Thank you for the early Christmas Gift:)

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So… I decided to make this a personalized thank you blog post to Anne , because she sent me an early Christmas Gift that I have received today in the mail. I will try to keep this short because I promised to send her a letter – so can’t give all the goods away in this post. I just wanted to tell her thank you so much! I appreciate all our wonderful conversations, our laughs, name calling and vulgar personality traits that we have in common! lol. Not to mention our love for Lana Del Rey 😛 —- that is the reason I still keep you around! XD jk

I have never gotten a gift from a fellow blogger before, and let me tell you, it feels amazing, we live in different countries and shit is expensive to send people, but she made it work and she did it out of the kindness of her heart! I literally teared up because it is the my first Christmas gift of 2016 and it feels so damn good that it came from someone as sweet as Anne, I cannot wait to open it! I thank your husband for being awesome enough to not get upset over the expense. LOL. Tell him I am worth it!!! haha. jk  No but seriously, once she gets better, I hope she can read this blog post, because honestly, this was the best part of my day when I seen this in the mail 😀 I appreciate it Anne, thank you so much! I decided to not use vulgar content within the blog to save the audience from our childish ways! lmfao. 

P.S Anne, does this officially make me your trophy wife? 🙂 —- xoxox

Topic Tuesday- Squat Challenge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMs7X75ORuc&t=76s

I just want to make mention, that I appreciate “MAX OUT GAINS” on YouTube for nominating me for this challenge, and I am sorry it wasn’t on a day that I could be 100 percent but women suffer every month LOL – not my fault. I did what I could with what I had available to me at the gym – planet fitness. My planet fitness does not have barbell free weights, so I had to use the smith machine (which is fine, because I am used to it by now). I also wanted to mention, YES! I look horrible on camera (which all of you should be used to by now) but it is because I was sweating and working out prior to the challenge.. sorry if my face scares you. I don’t look good at the gym for anyone.. so I don’t really ever look like Barbie. LOL – lower your expectations of me and everything will seem normal. 

I have posted – will post my workout I did today on both Instagram and on my blog, so be on the lookout, it was a hefty leg day. My camera man had me redo the first set of squats 3 times, so by the final time, my legs were ready to give up, which is why I said “I may not be able to do another 12 reps” on camera. Anyways, let me just say this.. I did my workout, my workout with my client, THEN the squat challenge, but before the challenge I had to redo my squat reps 36 times because the camera problems!!! MY LEGS HURT LIKE HELL! lol. I hope all of you enjoy watching me in pain! lol. 

 

Your Fitness Blogger,

Shay-lon xxxx 

Monday Motivation YouTube Video: Nov. 28th

Too many of this, can create a whole lot of this.. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIooatdPbW8

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MondayMotivation with a twist..

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“This isn’t normal, but nothing I do is a trend” – says me

Normally.. I spend my day away posting quotes on #MondayMotivation but today, I decided to come in with a twist and surprise everybody with something odd, but something worth noting. Since many of you may not know some of this and may not listen to my YouTube videos, I figured.. well I will spend some extra time on Monday and invest my time in teaching you something. Today’s teaching is: what you put in, is what you get out of it. I will be the first to tell you, this whole month has been good for many reasons. Small reasons, maybe petty reasons, but reasons that made my day shine that much brighter. 

 
  1. I  write for the former editor of the muscle & Fitness magazine
  2. I can send in my pitches to the chief editor of muscle and fitness magazine
  3. I have had 2-3 different CrossFit Games competitors tweet me:) – I fangirled 
  4. I had a celebrity (musician) comment on my Instagram photos
  5. I have had Chris Hardwick (host of the talking dead) say my tweet live on his show
  6. I have had gotten many, many, many facebook friend request from people who have read my blog
  7. I continue to get subs and emails from people who support my writing 
  8. I have made some new gym buddies.. 
  9. I have met some rad bloggers on all my blog sites
  10. I love my YouTube subscribers, they make me smile 

I look back and say to myself, I got damn lucky! Many people have gotten way more and way less than me, but I continue to rise above. See, I used to think there is no way a magazine would want me to write for them, but I proved myself wrong. I used to think tweeting is stupid and nothing comes out of it, shit.. I was wrong. I used to think Celebrities don’t honestly have time to comment on a fan’s instagram, but that was wrong. I used to think.. people are weirdos for adding me on facebook! lol. that is still true! haha. jk

I didn’t think someone would extend themselves to me at the gym and we would end up working out together, that is awesome. I didn’t think I would have time to read other people’s blogs because this was supposed to be about me, but I love it. I didn’t think it would be a good idea to be on YouTube , but I am finding out, people want to see me grow. I am finding out so much about myself, the girl who started with 0 likes and followers on her blog, who struggled day and night trying to get someone to see me through a screen, to find my voice when I type.  My blog anniversary will be coming up sometime in December (which I will announce). I think to myself, I couldn’t have gotten where I am now: without anger, tears, panic, research.. it took me so long to realize.. I have the power to change something but first I had to change my attitude. This MondayMotivation is to my growth, your growth, to my hard work, to your hard work, to my failures, to your failure and to our triumphs! 

