BuffMother!

Oh man I am a sweaty mess!! and do you know why?

MIRROR MOTIVATION!!

I felt like going easy on my itervals, maybe kinda slacking, but as I put on sports bra #2 in the locker room I saw my reflection in the mirror and was instantly MOTIVATED~~I love it!!
So I ran my booty off in my intervals and now feel SUPER
:wow:

prior to my intervals I did this:
r-bike
10 min
elliptical 10 min

paired:
cybex lat pulls 120×10
140×10x4
push ups
15 reps x4 sets

Bench
95#x10×4
kneeups on roman chair
3 sets of 25

Seated rows
#90×20
Ab wheel
3 sets 15, 12, 10

more ab crunches

then I ran intervals
6 min warm up
then a min at 7,8,9,10,8,9,10,8,9,11, 8,9,11,7, 8 then finished with some jogging at incline 6% at 6 mph
Total of 25 min

Well Off to eat, shower and get my sissy from the airport

Huggles,
Michelle

Squats and more squats!

I love squats!!! Huggles

In other good news, My house is on the mend!! While we were at the gym and gymnastics, my “helper” Dayna, came over and cleaned for a couple of hours and I quote” Michelle, I don’t think your house has ever been this messy!” She should have seen it last night before I cleaned TIA and LAYLA’s mess up and before I did about 10 loads of laundry.

ANYHOW~ it feels good to have it cleaner.

Here’s the report:
Warm up r-bike 20 mins reading US–what a bunch of junk, why do I love it so??

Squats
45×10
95×10x2
105×10
135×10
155×10
155×6
165×4
135×10

In between several of these sets I jumped rope, some abs, did some sprinting drills and some calves (105×25, 155×20)
And Chatted with the gym staff Smiling

Leg press
180×10
270×10
360×10
450×6
270×15

in between these I did some jumping rope and some sprinter lunges

It doesn’t look like much but It was!

It is all GOOOOOOD!!
Love ya,
BuffMother!

HI All!!
With Christmas only a week away it is often easy to forget taking care of yourself on your TO DO LIST~ REMEMBER, that you need to have consistency in your workouts and have NO EXCUSES–so try to find a way to fit a few workouts into this crazy week!

Here is my POA for this week:

M- legs at around 10 am - the girls have gymnastics at 1–cleaning day with my helper
T- Back at around 1:30 to 2pm -(the kids have a party at school not sure how long that goes and then I have to be home by 3:45 for Gunner)
My sissy comes!! and my MIL and BIL too!!
W- Intervals for sure, maybe some sort of light lifting
Thurs- Chest at around 10 am….my sister will be in town and I am gonna see if she will go with me…and maybe to pilates
Friday..probably Legs again or maybe just intervals, depends on family
Saturday- Legs or back–depending on FRIDAY, gym in the am w/DH maybe, my sissy too? PICTURES!! Measurements, weight!!
Sunday- no workout
Monday- my sissy leaves early in the morning, Christmas no planned workout

Somewhere in there too I have to find time to shop and spend as much time with my sister. So my time on the computer will be limited. BUT I will surely check in!

As soon as I am done here i have to go clean up a disaster the twins made in their room. They tore everything out of their closet today–TONS of clothes and toys, etc!! It is not GOOD!!

Well off to clean,
BuffMother

Squats and more squats!

I love squats!!! Huggles

In other good news, My house is on the mend!! While we were at the gym and gymnastics, my “helper” Dayna, came over and cleaned for a couple of hours and I quote” Michelle, I don’t think your house has ever been this messy!” She should have seen it last night before I cleaned TIA and LAYLA’s mess up and before I did about 10 loads of laundry.

ANYHOW~ it feels good to have it cleaner.

Here’s the report:
Warm up r-bike 20 mins reading US–what a bunch of junk, why do I love it so??

Squats
45×10
95×10x2
105×10
135×10
155×10
155×6
165×4
135×10

In between several of these sets I jumped rope, some abs, did some sprinting drills and some calves (105×25, 155×20)
And Chatted with the gym staff Smiling

Leg press
180×10
270×10
360×10
450×6
270×15

in between these I did some jumping rope and some sprinter lunges

It doesn’t look like much but It was!

