Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!!! (Update)

Merry belated Christmas and Happy early New Year!!! Sorry for not writing for a while. With the holidays and stuff i've been so busy and tired that i couldn't muster up the strength to write. Not much changed. Every Tuesday and Friday the same ol' same ol'. Slowly going up in weight on the machines. Still not doing anything at home cause of the holidays mainly. Next week i want to start incorporating at home workouts again. 

However, last week and this week on Monday i did 1-2 hour cardio sessions with my new gym pal. I will call him Gym Pal from now on. So that was good. I literally still feel bloated from all the food i ate with Christmas so God knows i need the cardio LOL. I guess he is okay to hang out with although i sometimes get weird vibes from him. I don't think he is overall a bad guy but he is stuck in his own ways. He boasts a lot about how lazy he is and i sometimes just wonder who he is trying to impress with that. I tell him this too, but people like him are just not gonna change you know. Today he also did something disgusting that kind of put me off from him entirely. We were sitting down for a second after our cardio session at the coat area and a woman came down from the stairs and walked past us. And he checked her out. Like he stared at her face and then full on at her butt. It almost felt like he wanted me to see him check out another woman or something. It was so strange and gross. I wanted to throw a chair at him. Unfortunately, i am stuck with this guy for some time, and i yearn for the days that it was just me and my personal trainer alone. If they had not given me that other personal trainer guy and just straight up set me up with this guy i would've already been further ahead and it would've been just me and him for all that time cause he also did not have any interns for some time until now. 

I always talk about wanting new friends but then when i meet new people i always regret it LOL. Sometimes i just want to set the world on fire.

I will probably write again next year/week. I hope everyone had a nice Christmas! And i wish everyone the most wonderful New Years celebration! Until then! 🎆🎇

PT Day 25: Forgot a day!!!

I just realized i forgot to note down day 24. I have it written down in my phone so i will make the post after i am done with this one. Today was okay at the gym. It was a little bit crowded at first and i was only 5 minutes late so that was nice. I also asked if we could maybe meet earlier on Friday because of my best friend's birthday and i said it was mainly cause of the ride that i needed to take, but my new gym buddy told me he can drive me. Super sweet of him! So now i have less stress about that, which is nice. I just have to take with me all the ingredients and stuff for the cake and a change of dress lol. Before i left for the gym i received my image that i wanted to put on top of the cake. I made a little collage of things that my best friend likes and put his favorite actor in the middle of it all LOL. It turned out really nice and am excited for him to see it on the cake. I will also try a new cake recipe (cause he wanted a certain type of cake i've never made before) so i hope it will turn out well, but i am sure it will. I also am sipping on my protein smoothie right now and i made the mistake of putting in the powder first so now it is all lumpy and stuff, so DON'T DO THAT!!! Liquid first!!! My PT wanted us to use higher weights today so for most things i went up in weight slightly. The LAT pulldown was annoying for me cause i could easily do 15 reps with 25kg but then 30kg was too much. I just have to work-out more at home lol. Oh i also asked if my training buddy wants to meet an extra day a week for cardio and he said yes! But i think that will be a thing for next year maybe cause of Christmas and New years.

• 10 minutes elliptical
• 3x12 rows ??kg
• 3x12 lat pulldown 25kg
• 3x10 lie down dumbbell something 7kg
• 3x12 sit up dumbbell something 6kg
• 3x12 shoulder press 6kg
• 3x12 tricep pulldown idk 10kg

Oh and the evaluation meeting went ok as well. We just discussed some things and all was good as per usual.

Struggling & stress!

Ever since December started i have been having stressful weeks. I haven't been able to work-out at home because of it, or do extra gym days, and i can definitely feel the difference. I was really motivated as well which makes it even more of a bummer. I hate this so much!!! I at least feel like next week will be different, but i guess we will see. My roommate's birthday is soon so i am preparing stuff for that too on top of having to prepare for Christmas. Eh. I don't really have much support or people i can lean on which also sucks, but i just have to tough it out. Today i had an appointment at my rental place to talk about my mentally ill neighbor but that didn't really help much. They did mention that i have a new upstairs neighbor who is moving in already, but i haven't seen him yet, but maybe i'll meet him one of these days.

Day 24: Leg day (but im sick) (and it's Friday the 13th)

Writing this on the 17th since i forgot to write here before. I kind of caught a cold and i felt really out of it on Friday. I even overslept because i didn't sleep all night cause i was cleaning my nose and it was horrible. I fell asleep around the time my roommate went to work so lol. I ultimately woke up because my rental place called me, if it wasn't for them i would've not woken up for a few more hours i think HAH. So yeah, i told my PT i would be later, and i was about 15 minutes late. It wasn't that bad. I stayed a bit longer and my PT had to do some paperwork so he did that at the gym and then my new workout buddy stayed with me to keep me company so that was cool. 

