I went to bed super early last night. 7pm to be exact. I hoped that a ton of sleep would leave me feeling relaxed and refreshed. Instead I woke up feeling exhausted. My eyelids were not wanting to cooperate.
I made it to crossfit this morning. Huge accomplishment considering how I'm feeling physically and mentally. Everything we did felt impossibly difficult. I can tell such a big difference in my endurance and strength when I take a few days off.
Our warm up was 5 Turkish get ups on each side and then using a slightly heavier bell we did another 3 on each side.
Our skill set was all about pull ups and negative pull ups. Jonathan helped me get a super thick band and work on my negative pull ups. I felt like I was humiliating myself. I felt weak and it pissed me off! He told me he could tell how much better I'm getting and I just looked him straight in the eyes and in a sarcastic bitchy way said, "really?!" . This caused him to stammer a bit and collect himself. He said that he hadn't seen me in the last 6 weeks because he's been mostly doing evening classes but that he could see a difference in how I look since he last saw me. At that point he pretty much excused himself to go help some other people.
I feel really bad for being a jerk. I guess I just felt like he was blowing smoke up my rear. I still feel weak and fat and stupid and lame and and and.......
Maybe he really can tell a difference and I'm just cranky and being a negative nancy.
Anyhoo our WOD was to get in groups of 4. Two of us had to drag the sled down and back up the alley and then do 20 meter bear crawl and 10 native jump squats. We repeated everything twice.
I'm dead to the world after today's class. I hope I feel a lot more energy and strength come Friday and maybe I'll get the chance to apologize to Jonathan for being a snarky jerk.
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Friday, September 27, 2013
What a way to end the week!
I feel like whenever I blog I tend to say the same things.....I woke up and didn't want to go to crossfit. haha But it's always the truth. It was a cold and dark morning and staying in my warm bed and catching some extra Zzzz's seemed much more appealing than putting on workout clothes and going to the gym.
I guess the good news is that I DID go and got my butt handed to me on a silver platter.
We started off with ladder drills. This was my 1st time doing them. They were actually kind of fun. They put a rope ladder on the ground and we had to do various things like jump squatting on each rung, or hopping in and out of the squares etc etc.
For the skill set we did 4 sets of 5 Turkish get-ups on each arm. After the 1st two rounds we did four 20 second plank holds, then more Turkish get-ups, followed by 4 more plank holds. My core, my legs, and my arms were shaking. My muscles were TIRED!
Our WOD was awful. I felt nauseous half way through. Thankfully I didn't get sick. In groups of two we did (all with weighted bar bells)
50 squat thrusters
20 walking lunges
50 overhead squats
20 walking lunges
50 back squats
20 walking lunges
My partner and I finished in 9:54
I just wanted to lie on the ground in my puddle of sweat and not move. I'm so so so tired!! That WOD was a fine line from my breaking point. I could feel myself get a little teary eyed towards the end, which always tells me that I hit my limit.
I'm going to take a long, warm, bubble bath and possibly a nap before the kids get home from school. I think I deserve it.
I guess the good news is that I DID go and got my butt handed to me on a silver platter.
We started off with ladder drills. This was my 1st time doing them. They were actually kind of fun. They put a rope ladder on the ground and we had to do various things like jump squatting on each rung, or hopping in and out of the squares etc etc.
For the skill set we did 4 sets of 5 Turkish get-ups on each arm. After the 1st two rounds we did four 20 second plank holds, then more Turkish get-ups, followed by 4 more plank holds. My core, my legs, and my arms were shaking. My muscles were TIRED!
Our WOD was awful. I felt nauseous half way through. Thankfully I didn't get sick. In groups of two we did (all with weighted bar bells)
50 squat thrusters
20 walking lunges
50 overhead squats
20 walking lunges
50 back squats
20 walking lunges
My partner and I finished in 9:54
I just wanted to lie on the ground in my puddle of sweat and not move. I'm so so so tired!! That WOD was a fine line from my breaking point. I could feel myself get a little teary eyed towards the end, which always tells me that I hit my limit.
I'm going to take a long, warm, bubble bath and possibly a nap before the kids get home from school. I think I deserve it.
