On Saturday my husband asked if we could do a crossfit style workout in the garage together. Although he's still slim, he's lost a lot of muscle since we got married and has replaced it with a soft belly. He still looks quite slim in his clothes, but I can tell a huge difference in his body composition between now and when we got married 11 years ago.
Anyhoo so we go out into the garage and since we have only a kettlebell, I came up with a workout that would use mostly our body weight.
We did 5 rounds of:
20 jump squats
25 push ups
30 second plank
30 kettlebell swings
Half way into the 2nd round he had to stop. He said he couldn't catch his breath and his arms and legs hurt too bad. I told him to catch his breath and then to keep going. I continued the workout while he sat down and watched me. During my 5th round he got back up and finished his 2nd round and then a 3rd. By that time he stopped and said he couldn't do anymore.
I must say that it felt freaking amazing to see myself beat him. Now I know that if he actually started working out on a regular basis, he'd surpass me in very little time. For the time being, I'm going to relish in my accomplishments. I can tell it hurt his ego a bit. What guy would want to admit that his obese wife beat him in a workout? After a few hours he came up to me and gave me a big hug and told me he was proud of me. ♥ Little things like that make it all worth it.
Today was a good day at crossfit.
Our warm up was:
20 meter bear crawl
20 meter crab walk
3 minutes AMRAP burpees
I felt dead to the world after the burpees. Haha
The skill set was two rounds:
7 right handed kettlebell snatches and 7 windmills
7 left handed kettlebell snatches and 7 windmills
1 minute native squat
15 kettlebell sit ups (those were freaking HARD)
10 two second squat box jumps
The WOD was an 8 minute AMRAP:
5 hang power snatches
50 double unders or (150 single unders)
15 push ups
I was able to complete exactly 3 full rounds in those 8 minutes
I'm going to make myself a paleo turkey taco salad with homemade guacamole for lunch. I'm starving! ;)
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Monday, September 30, 2013
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!
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