Wee!! I rubbed the skin off my tailbone again today! Such fun.  It’s not actually my tailbone that’s missing skin, but the little part at the top of my butt crack where I apparently put the most pressure on when I’m doing lots of sit ups, especially when there is no ab mat involved. Awesome. It really hurts, and I almost took a picture to post on here, but, I didn’t think that would be very appropriate. Maybe I’ll be able to get a stealth shot that shows the rubbed off skin, but not the butt crack part, hah.

In any case, WOW. I ran around the building 4 times today, pretty much without stopping! We did this in groups of 5, with a 35lb? duffel bag of sand.  It was this relay thing, where the 5 people are running, and the person at the front of the line has the bag, and they pass it to the person behind them, and so on, til it gets to the last person. Then the last person has to run faster than the group all the way to the front of the line, and pass it back to the next person, and so on. Yeah, we did this several times while running around the building, so it ended up being 1200 meters, which is just about 3/4 of a mile. AWESOME. So glad we did this first!  (seriously.)

When we finished, we had the joy of shoving the sled around a few times with 100 lbs in weights on it. And this was just the warm up!

Our WOD was the following:

10-1
SDLHPs (sumo deadlift high pulls)
Sit ups

I used the 35lb bar for my SDLHPs. It was too light to do them with proper form! I’m so used to having weight on the bar now. Weird.  The sit ups, well, we all know what those are.

We’ve got Crossfit Monday Tuesday and Wednesday this week, because we’ll be going to West Palm on Friday for the Regionals! Sweet.

Free workout with the trainers! Only problem was, we had to be there at 8am, haha. Loved it. Elaine and I opted to do the unmodded workout along with the Erins, and MAN it was hard! 22 minutes, AMRAP.

WOD:
50 back squats (65 lbs)
40 pull ups (jumping pull ups on the boxes)
30 shoulder to overhead (65 lbs)
50 front squats (45 lbs)
40 pull ups (jumping pull ups on the boxes)
30 shoulder to overhead (35 lbs)
50 overhead squats (35 lbs)
40 pull ups (jumping pull ups on the boxes)
30 shoulder to overhead (35 lbs)

We got all the way through the second set of 30 shoulder to overhead presses (jerks, split jerks, whichever, just get it over your head!) and then 12 into the 50 overhead squats. GOOD LORD. Awesome.

Then we did the Powerlifting Seminar with Carter’s friend, Billy.  Good info! We worked on squats and deadlifts. Apparently, dead lifts ARE NOT supposed to hurt your lower back, who knew?! I guess I’ve been doing them wrong.

Thursday workouts are Girls + John workouts, and poor Erin M is such a good sport with all of us chatting it up throughout the whole thing. I think they purposely make the workouts harder on Thursdays, so we don’t talk as much. 😀

Elaine was my lifting buddy yesterday.  By us working together, we totally pushed each other to keep going. I loved it! Our warm ups were the following:

3 – 3 – 3 – push press – I PRed at 75lbs for my push press
1 -1 – 1 – push jerk – I PRed at 125lbs for my push jerks

Then our WOD was the following for time:

50 squat thrusters 55lbs on my bar
1 mile run. (blah)
I finished in 19 min even. Not the best, not the worst. I wish I had known we were running. I wouldve brought music! Next time. Need to just leave headphones in my car or something.

AAAAND us after the workout. 🙂

Crossfit Inertia – DONE – Girls + John Thursdays

Picture of me last night. 🙂

Tomorrow morning 8 am! Get to do it all over again. Plus a powerlifting seminar! Interested to see what that’s like!

SLACKER!!! I know. I went to Crossfit TWO DAYS IN A ROW and neglected to post about BOTH experiences! I’m so sorry. I passed day 40 and went right in to day 41! Both AWESOME of course. I’d just like to note my PRs so that I have them for future reference. And the pics of the board, of course.

Soo Wednesday’s workout was crazy. It was super hard, but it always feels so good to finish them!! Lots of KB swings!

The workout was the following:

250m row – no foot straps
10 good mornings
250m row – left foot strap
10 romanian dead lifts
250m row – right foot strap

WOD was Jack B. with a 10 min time cap
3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21 KBS (35lbs for me)
21, 18, 15, 12, 9, 6, 3 SDLHPs

So you do 3 KBS, and then 21 SDLHPs, 6 KBS, and then 18 SDLHPs, and so on.. fucker was hard. I finished 2nd with a time of 11 min 38 sec. None of us came close to finishing at 10 min, so Erin M let us keep going. She wanted us to finish and be good with our form. Craziness.

And the boys when all was said and done. 🙂

So yes! I neglected to post about my very first 5k run on Saturday when it happened, and of course the fun and exciting bubbliness that happened afterwards has dissipated a bit now, but I’m still REALLY FREAKING EXCITED AND PSYCHED THAT I ACTUALLY RAN A 5k!!! WHO DOES THAT?!

