Showing posts with label Goals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goals. Show all posts

Monday, July 6, 2015

Fitness Log - Goals

I am going to try and keep myself accountable by tracking this publicly, this is my initial post, I will do an update either when I reach my goals (split into the bellow two sections) and or on October first which is the target date to have all these completed.

My rules are

  • proper form
  • no rest between reps
  • maximum 60 seconds between sets

The first 8 are a circuit set up in the ladies section of my gym, I am trying to get each machine to its max weight, although that is an eventual goal not necessarily the goal I will be writing down today

lb x reps x sets -- current --> goal *max weight (if different from the goal)
  1. Butt Master (glutes) -- 200lb x 12 x 3 -- > 200 x 12 x 3           
  2. Bicep Machine -- 50 x 8 x 3 --> 70 x 12 x 3 *110 x 12 x 3
  3. Inner Thigh -- 200 x 10 x 3 --> 230 x 12 x 3
  4. Outer Thigh -- 200 x 10 x 3 --> 200 x 12 x 3
  5. Leg Extension (Quads) -- 80 x 10 x 3 --> 120 x 12 x 3
  6. Leg Curl (Hamstrings) -- 90 x 8 x 3 --> 140 x 12 x 3
  7. Shoulder Press -- 50 x 8 x 3 --> 70 x 12 x 3 *unsure of max
  8. Back Flies -- 40 x 10 x 3 --> 80 x 12 x 3 * unsure of max

  1. Squats -- 160lb x 8 x 5 --> 200lb x 12 x 5
  2. Dead lifts -- 120lb x 12 x 5 --> 200lb x 12 x 5
  3. Cardio, Treadmill -- 3 Miles in 30 minutes *this is not a focus, its just something to keep me going I haven't run for 30 minutes straight recently enough to have a current stat.
Some Side notes,
  •  my weakest muscle is my back,
  •  my strongest is my legs
  • my biggest struggle is not to engage my traps (when I don't mean to), particularly during back and shoulder workouts

Monday, June 8, 2015

Completed Series, Trilogies Duologies


Duologie
The Sight, David Clement Davies
If I Stay, Gayle Forman
The Shinning, Stephen King
Daughter of the Lioness, Tamora Pierce
Trilogy
As Dead As It Gets, Katie Alender
Inkworld, Cornelia Funk
Beka Cooper : The Hunt Records, Tamora Pierce

Complete Series
The Books of Pellinor (4 books)
Uglies, Scott Westerfeld (4 books)
Hannibal Lecter, Thomas Harris (4 books)
IceMark Chronicles, Stuart Hill (4 books)
Warriors, Erin Hunter (6 books)
The Beast House Chronicles, Richard Laymon (4 books)
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer (4 books)
The Circle Opens, Tamora Pierce (4 books)
Song of the Lioness Tamora Pierce (4 books)
Protector of the Small, Tamora Pierce (4 books)
Immortals, Tamora Pierce (4 books)
Circle of Magic, Tamora Pierce (4 books)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Rick Riordan (5 books)
Harry Potter, JK Rowling (7 books)
Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket (13 books)
The Nightside, Simon R Green (12 books)
Redwall, Brain Jaques (22 books)



Sunday, June 7, 2015

Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge Intro.

I have never watched Gilmore Girls so I am not in a huge rush to finish this list by any means. I found this list on Pintrest, discovered I have already read quite a few and have some others on my TBR list.

There are 338 Books on the List, the Link to the list is here

Read

  1. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
  2. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  3. Carrie, Stephen King
  4. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
  5. Christine, Stephen King
  6. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
  7. Cujo, Stephen King
  8. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark Haddon *I remember Loving this book and thinking it was something everyone should read in school but I need to reread it
  9. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
  10. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
  11. The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerlad
  12. Hamlet, Shakespear
  13. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
  14. Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, JK Rowling
  15. How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Dr Seuss
  16. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
  17. The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
  18. The Little Match Girl, Hans Christian Anderson
  19. The Lottery, Shirley Jackson
  20. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
  21. My Sisters Keeper, Jodi Picoult
  22. The Raven, Edger Allen Poe
  23. Romeo and Juliet, Shakespear
  24. A Room of Ones Own, Virginia Woolf
  25. The Shinning, Stephen King


Started But Never Finished
When I was taking english classes in school many of these where on reading lists for final projects or some of the bigger essays, I would start to read one of these books and if I couldn't figure out how I was going to write the essay from the book, to go with whatever our topic question was I would put the book down after about 100 pages and try again... Some of these I will finish some I might not they are at the bottom of my TBR more or less

1984, George Orwell
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carrol
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Beowulf
Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
Charlottes Web, EB White
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Edgar Allen Poe, Complete Tales
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S Thompson

My Rory Gilmore TBR List

The Dirt : Confessions of the Worlds Most Notorious Rock Band, Motely Crue
Fat Land : How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World, Greg Critser
Lord of the Rings, J R R Tolkein
Frankenstein, Mary Shelly