Gym Ramblings

Feb8

Posted at 1:31 PM • 11 Comments

Trying to get back into the swing of things at the gym this week. I fell off the wagon a bit during the week of Australia Day, and thanks to a horrendous amount of alcohol and bad food it was hard for me to drag myself back because I felt so gross and sluggish. I trained with my personal trainer this morning, and did one of the best upper body workouts I think I have ever done. He’s started me on the bench press recently, I’m only benching 27.5kg (60.5 lbs) at this stage but I am moving up pretty quickly. Haha this totally makes me sound like I’m trying to become a body builder or something. I’m not, I just need to significantly increase my strength to become a better pole dancer. Today he also took all of my measurements, so from here on in we can track and graph my results.

If you saw my most recent blog before this one, you would’ve seen the pics I posted from my new GodsGirls set that just went live. Those pics were taken back in June last year, and looking through the entire set it was almost shocking for me to really be able to see how much my figure has changed since then. I was terribly out of shape mid last year, thanks to a six month stretch of laziness and enjoying food a little too much, but it’s one of those things you don’t really notice until you look back on old pics and think, “Wow, how could I have ever let my body get to that place?!” Although I have only lost about 5kg (11 lbs) on the scales, the difference in my overall body tone and muscular definition is amazing. I am still about 5-7kg away from my target weight so there’s still a long road ahead of me, but it feels really good to actually be able to see some clear results.

I’m starting to look into taking some supplements too, but I’m not 100% sure what to take so I probably need to talk to my trainer and my pole dance instructor about it before buying anything. I’ve been looking at taking a fat burner, but something not too hardcore because I’ve been known to suffer from a bit of anxiety when taking strong stimulants in the past. Back when I used to be a little bit less mentally stable and had some pretty severe body image problems, I abused all kinds of crazy diet drugs like Clenbuterol, Sibutramine and Phentermine (anyone who knows about diet drugs will know how dangerous all three of these can be) and I don’t want to take anything like that again. I had some bad experiences with that stuff, Clenbuterol in particular, so I want to make sure if I do decide to take something, it isn’t going to cause any negative reactions. Maybe one day I’ll write about all that stuff.

Well, this was probably totally boring to about 99% of people but whatever, I don’t really have a lot of friends who have a keen interest in body sculpting and nutrition, so at least I can babble out all my thoughts on here haha.

Traffic to my website has dropped significantly this week, thanks to stupid MySpace blocking my website from being linked to because it contains nudity haha. It’s kinda annoying because about 90% of my traffic was coming from pervs on MySpace who wanted to lurk my nudes, but eh, what can ya do?

Tags: gym, weight loss

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As a bigger girl myself, about 5 foot 5 and weighing around 210 lbs, I’ve really seriously considered getting on strong fat-burning drugs, especially clenbuterol. This has made me seriously rethink that, thanks for being an inspiration to get up and go to the gym! ~<3

✭ Hannah on February 8, 2010 at 1:56 pm.
- Honestly, I cannot stress this hard enough, DO NOT TAKE CLENBUTEROL. One day I will write a big blog about my experiences with it and the horrible side effects that dramatically affected my life for about a year.
  
  ✭ Ashlee Adams on February 8, 2010 at 2:54 pm.
Glad to hear your on track with what you want to achieve Ash, and its sucks to hear that myspace blocked the link, its just another reason why facebook is 10x more popular these days. Just for the record some of us blokes do read your blogs because we find them intresting and entertaining. not just to perv on the pictures. the photos are just added bonus

✭ Brodieredemption on February 8, 2010 at 2:03 pm.
You can still like on myspace using your URL of ‘queenashlee.com’, just as long as you put a space or something in there, so it’s like “http:// queenashlee .com” then just tell them to take out the spaces. Other than that, I dunno

✭ Eastyn on February 8, 2010 at 2:14 pm.
ramble away. Followers will find you, advertise elsewhere, like zoo or facebook and twitter

✭ bw on February 8, 2010 at 2:31 pm.
If you need help in the supplement department let me know, i stock the best two australian supplement brands and can let you know what ones to take in particular, all natural/ herbal.

✭ dans direct fitness studio on February 8, 2010 at 3:57 pm.
well what you need to do, is get your link to be redirected through another link, so it doesn’t hit that, there are a phew out there, bit.ly

its just a place that like, well stops your link from going to that place, not allowing it to work, but yeah if you ever need any help just ask.

my myspace and email are above. can help you sort it out, if you want them help

another way you can get around it, is taking a screen shot of your url, then placing it on your profile, with like “type this into your address bar” as a picture will never be blocked.

✭ Dan on February 8, 2010 at 4:49 pm.
It really does only take a day or a weekend of sluggish, lazy, boozy, bloaty behaviour and you end up paying for it in your next PT sesh. I just feel my energy gets zapped easy if I don’t constantly keep it up. It sucks because some others just have it so naturally.

✭ Toni-Marie on February 10, 2010 at 1:52 pm.
1st off let me say that ZOO video was HOT AS HELL, I loved it, It was SO fucking SEXY. you look gorgeous.
2nd it is MUCH HARDER to get back to the GYM especially when you’ve been bad with food & booze dont go good together with working out. But you can slowly EASE back into your routine.
Its cool you notice a change in your body from last year to this year now that you’ve started exercising/training more. Keep it up Ashlee and your Body will be EVEN MORE beautiful.
BE VERY careful with supplements, Definetly ASK your TRAINER or Doctor before using, because some supplements could be harmful to your health or contain bad ingredients that arent good for you. It dont matter if its good for someone else, all that matters is if its okay for you to be putting it into your body.
Energy drinks can be Especially dangerous if you suffer from Anxiety.
And YES i’m one of those Myspace perv’s who LOVES looking at your nudes, i can’t help myself

✭ Jason on February 10, 2010 at 4:59 pm.
I wouldn’t bother with supplements if I was you; you aren’t looking to bulk up muscle wise, and you only want to lose a little bit of weight, so it’s probably not worthwhile.

Saying that, a couple of guys i work with have had great results with that BodyTrim ’system’ – even fi the guy in the ad is a pain in the arse.

Just out fo curiosity, have you done much Yoga?

✭ Le Chievre on February 13, 2010 at 8:22 pm.
Find a “URL Shorterning” service like bit.ly or tinyURL etc… and use that instead of your actual web address. If they block that URL, shorten it again and use that one (since they spurt out different code each time).

There are heaps of URL shortening service ‘out there’ … that’s how i get around the MySpace nudity police LOL

✭ Sandi on February 20, 2010 at 8:33 pm.

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