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pauline at paulinefitness.com

motivation comes and goes. for me it has been down in the low for a week or two. Training is perfect, last week I did many new personal bests, but I lack the passion, the urge to go to the gym. The same for cardio: right now my mind is asking me: why are you doing this? And I don’t have a clear answer. I don’t do it merely because it’s fun, no way. I do it because its my job or my job as I’ve chosen it to be. No one forces me, I’m my own trainer.

This morning was really chilly outside. And foggy. this is my first fall in the US so every day is a new version of california to me. Right now I’m thinking about Sweden. I don’t want to live there, not at all, but what I do miss is the blackbird’s song at dusk in the summer. His song is so romantic, so sad… But since I refuse to let my love to a bird get me confused about where I shall live, I decided to pick up a cd with blackbird song instead. Great move!:-)

ok, what have I been up to? let’s see….

1. I’ve been haunted by a stomach flu for 11 days. yeah, I aint kidding, but believe ME I’ve done my work anyway! I have no clue what the culprit was either. I didn’t change my diet, didn’t eat something bad, didn’t cuddle with contagious things and I didn’t feel sick either, my gastric area did though!It was not easy todo heavy squats, deadlifts while having to not only pay attention to form but to see no accident happened….:-)

2. I’ve been working on my new book. It’s a fitness book ofcourse. A lifestyle fitness book.

3. I’ve had an awesome training week with new great lifts:

I now do seated db shoulder presses with 50’s for 4 reps which was unheard of for six months ago. I’m up to my original working weight for deadlifts that I haven’t been able to use for months due to my imbalances in stabilizing muscles.

I quit chewing nicotine gum last monday and I feel so ful of energy. that shit dragged me down! Oh, you thought I never smoked? heck no, I’ve touch a cigarett once in my life and that was in the 90’s. My husband used snuff years ago and ofcourse I wanted him to quit so he didn’t get cancer and didn’t look like a troll with no teeth. Well, one day when we were driving around I happened to run out on chewing gum so I asked him for a nico chewing gum. I didn’t feel anything from it.

One day I found myself at the pharmacy store buying the drug myself! stupid huh? yup! But I reasoned that since I have so low blood pressure and low heart rate, I could chew as much nicotine I wanted. Did it help? No. It just kept me chewing on something! Did I get withdrawal symptoms when I quit? No.

You see, it’s the power of habits. Not the actual drug…

Today I’m in Hollywood checking out the Fitness Hollywood 2006. It’s a show from another federation… I’ve been looking at and writing about fitness models the whole day. Gee, one can really get to see too many fit bodies…:-)

I’m also reading and writing a lot about trans fat. It’s my new passion. I want to educate people, inspire people to say no to that shit. it kills the western world.

I bought a “I cannot believe it aint butter” the other day to take a photo of it and then see if bugs wanted to eat it. I smelled it and almost puked. That so called FAT is just that horrible. I’m throwing up! It’s everywhere! I used to crave donuts, cookies etc, now I don’t even think about it at all without thinking about the trans fats. No way I’m putting that junk in my precious body! No WAY!

Yesterday I was running at 5 am on the beach. Me and my husband are up for a new challenge. Who can run the fastest home? I tried on my own to beat his record, but no way, I was two minutes behind. I know he’s twice my size with lungs so big and long long legs, but I want to be the winner anyhow! That’s why I’m now going to go even harder with my cardio. I need to be able to keep the pace at 90% mhr. Right now I can keep it for twenty minutes or so at 87%, or 177-179 for me, but I need to push even more!!!!

This morning I woke up from no sleep at all. I was going to do cardio. I told myself: either one hour medium pace or 25 minutes ALL OUT. Well, I stepped up on the machine and saw my heart rate…oh, 82?….My legs were already fatigued when i tried to bump my heart up to 130. Then I got lazy: “come on Pauline, you’re gonna be here at this retired-lady pace for one whole hour???? Don’t think so!!! So, I started to spin fast fast fast push push push I FINALLY I GOT my HEART UP to the cardio zone around 170. YEAH, I was tired, didnt have the drive to get up there, wanted to say “it’s ok, you’ve worked so hard this week with 10 cardio sessions” etc BLAH BLAH BLAH bullshit”, but then I told me NO EXCUSES. My body does what my mind tells it to. There is no such thing as being too tired. It all comes down to motivation. HOW much do you want it and HOW willing are YOU to pay the price.

