Hibby's 2007 IMPC Log -- Me against the Dimple

hibiscus09 · 04-01-2007, 07:26 PM

Hi everyone!

I just played off of DawnMarie's journal title to make my own. My nemesis is a cellulite dimple on the back of my left thigh that only seems to want to depart company with me when I get down to around 13% bodyfat. It may be a good thing it's there or I wouldn't workout at all. :lol3:

I'm going to participate in the IMPC figure and Most Improved contests. If I can't do both, someone please let me know.

I have a crazy schedule coming up, but I'm going to give this my best. I need to be somewhat lean for June, as I'm going to Kiawah Island to spend a month there during June. I'll start a clean bulk around mid-June. I head to Europe for two weeks from July 15 through the end of the month (during which, I'm sure I'll be feasting away and having a very unclean bulk :lol3: ). When I return, I'll continue with a clean bulk through mid August. I'll cut from mid-August forward to the end of the IMPC and we'll see where I'm at then I suppose.

These are my stats as of March 31, 2007:

Saturday, March 31, 2007

121lbs
Bodyfat Range – 16.5 to 17.1% (This is according to the oMoron, which is virtually useless but I hope it shows a downward trend as I go along.)

Boobays: 37"
Waist 25.5”
Hips 36”
Quad 21.25”
Bicep: 11, 11.75
Shoulders: 39.75”
Calf: 14"

I've been carb cycling for two weeks already on a h-m-l schedule and doing 30 minutes of cardio five times a week.

Starting yesterday, I'm on a h-l-m-l schedule and doing 60 minutes of cardio five times a week. My cardio varies -- some mornings I go for a pre-breakfast walk in the hood and a couple of few times a week I do my cardio on the elliptical.

I workout in my home gym. It's a pretty cool set up with a ProSpot 500:

Welcome to ProSpot Fitness - Consumer Products :: P-500

an elliptical, a ham glute raise, a sissy squat apparatus, a leg press and dumbbells from 10lbs to 50lbs in five pound increments.

My training is not going to look very impressive this week and next as I'm planning on doing light weights/higher reps this week to give my body a break from all the heavy lifting I've been doing lately. I'm developing aches and pains I don't like. I head to Kiawah on Thursday and will stay until Monday. Luckily, there's a gym at Kiawah and I love to ride my bike on all the trails there. Monday, I head to Hilton Head to see my sister through Wednesday evening. I'll only be able to do treadmill work from Monday to Wednesday. I'll be back home Thursday and ready to go at it heavy again.

I'll post before photos on Thursday before I head to Kiawah. I suppose there will be a special thread set up for the photos. Isn't there supposed to be some sort of sign we're supposed to print off to take our before pics?

Today, I'm doing abs and cardio. I'll post it when I actually do it.

I'm looking forward to this contest and mighty nice to meet some of you. (LOL -- just reread my post and realized this doesn't sound very nice! I meant -- It's mighty nice to meet those of you I have not met yet!

) Plus, hello to those of you I already know.

Oh -- and I'm taking:

Lipo 6
Multi-vitamin
Vitamin C
Vitamin E
Vitamin B-50
Calcium/Magnesium
Joint Care
Isopure Whey
ISS Effervescent Creatine

That's all I can think of at the moment for supps.

Best wishes to all who are participating and thanks to Michael and IronMass for putting on the contest!

hibiscus09 · 04-01-2007, 09:01 PM

I have a question also -- is there a way to edit posts? I forgot to add BCAA's to my supplement list, but can't find an edit button. :p Gracias!

**A.FreeRadical** · 04-01-2007, 09:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hibiscus09

I have a question also -- is there a way to edit posts? I forgot to add BCAA's to my supplement list, but can't find an edit button. :p Gracias!

You have so many minutes to edit a post and then the button goes away. You can just do a new message with the edit in it.

Good to see you here hot stuff (That is a smokin' avi.

)

*

hibiscus09 · 04-01-2007, 10:04 PM

Oh no! I'm on a timer for editing posts? I'm so old, that will never work out good for me. :lol3:

Thank you so much, A.Free!! I hope you're doing fantastic!

So, I just completed 60 minutes on the elliptical. My tummy started cramping towards the end and I had already had four 24oz. bottles of water and drank another while on the elliptical. I guess I need more.

I'm going to drown!!

I waited 10 minutes after cardio for my tummy to settle down so I could do abs.

