Alright! Crossfit today was a blast. I’m excited about today, and I’m EXHAUSTED from today, holy moly. We started out with our warm ups with Erin M, good stuff. Then we moved into some other workouts.. starting with 2 rounds of the following:

10 push ups on the rings
10 good mornings (bar just below back of the neck, bend over 90* and back up.)
10 rowing motions.. sorry, forget what they’re called – where you stand a bit bent over, and pull the bar up to your ribs
10 dead lifts with the bar

I did this with an empty bar, just to get warmed up, and then we went into part of our work out. We did the following reps, 5, 5, 3, 3, 1 of front squats, gradually increasing our weights.

Anne and I teamed up. We started out with 55lbs, and actually did a couple extra sets of 5. We worked our way up, and my final weight on my bar was 115. So I did front squats with 115 lbs! The weight isn’t what hurts me so much, but my wrist and the angle in which it’s bent back. I need to work on my flexibility and learn to have the bar rest more on my chest/collarbone/shoulders area than on my hands so much. They just don’t bend back as far as I need them to!

Our WOD today was the following, in under 20 min.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 reps

Squat Cleans, so starting from a squat sort of position, bringing the bar up from the ground to neck/chest level, dropping underneath it, elbows out and squatting at the same time, and then standing back up. Lower the bar back down and start from the ground again. At least that’s what I did! I had 55lbs on my bar the whole time.

Jumping pull ups. Since I am not doing pull ups yet, I had to stand up on top of the 24″ box, do the kipping motion (swinging forward and then back) and then after coming back, pulling up and jumping up to the bar at the same time. My time was 14:18 I believe.

My arms hurt from the pullups, and my knees hurt from the crazy squats today! Curious to see about tomorrow. Marisa is coming with me, and my mom might try it out too!!

New playlist!! She had a new collection of music! It was pretty awesome, and she even threw in Kenny Loggins’ Highway to the Danger Zone.. It sounded weak and measly compared to you know, Ciara’s Gimme Dat.. hahaha but it was still fun nonetheless.

Oh, and wtf, who dances and dresses like this?? (from the beginning of the video..)

Anyway, today was pretty badass. The only downfall was Diana announced that she was actually supposed to teach LAST Sunday, and remembered last minute, so a) I missed her Sunday class from this past weekend, and b) she won’t be teaching THIS Sunday… Sucks for me, but I might try and go and see what the other Sunday teacher has to offer. (Last time, it was pretty bad..)

On a side note, Marisa and I installed the new decals at Crossfit Inertia today!  They look so good!!!

This one’s on their back door.

This one is GIANT.. 48″ high by 55″ wide or so. On the gym wall.

And I feel like I’m missing something!! Granted, I missed my spin class yesterday because we went to go see Tool in Orlando, and then missed my Crossfit today at 11 because we were still IN Orlando from last night’s concert, and everything’s been rescheduled, but still!!! I feel like a slacker!

I was going over my workout schedule with my mom and John earlier, since she now knows she has to plan around it if they want to do anything with us, and I realized that after today, the next time I DON’T work out is NEXT Friday. Pretty badass.

I know I already posted this, but here it is:

Monday: Crossfit 11a
Tuesday: n/a (concert)
Wednesday: n/a (concert)
Thursday: Spin 5:30p
Friday: Crossfit 11a
Saturday: Crossfit 9a
Sunday: Spin 1:30p  This will actually be next Sunday instead.

Next week will be back to normal:

Monday: Crossfit 11a
Tuesday: Spin 5:30p
Wednesday: Crossfit 11a
Thursday: Spin 5:30p
Friday: n/a
Saturday: Crossfit 9a (freebie day!) Bonus day, really.
Sunday: Spin 1:30p

The more I think about it though, with as much as I’m loving Crossfit, I might have to switch to 3 days a week from 2, but for the month of February, it’s really FOUR days a week, since they’re doing a free workout on Saturdays too. Oh man..

I’ve been asked, can I feel a difference? Yes.. I feel stronger, I feel better, my pants are looser now, my stomach muscles are more defined (this is in part to hooping, too, but I cannot deny that my new workout schedule has made a difference with this..) my forearms are looking a bit more cut, and my legs (thighs mainly) are hard as rocks, not to mention perpetually sore from doing squats, but I LOVE SQUATS!!! And I love box jumps.. I know I said this last time, but I just want to go around jumping up on shit. hahah

Excited for tomorrow’s spin class!! And then for Friday Crossfit!!! And then Saturday! And then SUNDAY!!

I thought about what I could possibly order from a chinese takeout place that might be remotely healthy.. and there just wasn’t anything to consider. I suppose I’ll make a protein shake instead. Mm…

A day with the boys today.. and Elaine! (She’s been doing Crossfit since Dec 17th, I believe she said.)  We worked out with Erin C mainly today.  Did our normal Erin C workouts, bear crawls, all these awkward floor positions for warming up.

