Not 65kg.

So I keep going. Going to the gym and going to the fridge... I keep moving. I keep living this life and enjoying this lifestyle.

I failed in my trial.
I didn't reach my goal weight for midsummer.
So what.
Well.... I try again. It's closer now ;)
It should be easier ;)

I'll make it.
I'll get to my Big goal and I'll push through it to another world :)

I need to get checked.
I need to book an Inbody test.
I want to know where I'm at.

Boring life

There's nothing boring about my life but people do think so.... not a lot of people but even people who know me.

Usually it's all about my food and what I can drink and won't eat.
People worry... they buy stuff that says "fitness" on it (so I can have a snack and not explode) and it's full of sugar (so I eat it but I feel sick afterwards...) or they don't get anything or they buy like a half a carrot for everyone and expect us to eat like mice...
...and still keep asking about my diet (that isn't even a diet) and then they offer their views on eating which are usually "oh, I had half an apple and smelled some bread this morning... I don't really need food but I wish I had muscles..."
WTF?

(And before I start getting "anger mail" again Remember: most of this shit is just fictional stuff. Stop trying to find problems where there are none.)

I didn't go to the gym tonight. Honey is too busy.
I stayed home. Ate. Did some maintenance on my body.
Took a looong shower.

Ate some more :)

Living the good life ;)

BTW, if you know Korean, please contact me and help me with my rice cooker!
Thank you! <3

Midsummer

2014 vs. 2015

Easy fit

There's a gym in Kouvola where the iron is light and the workouts are super.
At least if you're there with Satu. <3

Just shoot the MF...

It was a gun & security show. One of the biggest in Finland. I was on a team of explosive experts and we kept sweeping the show areas with our special equipment (they looked like satellite phones but they were sensors to snif out explosives and dangerous radiation). We had gotten a letter that someone was planning an attack on the Saudi Arabian group who were showing off their new "sand proof" hot fuelling system for just about any petrol operated vehicle or machine.

One of the security checks at the door lead to a fist fight and the sec.officer found a geigermeter on the man.
"Red alert" and we woke up all the dogs. We had 10 bomb dogs and 12 androids  (small monkeys) that started sweeping the areas again. All the bathrooms were cleared and after they had interrogated  (beat the hell up) the guy with the geiger we found a small source of radiation in a garbage bin. It was right in the middle of everything.
We didn't engage at first. We just marked the place, turned our cameras and waited. One of our outside teams started a "fight" with one of the sausage stands and soon after we saw a guy running for the bin. He put his hand in and took out a package. It was the size of a normal sub sandwich but it sure weighed a lot more. We stopped him outside the building and confronted him... An older black guy. Not scared at all. He wasn't a courier. He knew what was going to happen...
Suddenly our boss shot two of our men and jumped in a car an shouted to the black man to jump in. They were in on it together!?!

"What the hell?!" I shouted.
"Ram them with the bus!" We had a bus just coming into the area with the night crew. The busdriver ran into the boss's car wrecking both of their front suspensions. The cars were stuck and we were at a stand off. Our boss told us to leave, to forget about this and trust him. He said he knew what he was doing... Some lf us hesitated. He had only wounded our men when he shot them. I knew I had never trusted that MF. He was going Down!

And I knew this would end badly...

The bus was nearly empty. The driver had been hurt but he was evacuated through the back windows just like the rest of the crew...
Our boss saw his chance. We went for the bus driver's assault rifle as his helper shot random shots into our other cars. I had sneaked into the bus already and I was going for that same rifle. We grabbed it at the same time. He had the stronger grip so he got it out of the rack but I had a good grip on the muzzle and I used it like a spear and poked his guts as hard as I could. He lost his breath and I got the gun.

Safety off - 1 shot in the chest (he had a vest) - I looked around for the other guy as our (ex) boss stumbled back and started to fall out the bus window. I kept my gun ready. I saw the black man looking at me and as he was raising his gun at me he got the shock of his life as somebody shot electrocution rods to his chest. His gun dropped to the ground as his body crouched to the joys of 50 000 Volts.

Embrace every failure

I wrote the headline before I squatted with 120kg on my back.
It took a long time for me to get into the right zone. ... I mean it took more than 5min. And I needed the right song.

At first I just thought it would be ok to just set it down.  To do ONE negative rep.

Hell no.

I can't live or lift like that!
"Oh. I'll just try it but I won't care if I don't make it.."
Fxck no!

I took on the challenge. (Of course I used safety bars.)
And I did it.
3 slow reps. Not down to 90 degrees (the safety bars were just a bit too high) but close enough. (I got it on video)

Shh...HIIT!

I gotta.
I just gotta.

HIIT.
Or just HIT if it's a lazy day...

I'm still following my EAT, REST and only train 4 times a month -program. It's kinda ok but it can make me a bit lazy. So when I finally DO go to the gym I want to do my very best. This means I warm up well but quickly.

I lost the baby... again!

Had a nap. Had a dream. Woke up feeling guilty.

I've been dreaming about going to the States some day and taking part in a Warhouse gymcamp! :)

So I did.
In my dreams, but hey... I had fun And got to meet everyone without spending any money on tickets or time on flying.

I was there with baba. It was the "last camp before xmas" and parts of the gym were ice cold. Dana Linn Bailey was training in front of everybody. She talked about shoulder control on a hard back day... Rob was drinking water next to the shiny trailer. I saw my chance and got his attention by yelling "Rob, I love you!"
(I must be ovulating...)
I talked with Rob, got a great selfie with him and .... and where's the baby?
I remembered carrying him upstairs and checking out the Flag nor Fail "areas". I must have put him down for just a second and... and then I guess I forgot about him?

I ran upstairs and started going through the rooms we had seen... no baby :(
Shit!
Where the fxck is he?!

I was starting to panic. I'm here in Philadelphia and people are expecting Both of us to come back home next month... then I heard it. A weak cry and thumping. Baby came crawling around the corner and he was dragging his sleeping bag with him. He had been crying for a while. I could tell just from his red eyes and the tired movement he still had in him. I lifted him up and he fell asleep against my shoulder <3
"Good boy, baby... good boy."

I walked back downstairs and put kiddo into my extra large gymbag. I sat in the back for the rest of the program. There was an excellent and super motivating speech by Rob about starting your own business and taking the first big risks. ...

Gosh he's GOOD! :)