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Strength For My Journey: Looking back and letting go
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Strength For My Journey. The next fifty years lifting, loving, and living. My Journey for Strength. Tuesday, November 8, 2011. Looking back and letting go. Tuesday’s workout (focus on shoulders down, chest up, slow and steady to focus on the contraction of the muscles being worked.). Close grip underhand pulldowns 90# x 12, 12, 10. Wide grip lat pulldown 60# x 12, 11, 10. Seated rows 50# x 12, 10, 10. BB rows 50# x 12, 10, 10. BB curls 30# x 11, 10, 10. Incline DB curl 12.5 x 13, 12, 11. DB tricep kickba...
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Strength For My Journey: January 2012
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Strength For My Journey. The next fifty years lifting, loving, and living. My Journey for Strength. Sunday, January 8, 2012. I am learning the fine art of maintaining physical fitness while also having a life. So the quest for balance continues. I know I can’t out train a bad diet, but can you out train a mediocre diet? This week in addition to 4 days of lifting, I need to add more cardio. I’m thinking Zumba Tuesday evenings, Friday noon, and Saturday morning; plus P90x Intervals or Rev Abs Mon...Posteri...
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Strength For My Journey: May 2012
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Strength For My Journey. The next fifty years lifting, loving, and living. My Journey for Strength. Sunday, May 20, 2012. Drive to the beach. With gas prices at $4.25 though, that is a foolish thought. But I’ll do none of those things. I won’t run. I’ll look up old friends online and wonder if I ever cross their mind. I’ll fix something for lunch that probably won’t be as healthy as it should be. I’ll face by life head on. Or I’ll head back to bed and let the rain hitting the roof lull me to sleep. I am ...
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Strength For My Journey: Amazing
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Strength For My Journey. The next fifty years lifting, loving, and living. My Journey for Strength. Monday, November 14, 2011. This is the sticky I posted to my computer screen this morning, all positive affirmation like, just willing the gods to shower blessings of amazingness upon me. So, the day’s about done, did anything amazing happen, you may wonder? Well it depends on what you consider amazing. Did someone knock on my door giving me millions of dollars? Lol) Is my dog mysteriously hip pain free?
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Strength For My Journey: New Year Balance
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Strength For My Journey. The next fifty years lifting, loving, and living. My Journey for Strength. Wednesday, January 4, 2012. And perhaps that is exactly why I’ve never figured out where I was going with my lifting. Because there is nowhere I have the passion to go. I want to be strong, I want to lift heavy, I want full curvy muscles. I want to be lean and tight. I don’t need 6 days in the weight room for that. Scott Sonnon FB 2/26. Learn how to balance. As I diversify my interests I am going to ne...
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Strength For My Journey: Intoxicating
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Strength For My Journey. The next fifty years lifting, loving, and living. My Journey for Strength. Saturday, November 5, 2011. 8220;Got my Ray-Bans on and I’m feeling hella cool tonight, yeah. Everybody’s vibing so don’t nobody start a fight, yeah-ah-ah-ah…”. The memo must have gone around the Y telling of the way my day had been going, because it was stroke Melinda’s ego night. And I admit, shamelessly, that I liked it. I noticed you lift heavier than most women.”. I was beaming. Turns out he and h...
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Strength For My Journey: Long time comin'
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Strength For My Journey. The next fifty years lifting, loving, and living. My Journey for Strength. Monday, June 16, 2014. Nothing tastes as good as deadlifts feel. I'm back in the gym, and it's been a long time coming. Time to take the focus off the scale, stop whining that I can't drop weight, quit cursing food that yes, as a matter of fact, does taste better than deadlifts feel. Because it's all excuses. What can I change? So, what can I add to my life to increase the quality? Less sitting around watc...
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Strength For My Journey: June 2014
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Strength For My Journey. The next fifty years lifting, loving, and living. My Journey for Strength. Monday, June 16, 2014. Nothing tastes as good as deadlifts feel. I'm back in the gym, and it's been a long time coming. Time to take the focus off the scale, stop whining that I can't drop weight, quit cursing food that yes, as a matter of fact, does taste better than deadlifts feel. Because it's all excuses. What can I change? So, what can I add to my life to increase the quality? Less sitting around watc...
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Strength For My Journey: Fun pics from day 55
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Strength For My Journey. The next fifty years lifting, loving, and living. My Journey for Strength. Tuesday, November 8, 2011. Fun pics from day 55. Just for fun.still a little soft in the core, but guess that just gives me something to work on. November 8, 2011 at 7:22 PM. I AM SO IN AWE! MAINTAIN. GOD BLESS YOU! November 9, 2011 at 6:06 AM. You are living proof of what commitment, a proper diet, and exercise can produce! A lot of people can learn from you! Again, great job Mel! I am so proud of you!
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Strength For My Journey: The thing itself
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Strength For My Journey. The next fifty years lifting, loving, and living. My Journey for Strength. Saturday, November 5, 2011. When I woke this morning there was nothing more I wanted to do than lie in bed all day, languishing in laziness between the silky sheets, feeling the coolness of the air outside the covers on my face, hearing the rain hit the window at my head. So, Zumba was calling, with its guarantee of more than 7000 steps in just one hour. How could I skip that opportunity? Sometimes the thi...