Awesome morning. So glad I went in to help judge 13.1 today! Tom was the best judge ever, keeping my time and keeping me going. Patrick, my mom, Amanda, Mary Lynn and several others were there as well, motivating and encouraging everyone to keep going. Was so amazing!
I ended up with a score of 130 with 1 second to spare. It’s that last minute or two where you really just give it everything you’ve got.. And that makes it that much more rewarding when you’re done. Whew! So excited. Can’t wait to watch the rest of my box compete tomorrow!

Bleehh

5 Rounds
5 Thrusters 145/105
15 Ring Rows (Feet on Box)

I did 75lbs, so I didn’t kill myself, and I finished in 9:40.  Ring Rows with your feet on the box SUCK.

Ended up back squatting as much as the boys today! Worked on our periodizations today.. getting up there in the weights and rep counts! My max today was 2 reps at 245lbs. My 1RM is 250, but next week I’m hoping to get a higher number. Definitely the shoes.. 😉

We did a 10 min EMOM today of 25 DUs and as many wall balls as possible in the remaining time. Your score is the number of wall balls you get.

Including a shoe change (no Oly shoes for jump ropes, it sucks!) and a wall ball swap (accidentally grabbed a 12 lb instead of a 16 lb ball) I still ended up doing 97 wall balls! I suck at DUs so I did 35 singles instead. YEAH.

do these squats make my butt look big? Lift Big Eat Big shirt. YEAH!

YESSSSSSSSS it was definitely the shoes! I PRed my clean (power cleans) at 150!!! I’ve been stuck on 140 for awhile, and it was an UGLY 140lbs. Bleeehhhh.. Well, good ole Oly shoes.. I cleaned the 150 without even squatting. Who knows what I could do if I got under the damn bar?

Anyway.. that was pretty awesome.

So we did a Tabata Mash Up for the WOD today.
Tabata Mashup (4min)Alternating movements
Hang Clean 155/115
Pullups or Muscle ups RX+
1min rest
Tabata Mashup (4min)Alternating movements
Power Cleans 185/135
Pushups

So your score is the LOWEST set of reps you did.. I aimed for 4 for everything, except pushups, which I did 10 each time. So it was 4/4/4/10 Very happy with that! I ended up doing 95lbs and 105lbs for my hang cleans and power cleans.

Me at Jax Beach last week. BEAUTIFUL out!

I went back and read some of my old posts tonight, the ones from a couple weeks ago where I was really down on myself. Particularly this one.

It’s awkward to put it out there like that. I can remember writing it, thinking about how real and serious it was in my head, how emotional I was, how I didn’t want to share it with anyone (I still don’t), how I didn’t even want to go to Dave because he wouldn’t know how to fix it anyway, so why bother him? and now I’m kind of numb about it.

Girls are a mess, especially from a guy’s perspective. I read a book called The Female Brain.. amazing. It explains so much in how we’re different from men. How each day, we differ in how we feel, and it’s all based on hormones. I’d like to think that I’m rational enough for the most part to control my emotions and my feelings, but sometimes it seems to boil over the edge.. and it doesn’t stop. Other times, I’ll think, good god, how embarrassing. Get it together, dude! And then nights like tonight, it’s more like, yeah…yikes. Sorry guys. Oh well.

Our hormones really do control everything, and although lots of girls will use it as an excuse to get away with whatever (I’m totally against that, btw) it’s true that guys will never really relate to how girls feel, or how girls deal with their emotions and feelings. At least, no guy I’ve ever met has truly understood. They may act like they understand, but they really have no clue. The smart (wise) ones just know that hugs fix most things, and the stubborn ones refuse to ‘give in’ to giving hugs, because then the emotional girl will just expect more hugs, and so on.

WELL I FUCKING LIKE HUGS DAMN IT. If you (you being whoever is reading this!) ever see me looking upset, or sad, or down, or cheerful, or excited, or pissed, or happy, or ANYTHING. Just hug me. I will love you for it, and it will make my day, and in return, you’ll get the BEST HUG YOU’VE EVER GOTTEN. At least, you’ll get the best hug I can give. Hugs are awesome.

But don’t give me a fake hug. I think a fake hug is worse than no hug at all. Don’t pretend like you’re up for a hug and just do that fake, one arm around, no squeezy hug. Those are awful. Bleh, seriously, why bother?

