Linda Cusmano

Yeah, lost some weight, leaned down, fitting clothes properly, cellulite disappearing!!!! Cardio is back too so I feel back on track.
Well, as for this site, I do like it alot but it is still not running how I need it to, things doing work right or I cannot figure out things and then too much time goes by and I get emails……..so I am going to take up the offer of help for my site from a few people who have offered it because I just don’t have the time or expertise to keep it running in top shape and the fellow helping with my site the past few years does great and has been great but he too is busy and I need much faster turnover time for functionality so lets see if I can get this web machine humming! Many pages are not done yet due to my time constraints and I cannot let things linger anymore if I really want to get back to giving a great impact online. If I have more time to blog and lose less hours trying to figure things out and make them work, it will be much better and less frustrating. So having a live site management and only a few days turnover will be much better.
This way I have more time to post pics and do vid clips, at this point I am spending more time on the back end of the site and not getting anywhere.
thanks for hanging in with me and being patient though……..I will get this right!

The song dynamite by Taio Cruz -
‘I throw my hands up in the air sometimes saying AO gotta let go’
Kinda helps get over stuff when you actually want to beat the crap out of someone!!!!
Linda

So I took a dive this weekend on my blades, first time in 20 years, landed mostly on my hand so its too sore to lift, this week will be cardio week! I used to do it alot, only bladed 2-3 times in the past few years so I guess I got rusty.
Got my knee, shin, road rash on my outer right thigh, got my left elbow, right shoulder and whole chest and right boob all road rashed.
I bounced, then slid then kissed the asphalt! Luckily by the time my face hit I was not longer sliding our bouncing so no face road rash!! I was more mad about not nailing my landing, it was a jump over a big rough spot and no grass to fall into.

I gained a bit of water weight in my knee and body from this and its bloat week!!! woooonddddderrrrfullll! Happy to cardio it up this week.
I may hit some fast light, high rep, easy grip work for my weights on top of my 75–90 mins cardio.

Routine rocked on Friday, am able to practice aerials again, seems I am so far, tolerant of the take off and landing….so now to get it done.
I figured a ton of lead time is good this year so my back can get into things slow without too much osteofuss!!

**Oh ….. the days when I would do my routine in ‘a month out from contest’……dieting in 2 and bam, win a show. Mind you the body fat for fitness went from 12+% to now like 5-7% for some federations including mine.

This year was nice to take off, been 3 years since I did take a break and with the Olympics out here and Soccer this year……it was a good choice plus my tummy won’t let me take any supps or follow any diet so it worked out. I am still working with my tummy, the IBS etc so my dieting may have to change for competitions which means I may have to diet longer on different foods so its like all new again since I cannot just do what I used to, what I know used to work for me and I am putting muscle on very easy now so I live in a whole new weight than I have in the past, which was my goal……I am here. I suspect to be competing now at 125 at 6% bf or less…..craaaazy for me barely 5’3″. Used to be 107, went up to 112, then past few years 115, 118, last year I was a solid, solid 120 for comp, leaner than any other of those years so my body is where I need it for next year, just some shaping streamlining and cutting, but the muscle and bulk I have been working on is here finally!!
I am in a whole new size of clothing too and my fat loss shows more in mirror than scale, when i drop fat I seem to put on a bit of muscle – my body is doing exactly what I want it to…..cannot ask for better than that except maybe to heal completely but hey who knows, I am still doing treatments etc!! power of mind right?????

I want to list my playlist and tried to put a song here but it was too big and still learning this thing.
There is one song this morning, Tiesto is the group and they sing ‘Feel it in my Bones’ and there is a line that says, ‘I take my heart out of chest cuz I don’t need it anymore’…….love it, that rang so true to me in how I now deal with so called friends, family or acquaintances……makes it so much easier and you get screwed less, my heart is now only for God, me and my dogs……..not even the dh!
When you have no support you have to stand alone and depend on you, I have support in you, my fans, readers, online friends, clients……some friends and yah, some family will say ‘oh thats nice’ but they don’t care, don’t get it, they just care about my cousins having babies……so whatever, I don’t want babies so I am not high on the ‘impressing the family’ list…..most of my friends too are not driven like me and also some have kids so that is not my thing nor do I really hang out with people when they are backpacked down with children, I so prefer my dogs and nature and I can only take humans in doses, even those I really like!!! I think I am part animal!

I will post my playlist once I figure out how to get it on here as a list without actually typing it all………otherwise it will have to be when i feel like typing it all…..teehee.

There is another song, not on playlist but its about ‘I want a man, not a boy who drives me crazy…….and if I wanted a child then I woulda had a baby’ that song rocks, for the words, the music is okay.

Linda

So for the first time in my life ever I am training with a partner, its nice but I think that is because of the person…….I am not easy to wrangle into hanging out with since I am a major loner but I have known her for like 10 yrs now and in that time she has been dreaming of hitting the stage again so ….here we are.
Linda and Laio A Fitness Journey. Well the name may change, just used that for now but something with a nice zing may come along as a title for our year of competitions.
Our 2 wks began Monday (she is off for a couple weeks, otherwise our schedules are so far from each others it is hard to meet even twice per wk but we will try to make arrangements I am sure).
After I had regrouped my health I worked back up to my 5 day workouts. We are sore but doing well.

I always have my phone so I will eventually remember to snap some shots of us working out, we do weights then cardio. I am not doing night cardio right now and may not. I am on choreography right now slowly prepping for Feb.
I have not yet posted our venue but as the site is not done, it will all come as the site comes together.
Weight has come off already for both of us but we just began so onward and forward!!!
She is all set up to blog along here with me so things should be popping soon, and we will both post our posting on facebook as we go along through those convenient little buttons.

My new ‘blog style’ website is finally here!  It’s not done but its much more user friendly for me to keep fresh and updated which was an issue with my last site.

Quickly to update you on me – it’s been a rough year health wise but I have been clawing my way back to fitness and in just training some weights 3xwk and minimal cardio I started to grow muscle again!  Its  a special kind of  ‘nutsy response’ from my body but now I need to get the cardio up again and its a welcome thing to gain some lean mass.

Some of the issues were breathing related and the meds I went on caused weight gain so its been up and down with loss and gain although I am still within the norm in most peoples opinion.  I feel thick and want to feel fitter again.

On my journey toward competitions next year -this time I have a long time client joining along who has been working toward competing for years now but always ends up allayed by life and its unforeseen circumstances.

She will be joining in on the blogging, pics n photo shoots, and hitting the stage this Nov in her launch toward next years venue.

More info to come as the site comes together but this should keep you updated for now.

The format of this site will allow me to find time to be able to update more often and answer questions easily through a cool widget we are adding on to this site.

I debated on a few items to add to the site such as gallery but being there are thousands of pics and people who still wish to gain access we have decided on a minimal one time fee for gallery access which will go toward site costs.  There will be new shots updated next year and anyone who registers is able to access the member gallery anytime including access to any new stuff.  There may be some new stuff posted this year but for now you can enjoy a plethora of pics in the present gallery, no scheduled updates for pics as of yet until contest season which is a for sure.

There will be a free gallery to show some samples and we will be posting vid clips and candid shots on the site throughout the weeks to come!

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Linda Cusmano