Whew! I’m perpetually sore. This is not news.

Today we did a different kind of WOD.. and I went at the 4:30p time instead, and I really liked it, so I’m glad I can keep my options open here… anyway, our WOD today was:

50 HSPUs
100 pull ups (no jumping for me! BANDED this time.. 100..)

Well, at some point after I finished my 50 HSPUs, Russ changed it to a lower # for the weaklings such as me, to 40/75.  I was at #63 banded pull up, thinking I had 37 more to go, when come to find out, I only had 12 more to go! Now that’s exciting news.

So.. the deal was, every time you stopped and rested, that was a “rep”, and the goal was to complete the 50/75 (in my case) in as few reps as possible.

It took me 7 sets to complete the HSPUs (which I still suck at, and have to use the abmat and a couple weights..) and 9 sets to finish the banded pull ups.

When I was driving home, my arms felt tingly, like I had a slight sunburn and then scraped my skin.. (not painful) and then I realized it was the B-A (beta alanine) supplements I had just bought and taken today for the first time. Hah.  The B-A supplements are supposed to help with endurance, which I need LOTS of help with in certain instances. Because my skin was tingling, and realized what it was, I felt the need to go home and work out more. So I pulled in the driveway, got my music out, and went for a 1/4 mile run down the street and back. Then I did the old warm ups of lunges, high knees, butt kicks, side to side lunges, and 25 squats. THEN I was done, and jumped in the pool with Sammi. 🙂

This is 2 weeks old already, but I forgot to post it here. June has flown by.

Alright, so if you read my previous post, you’ll know that I did two workouts yesterday, and not just one.

Here’s the explanation of the 2nd half of my day. 🙂

I went back at 5:30p with one of my employees, Nick, who wanted to check out the new place. There were SO MANY PEOPLE THERE. It was quite intimidating, but whatever. I’m getting over that, and I’m starting to realize that people don’t know that I’m new to the facilities, so I just smile and introduce myself and hope I remember their names later.

Nick brought his sister, who had never done CF before.. They paired up for the partner WOD, and Tom, one of the trainers, suggested I do the 100 wall balls instead. (I wasn’t feeling the partner WOD again, especially after the excruciating hell my left foot was putting me through.) I said, instead of 100 WB, how about I just do “Karen” and try for my best time? He agreed. “Karen” is a benchmark WOD where you do 150 wall balls for time.

So.. when they started, I started my Karen WOD, which last time I got 10:09 on when Elaine and I did them together in May.  Yesterday, I ended up finishing in 9 min 13 sec, which is quite an improvement! I was really happy with that.

When I finished, I turned around and saw Nick’s sister throw in the towel, and he was left to do his half of the partner WOD by himself.  I jumped in with him and shared some box jumps with him (pretty difficult and painful on my shins after 150 wall balls!) Once he finished his 25 box jumps, I went outside with him and we did the resistance runs, 50m x 4. He pulled so much harder than Erin did!! Oh man, those were killer. I’m sure that’s what ended up causing all the pain on my left arch, but fuck it, whatever. Builds character, right?

Since that was the end of his WOD, that was it, but I was glad I could jump in and do a little extra.

Now… this morning, at 4:30a, Sammi, our German Shepherd, kept bugging me and trying to wake me up because she had to go outside.  I finally gave in and got up to take her out, but when I went to stand up out of bed, I nearly fell over because my feet were so incredibly messed up. I literally couldn’t walk for a short period of time, from the arch pain, and held myself up on the edge of the bed. Good lord. I hobbled (putting my weight on the outside edges of my feet) in an attempt to get to the bathroom and put some clothes on. The pain comes and goes, and sometimes stretching it helps, but then other times, I’ll be stretching it but off of it for awhile, and the next time I go to walk, it’s hell all over again. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

Today I plan to tackle Crossfit TWICE.. and I’m very much looking forward to doing it again! My knees are a little sore right now from our morning workout, as is my left arch (from the resistance running) so I’m curious to see how I’ll feel the 2nd time around.  I may opt to do the competitor WOD instead of the same one again, so yeah.. at least there will be options.

Today, my friend (and former trainer/coach) Erin M came with me!! It was so awesome to have her there! It was like I could relax and work at my own level, the best I could, and the person who was with me understood all that.  We had a partner WOD today and we worked together, which made it so cool. She knows my strengths and weaknesses and yeah.. I MISS THAT. One of the things with starting all over at a new place is having those people learn all your strengths and weaknesses, abilities, etc.  They have no idea who I am, what I’m capable of, and that sort of thing just comes with time, I know. But starting from scratch really sucks sometimes.

Our WOD today was supposed to be:

(between 2 people, and you had to alternate, you couldn’t do things at the same time)
50 goblet squats (25lb weights) We did 100 total, 50 each, with 25 lb weights.
50m resistance run (each person does it twice, for a total of 4 runs)
50 burpees. I did 5 at a time, Erin did 10, up to 75 total.
50m resistance run (x2 again)
50 box jumps – we did 75 total, I tried to aim for 10 at a time
50m resistance run (x2)

We finished in 23:59

THEN… Erin did 100 wall balls combined with another girl there, Amy. Erin definitely got her ass kicked today! I’d love for her to join Total Control but we’ll see. It’s ultimately up to her, of course.