Cable Crunches

4 sets X 25 reps each X 40lbs

Note: My ProSpot has such tight cables! I can do much more on the cables at the commercial gym. It's quite demeaning. :lol3:

Knee Ups on the Roman Chair

4 sets X 15 reps each

Side Bends

15 reps each side X 30lbs on cables -- didn't like the way this was feeling on the ProSpot as I don't have a single handle -- I just have the V-bar. Anyhoo, moved to dumbbells for the next two sets.

15 reps each side holding 20lb dbs
15 reps each side holding 20lb dbs

Ta-dee-da!

hibiscus09 · 04-01-2007, 10:24 PM

While I'm on a roll posting here -- this is me after I took beginning photos two weeks ago (I'll take more on Thursday -- the photos I took two weeks ago were just for me). Anyway, my impression of the photos:

I've got a lot of work to do! :

For those of you who have seen these photos already, I apologize for scarring you for life again. :lol3:

spaceclown · 04-02-2007, 05:24 PM

Hahahha hibby you're a hottie!!! Good luck oh and yes you can do MIP and figure

hibiscus09 · 04-02-2007, 07:56 PM

Thanks, spacelown!

I can't decide -- maybe I'll just do most improved. If I do figure, I'll have to paint me with ProTan and I sold my suits -- I don't know that I want to buy another one. I would be more motivated if there were an actual figure contest I could do in November, but I know there isn't one in South Carolina -- well not an NPC contest. I don't know of other contests besides NPC here.

Anyhoo, still thinking about it. . . .

la,la,la,la

Oh -- North Carolina has one November 3rd in Greensboro. I just don't know if I have the energy!

I'd better get my butt out there and exercise! :lol3:

justtryn · 04-02-2007, 08:22 PM

Hi'ya Hib! Informative posts, as always. How far away is Greensboro? I think you should go for it - double motivation - both that one and the IMPC!

**davtown** · 04-02-2007, 08:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hibiscus09

I have a question also -- is there a way to edit posts? I forgot to add BCAA's to my supplement list, but can't find an edit button. :p Gracias!

The time limit for editing is an hour.... make good use of that time

**DarkFalcon** · 04-02-2007, 08:49 PM

lol..nice work Hibby! Who needs protan when your constantly jetting off to the tropics.

If you need any editing after the window feel free to pm any mod and we'll do it for you. :peace: Best of luck.

hibiscus09 · 04-02-2007, 09:37 PM

Hi Mark! Thanks, sweetie!

Ha,ha davtown -- so are you Dave? Dav? Town? :lol3: I need something to call you for short.

Hi DF! I wish I were going to the tropics. I'll pretend I'm there while at Kiawah! Thanks about the editing thing. I'll try to make this geriatric mind work quickly and edit things within the allotted time.

So, I finally took my lazy bahonkus out there to do my workout. I decided I'm going to do light full body workouts this week. I've been going heavy since I returned from the Arnold and my body is already screaming at me -- aches and pains -- a tweaked sciatica and a tweaked rotator cuff/bicep stuff again. Lawd have mercy, what happened to that body that could do two a days and go hard all the time? Sniff.

So, here's today's fun:

Warmup on the elliptical for 7 minutes

Squats

80lbs X 10 X 3 sets

DB SLDLs

30lb dbs X 10 X 3 sets

DB Bent Over Rows

25lb dbs X 10 X 3 sets

DB Military Presses*I tried Arnold presses and my hurt shoulder would have none of that! Plus, I put this shoulder exercise in front of the chest exercise because I need more help with my shoulders than my chest.

15lb dbs X 10 reps
20lb dbs X 10 reps X 2 sets

Incline Presses*I'm wondering if I didn't tweak my shoulder again by lowering the bench on my inclines. I can't do flat bench because it hurts my shoulder too much, so perhaps lowering the bench for inclines wasn't my brightest moment. :p

20lb dbs X 10 reps X 3 sets

Overhead DB Tricep Extension

25lb db X 10 reps X 3 sets

DB Alternating Bicep Curl

20lb dbs X 10 reps X 3 sets

Calve Raises*Sat on the bench and had my foot on a calf block with the DB sitting on my knee

30lb db X 20 reps X 3 sets

Voila! It was light and easy and my body will probably thank me for it. I don't know if I'll continue to do shoulders this week or not. They may need a rest and they sure weren't happy today.