Anyway.. WHOA.. where did that come from? A lesson on girly hormones and hugs. Two very important things for guys to know. If you don’t know what to say, or how to react.. JUST HUG HER. I promise, it’s a good move. 🙂

OH. and check out how cute I am! Seriously cute. This is from Vegas. The same day my BFFFFF Josh and I went to Hoover Dam. 

Seriously, who wouldn’t want to hug me? My current Crossfit picture. Complete in lululemon and Rogue tshirt

Wow Helen was tough in these temps! It was in the 40s this morning at Open Gym, and really dry. My lungs hurt and I didn’t warm up as much as I should have. My fault.

Helen is:

3RFT
400m run
21 KB swings
12 pull ups (one green band for me)

I finished in 15:14. I had never done Helen before so it’s a good baseline for me. My legs/quads finally felt better today too.

I’d ALSO like to report that as of yesterday, I am FINALLY down another 2 lbs! Jesus Christ. It’s taken me since Sept to budge on the scale. Not that I’ve been trying to lose weight, but I just kinda hope that with what I’m eating and doing every day that it will naturally happen. I’ve gotten smaller, but not lighter. Well I’m LIGHTER NOW.

I will verify this again tomorrow.. I tried not to overdo it today, but I did have a few pieces of dark chocolate and a sip of Dave’s delicious vanilla milkshake from SmashBurger today.  It was my first cheat meal in awhile.

Which leads me to another point. I’ve been dairy free with the exception of today and one or two days last weekend when we were in South Florida. I can’t say that I feel a difference without it, but I do feel more bloated now when I DO have it. (Like when I had a protein shake with my casein protein powder, which apparently is mostly dairy.. awesome.. no more of that.)

My substitutes have been almond milk and coconut milk. So far so good! Maybe eliminating the dairy is what finally helped me move a bit on the scales. 🙂 Time will tell!

MY QUADS HURT SO BADLY!!! A kind of hurt I hadn’t felt in a while. Not muscle soreness, but more like pain. Opted to take another day off and run instead.

I headed to the gym in the afternoon and ran 1800+ meters in 12:41. Ended up hanging out for a bit, and then Patrick and I decided to do some GHD sit ups too. We did an 8 min EMOM, 8 GHD situps every minute. 2 of those minutes I did 10 instead of 8, so I did 68 GHD sit ups. YEAH. Soreness will ensue in just a couple days! 🙂

After my weekend in South Florida, I felt like I lost some serious momentum in my workouts. Sure, the rest time was good for me, but taking 3 days off really seemed like it set me back. I’m sure it’s all in my head, or least mostly.

I took Wednesday off, and went Thurs. Good day! I PRed my snatch by 5 lbs, at 120lbs. First time since September, AND I was wearing my brand spanking new Oly shoes. Wee! Maybe they really DO help. heh. I guess we’ll see with my other lifts.

WOD today was 10 min of

Max Reps OHS 95/65
and every time you drop the bar, you have to do 10 wall balls.

Your score is the number of OHS you finished. (Overhead Squats)

I finished 87!!! I was really happy with that. My legs were shaking when I was done though. First time they’ve felt like that in months. NBD, right?? Yeah… we’ll see.

Barbara is a whore. This was my first day back from South Florida, and all I had done while I was down there was run a little with my sister on Hollywood Beach boardwalk.

Well… Barbara… I opted to do 3RFT instead of the RX 5RFT because I just didn’t think I had it in me.

I got through 3 rounds in just over 30 min and was planning on trying to start a 4th round, but… I felt a good puke coming on, and opted to stop there. My legs were actually sore from this one! My legs don’t get sore anymore.. and this did it. I didn’t even get the sores on my tailbone/ass crack from the sit ups, but my fucking legs hurt. Go figure.

If you’re not familiar with Barbara, here she is:

Barbara
5 rounds
20 Pull-ups
30 Push-ups
40 Sit-ups
50 Squats

My time for 3 rounds was 30:22. Gina’s time for RX was 34:27, and that wasn’t even her best time! Jesus, I’ve got some work to do. 

We left for Fort Lauderdale today, but I was able to work out in the morning, thankfully!

Finished my WOD in 7:34. We did 5 RFT
5 Thrusters 135/95 (I think I did 75)
5 burpee box jumps 30/24

I WAS REALLY EXCITED about this!! This was the first time I had ever done any sort of 24″ box jumps as part of the WOD. I had only done a 24″ one once before, just to see if I could do it. Happy!