Hi everyone,

Well I'm a lil sore to say the least, ha ha. But that is good as I know I actually worked during my session. So from now gonna up the weights and walk away from my sessions fatigued.

Went for my 45 min walk this afternoon, about half way in it started to pour down with rain but it was rather refreshing. :)

Well until tomorrow goodnight :)

Christina

Walking lunges hurt :)

So I slept in this morning because I could - gotta LOVE being on leave. Decided to do legs today as there were no gyms open up here yesterday.

Tara has recently done up a new program for me and started with legs today. Started off with barbell squats, did a set of 20 on 35 kilos, set of 15 on 45 kilos and set of 15 on 50 kilos. I then did plie squats with barbell, did 3 sets of 12, prob should have bumped up the weight here, did 22.5 kilos for these.

Next up walking lunges, a set of 40 with 10 kilo dumb bells each hand and I was feeling pretty crappy after that first set, my back side was hurting ALOT, haha, I then used 5 kilo dumb bells in each hand and did 2 more sets of 40 walking lunges.

I then did seated leg curls, first set was on 25 kilos, second set on 30 kilos and third set on 35 kilos, reps ranging from 12 to 8 for the last set.

I then did Butt Bridges on the Swiss Ball for 3 sets of 20 and by gosh this exercise bloody hurts, owwww.

Needless to say a few times during the walking lunges I was feeling pretty nauseous - WHAT THE??? ha ha

Other than that the day has been going well for food and I have not put on any weight over the Christmas / New Year period which I am happy with.

This arvo will be heading out for a 45 min walk to relax and ease the soreness I am feeling in my butt ha ha.

Talk soon

Christina

The first day of 2010

Ah woke up absolutely refreshed after my flight back to Darwin yesterday. How did I spend New Years? - going to bed at 10pm - lol. I really needed the sleep.

Anyway I have just had my egg whites with cheese for brekky and it is my absolute fave to eat - yummy.

I have just been reading Tara's blog this morning and she has passed on the Beautiful Blogger Award to me.

I must now share seven things about myself and pass it on to seven other bloggers.

1. I joined the Australian Regular Army in 2005 when I was 17.
2. I was lactose intolerant as a baby
3. I was a tomboy when I was a child and had a penchant for wearing colourful vests and hair bands as anklets.
4. I am absolutely terrified of green tree frogs
5. The smell of the yolk of an egg makes me puke (yuck)
6. I am addicted to reality tv shows such as - Playboy Mansion, Keeping up with the Kardashians, My Super Sweet 16 etc etc.
7. I got braces put on in September last year.

Wow, that was kinda hard to think of 7 things without going into the overshare territory ha ha :)

Apart from that looking at having a good day for eating and will have to ring and check if the gym is open, not sure if it is since its New Years Day and all.

Talk soon (oh almost forgot I have to choose 7 other bloggers to share 7 things about themselves - ok here goes

- Bluegirl
- Krissa
- Hannah
- Laynie Kelly
- Shaboom
- Chelle

Christina

Killer Back Session with Tara (aka "massive shoulders")

Well..... rolled outta bed this morning and damn my butt is sore from all the Noosa Hills Tara and I tackled yesterday. Great session.

Tara picked me up this morning and we hit the gym (what a maze). We started off with Assisted Pull-ups and damn they hurt - ALOT, I was thinking geez I am sore already and its only the first exercise :)

We then moved onto Lat Pull downs, followed my seated rows, upright rows, bent over rows, skull crushers and another exercise which I cant remember off the top of my head.

During this session I really learnt that I have not been pushing myself hard enough in my session back home in Darwin. I have been concentrating so much on getting the same amount of reps each set for the whole lot, rather than going to failure. So when I get home I will be really upping the ante so to speak. Heavier weights are on the cards.

After this Tara helped me with posing and we practiced in our "stripper heels as I like to call em". Tara helped me with all the compulsory poses and symmetry poses. Wow - it may look easy , but hell it aint and I was sweating ALOT and my muscles were burning.

I learnt alot today and I am grateful for having Tara as my Trainer.

Tara also took my skinfolds - was the first time I had them done. Overall I think I was around 84mils.

Well I am recovering at the moment lying down and looking forward to my last session with Tara in the morning before I head back to my folks place and I fly back to Darwin on Thursday, I can honestly say I love Noosa and I will miss it, even though I have only been down here for 2 days, lol.

Ciao

Christina

Noosa has VERY VERY steep hills

Hi everyone, well I finally have some access to a decent internet connection whilst I am on holidays. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.

I am in Noosa at the moment and I love it here, so much scenery and I am loving the weather even if it has been raining a lil.

I came down to Noosa so that I could meet my trainer Tara. I was very excited to finally meet her. Tara decided to take me for a cardio session today and we set off down the hill, I thought ah this aint so bad, until we turned 2 corners and in front of me was a massive steep hill, and then another and another and then 202 steps up a steep hill and another few hills (you get the picture), owwww owww, but oh so good, lol.

All in all it was a wonderful session and tomorrow I am looking forward to a weights session and posing practice with Tara.

I just had dinner and I think I possibly has the best grilled barramundi and scallops EVER - YUM, and that didn't really touch the sides so I then had some chicken and I think I am going to eat again soon. I was famished after the cardio.

Well I am really quite sleepy, its been a pretty big day driving, walking around Noosa and the hill session that really ended it for me (followed it up with a lovely swim in the pool, ahhh).

Talk soon
Christina xxxx

Last post for a few days while I am in transition - Flying to Brisbane

Hi everyone.

Well the past week has been going well for food and training. On track with everything.

Weight is steady at 67.5 but still losing cms which is awesome. Since starting training with Tara I have lost 48cm in 9 weeks. I am very happy with my progress and feeling fitter by the day.

Well talk to you all soon and I hope everyone is training hard :)

So far so good....

Hi everyone,

Well it's been almost a week since I have made a post - oops. Well I will start from Friday morning last week. On Thursday night I went to bed feeling a lil bit sick in the belly, I was hoping I was just full. Come 3 am Friday morning, I was throwing up everything from the day before I think - CAN U SAY YUCK?

Do you know what the only thing that was going through my head ???
I was thinking, oh shit, its depletion day and then carbing up from tonight till Sunday morning and how on earth am I gonna make it the gym to train in this condition. I felt horrible. Anyway after emptying everything in my poor belly, I limped back to bed and tried.. to go back to sleep. That wasn't happening at all I can assure you. In the morning I was still worse for wear and well next stop was the bathroom (I DONT THINK I NEED TO TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED FROM HERE). Laugh everyone, laugh :) my other half certainly was.

I grabbed my blackberry and fired off an apologetic email to Tara, saying I don't think I will be able to train today and pretty much what do I do from here, since it's meant to be carb food tonight as I am on Keto through the week.

By now I was back in bed, and sent the other half to the chemist to get me gastro-lite and some Imodium. I spent the WHOLE DAY in bed feeling sorry for myself. Come Sat I was as good as new. Went and did cardio and I was finally able to eat :)

So this week so far my program has been the following:

Monday - 45 mins cardio in the morning, legs in the evening
Tuesday - 45 mins cardio in the morning and triceps and biceps in the evening
Today its gonna be chest and shoulders :) YAY

Anyway I hope everyone has been having a great week and training hard :)

Remember - 'Don't let anyone ever DOUBT you' , the doubters are the ones who are jealous!!!!!

Happy training

Christina