It is all GOOOOOOD!!
Love ya,
BuffMother!

HI All!!
With Christmas only a week away it is often easy to forget taking care of yourself on your TO DO LIST~ REMEMBER, that you need to have consistency in your workouts and have NO EXCUSES–so try to find a way to fit a few workouts into this crazy week!

Here is my POA for this week:

M- legs at around 10 am - the girls have gymnastics at 1–cleaning day with my helper
T- Back at around 1:30 to 2pm -(the kids have a party at school not sure how long that goes and then I have to be home by 3:45 for Gunner)
My sissy comes!! and my MIL and BIL too!!
W- Intervals for sure, maybe some sort of light lifting
Thurs- Chest at around 10 am….my sister will be in town and I am gonna see if she will go with me…and maybe to pilates
Friday..probably Legs again or maybe just intervals, depends on family
Saturday- Legs or back–depending on FRIDAY, gym in the am w/DH maybe, my sissy too? PICTURES!! Measurements, weight!!
Sunday- no workout
Monday- my sissy leaves early in the morning, Christmas no planned workout

Somewhere in there too I have to find time to shop and spend as much time with my sister. So my time on the computer will be limited. BUT I will surely check in!

As soon as I am done here i have to go clean up a disaster the twins made in their room. They tore everything out of their closet today–TONS of clothes and toys, etc!! It is not GOOD!!

Well off to clean,
BuffMother

Well I am up early today for some weird reason. I am not a morning person, but my daughter woke me up at 6:30 and I couldn’t fall back to sleep–which is so NOT like me! I wish every morning I had this much energy and spunk to get the day started~~ :woohoo:

Alrighty- I am here to write down my POA for today!
I have so much to get done, so I need to figure out what is the most important things to choose to do and what is feasible with 4 kids in tow~ Travis is still in LA…so I am on my own today.

Here is the list:
Send out a BuffMother Shirt order
Box up and Mail Secret Santa gift
fold Christmas letter
Stuff Christmas Cards
Stamp Christmas Cards
LIck Christmas Cards–oh icky!, I’ll get the kids to do this, hee, hee
Clean Gunner’s room an closet
Clean out van and detail the inside
Get outside and enjoy the weather
Get my workout done-back, bi’s, shoulders, intervals, tan
Shave my legs–this is 2 weeks over due
Put on some self tanner so I am HOT for DH when he gets back from seeing all the hotties in LA, lol
Clean my house–this could seriously take me the entire day, but I need to just do enough so that on MONDAY when my little neighbor girl helper comes over, I have set JOBS for her.
Do Laundry~ ack! I have not done a load since mon or tues–what a mess!
Go Shopping for Grocieries and Christmas presents

Okay, that didn’t help one bit! Now I really don’t know what to do?

Well the kids just got up~ so I am off to figure this out!

Have a super dooper productive day~
Michelle

My workout today:
I got to the gym later than I wanted and only had an hour to workout–since I’ve been a slacker about running I decided to do it first today!

SO I ran intervals on the treddy for 20 mins, all done at a 2% incline:
warm up for 4 mins then 1 min hard at 10mph/1 min easy at 8mph and one of my hard intervals I went for 2 mins
Then my lifting was short and sweet:

One set inverted pull ups to warm up
2 sets pull ups 10, 5+5 with 20#assit
paried with 2 sets standing military 45×10, 65×10

2 sets bicep curls 45# bar x15 reps
paired with 2 sets arnold’s one are at a time 20’sx10

2 sets hammer curls 20’sx6,9 really focusing on shoulders
paired with 2 sets bent over lateral raises 15′x x10

one set shoulder rehab rotaters 10#x10

Then I was gonna tan but the beds were 100degrees and I was already hot, so I skipped it.

Now I am working on my list~ off to shave!!

