Getting all Fixed Up

Where has fitNasti been recently!? She seems to be leaving the blog bereft of rants and tales of gym gnarliness. Well, things have been fluctuating recently. It seems once you make one major change a whole slew of changes comes with it. If you recall, I've been having severe low energy problems that I am trying to solve. I've recently learned that you are not actually supposed to get to the point where tying your shoes and walking to the bedroom to collapse on a bed in full-blown exhaustion is unbearable and makes you cry. Apparently even this is excessive. I went to see Jillian at the NC Naturopathic Clinic as she assured me that she'd fix me up. Well the fixing has started and it sort of freaks me out. First, it looks like there is going to be more food and unlimited vegetables. Second, there is like 3x the dosage of all supplements. Third, we are cutting back my cardio majorly. I'm going to do 20-30 minutes of recumbent bike 3 times a week and that's about it.

I know it sounds absurd that I should be freaked out about getting more food, more supps, and less of the one thing I hate the most (cardio), but I am. This is because it's just not at all what I'm used to. I'm used to feeling de-energized, sluggish, pounding on the treadmill for hours. And now, all of a sudden, I don't have to? This boggles my mind. I know that I'm super lean and that I'm on hypertrophy and that things have changed for me metabollically, but I didn't realize that it would lead to things being easier. I'm so used to just powering through everything and having to push myself to extremes that my extremes just don't seem that intense anymore. I even get scared when I don't feel like sh*t because I wonder if I am doing something wrong. But then I sit down and I repeat the mantra "trust what your trainers tell you". If they say 30 minutes 3x a week then that's what I'll do. If they say 3 hours a day everyday of the week then that's what I'll do. I'm good at following my prescribed orders, so that's what I'll do.

This Monday Kim started me on my "Dave Tate" inspired hypertrophy plan. That's right, I'm 6 weeks out from my second show and I'm doing a powerlifting circuit. 3 days of the 5 that I lift are full body splits and HEAVY 6-8 reps. Kim's slaughtering me and it feels great. It feels so good to have enough energy to get through these intense workouts because in the end they are what I actually love. This week is sort of wonky because I go to visit Jamey in SLC UT on Friday, so I trained on my own Monday which meant insanely heavy everything all by myself. I was so proud of myself for getting through it, pushing myself to my max, and busting it out. When I trained with Kim today I did 110lb deadlifts. That is practically my entire bodyweight! It felt so good and I knew I was a beast again ;)

Tomorrow should be fun because it's bi's/tri's and conditioning day. 180lb tire flipping and prowler pushing? Sounds good to me!