Yep.. granted, I was slow, and I walked from time to time for a teensy bit, just to give my poor calves a break, but I did it! I had the two best running mates, Crystal and Denise, and if it weren’t for Anne and Scott, I wouldn’t have gotten off to such a good start! (Not to mention, the headphones that Anne let me borrow, because I’m an ass and forgot mine! Yeah..) Lifesaver! I carried my phone the whole way, just to have my music. Was worth it! So so so happy that I added all my cheeseball spin music to my phone, because guess what?? Spinning music is also really great running music! Who knew?

So anyway, here’s my favorite picture from that day:

Cute, right? We sprinted to the end and it was awesome! (You can see my phone in my left hand.. haha)  Also, I’d like to note that my calf muscles have been a bit sore… can you see it in the picture? Yeah, that’s how they always look! They’re pretty crazy, and my shins were painful to touch for awhile after, too. Nice.

Moving along…

My day today.. I can’t believe I’ve only done crossfit 39 times. I guess I’d have more progress if I had done more, but I feel like I haven’t done enough. My body was SO SORE earlier, to the point where I couldn’t move without feeling like I had to throw up (and eventually did, it was gross.. and I induced it, just to get rid of the feeling..) but I also came home and went right into the pool, something I’ve never done, especially considering the water was 76 degrees, which is VERY cold for us Florida people who are used to warmer water temps! But yeah, I went in to my waist, and just walked around, trying to get my muscles to relax and unswell themselves a bit. (is that a word?) It felt pretty good, and after getting out, I sat on the patio with my pups as the night settled in, and it was quite peaceful. 

I was seriously worried about driving home, turning the steering wheel, getting out of the car, etc. That’s how badly I was hurting after today’s workout.  It wasn’t even the hardest workout I had ever done, but it was all my own body weight. No lifting or anything. It was by far the most exhausting. It was also my first WOD with Tabata in it.. I love tabata stuff, but this was insane! In case you don’t know what it is, tabata training is 8 rounds of 20 seconds on, 10 seconds rest.  We had the pleasure of doing the following:

1 tabata of pull ups
1 of push ups
1 of sit ups
1 of squats

So 8 rounds of each of the above mentioned exercises, as fast as possible in 20 second spurts. I did those squats so fast, and my knees hurt so much when I was done, that it hurt just to bend my legs at the joints. wtf? It was great though, and I’m so glad I made it to the gym to get this workout in!  I’ve just never been so exhausted from it before.

Time for bed, until next time! (It’ll be Day 40!!)

KILLED IT. Today was a day of total inspiration and badass-ness. I loved it!! Not sure what did it, but I was with several people I adore, and man, the intensity and vibe from the workout today was just incredible! Everyone was so motivated and INTO it! We had a newbie join us today too, and she felt it as well. She’s so excited, posting about her experience on FB, and man, she killed it! We all did so great!!

We started out with our old circle up warm ups. Then we moved into our regular warm ups, so we did like, double warm ups. Ran around the building once, and even that was good. Geez.

Moving along, we went through a basic training session for everyone, since we were doing a lot of things that quite a few weren’t too familiar with. Handstand push ups, power snatches, that sorta thing. 😀

We then moved on to 4 x 30 sec of handstands. Elaine and I teamed up on one wall, and the rest got the hang of the movements. 

Our WOD was the following:

3RFT-
1 power snatch (55lbs)
5 overhead squats (55lbs)
7 HSPUs
300 meter run around the building

I finished in 8:52. Not too bad!!! I came in 2nd after Elaine. 🙂

Another thing I’m noticing now with my body… my face is getting thinner, especially around my jawline and my neck. My rings are loose on my fingers, and almost to the point where I should probably get them resized soon. I’ll get some pics posted up soon of that. 🙂 Also, my belt is still happily on the last (first? smallest) hole, but even that will only last so long. So cool! I love these changes.

Today was awesome! I’m liking my new-found motivation to keep pushing myself to do more. It feels so good.  On days I don’t have crossfit, I feel like I’m missing something from my day. I also can plan my work around this too, but still, when I don’t work out, it feels like something’s missing.

I know I’ve been saying this for a few blog posts now, but I’m ready to take it up a step again. I’ll be back at Crossfit tomorrow at 5:30p, and then Friday I’m going to try and make it to spin class at the Y either at 4:30 or 5:30p.

Saturday, I am participating in my first ever 5k run, which everyone says will be easy, but long distance running has never been something that I was good at.. so we’ll see! Kind of excited, since I’ll be going with my whole Crossfit Inertia team. 🙂

Today’s workout was great. Elaine was there, Nick, Mitch and myself! We warmed up with the following:

2 rounds, bar only:
10 good mornings
10 push ups
10 romanian dead lifts
5 pull ups (band assisted)

Today was my first time that I DIDN’T do jumping pull ups! I used two of the bands on one foot to help me get my lift. Shit was hard, but it was pretty cool to do that.

For our Strength WOD, we were supposed to work on dead lifts, but Erin M changed it up for me, since deadlifts really strain my back (at least after that one really bad time..) So I did front squats instead.

I did 5 rounds of 3 reps at 75-80% of our 1RM, but I dunno, I was pretty close to my 1 rep max on those front squats!