 

Happy Monday Motivation Everyone

 

Your Fitness Blogger,

Shay-lon

 
 

Personal Training: Helping a Friend day 45

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Hello FitFam

It has been a long and grueling week, seems like I haven’t been on my blog in months but it has only been roughly 3 days and some odd minutes. I missed all of you and hope many of you had a beautiful Thanksgiving this year. My Thanksgiving went well and I did what I told everyone I would do and that is, I would eat accordingly and be watchful of my intake and I prevailed. It didn’t take me long to get full this Holiday, mostly because I had more meat (protein) on my plate than I had anything else and since I was eating that first, by the time I made it to the sides, I could hardly eat anymore. I had some cheesecake for desert but not much of it, I am not a HUGE fan for deserts, I know, I know.. weird. lol. I did workout on Thanksgiving at my house instead of at the gym because I wanted to stay indoors before getting ready for the celebration. I did some core exercises for the most part. The day before and the day after Thanksgiving, I was in the gym for my normal workouts. I didn’t take noteworthy Instagram pictures over Thanksgiving, I suppose I forgot to take pics of all the food and stuff.. sorry. I took some leftovers home and had leftovers for 2 days straight and that was gone, then yesterday my stomach ache came back to bite me in the ASS very hard.. and well work was painful and going home and crying myself to sleep was painful too, imagine a 24 year old yelling for their mother.. — that was me. lol. I don’t even live at home, so the chances of her reacting to my yell would be 0. I know why I was in pain (happens once a month- pms) and I need to see my Dr again, actually need to see a specialist this time, because I do not want to continue living this way. I mean I was vomiting up at work hella badly until my coworker shown up to relieve me and give me her meds and talk me through the pain.. I will just say driving home seemed like forever and falling asleep and breaking out in sweat.. wasn’t my favorite part about Sunday. I did have enough energy to watch the new episode of “The Walking Dead”, but didn’t watch the after show, because I was in so much pain after a while. I wasn’t sure if I would make it tot he gym this morning but I knew I had to try. John, met me at the gym this morning, I emailed his workout to him the night before. I was at the gym a hour before he got there to do my own thing.  Thank goodness none of the workouts hurt me to the point of not wanting to workout, but walking on the treadmill I took very slowly at 3.6 speed and no incline because that is all my belly could handle. I stayed long enough to help John through his warm up, but left after discussing his workouts with him, hopefully tomorrow morning I will have the energy needed to stay the whole 2 hours. 

 

John’s Workout

Warm up:

Dynamic stretches:

 
  • Knee to chest
  • Skips
  • Side bends: 10lb dumbbell

Workout Session:

  • Treadmill: 25 minutes, 2.0 incline, 3.8 speed
  • Treadmill: 25 minutes, 2.0 incline, 4.0 speed

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  • Crunch machine: 2 X 20

Cool down:

  • Walk 2 laps around the gym

My Workout:

Warm up:

  • Treadmill: 12 minutes, 3.6 speed, no incline

Workout Session:

  • Low pulley close-grip row: 4 X 15, dropsets: 15, 10, 10. I did 100lb
  • Standing dumbbell hammer curl: 4 X 15. dropsets: 15, 10, 10. I did 20lb each arm
  • Bentover one-arm dumbbell row: 4 X 15, dropsets: 15, 10, 10. I did 20lb per arm. 
  • Flutter kick on the bench: 4 X 20
  • stability ball crunches (my gym doesn’t have stability balls) I used the machine: 4 X 20, 70lb

Cardio:

  • Treadmill: 35 minutes, 3.6 speed, no incline 

I should have done heavier with the bentover rows, because 20lb was nothing but I was trying to take it easy today.  The hammer curls are no joke, I felt them for sure. I find doing them alternating is easier, I didn’t do alternating, I did it together. My low pulley row highest is 120 right now, but since I did dropsets; I didn’t want to increase my weight anymore than 5 lb & the weights go up by 20s.  In case someone doesn’t know what it means, dropsets: for each subsequent set in which you see a drop in the number of reps, you’ll increase the weight by no than 5% or 5 pounds (this technique helps maximize muscular development).  Overall, my workout went fine, no complaints for today, tomorrow is leg day. 

 

I will be posting a #MondayMotivation YouTube video today, it will hopefully be short and to the point for the most part since I am not feeling so spunky, so keep an eye out for that.

 

Your Fitness blogger,

Shay-lon xxxx