• Adductor stretch 2x15 32.5kg 1x12 35kg
• Leg press 1x15 40kg normal 3x12 60kg low
• Abductor 3x12 40kg
• Leg curl 1x12 25kg 3x12 27.5kg
• Kickback hamstring curl 5kg 3x10
• Leg extension 1x12 31.25kg 3x8 35kg 

PT Day 23: Upper body

Yesterday i didn't exercise at home. I had an appointment in the afternoon and had to go to the store after and when i got home it was already 4.30PM and i agreed with my roommate that we would go to a store that had a huge Christmas thing set up. And it's best to go early in the week when you go there cause people from all over go to that place just to check out the Christmas things they set up and it can get really crowded. So when he got home from work we immediately went and we were there for like 3 hours LOL. It was insane though! Really pretty. There were so many Christmas things and they had set up this entire Christmas town that was huuuuge. I made some pictures, i might share them here. But yeah, no time for the gym unfortunately.

But then today i did go to the gym. I thought it was gonna be me and the new dude at 1.45PM alone, together. But then when i got there my PT just arrived and he said he told the new dude that we would meet at 2PM. Soooo... we did warmup and then did warmup again when the dude arrived lol. It was nice working out with him. We use about the same weights which is cool. Makes me feel less self-conscious. We joked around a lot and talked about music and games so that's cool. We also briefly talked about therapy cause he also goes to therapy, so yeah! Cool stuff. Cool dude. And from now on we will always workout together because the PT said it is better for him and his hours. So, that's what we will do!

• 10 minutes treadmill 
• 3x12 rows ??kg
• 3x12 lat pulldown 25kg
• 3x12 lie down dumbbell something 6kg
• 3x10 sit up dumbbell something 6kg
• 3x10 shoulder press 6kg
• 3x12 tricep pulldown idk 7.5kg

PT Day 22: Leg day (Weird day)

The gym today was weird lol. My PT's new client was there so i worked out with the intern and the PT worked out with the new guy. I didn't get to meet the new guy at first cause he got there later. When i was working out i realized one of my old "friends" was there. Our history goes back ages, but the dude is weird af. We used to be good friends and then we started developing feelings for each other, but i just got out of a relationship and i told him i didn't think it was a good idea to jump into a new one so quickly. From that point on he decided to hate me LOL. Keep in mind that i was still a teen back then. Weirdest thing is that later on we had contact again briefly, and he said hi to me when he saw me on the street, but then at one point he decided to hate me again. One time i passed him on the street and we were like inches away from each other, he made eye contact with me so i said "hey!" and he just straight up ignored me!!! So petty.

Anyways, he was apparently working out there with his new gf or something i guess. The last time i spoke to him he had a fiancé but this woman was someone else. I know he noticed me cause i saw from my peripheral vision that he was looking at me. I never looked at him or even in his direction cause i just wanted to pretend that i didn't know who he was. At one point i went with the intern near where he was working out and him and the new gf were whispering to each other while looking at me. It was so awkward. Imagine being an adult and then acting like a high-schooler. It made working out kind of uncomfortable. At one point they left though so the energy in the gym was normal again.

I then ended up talking to the new guy cause i realized he was wearing gaming merch and we talked about games. Then at the end of my workout session i talked to him again and i said as a joke that we should workout together next week and make it a competition to see who is stronger. So on Tuesday we will workout together during the one hour session with the PT! Super cool.

• Adductor stretch 2x15 32.5kg 1x15 35kg
• Leg press 1x15 40kg 3x12 70kg
• Abductor 3x12 40kg
• Leg curl 1x12 25kg 3x12 27.5kg
• Kickback hamstring curl 7.5kg 2x8pl 1x10 5kg
• Leg extension 1x12 31.25kg 3x8 35kg

PT Day 21: Upper body

We agreed i would be at the gym at 13.45 and i was there at 13.55 and when i arrived there was a big spider, so i asked for a cup and took it outside. I'm pretty sure everyone at the gym thinks i'm weird already so i am just feeding into their bias hehe. My PT has a new client starting this week who will work-out after me on Tuesdays and will work-out "with" me on Fridays (i will work-out with the intern while the new dude will work-out with my PT). I saw the dude and he looked about my age and he had a space invaders cap on. So i think he is a gamer, he looked the part anyways. Working out today went pretty well. I felt more strong than any other time i think. I usually hate the tricip pulldowns (?) but they went way smoother today. I also realize i need about 2-3 minute rests between sets to get my body to fully recover because my reps were all over the place. I wanted to make sure we were done at 3 stat cause my PT had his new client so i didn't rest properly every single time, eh. But i worked out with 6kg on every single work-out except my shoulder press(?) i believe.