Well I am up early today for some weird reason. I am not a morning person, but my daughter woke me up at 6:30 and I couldn’t fall back to sleep–which is so NOT like me! I wish every morning I had this much energy and spunk to get the day started~~ :woohoo:

Alrighty- I am here to write down my POA for today!
I have so much to get done, so I need to figure out what is the most important things to choose to do and what is feasible with 4 kids in tow~ Travis is still in LA…so I am on my own today.

Here is the list:
Send out a BuffMother Shirt order
Box up and Mail Secret Santa gift
fold Christmas letter
Stuff Christmas Cards
Stamp Christmas Cards
LIck Christmas Cards–oh icky!, I’ll get the kids to do this, hee, hee
Clean Gunner’s room an closet
Clean out van and detail the inside
Get outside and enjoy the weather
Get my workout done-back, bi’s, shoulders, intervals, tan
Shave my legs–this is 2 weeks over due
Put on some self tanner so I am HOT for DH when he gets back from seeing all the hotties in LA, lol
Clean my house–this could seriously take me the entire day, but I need to just do enough so that on MONDAY when my little neighbor girl helper comes over, I have set JOBS for her.
Do Laundry~ ack! I have not done a load since mon or tues–what a mess!
Go Shopping for Grocieries and Christmas presents

Okay, that didn’t help one bit! Now I really don’t know what to do?

Well the kids just got up~ so I am off to figure this out!

Have a super dooper productive day~
Michelle

My workout today:
I got to the gym later than I wanted and only had an hour to workout–since I’ve been a slacker about running I decided to do it first today!

SO I ran intervals on the treddy for 20 mins, all done at a 2% incline:
warm up for 4 mins then 1 min hard at 10mph/1 min easy at 8mph and one of my hard intervals I went for 2 mins
Then my lifting was short and sweet:

One set inverted pull ups to warm up
2 sets pull ups 10, 5+5 with 20#assit
paried with 2 sets standing military 45×10, 65×10

2 sets bicep curls 45# bar x15 reps
paired with 2 sets arnold’s one are at a time 20’sx10

2 sets hammer curls 20’sx6,9 really focusing on shoulders
paired with 2 sets bent over lateral raises 15′x x10

one set shoulder rehab rotaters 10#x10

Then I was gonna tan but the beds were 100degrees and I was already hot, so I skipped it.

Now I am working on my list~ off to shave!!

Hello!! I’ve been away one day and I have missed you terribly~ You all are so important to me!!

Well….so are you wondering what I’ve been up to–
Yesterday: I got my hair cut, highlighted/lowlighted and worked~and rested it was my day off of workouts. Now my hair is shorter than it has been in about 3 years, whaaaa! I am having hair cut remorse, lol– it looks good, but I just like my hair LONG. I was doing stellar on my diet until last night–silly christmas sugar cookies!! 1 cookie, led to 2 cookies, led to popcorn which led to an ice cream sandwich! OH MAN~ I am such a carb addict! :chocolate:
Last night we watched the UFC Fight Night on Spike–LOVED IT!! One of my FAVS Diego won in a stellar fashion, it was really fun to see! :hi5: I can’t wait until the next fights on the 30th–they will be a BLAST to watch!!

Today: it is Gracie’s birthday! She is 5 today!!! UNREAL…I worked all morning, and then worked out. FEELING GREAT!!

I did 15 mins on the r-bike warm up
paired circuits style workout

push ups 20

Bench
45×10
95×8
105×8x2
95×8x2
Bench dips (slow and controlled)
8repsx5 sets

push ups 10

Tricep extensions with bench bar
45×10x3
Incline Flys
30’sx8×3

Incline Hammer Press
90×8
90×5
90×6
Cable Tricep push downs
85×12
85×9x2 (these were more upright, slower and controlled)

Dips
40# assisted (I do this because of a bad shoulder) x10×3
Abs
3 sets

Cable flys (both arms together)
30×10x3
Cable bicep pose down
30×10x3

Chatted for 10 mins with Travis’ boxing trainer about UFC, Tough Man Contests, Natural vs. Made Athletes, Elite athletes and “Heart”–some deep stuff

Then I got on the stairmill and did 20 mins hard– felt GREAT!