Today we worked on back squats, and had to gradually increase our weight with each set of reps.  We did 5, 5, 3, 3, 3, 3 of these. Started out with 70lbs and worked our way up to 105lbs. Elaine and I took turns with the reps, and while it wasn’t easy, I was definitely in control of each one. I can see how adding more weight is just killer for your knees! Lots of pressure on the way back up. The boys were doing weight like 285, etc. Holy moly. Watching them do this, you’d think they were going to have an aneurism or something. So crazy that they could do these squats with more weight than they weighed!

Our WOD today was the following:

12min AMRAP (as many rounds as possible)

12 box jumps (I DID IT!!!! 20″ box height.)
6 thrusters (squats with the bar on your chest, and then when you stand up, you press it up over your head)
6 bar facing burpees. (So.. you throw yourself down on the ground, do a push up, jump up, and twist and jump over the bar, and then do it again.. definitely not my favorite.)

I completed 4 rounds right up to the second. I kept the bar with no weights, so it was just a 35lb bar. I’ll build that up over time, though!

Today was definitely a chest killer! Felt the pressure on my lungs and chest/neck/collar bones big time, but these damn workouts always feel so good afterward. And the 20″ box jumps! Holy shit!!! I got back to the office and wanted to go around jumping up on stuff.. haha I didn’t, but I wanted to. My luck, I’d try to jump onto a chair and it would slip out from under me.. yeah, that would totally happen..

For this week, my schedule’s a bit messed up because we’re going to see TOOL tomorrow in Orlando!!! So excited!  No spin tomorrow, unfortunately. I’m kinda bummed about that, but I’ll be going Thursday and I’ll be able to go to Diana’s class on Sunday, as well.

The rest of the week will be as follows:

Tues: n/a
Wed: n/a
Thurs: 5:30p Spinning with Diana
Friday: 11a Crossfit
Saturday: 9a Crossfit
Sunday: 1:30p Spinning with Diana

A regular week will be Mon/Wed Crossfit, Tues/Thurs Spin, with every other Sunday Spin as well. Excited to have my schedule set! See you Thursday. 🙂

These Bruises are because I crossfit, not because my husband beats me, but thank you for your concern.

If you still look pretty afterward, you didn’t do it right.

LET’S DO THIS SHIIITTTTT… tomorrow morning, 11a!

I can’t recall the last time this happened, but I also haven’t been eating this shit for awhile now.. But, we ate 14 fried boneless wings tonight at Dick’s Wings or whatever the hell it’s called, and fried mushrooms, and it made me sick within minutes. Grossss…

I know I’ve been eating better for the last few weeks, but damn. I didn’t realize my body would revolt so badly if I had a few pieces of fried shit. I suppose that’s exactly what it was.. oh man.  I learned my lesson tonight.

Freebie Saturday kicked my ass!!! For starters, we did a shitload of pushups, jumping jacks, high knees and fast feet. Felt really good! I ran around the building with Scott for a part of our warm up, didn’t stop, and everyone seemed to think that that meant I actually liked running. I hate it. I just wanted to get it over with. haha Doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it just means I hate it, don’t want to do it, and wanted it over with. And Scott was a good person to run alongside! Thank you, sir, for that..! Made it much better. 🙂

Our WOD today, for the newbs who got to experience Crossfit Inertia for the first time, was pretty hard. I’m not sure they’ll be coming back after today! Hell, a couple didn’t make it through the push ups in our warm up. I wanted to be like. JUST STICK WITH IT! But I got so tired of hearing the “I can’t do this, I can’t do that” that I didn’t bother intervening. If they want to do it, they’ll figure out a way.

I’m not usually one for partners, especially when it’s a random assignment, but today I didn’t have a choice.

400m Run (twice around the building) with a weighted medicine ball (mine was 14 lbs)
*this was weird, because we had to share the load with our partners.. My partner had no qualms with running WITHOUT the ball, which meant that I had to run WITH the ball.. but when she offered to take over carrying the ball, she couldn’t run more than 10 feet with it, and she’d tell me she couldn’t do it anymore, over and over, and pass it back to me like she was going to fall over. And I’d stop to walk with her, and then she’d start running again. (God, it’s just so much easier to run when someone else is carrying that giant, heavy ball!)

Don’t get me wrong, she was super nice, and had some health/knee/elbow/shoulder issues, but… no offense, not my problem, please don’t make it interfere with my workout.  I felt like I was the one with the handicap.

Moving on:
50 jumping squats. And every time we’d pop back up, we had to jump up and raise the ball all the way up over our heads. (I did the real ones, my partner just squatted with the ball…) We ‘shared’ the load of the squats.. and I tried to be encouraging.. Okay! You got this! You do 10, and then I’ll do 10.. which apparently meant she’d do 6, and then I’d do 14.

100 overhead lunges. I had to hold the medicine ball over my head the entire time. She had a modified version where she just held it to her chest and sort of bent over/lunged. Again, we ‘shared’ the load on this one..

50 sprawls. (Shared..)  I would bend over with my hands on the medicine ball, and then jump my feet backward so I was in sort of a butt up in the air plank kind of position, and then back to the ball. I’m sure I was doing it wrong, but it was hard! I even lost my grip and slipped and fell. Skinned my knee and made it bleed. It was awesome! (IT’S NOT CROSSFIT IF YOU’RE NOT BLEEDING!)
Her modified version was squatting with the ball and touching it to the ground.