Other exciting news:

1) I bought this pasta called Carba-Nada Egg Fettucine. I decided to wait to try it until high carb day but just because I know you want to know -- per 2oz dry serving, it has 140 calories, 1 gram fat, 24 carbs, 6 fibers and 12 protein. Not too shabby.

2) Did you know the lead singer from Run DMC is now a minister and has a reality show of his family on MTV? He was on Oprah today. I liked him -- he had a beautiful family.

That tis all!

Oh -- no it isn't:

3) Why, oh why do I have to run out of a bunch of supps all at once? Today, I purchased glutamine, creatine, multivitamins, vitamin B-50 and Joint Care. Jiminy Crickets!!

ta-ta :peace:

hibiscus09 · 04-02-2007, 09:45 PM

Why doesn't my name say IMPC Contestant under it?

:confused2:

:paranoid:

:ignore: :stay:

**DarkFalcon** · 04-02-2007, 09:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hibiscus09

Why doesn't my name say IMPC Contestant under it?

:confused2:

:paranoid:

:ignore: :stay:

lol..the people that have them are from last years. All the new ones I'm sure will be done by contest start.

hibiscus09 · 04-02-2007, 10:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkFalcon

lol..the people that have them are from last years. All the new ones I'm sure will be done by contest start.

Okie dokie. :clapping:

Chi_town · 04-02-2007, 11:46 PM

I am sure that Dimple does not stand a chance.

:box:

hibiscus09 · 04-03-2007, 02:18 AM

Thanks, Petey!

spaceclown · 04-03-2007, 08:06 PM

Hibby this is purely my opinion but a cheap suit would probably be fine for IMPC imo.

hibiscus09 · 04-03-2007, 10:01 PM

Hows about no suit? :lol3:

So, today is low carb day and I hate low carb day. I hate carb cycling. I have PMS.

:dannoy: :lookin: :kisgrits:

On the bright side, I did do the 60 minutes of cardio I was supposed to do today with the help of a Lipo6! I ellipticized.

Hope ya'll are having a great day!! :peace:

04-01-2007, 07:26 PM	#1
hibiscus09 IMPC Contestant Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 985 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 16	Hibby's 2007 IMPC Log -- Me against the Dimple Hi everyone! I just played off of DawnMarie's journal title to make my own. My nemesis is a cellulite dimple on the back of my left thigh that only seems to want to depart company with me when I get down to around 13% bodyfat. It may be a good thing it's there or I wouldn't workout at all. :lol3: I'm going to participate in the IMPC figure and Most Improved contests. If I can't do both, someone please let me know. I have a crazy schedule coming up, but I'm going to give this my best. I need to be somewhat lean for June, as I'm going to Kiawah Island to spend a month there during June. I'll start a clean bulk around mid-June. I head to Europe for two weeks from July 15 through the end of the month (during which, I'm sure I'll be feasting away and having a very unclean bulk :lol3: ). When I return, I'll continue with a clean bulk through mid August. I'll cut from mid-August forward to the end of the IMPC and we'll see where I'm at then I suppose. These are my stats as of March 31, 2007: Saturday, March 31, 2007 121lbs Bodyfat Range – 16.5 to 17.1% (This is according to the oMoron, which is virtually useless but I hope it shows a downward trend as I go along.) Boobays: 37" Waist 25.5” Hips 36” Quad 21.25” Bicep: 11, 11.75 Shoulders: 39.75” Calf: 14" I've been carb cycling for two weeks already on a h-m-l schedule and doing 30 minutes of cardio five times a week. Starting yesterday, I'm on a h-l-m-l schedule and doing 60 minutes of cardio five times a week. My cardio varies -- some mornings I go for a pre-breakfast walk in the hood and a couple of few times a week I do my cardio on the elliptical. I workout in my home gym. It's a pretty cool set up with a ProSpot 500: Welcome to ProSpot Fitness - Consumer Products :: P-500 an elliptical, a ham glute raise, a sissy squat apparatus, a leg press and dumbbells from 10lbs to 50lbs in five pound increments. My training is not going to look very impressive this week and next as I'm planning on doing light weights/higher reps this week to give my body a break from all the heavy lifting I've been doing lately. I'm developing aches and pains I don't like. I head to Kiawah on Thursday and will stay until Monday. Luckily, there's a gym at Kiawah and I love to ride my bike on all the trails there. Monday, I head to Hilton Head to see my sister through Wednesday evening. I'll only be able to do treadmill work from Monday to Wednesday. I'll be back home Thursday and ready to go at it heavy again. I'll post before photos on Thursday before I head to Kiawah. I suppose there will be a special thread set up for the photos. Isn't there supposed to be some sort of sign we're supposed to print off to take our before pics? Today, I'm doing abs and cardio. I'll post it when I actually do it. I'm looking forward to this contest and mighty nice to meet some of you. (LOL -- just reread my post and realized this doesn't sound very nice! I meant -- It's mighty nice to meet those of you I have not met yet! ) Plus, hello to those of you I already know. Oh -- and I'm taking: Lipo 6 Multi-vitamin Vitamin C Vitamin E Vitamin B-50 Calcium/Magnesium Joint Care Isopure Whey ISS Effervescent Creatine That's all I can think of at the moment for supps. Best wishes to all who are participating and thanks to Michael and IronMass for putting on the contest!