I started out with 95lbs, and increased to 115, 125, 135 and finally finishing at 145lbs.

Our WOD today was the following:
3RFT 7 kettlebell swings (35lbs for me, everyone else did 53lbs, monsters!)
50 double unders or 100 singles (I did 100 singles) jump rope, that is.
7 goblet squats (again, 35lbs)

I finished my set in 6 min and 51 sec.

I also stayed after our workout and ended up rowing 2 rounds of 1500 meters each on the rowing machine. Wanted to get some additional cardio in today. Yay!

Hooraaay! My workout was awesome today, and my neck and shoulders are paying for it.. and my knees, too. hahaha

We worked on back squats today, 5 rounds of 5 reps at about 80% of our 1 rep max. I thought I would be good at 115lbs but nooo, I decided to up it some more to 135lbs, and what do you know.. I did it!

Back Squat – 135lbs (5 sets of 5 reps per set)

Then we set out on our WOD.. it was Fran-like, Erin M said! It was the following:

10 min AMRAP
3 reps of thrusters
3 reps of pull ups
6 reps of thrusters
6 reps of pull ups

and so on and so on, (3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, etc..)

I got through 15 squat thrusters, and 15 jumping pull ups (with a 24″ box) and then went on to do 7 more squat thrusters.

My bar weighed a total of 55lbs. Not too bad! I was pretty happy with that. The weight of the bar on my left wrist really aggravated it though, thanks to snowboarding! So I had to change my grip around a little in order to keep going and pushing through. Erin M recommended taping up that wrist with these sorts of lifts, so that it’s more protected. I will try to remember to get some, so that I can try that next time!

I ALSO wore a maxi dress for the first time ever.. in my life, tonight. Of course I don’t own a full length mirror and I have no way of taking a picture for you.. It sounds much more glamorous than it actually is, but still, I wore it, it didn’t look like a nightgown, and I’m pretty comfortable in it. Weeee!

SLACKER, I know! This post is about Thursday.. how the hell am I supposed to remember Thursday’s workout?? Well, I remember that I killed it, and that I did really really awesome, and that it was exactly the boost I needed after Wednesday’s shit workout. Yes.

5RFT
10 pull ups
10 front squats (85lbs)

Finished in under 10 minutes.

Diet’s going well. Haven’t weighed myself in a few days, but I feel good. Had a couple cheat foods last night but in tiny moderation. Stomach got all crampy and I’m going to blame the cheat foods (naturally).

Excited about this week. Today is boring. It’s easter, there’s nothing to do and all the crafty shit I want to do I’m missing little components to here and there. Like, oh the foot pedal to my sewing machine. Kind of hard to sew without the power cord and foot pedal, I know! So much for being crafty.

Planning on going for a bike ride in a bit. Dave might come along, yay!

I felt super sluggish today, and don’t know what the hell is wrong with me. I feel tired, and get fatigued so quickly. Maybe not enough protein in my diet? I’ve been eating a lot more fruit lately, and not eating as MUCH lately.. Just because we’ve been tired, I didn’t feel like eating, or cooking, haven’t been hungry. I’ve been snacking on nuts and dried fruit here and there to satisfy my hunger cravings when they arise, but that’s it. I don’t know. I made chicken tonight, so I’m hoping that starts to restore my energy a bit. I saved the rest for a salad for tomorrow. As far as food in general goes, I’m not even craving anything I can’t have. I’m loving Paleo and know that if I stray from it, I just feel like shit and it’s not worth it.  The only thing I’ve added back in is dairy here and there. Not like, a pile of cheese, but if my burger comes with bleu cheese crumbles, I’ll have some of them, or my omelet, etc.

Crossfit kicked my ass today. It wasn’t even that ‘hard’ of a workout, but again, the sluggish feeling came upon me so quickly, that I was just.. devastated that I wasn’t able to push myself further. I didn’t want to quit, because I hate quitting, but I didn’t want it to be happening, either. I don’t know how to describe it.  It started out with my mind being elsewhere during our warm ups, and missing the proper reps and movements, and having to start all over. My own fault, but I swapped the numbers on one of the movements and put my kettlebell down to adjust my shirt, and had wtf, had to start all over. Sucks. That immediately set me up for feeling like I didn’t do well today, I think.

Our WOD was the following:
3RFT
50 meter run with the medicine ball overhead (14lbs)
14 squats
7 wall walk up things. Where you stand away from the wall, get down on your hands, and then kick your feet up behind you, walk your feet up backwards on the wall, so when you’re done, you’re facing the wall on your hands, and then walk your hands back out, drop your feet back down, stand up. (that’s 1 rep) Those were a killer, because my hands were still sore from Monday’s workout, and my shoulders were tired from holding the med ball.

And then 2 minutes of as many burpee box jumps as possible. I got through 10. I don’t even know that I hit 10, it could’ve been 9.

Blah. I sucked today. Finished in 16 min 51 sec. Terrible time. I don’t care that I finished, I care that I sucked so badly at it.

Anyway, done with the Debbie Downer.. Here’s a new face comparison. 🙂

Can you tell a difference yet?