Then, we finished it all off with another nice 400m run. See above for description. She had no problem telling me while we were walking during the last lap that “you sure are breathin’ pretty hard there..” and I was like, “yeah, cause I’m carrying the GODDAMNED BALL HERE..”

(Erin and Erin, please please please don’t make me partner up with someone like that again..!!)

All in all though, it was a great workout. Even if it was unbalanced, I just got that much more work in. I really don’t like to complain, but man, I did not enjoy the whole partner thing. I hope she tries it again, and sticks with it. I tried to be positive about how good you feel after a workout, but I’m not sure she’ll feel the same way as I did from it. She might end up more hurt/injured after the fact than when she started. I give her MAJOR credit for trying though! That’s more than any of my friends and family did. Haha

Alright, my schedule for this coming week:

Mon and Fri – 11a, Sat – 9a Crossfit
Thurs – 5:30p, Sun – 1:30p Spinning

Erin and Erin are coming over for the Grande Dali Tour on Monday after our workout. And then lunch! So excited to show them Dali HQ. Dave will even be there for it. Happy Sunday!

According to the Erins, I am now an officially certified Crossfitter! They said it, and I’m running with it, and that’s that. haha What does this mean, you ask?? It means I completed my 3 days of elements training, learning some of the basic movements necessary so I don’t look like the idiot who has no idea what’s going on during the workouts. (Although I’m sure I’ll still have plenty of opportunities to make a fool out of myself..)

Anyway, today I learned about the snatch. Yes… that’s what it’s called. I have no idea why.  I’m terrible at doing these movements in slow motion, because I try to apply every single technical part of the movement to what I’m doing, and I end up overthinking the whole thing, and then I do it wrong.  (SNATCH, ur doin it wrong!) But when I do them more quickly, I seem to grasp the ideas better. I need to work on this one though.

Also, did some easy stuff on the rings (the only easy stuff on the rings, really..) Just learning how to keep my hands and arms tightly secured to my sides, while putting my weight into it.

For my WOD today, I had to do decreasing rounds, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 of the following:

Overhead Squats (10 the first round, then 9 the second round, 8, and so on)
Calorie Row (10 calories the first round, 9 the second, 8 the third and so on..)
Box Jumps (same as above, 10 the first round, then 9, then 8, etc)

Man, it was hard!! It was awesome though. My biggest thing is wanting to stay on my toes for balance, but I’m supposed to put more weight into my heels instead. My dad always taught me that if you’re going to fall, fall forward! So I naturally put my weight on my toes.. Well, today I lost my balance a few times, trying to learn how to put my weight on my heels instead. (No I didn’t fall, thankfully!) But yeah, I’m re-learning all sorts of good stuff by doing Crossfit.

I had a drum and bass CD playing that Dave had burned for me. It was one of the ones I just kept in the truck and listened to whenever there was nothing good on the radio.. Well, I took that in on Wednesday to play, since it was just Erin M and me. Well, Erin put it on for me today since I was her only trainee today, and Erin #2 (it’s the only way I can differentiate during storytelling! Really, you’re both Erin #1s..) So yeah, Erin #2 is like, holy hell I need a glowstick for this stuff! She was trying to keep up with the beat, and it was way too fast. Hah. Sorry Erin!! That was my CD. No hard feelings, don’t worry.

I think I redeemed myself when I let her know about the Tool concert we’d be attending on Tuesday, though. Phew!

I’m attempting to get up early enough to go to Crossfit Inertia tomorrow at 9 am. It’s a free class, but the catch is, you have to bring someone new for them to try it! Well, all my friends are too chicken (or busy..) to go. I tried!! I won’t STFU about it though.. I’ve definitely done my part in spreading the word.  We’ll see how sore I am after tomorrow morning’s class!

I sucked at spinning today. I went, I was excited about being there, but the music was a bit different today. She played some of the good songs, but not all of them, and we did a CRAZY amount of isolations.. AND I was trying to Shazam every song she played, since I can never remember them.. haha So, combine all these things, and I had a shitty spinning day. Oh well. It was still great, and it still kicked my ass, but I didn’t leave feeling all jacked up like I usually do. Instead, I was more like good god, I’m beat today..

One amusing thing.. I saw our general practitioner on the way out the door.  The guy who always tells me I need to exercise more, and then when I tell him I am exercising, he responds with, then you’re doing the wrong things.. (yes, I realize I’m overweight, but that doesn’t mean I don’t exercise, and that I’m not strong..) He’s a nice guy, with good intentions, but it was definitely great to run into him at the Y, when I was completely exhausted and red faced from spinning.

Me: “Hi doctor!! How’s it going?! Funny running into you here! Oh, this? Yeah, I do this twice a week.. I also do Crossfit twice a week too..”

His response: “Crossfit?? That’s a really hard workout..”

Me: “I know. It’s awesome.” 😀 😀 😀 😀

Crossfit tomorrow at 11a. My 3rd elements class! I hope I’m ready for next week..