Friday, September 6, 2013
Man Makers
The last couple of days have been rough, really rough. My husband and I have not been getting along so well. He's super stressed about his job and I'm stressed trying to keep everything at home together. So to make a super long story short, things have been stressful and we're not doing so well at leaning on each other when we should.
I woke up today depressed and sad. It was raining and super dark outside. I just wanted to send the kids off to school and go back to bed and watch movies.
Instead I got my workout clothes washed and dried, a protein shake made and headed out the door. I'm always glad when I go. I feel so much happier and stronger than I did when I woke up.
Our warm up was to grab a partner and throw a medicine ball back and forth. We did overhead tosses where we'd catch the ball, go into a deep squat and then toss the ball overhead to our partner. We did a few others and then moved onto our skill sets. We practiced Turkish get-ups. We'd start off with a light kettle bell and then move up to our max weight. The heaviest bell I was able to use was 26 lbs. It was SO hard to do and my left arm, which is definitely my weak arm, felt like it was going to buckle under the weight. Then I look over and see girls who are half my size using 50 lb kettle bells with ease.
Video of how to do man makers
They were hard, and my whole body is dead to the world but I feel really good inside. I'm crossing my fingers that this weekend goes smoothly. I can't stand tension within the home. Hope you all have a happy and healthy weekend.
I woke up today depressed and sad. It was raining and super dark outside. I just wanted to send the kids off to school and go back to bed and watch movies.
Instead I got my workout clothes washed and dried, a protein shake made and headed out the door. I'm always glad when I go. I feel so much happier and stronger than I did when I woke up.
Our warm up was to grab a partner and throw a medicine ball back and forth. We did overhead tosses where we'd catch the ball, go into a deep squat and then toss the ball overhead to our partner. We did a few others and then moved onto our skill sets. We practiced Turkish get-ups. We'd start off with a light kettle bell and then move up to our max weight. The heaviest bell I was able to use was 26 lbs. It was SO hard to do and my left arm, which is definitely my weak arm, felt like it was going to buckle under the weight. Then I look over and see girls who are half my size using 50 lb kettle bells with ease.
Our WOD was doing Man Makers. As many as we could in 10 minutes. This is a quick video clip of what a man maker looks like.
Video of how to do man makers
They were hard, and my whole body is dead to the world but I feel really good inside. I'm crossing my fingers that this weekend goes smoothly. I can't stand tension within the home. Hope you all have a happy and healthy weekend.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
deep squats
I can totally feel my strength coming back after being ill. Yay! It kinda freaked me out on Monday when my muscles literally wouldn't work. Today's workout at crossfit was great. It was hard, it's always hard, but I felt really good by the time it was over.
We did ankle and hip mobility for our warm up. Whew, very difficult for me to do some of those moves. Although the cool part was I was actually able to do them, where as two months ago I couldn't. Literally couldn't. I can feel my squats are getting a lot deeper. When I first started my deep squats were more like super shallow ones for everyone else. My hip mobility was awful. I'm slowly getting my hips in good working order and am getting stronger so my squats are getting closer and closer to what they should be.
Our skill set was stepping off a box and landing in a deep squat and then jumping up and high as we could with one strong thrust. We also did Turkish getups and kettle bell windmills.
Our WOD was a 10 min. AMRAP.
10 kettle bell power cleans
5 ab rollers
15 wall balls
I actually just looked at our WOD online and realized we were supposed to be doing 15 wall balls and I was only doing 10 per round....OOOPS! Apparently I wasn't with it when they explained the WOD.
I finished 5 complete rounds (with my 10 wall balls vs. the 15 we were supposed to do).
Today is a busy day. I have 1st grade open house for my daughter and 6th grade open house for my son. I have a house that needs to be cleaned and picked up. The 6th grade open house is from 5:30-7:00pm. So we either eat a super early dinner or a fairly late one. Ugh! I should get my crap together and put something in the crockpot so I don't have to scamper and scurry to get dinner out as soon as we get home.
Tomorrow is another running day. Woohoo, bring it!