So far on my eats very good
PPP, C, GG, F
Now to keep them good for the rest of the night!!! I can do it!

I am off to shower quick, clean my HOME, bring Gunner to wrestling, call my Mom and MIL, get Gunner from wrestling and then tonight I promised Gracie that I would sleep with her–wish me luck on that one, lol.

Have a good Thursday night yourself!
-BuffMother!

Hello!! I’ve been away one day and I have missed you terribly~ You all are so important to me!!

Well….so are you wondering what I’ve been up to–
Yesterday: I got my hair cut, highlighted/lowlighted and worked~and rested it was my day off of workouts. Now my hair is shorter than it has been in about 3 years, whaaaa! I am having hair cut remorse, lol– it looks good, but I just like my hair LONG. I was doing stellar on my diet until last night–silly christmas sugar cookies!! 1 cookie, led to 2 cookies, led to popcorn which led to an ice cream sandwich! OH MAN~ I am such a carb addict! :chocolate:
Last night we watched the UFC Fight Night on Spike–LOVED IT!! One of my FAVS Diego won in a stellar fashion, it was really fun to see! :hi5: I can’t wait until the next fights on the 30th–they will be a BLAST to watch!!

Today: it is Gracie’s birthday! She is 5 today!!! UNREAL…I worked all morning, and then worked out. FEELING GREAT!!

I did 15 mins on the r-bike warm up
paired circuits style workout

push ups 20

Bench
45×10
95×8
105×8x2
95×8x2
Bench dips (slow and controlled)
8repsx5 sets

push ups 10

Tricep extensions with bench bar
45×10x3
Incline Flys
30’sx8×3

Incline Hammer Press
90×8
90×5
90×6
Cable Tricep push downs
85×12
85×9x2 (these were more upright, slower and controlled)

Dips
40# assisted (I do this because of a bad shoulder) x10×3
Abs
3 sets

Cable flys (both arms together)
30×10x3
Cable bicep pose down
30×10x3

Chatted for 10 mins with Travis’ boxing trainer about UFC, Tough Man Contests, Natural vs. Made Athletes, Elite athletes and “Heart”–some deep stuff

Then I got on the stairmill and did 20 mins hard– felt GREAT!

So far on my eats very good
PPP, C, GG, F
Now to keep them good for the rest of the night!!! I can do it!

I am off to shower quick, clean my HOME, bring Gunner to wrestling, call my Mom and MIL, get Gunner from wrestling and then tonight I promised Gracie that I would sleep with her–wish me luck on that one, lol.

Have a good Thursday night yourself!
-BuffMother!

Well today is Gracie’s Birthday Party- so I am “prepping” for that experience, lol!

I just got the cake from Wally World–Oh MY it was busy there! Now all I have left to do is wrap and get myself and the girls beautified. Then we will be heading to our fav b-day spot Chuckie Cheese!

This morning I went to the gym with DH, he has been taking some time off to rest his injured ribs…and guess what - he has lost 19 pounds in less than 6 weeks– I think that is CRAZY! 199 to 180

Here is my workout-
Lat pulls
110×12
130×10
150×10
Bicep curls
45×10x3

High lat row
120×10 together and 10 each arm
140×10 together and 10 each arm x2 sets
Reverse crunches on bench 3 sets

Seated rows
90×10
100×10
110×10
Military Press machine
80×10
100×10
105×10

Hanging crunches 2 sets
Hammer curls with 25’sx10×2

knee ups on roman chair 25reps

pose down cable bicep curls
30×10x2
shrugs(smith)
90×10x2
shoulder rotations laying on side
10..dbx10×2

That’s it for today–and YES my booty is SUPER SORE!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!

Off to get ready we have to leave here in 1.5 hours–the countdown in ON!!

Have a super Saturday!!
-M
p.s. I got a ton of BuffMother Christmas cards thanks!! I hope to get mine off this week!!