• 10 minutes treadmill 
• 3x12 rows ??kg
• 3x12 lat pulldown 25kg
• 3x12 lie down dumbbell something 6kg
• 3x10 sit up dumbbell something 6kg
• 3x10 shoulder press 6kg
• 3x12 tricep pulldown idk 7.5kg

I didn't do anything at home cause i felt really tired today. I have ROMs in my legs so i guess that didn't help either. I really felt like eating pizza and because i did so well last week and also in the gym the last two days i granted myself pizza but i forgot the pizzeria near my house is closed on mondays and tuesdays AH i was annoyed. I ended up making tortellini for me and my roommate. So it was kind of a "cheat day" since that stuff is high in calories and fat. Tomorrow i'll go back to my usual diet.

Also, there are two guys at my gym who always smoke after they are done (which is funny to me). They are like younger; one of them is smaller and the other one is huge. They were next to me on the benches for a little bit and the small one tried to show the bigger one how to properly put up the dumbbells when they are really heavy (pushing them with your legs). They were going back and forth like a married couple and i kept laughing. At one point (cause the bigger dude didnt seem to understand how to do it properly) said "I've got no time for that". I laughed so hard omg. He was also using the highest weight dumbbells we have in the gym so bless his soul and thanks for making me laugh LOL.

Lower body monday

Today i went to the gym alone. I had an appointment early in the day so i had to get up early so i was like "oh i can go to the gym early" but nah i was still only at the gym at 3 or 3.30 i forgot. It wasn't that crowded but i think that might be because of the rain. For some reason everything is dead when it rains. I sometimes think people are just NPCs from a video game.

Gym:

• Elliptical 10 minutes  (5 1min 6 then 7 30secs 8 1min 5cd
• Stairmaster 10 minutes 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 7 8 5
• Adductor stretch 2x12 30kg 1x12 35kg 
• Leg press (low legs) 5x12 (30 > 60 > 60 > 60  > 70)

Home:

• Sumo squat 5x6 (14kg)
• Sumo deadlift 2x8 (14kg) 3x10 (10kg)
• Stiff-legged deadlift 5x10 (10kg)

I remember now how i lost so much fat so fast in the first 1-2 months i went to the gym in the beginning: i did the stairmaster 2-3 times a week. I did it again today; i hadn't been on it for like a year or something. I was SWEATING LIKE CRAZY. The elliptical made me out of breath, sure. But the stairs KILLED me and i was only on it for 10 minutes. I also felt a burn in my calves and it just knocked me out. When i came home i felt like i was still out of breath LOL. Anyways, so i did 20 minutes of hardcore cardio, followed by a small pause, adductors for stretching mainly and then the leg press. I wanted to do 6 sets of leg press by doing two times 70kg at the end but i felt so out of it that i decided not to do it. I also put my feet lower to feel it really in my quads so it burned a lot.

I then biked home and did sumo squats. I was at first not sure if i could do 14kg cause i accidentally loaded up 14kg for my deadlift but i wanted to do squats first so i tried it and i could do it. I just didn't feel comfortable doing full reps so i went with 5x6 and that went pretty well. I then did sumos but felt that 14kg was too high, since it was a sumo deadlift which means i bring the bar all the way down and it was a pain so i went to 10kg and it felt better. Then i ended with the stiff deadlift that i did for the first time. I had a video playing about how to do it by dr. Mike which was helpful as i went through my reps and adjusted myself accordingly. I actually had the bulgarian split squat planed and the hip thrust but i was like "nah" so i went with higher reps for both deadlifts and that worked out pretty well!

Now i will write more about how my weekend was (yesterday i went to a Christmas market) and a little rant about my roommate today regarding support and my apartment.

Nov 25, 2024 - Dec 1, 2024: Weekly Overview

Today i went to a Christmas market and i made a new lady friend which is awesome! I also got some new socks and things for my Christmas tree and a really cool oversized vintage looking jacket/coat that i got from the men's department! But enough about that, i wanted to make an overview of my protein intake of the week + workouts. I only didn't count calories/protein on Sunday.

Weekly Summary for the week of Nov 25, 2024

Monday, 25 November
1,676 calories 
86g protein
Cardio + leg day gym/home

Tuesday, 26 November
1,714 calories
99.6g protein
Cardio + upper body gym 

Wednesday, 27 November
1,484 calories
69.3g protein
Rest day

Thursday, 28 November
1,538 calories
79.3g protein
Short session upper body home

Friday, 29 November
1,062 calories
74.3g protein
Cardio + leg day gym

Saturday, 30 November
1,226 calories
65.8g protein
Rest day

Sunday, 1 December
?????
Cardio (walked a lot)
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Total Calories: 8,700 
Total Protein: 474.3g