We did ankle and hip mobility for our warm up. Whew, very difficult for me to do some of those moves. Although the cool part was I was actually able to do them, where as two months ago I couldn't. Literally couldn't. I can feel my squats are getting a lot deeper. When I first started my deep squats were more like super shallow ones for everyone else. My hip mobility was awful. I'm slowly getting my hips in good working order and am getting stronger so my squats are getting closer and closer to what they should be.
Our skill set was stepping off a box and landing in a deep squat and then jumping up and high as we could with one strong thrust. We also did Turkish getups and kettle bell windmills.
Our WOD was a 10 min. AMRAP.
10 kettle bell power cleans
5 ab rollers
15 wall balls
I actually just looked at our WOD online and realized we were supposed to be doing 15 wall balls and I was only doing 10 per round....OOOPS! Apparently I wasn't with it when they explained the WOD.
I finished 5 complete rounds (with my 10 wall balls vs. the 15 we were supposed to do).
Today is a busy day. I have 1st grade open house for my daughter and 6th grade open house for my son. I have a house that needs to be cleaned and picked up. The 6th grade open house is from 5:30-7:00pm. So we either eat a super early dinner or a fairly late one. Ugh! I should get my crap together and put something in the crockpot so I don't have to scamper and scurry to get dinner out as soon as we get home.
Tomorrow is another running day. Woohoo, bring it!
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
SHITEE
Yesterday was a very long, very exhausting day. I cleaned for several hours at my aunt's house. I seriously dislike cleaning houses, but it helps pay for crossfit so I can't really complain. As I was scrubbing the many toilets I just kept reminding myself that I was teaching my children a good lesson in working hard for what you want. My son had a friend spend the night, so after cleaning I had to google something to make for dinner that was kid friendly and gluten free, since his friend has a severe gluten intolerance. After dinner was made and cleaned up, we went and rented the kids a movie and took them out for ice cream. I didn't get to bed until close to midnight. I was up again at 6am because the kids were up and being noisy. I did not want to put on my workout clothes and go to crossfit. *yawn*
I did end up going after all. I'm glad I did. Our warm up was a 400 meter partner medicine ball run. I'd throw the ball to my partner who'd run about 10-15 in front of me. Once they caught the ball, I'd run 10-15 feet in front of them and they'd throw the ball to me. Back and forth, for 400 meters. It was actually kind of fun. =) Did I just say that?!?!
Our skill set was several rounds of various lunges, kettle bell exercises, and using the ab rollers.
The WOD was a 12 minute AMRAP (as many rounds/reps as possible).
We did 5 pull ups, 10 shitees, and 20 double unders. Over and over and over for 12 minutes.
Now I googled shittee's to see if I could find a good picture to demonstrate what they were and all I could find was was various info directly from my crossfit. So I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that it's a move or a name that my crossfit made up. I must admit, the name accurately describes how they make a person feel after doing them. Pretty dang shitty(ee). ;)
You stand up, bend over, and put your hands on the ground. You jump back with your feet into a push up position. Then you jump back up with your feet so they're on the outside of where your hands are on the ground, then you jump back again, then forward....over and over without standing up or resting. It was not easy to jump back and forth with my big behind. My arms were so tired trying to keep me up.
I was able to barely complete 6 rounds. Halfway through the AMRAP, Derek told me to do 30 single unders instead of the 60 single unders I was doing each round. Normally if the WOD says to do double unders and you are not physically able to do them, then they triple that number for single unders. So I did 60 for 3 rounds and my last 3 rounds I did just 30.
One of the gals I see working out when I'm there, came up to me today and told me that I did awesome today. She said I "killed the workout". That meant so much to me!!! I need to make more of an effort to tell others when I notice them doing awesome as well. We all need to hear it and we're all there for the same reasons.....to better ourselves. I'll be going again tomorrow and then again on Friday.
Would it be too terrible of me to put a movie on for the kids and take a teeny nap? I'm so so so tired!
I did end up going after all. I'm glad I did. Our warm up was a 400 meter partner medicine ball run. I'd throw the ball to my partner who'd run about 10-15 in front of me. Once they caught the ball, I'd run 10-15 feet in front of them and they'd throw the ball to me. Back and forth, for 400 meters. It was actually kind of fun. =) Did I just say that?!?!
Our skill set was several rounds of various lunges, kettle bell exercises, and using the ab rollers.