This week has been some what challenging. I went to auditions, I trained hard, worked, spent time with my husband, but I also was sick. tourist disease. I pushed and pushed it but eventually I had to slow down and yesterday I slept through the whole day more or less. Today I will do the same.

You know my favourite rice cakes used to be orville pop corn caramel? well, not anymore. It has TFA in it. (trans fatty acids). None per serving it says but since the rule here is “under 0.5 grams equals ZERO” you end up with maximum TFA per day (safety level) from only 4-5 rice cakes. I went to the grocery store and checked the quaker version, but I was afraid to buy it since it contains soy. Soy as in partially hydrogenated? Didn’t tell. I bought boring plain rice cakes. lightly salted though. I then went on with my crusade to go after the VEGIT spice I use and love. I’ve always said to my husband that “this is so good I just KNOW it must have some bad in it”. Maybe I was right. It has hydrolyzed soy in it which I read was equal to MSG (glutamic shit).

I’m strange because I have no problem whatsoever to down dietary supplements, but food….different.

My client Hanne from Sweden is 4 weeks out from her debut in body fitness now, she’s doin great: http://www.hannecb.wordpress.com
My client dana is working hard to get in her best shape ever…read her blog at http://www.danalynnfit.com

did I say the deadlifts didn’t hurt the other day? the stifflegged? well, let me correct myself: they killed my hamstrings!!!How could I do it AGAIN? they didn’t like it and now five days later they are almost ok again…They’ve been like stone-hotdogs for DAYS! well, well, we live and we learn.

Yesterday I was a tiger on the beach, or shall I say a racing horsse?:-) I felt like I could run forever and my legs didn’t tell me to stop and my heart and lungs confirmed the message from my spinning wheels: “Pauline, come on, bring it on you maniac, you aint gonna put us down, you can do this, you can push harder, you’ve been training us so hard, now let us strut our stuff! we are STRONG, you hear us young woman, let us shake and stir some ribs!!!”

During this marvellous run at 5 am I saw sharks and seals and a full mon and a redblue sky. marvellous.

Today I was in Long beach for an audition. will go back on thursday to read some lines.

wasn’t feeling up for a back workout today. Pissed and not friendly. Started with my pullups and kept going. deadlifts GREAT. 235 today was not hard at all. It’s just to lift the bar…have to remember that. 245 next week. promise.

woke up this morning with my “old” body FINALLY!!!! I KNEW IT!!!! it felt so good to give my body a good rest for the weekend. I also managed to do stiff legged deads yesterday without pain! OH YES I AM BACK!!!!! I was so happy! and today I was so happy! I just feel at ease and look forward to the next week of training.

I’ve had a client from SWEDEN here for three weeks that I’m training for a figure show. The sun and the california life really did good for her and she lost a lot of her last few pounds during this time.

She looks great and it will be an honor to see her onstage at the show in sweden called fitnessfestivalen.

Most people know “exactly” what to eat to be considered healthy. In a weird way we just assume that eating that way will make us look extremely healthy. It aint so if you’re REALLY into looking REALLY fit like a fitness model or like an athlete.

Simple good eating behaviour like getting three nutritious meals a day won’t cut it. It won’t reveal any abs neither will it make you stand out.

what our eye finds “athletic and healhty” regarding body images is seldom that healthy. it’s more healthy a la extreme.

I guess you know you must adopt a diet plan that is strict and serves its purpose. Strict is NOT the same thing as no carbs, no sugars, no this no that. As a matter of fact it’s the opposite.

You must eat for performance, not what is conventionally considered to be wholesome and good for you,

Many foods are extremely nutritious, but are not that great on a get lean diet since they either have too much of something or are being eaten at the wrong time.

The same foods that can make you fat can make you ripped and lean. You just have to know what rules to follow and WHY.