On last night's
The Biggest Loser, Neill and Amanda were voted off. The main reason? Because Neill was a slacker. I can't imagine having the opportunity of a life time to train with Jillian and Bob, to lose major amounts of weight in a ridiculously short time...and blow it by not giving it your all. What annoyed me most was that Neill said they would return with T-shirts that said, "We're not lazy." This was stupid because NO ONE accused his wife of laziness, only him. I would've voted him off, too, if his laziness was adding 5 more minutes of exhausting sprints each time he put his hands on the treadmill. When they showed how they were doing after the show, she looked fantastic -- and while he had lost a little bit more weight, he still looked almost as out of shape as he was when he left the ranch.
I watched the end of
American Gladiator last week and the beginning of it this week. I hate big muscly people who growl and stuff. Be big and muscly and still act like a human being. The contestants are "normal" fit people. Well, sort of normal. This woman who rode bulls for a living totally grated on my nerves making cheesy declarations of her confidence. She cheated one competition and got disqualified. The humbler woman who just was honored to be there kept whooping her butt point-wise. The whole thing bored me too much to continue watching it
Okay, and now my thought on taste. There is just no accounting for it. At the gym today, VH1 Classic was on one of the TVs and after a commercial which featured Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons (KISS) there was an old Aerosmith video, "Love in an Elevator." All I could think of was EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! Gross!! These guys are skanky to the extreme! I cannot understand for the life of me how these guys had young girls oooing and ahhing over them. I still know grown women who think Steven Tyler is drop-dead sexy. To me, he looks like a lemur and he just looks like he is infested with STDs.
Of course, I also never understood why Bill Clinton was considered attractive and women used to talk about having hot dreams about him. Ick, ick, ick.
Then again, who am I to judge? Me, whose taste runs pretty eclectic - from Harvey Keitel, to Patrick Stewart, that guy from Maroon 5 and Liam Neeson. I remember when I was a kid, I had the worst crush on Bruce Boxleitner.
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Troubles come in armies and they're staging camp against my daughter & her husband. First, they got hit by that bus. Then he got a $125 ticket for leaving a bright parking lot with his parking lights on when he could have gotten a warning. Today he slid off the road on the way to work and hit a fence. He got a $114 ticket for "failure to control his vehicle" even though it was clearly black ice that he hit...AND...his car just got looked at and the insurance said it is totalled.
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Today's workout: 5 minutes treadmill warm-up, 5% incline, 4.2 mph. 40 minutes circuit training. 20 minutes HIIT on the Cybex w/arms.
The Circuitdumbbell squat 15/70
pullover 15/45
dumbbell 1-point row 20/30
Repeat for total of 3 sets
--1:00 sprint on treadmill, incline 8%
dumbbell deadlift 12/70
dumbbell fly 12/70
sumo squat 12/70
dips 12
Repeat for total of 3 sets
--1:00 sprint on treadmill, incline 8%
bicycle crunches 30
plank pose 30 seconds
bridge pose (backbend) 30 seconds
Repeat for total of 3 sets