The WOD was a 12 minute AMRAP (as many rounds/reps as possible).
We did 5 pull ups, 10 shitees, and 20 double unders. Over and over and over for 12 minutes.
Now I googled shittee's to see if I could find a good picture to demonstrate what they were and all I could find was was various info directly from my crossfit. So I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that it's a move or a name that my crossfit made up. I must admit, the name accurately describes how they make a person feel after doing them. Pretty dang shitty(ee). ;)
You stand up, bend over, and put your hands on the ground. You jump back with your feet into a push up position. Then you jump back up with your feet so they're on the outside of where your hands are on the ground, then you jump back again, then forward....over and over without standing up or resting. It was not easy to jump back and forth with my big behind. My arms were so tired trying to keep me up.
I was able to barely complete 6 rounds. Halfway through the AMRAP, Derek told me to do 30 single unders instead of the 60 single unders I was doing each round. Normally if the WOD says to do double unders and you are not physically able to do them, then they triple that number for single unders. So I did 60 for 3 rounds and my last 3 rounds I did just 30.
One of the gals I see working out when I'm there, came up to me today and told me that I did awesome today. She said I "killed the workout". That meant so much to me!!! I need to make more of an effort to tell others when I notice them doing awesome as well. We all need to hear it and we're all there for the same reasons.....to better ourselves. I'll be going again tomorrow and then again on Friday.
Would it be too terrible of me to put a movie on for the kids and take a teeny nap? I'm so so so tired!
Monday, May 13, 2013
bear crawls and burpees, oh my!
Hope everyone had a nice Mother's Day weekend. We went to church and then we grabbed the dog and we all went down by the lake to enjoy a picnic lunch. My kids each made me handmade cards and gifts, they were darling. =)
I felt great walking into CrossFit today. Normally I get super nervous the entire car ride there, but today I felt at peace. We started off doing wheelbarrow walks, but I'm not strong enough to do those quite yet, so they had me do three 30 second rounds of bear crawls. Those are no fun, like not even a tiny bit. nope. not fun.
We did push ups, good mornings, Turkish get-ups, and 20" box step ups with two kettle bells held under our chins. I did 15" box step ups. The 20" boxes are insanely high for me....at this point at least. I met another newbie and we were both wiped out after all the skill sets.
These are the Turkish get-up's
Our WOD was to do 3 clean and jerks and 8 burpees every minute on the minute (EMOTM) for 10 minutes. I had mine modified a bit to my fitness level. Burpees are so incredibly hard to do when you're heavy. Having extra stomach fat and thigh fat really gets in the way of the movement and makes it incredibly hard when you have to jump back into position to stand back up. Being a thick girl sucks big time.
I can see and feel a difference in my clothes, but I'm impatient. I want to wake up tomorrow and have magically dropped 6 sizes. I just don't understand why that doesn't happen. hehe
I had a small bit of dessert last night with my family and my mom, but today it's back on the Paleo bandwagon. Time to get something to eat, I'm famished!
I felt great walking into CrossFit today. Normally I get super nervous the entire car ride there, but today I felt at peace. We started off doing wheelbarrow walks, but I'm not strong enough to do those quite yet, so they had me do three 30 second rounds of bear crawls. Those are no fun, like not even a tiny bit. nope. not fun.
We did push ups, good mornings, Turkish get-ups, and 20" box step ups with two kettle bells held under our chins. I did 15" box step ups. The 20" boxes are insanely high for me....at this point at least. I met another newbie and we were both wiped out after all the skill sets.
These are the Turkish get-up's
Our WOD was to do 3 clean and jerks and 8 burpees every minute on the minute (EMOTM) for 10 minutes. I had mine modified a bit to my fitness level. Burpees are so incredibly hard to do when you're heavy. Having extra stomach fat and thigh fat really gets in the way of the movement and makes it incredibly hard when you have to jump back into position to stand back up. Being a thick girl sucks big time.
I can see and feel a difference in my clothes, but I'm impatient. I want to wake up tomorrow and have magically dropped 6 sizes. I just don't understand why that doesn't happen. hehe
I had a small bit of dessert last night with my family and my mom, but today it's back on the Paleo bandwagon. Time to get something to eat, I'm famished!
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