04-02-2007, 05:24 PM	#6
spaceclown IMPC Contestant Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the gym Posts: 1,723 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 39	Hahahha hibby you're a hottie!!! Good luck oh and yes you can do MIP and figure __________________ Spaceclown _________________________ Millennium Sport Technologies www.millenniumsport.net

04-02-2007, 08:22 PM	#8
justtryn IMPC Contestant Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Boise, Idaho Posts: 322 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 12	Hi'ya Hib! Informative posts, as always. How far away is Greensboro? I think you should go for it - double motivation - both that one and the IMPC! __________________ Mark 2008 IMPC - Open and MIP Team Scivation The body cannot follow if the mind has not been there first. Know that you can make it happen. Visualize it happening. Your body will have no choice but to follow. It's not enough to think it; you have to live it. Feel it. If success is not your objective, it's OK to go ahead and quit when things get tough. But if you truly want this, you'll never give up. Always do the best you can and never lose faith in yourself. Branch Warren.

04-02-2007, 11:46 PM	#15
Chi_town IMPC Contestant Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: On the Damn Stepmill Posts: 160 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 4	I am sure that Dimple does not stand a chance. :box: __________________ Certified Member of the HDH Crew:friday:

04-03-2007, 08:06 PM	#17
spaceclown IMPC Contestant Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the gym Posts: 1,723 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 39	Hibby this is purely my opinion but a cheap suit would probably be fine for IMPC imo. __________________ Spaceclown _________________________ Millennium Sport Technologies www.millenniumsport.net

04-01-2007, 09:01 PM	#2
hibiscus09 IMPC Contestant Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 985 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 16	I have a question also -- is there a way to edit posts? I forgot to add BCAA's to my supplement list, but can't find an edit button. :p Gracias!

04-01-2007, 10:04 PM	#4
hibiscus09 IMPC Contestant Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 985 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 16	Oh no! I'm on a timer for editing posts? I'm so old, that will never work out good for me. :lol3: Thank you so much, A.Free!! I hope you're doing fantastic! So, I just completed 60 minutes on the elliptical. My tummy started cramping towards the end and I had already had four 24oz. bottles of water and drank another while on the elliptical. I guess I need more. I'm going to drown!! I waited 10 minutes after cardio for my tummy to settle down so I could do abs. Cable Crunches 4 sets X 25 reps each X 40lbs Note: My ProSpot has such tight cables! I can do much more on the cables at the commercial gym. It's quite demeaning. :lol3: Knee Ups on the Roman Chair 4 sets X 15 reps each Side Bends 15 reps each side X 30lbs on cables -- didn't like the way this was feeling on the ProSpot as I don't have a single handle -- I just have the V-bar. Anyhoo, moved to dumbbells for the next two sets. 15 reps each side holding 20lb dbs 15 reps each side holding 20lb dbs Ta-dee-da!