Holy jesus. Humidity, burpee body blaster things, hollow rocks, pistols, and rowing. Now THAT’S a good time.

I didn’t PR on my back squat today. I stayed right at 200 lbs. A little annoyed. I think the amount of reps was set too high for me to go any higher. I could have, yes, but because of the reps, we ran out of time. I need to work on that. I don’t like running out of time when I could be setting personal records. 🙁 Next time.

Our workout today was:
4 Rounds
25 hollow rocks
6 pistols (3 per leg)
6 body blasters (burpee, then up on the box for a jumping pull up, then a half assed toes to bar, 6 times. Very attractive and graceful.)
250m row.

I have no idea if I even finished. I don’t think I did. But they were all cheering me on, because I was the last one to finish, and when I was done rowing they called time, and I went with it. It was still the slowest time on the board. Discouraging, because I don’t know how I could have gone any faster. At least, I don’t know how I could’ve kept up with anyone else.  I’m doing so many new things that my body isn’t used to, and I feel like the slow, fat worm sometimes. And when I say sometimes, I mean often.

Blah. I’m totally discouraged now. I hope Wednesday is better, but I almost want to go tomorrow to make up for how badly I sucked today. Maybe I’ll do a WOD in the morning and then spin in the afternoon, just to torture myself. I sure as shit need the exercise.

I got a new PR for myself!! We worked on Front Squats on Friday, and the last time I did these was with Erin about a month ago.  I managed 185 lbs last time, but Friday I got up to 200 lbs. 🙂 Dave swears I could’ve done more, but I’ll save that for next time.. haha.  I AM SO PROUD OF MYSELF! And.. I even get to go up on the board at Total Control for records!

Our WOD for the day was the following:
12 min AMRAP
5 hang cleans (75 lbs for me) RX weight was 135/95lbs
7 HSPUs – Russell put a couple weights under the ab mat I was using, so that I had to touch my head to the top.. no questions about it! These were great, very challenging for me to push harder.
9 T2Bs – I’ve never really done toes to bar successfully, but I tried my hardest on Friday, and some of them I was able to kip pretty well and get my feet up there. An accomplishment for me!

The goal was to finish at least 4 rounds, and I finished 4 rounds, 5 hang cleans and 7 HSPUs. Not too bad. 🙂

Why did I skip spinning?? Because I instead spent almost 2 hours at Babies R Us buying baby shower gifts for a dear friend of mine, who is due in September. Did I plan on spending 2 hours there? Absolutely not, but.. man, I don’t know whether to call the experience birth control or to say it’s a reminder that I’m a female and I’m supposed to bear children. I don’t like the sound of the latter, so we’ll just go with the “Babies R Us is a scary place for women who don’t want kids just yet to walk around..” explanation.

Crossfit tomorrow at 6.30p, and hopefully I can drag Nick and Mitch from work along with meeeee!

I’m in the habit of posting a day behind now, sorry about that! This is for yesterday’s crossfit.. yesterday being Wednesday.

I feel like SUCH a beginner at Total Control, like I’m doing this all over from scratch, but.. I’m not! I kinda know what I’m doing, and I rarely need help, and I usually maintain a time that’s really not too far off from others’ times.. and that to me is a great accomplishment in and of itself. BUT I think it’s because I’m walking in to a new ‘family’, that I’m still feeling like the outsider, even though I jump right in and get shit done.

Our training yesterday was Deadlifts.. Now, my 1 rep max for DLs is 225 lbs.  I worked with Martha, and I got her to up her DL weight, but because her 1RM was lower than mine, we didn’t have time at the end to increase mine at all, so I’m kind of kicking myself for it.  But that’s alright, because I managed to get 2 reps in at 225, so that’s an improvement, no? Next time, I will get more weight on that bar!

Our WOD was as follows:

5RFT
200m run
2 rope climbs (hah, I can’t do this, so I lowered myself to the floor and pulled myself back up 6 times each way instead. My arms are so sore today!)
10 KB swings (35 lbs)
10 wall balls (16 lbs)

I did it!! I finished! I finished in 22:47 or something (the 3rd digit isn’t legible, and I can’t tell what it says.. so it could be 27, or 37.. but I don’t remember exactly.)

And my time really isn’t that much more than others.. there are other people who did it in 22, 23 min.. there are a LOT more who finished in the 17-18-19-20 min range though, and that’s what I need to strive for.  I walk out of there feeling accomplished, but I still have a LONG ways to go..

Awesome as always. She played some new music which I Shazamed the shit out of..

 I took it easy on my isolations though.. I want to protect my knees for the more important stuff, like Crossfit.

Speaking of Crossfit, a funny thing happened at spin yesterday.  This girl walked in and sat down next to me, and we started talking about working out, whatever. She was complaining that she didn’t really want to be there, and that all her friends say ‘well you always feel better after you work out’ to which I agreed, and then she proceeded to say, ‘that doesn’t happen for me.. I feel fine even if I don’t work out..’ (okay…to each their own.)

So I said that “well, I always feel better after I work out.. and really, my spinning days are my off days.” Her jaw dropped and she said, “what the hell do you do on your ‘on’ days?” So I told her I do Crossfit, to which she replied, oh.. that shit’s insane.

I tried explaining to her that I really liked and enjoyed it, and she just kept on with the “crossfit is crazy” stuff, so, that was the end of the conversation.