04-01-2007, 10:24 PM	#5
hibiscus09 IMPC Contestant Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 985 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 16	While I'm on a roll posting here -- this is me after I took beginning photos two weeks ago (I'll take more on Thursday -- the photos I took two weeks ago were just for me). Anyway, my impression of the photos: I've got a lot of work to do! : For those of you who have seen these photos already, I apologize for scarring you for life again. :lol3:

04-02-2007, 07:56 PM	#7
hibiscus09 IMPC Contestant Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 985 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 16	Thanks, spacelown! I can't decide -- maybe I'll just do most improved. If I do figure, I'll have to paint me with ProTan and I sold my suits -- I don't know that I want to buy another one. I would be more motivated if there were an actual figure contest I could do in November, but I know there isn't one in South Carolina -- well not an NPC contest. I don't know of other contests besides NPC here. Anyhoo, still thinking about it. . . . la,la,la,la Oh -- North Carolina has one November 3rd in Greensboro. I just don't know if I have the energy! I'd better get my butt out there and exercise! :lol3:

04-02-2007, 08:49 PM	#10
DarkFalcon I've got a RAGING clue! Join Date: May 2005 Location: dnyc99's cleaning staff Posts: 11,511 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 299	lol..nice work Hibby! Who needs protan when your constantly jetting off to the tropics. If you need any editing after the window feel free to pm any mod and we'll do it for you. :peace: Best of luck.

04-02-2007, 09:37 PM	#11
hibiscus09 IMPC Contestant Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 985 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 16	Hi Mark! Thanks, sweetie! Ha,ha davtown -- so are you Dave? Dav? Town? :lol3: I need something to call you for short. Hi DF! I wish I were going to the tropics. I'll pretend I'm there while at Kiawah! Thanks about the editing thing. I'll try to make this geriatric mind work quickly and edit things within the allotted time. So, I finally took my lazy bahonkus out there to do my workout. I decided I'm going to do light full body workouts this week. I've been going heavy since I returned from the Arnold and my body is already screaming at me -- aches and pains -- a tweaked sciatica and a tweaked rotator cuff/bicep stuff again. Lawd have mercy, what happened to that body that could do two a days and go hard all the time? Sniff. So, here's today's fun: Warmup on the elliptical for 7 minutes Squats 80lbs X 10 X 3 sets DB SLDLs 30lb dbs X 10 X 3 sets DB Bent Over Rows 25lb dbs X 10 X 3 sets DB Military PressesI tried Arnold presses and my hurt shoulder would have none of that! Plus, I put this shoulder exercise in front of the chest exercise because I need more help with my shoulders than my chest. 15lb dbs X 10 reps 20lb dbs X 10 reps X 2 sets Incline PressesI'm wondering if I didn't tweak my shoulder again by lowering the bench on my inclines. I can't do flat bench because it hurts my shoulder too much, so perhaps lowering the bench for inclines wasn't my brightest moment. :p 20lb dbs X 10 reps X 3 sets Overhead DB Tricep Extension 25lb db X 10 reps X 3 sets DB Alternating Bicep Curl 20lb dbs X 10 reps X 3 sets Calve Raises***Sat on the bench and had my foot on a calf block with the DB sitting on my knee 30lb db X 20 reps X 3 sets Voila! It was light and easy and my body will probably thank me for it. I don't know if I'll continue to do shoulders this week or not. They may need a rest and they sure weren't happy today. Other exciting news: 1) I bought this pasta called Carba-Nada Egg Fettucine. I decided to wait to try it until high carb day but just because I know you want to know -- per 2oz dry serving, it has 140 calories, 1 gram fat, 24 carbs, 6 fibers and 12 protein. Not too shabby. 2) Did you know the lead singer from Run DMC is now a minister and has a reality show of his family on MTV? He was on Oprah today. I liked him -- he had a beautiful family. That tis all! Oh -- no it isn't: 3) Why, oh why do I have to run out of a bunch of supps all at once? Today, I purchased glutamine, creatine, multivitamins, vitamin B-50 and Joint Care. Jiminy Crickets!! ta-ta :peace:

04-02-2007, 09:45 PM	#12
hibiscus09 IMPC Contestant Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 985 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 16	Why doesn't my name say IMPC Contestant under it? :confused2: :paranoid: :ignore: :stay:

04-03-2007, 02:18 AM	#16
hibiscus09 IMPC Contestant Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 985 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 16	Thanks, Petey!

04-03-2007, 10:01 PM	#18
hibiscus09 IMPC Contestant Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 985 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 16	Hows about no suit? :lol3: So, today is low carb day and I hate low carb day. I hate carb cycling. I have PMS. :dannoy: :lookin: :kisgrits: On the bright side, I did do the 60 minutes of cardio I was supposed to do today with the help of a Lipo6! I ellipticized. Hope ya'll are having a great day!! :peace: