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!
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
Less Is More
My grandmother's memorial was very beautiful. I'm sad she's gone from us but feel peace knowing she's with her Savior.
I didn't eat the best this weekend. I had my parents and sister over for dinner Friday night. We ate grilled chicken and sausages, a big green salad, a pasta salad, and for dessert we had pound cake with homemade strawberry and huckleberry sauce to drizzle over. Saturday was the memorial and I ended up eating a cookie and 2 pieces of cheese during the gathering afterwards. We skipped lunch and were all starving. Later in the evening my brother, sister and I all went out to eat. As we sat down we realized it was the first time all three of us had done anything together since becoming adults. How strange and sad. We had a good time. We ate delicious Greek food and finished off our meal with a square of baklava. Mmmmmm!! Do I feel guilty about not staying strictly Paleo.....not really.
Yesterday after church we took the kids and the dog and went on a 3 mile hike. It wasn't some sissy hike, it was an intense, fairly steep hike up to the top of a ridge and then a steep trek back to the bottom. It took us about 2 hours. We were all pretty wiped out. I was proud of the kids for making it all the way and I was proud of myself for sticking to it. About halfway up my husband suggested to turn around and go down and I told him that none of us are handicapped and have no reason why we couldn't complete the entire hike. I think he was surprised and pleased I kept going.
I did get to attend my CrossFit class today. HURRAY!!!! One of the trainers pulled me aside and asked if I did the burpee workout they emailed me. I told him I did and that I also added a smaller kettle bell workout to it and finished up with 25 more burpees. He looked a little frustrated and then told me that I was doing too much. He said that less was more and what I did wasn't necessary. I wanted to lift up my shirt and grab all my extra flab, shake it in his face and say, really?!?!?!? It sure feels necessary when I'm such a fattie still. I was a little hurt because I felt like I really pushed myself last week to get in some great workouts despite not being able to make it into class. I have a super hard time when people criticize how I do things. I tend to retreat inward and shy away from them. He wasn't mean about it, he was just upfront and straight to the point. Apparently when he tells me to do 50 burpees that's it.....I'm not to add or change the workouts given. I need to suck it up and and not let his critique damped my spirit. Now I know and I won't make that mistake again.
Today was hard. We started off doing various types of lunges, most of which I'd never heard of before. One was called the spider-man lunge.....it was definitely my favorite.
We did lunges back and for across the gym for about 5 full minutes. My legs were burning and quivering by the end. Next we split up and did the skill sets. The advanced group went with Jonathan and the rest went with Megan. Megan had us grab a set of bars that were about 8 inches off the ground. We were to hold onto them and lift our bodies off the floor for 10 seconds and then rest for 20 seconds. I wasn't able to lift my entire body off the floor. My heels still touched, but I at least was holding about 75% of my body weight off the floor. We did that over and over and over and over. I don't know how many rounds we did. It felt like an eternity. Next we grabbed kettle bells and did 10 rounds of 8 squats while holding the bell to our chests and then 5 kettle bell rows with each arm.
By the end I looked like I dunked my head under water. Sweat was pouring off my face and my hair was matted and sticking to my wet face and neck. All my muscles were shaky and burning. It's only because others were there and I had accountability that I didn't leave and go home at that point. I didn't want to do the WOD, I was flippin' tired!!
We had about a 5 minute break and then started our WOD. We started off with 2 minutes of burpees and then did 3 rounds of
10 push ups
10 box jumps ( I did box step ups)
10 kettle bell swings over head
and then we finished off with another 2 minutes of burpees.
Those last two minutes of burpees felt like a living hell. My body is so heavy that going to the floor and back up over and over is absolute torture! I finished though and was super glad I didn't cry even though I felt like it. I just wanted to sit in the corner and bawl my eyes out. Afterwards we all did a cool down while rolling our muscles out on some foam rollers. I caught one young gal looking at me. I actually caught her several times. I immediately looked down away from her eyes, I don't like people looking at me. I looked down at my legs and saw just how fat my thighs were. Was she looking at me because I am a fattie? I always assume the worst case scenario. Oh well. I'm not there for them, I'm there for me. I'm anxious to start seeing some big results in my weight and size. Is it too much to ask to just wake up tomorrow and be thin? Hehe
What I'm eating today:
Breakfast~chocolate protein shake
after workout~turkey vegetable soup
Lunch~salad with homemade dressing and grilled chicken
Dinner~paleo stuffed peppers and sweet potato fries
Yesterday after church we took the kids and the dog and went on a 3 mile hike. It wasn't some sissy hike, it was an intense, fairly steep hike up to the top of a ridge and then a steep trek back to the bottom. It took us about 2 hours. We were all pretty wiped out. I was proud of the kids for making it all the way and I was proud of myself for sticking to it. About halfway up my husband suggested to turn around and go down and I told him that none of us are handicapped and have no reason why we couldn't complete the entire hike. I think he was surprised and pleased I kept going.
I did get to attend my CrossFit class today. HURRAY!!!! One of the trainers pulled me aside and asked if I did the burpee workout they emailed me. I told him I did and that I also added a smaller kettle bell workout to it and finished up with 25 more burpees. He looked a little frustrated and then told me that I was doing too much. He said that less was more and what I did wasn't necessary. I wanted to lift up my shirt and grab all my extra flab, shake it in his face and say, really?!?!?!? It sure feels necessary when I'm such a fattie still. I was a little hurt because I felt like I really pushed myself last week to get in some great workouts despite not being able to make it into class. I have a super hard time when people criticize how I do things. I tend to retreat inward and shy away from them. He wasn't mean about it, he was just upfront and straight to the point. Apparently when he tells me to do 50 burpees that's it.....I'm not to add or change the workouts given. I need to suck it up and and not let his critique damped my spirit. Now I know and I won't make that mistake again.
Today was hard. We started off doing various types of lunges, most of which I'd never heard of before. One was called the spider-man lunge.....it was definitely my favorite.
We did lunges back and for across the gym for about 5 full minutes. My legs were burning and quivering by the end. Next we split up and did the skill sets. The advanced group went with Jonathan and the rest went with Megan. Megan had us grab a set of bars that were about 8 inches off the ground. We were to hold onto them and lift our bodies off the floor for 10 seconds and then rest for 20 seconds. I wasn't able to lift my entire body off the floor. My heels still touched, but I at least was holding about 75% of my body weight off the floor. We did that over and over and over and over. I don't know how many rounds we did. It felt like an eternity. Next we grabbed kettle bells and did 10 rounds of 8 squats while holding the bell to our chests and then 5 kettle bell rows with each arm.
By the end I looked like I dunked my head under water. Sweat was pouring off my face and my hair was matted and sticking to my wet face and neck. All my muscles were shaky and burning. It's only because others were there and I had accountability that I didn't leave and go home at that point. I didn't want to do the WOD, I was flippin' tired!!
We had about a 5 minute break and then started our WOD. We started off with 2 minutes of burpees and then did 3 rounds of
10 push ups
10 box jumps ( I did box step ups)
10 kettle bell swings over head
and then we finished off with another 2 minutes of burpees.
Those last two minutes of burpees felt like a living hell. My body is so heavy that going to the floor and back up over and over is absolute torture! I finished though and was super glad I didn't cry even though I felt like it. I just wanted to sit in the corner and bawl my eyes out. Afterwards we all did a cool down while rolling our muscles out on some foam rollers. I caught one young gal looking at me. I actually caught her several times. I immediately looked down away from her eyes, I don't like people looking at me. I looked down at my legs and saw just how fat my thighs were. Was she looking at me because I am a fattie? I always assume the worst case scenario. Oh well. I'm not there for them, I'm there for me. I'm anxious to start seeing some big results in my weight and size. Is it too much to ask to just wake up tomorrow and be thin? Hehe
What I'm eating today:
Breakfast~chocolate protein shake
after workout~turkey vegetable soup
Lunch~salad with homemade dressing and grilled chicken
Dinner~paleo stuffed peppers and sweet potato fries
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Utterly Exhausted
I'm tired. No, I'm beyond tired, I'm utterly exhausted. I feel like I started running the moment my feet hit the floor this morning. I feel like ordering pizza for dinner. The kids would be happy, hubby would be happy, but I know I'd be tempted to eat a slice or seven so I'd better buck up and actually COOK a healthy paleo dinner. BUT I DON'T WANNA!
I was able to make it to CrossFit this morning. Today seemed to be a little easier for me. I don't think the WOD was too horrible. We started off doing something I can't recall the name of. I was told just to do down and ups. 5 then 6 then 7 then 8 then 9 So basically 35 of those buggers. Blah.....I feel so awkward doing them. I have to step back with one foot, then the other, and then I jump forward back to where my hands are and then jump and clap above my head. I don't know what it is about the clapping, but I feel like a retarded seal......cow......errr whatever. So I'm the only one in the room clapping like a moron. Super fun. Next we did three rounds of 15 hollow rock rolls. Those things are freaking hard!!! My trainer kept saying I was doing great since I was rolling, but I don't think I was doing them quite right. My behind is still large enough that I was really just rocking on my big bahooki instead of on my spine. Ugh! Oh well, it still gave my core one heck of a workout!
Next we did a skill set. I'm not qualified to do it yet, since I don't have enough core strength. So instead I did three rounds of 10 air squats, 10 ring rows, and 10 hollow rock rolls.
Our WOD was a mixture of using the rowers and stationary bikes. We calculated our calories burned and watts during short intervals on both machines. We ended up using the rowers three times and the bikes twice. Back and forth, back and forth. It was exhausting and I was so ready for it to be over.
After my workout I headed to my parent's house. I clean for them twice a month to earn a little extra $. After cleaning for 2 1/2 hrs, I headed home. I had my own house to clean. I was quite a bit behind since yesterday was full of taking care of my sick daughter. After a couple hours cleaning my own house, my husband called and asked me to go to the store so I could put together something for him to bring to a work pot luck.
It's dinner time and I'm so tired that making food feels like climbing Mt. Everest. A hot bubble bath and then crawling into bed sounds much better. I'm wondering if after a little while my body will get used to this whole CrossFit thing and maybe I won't get so tired in the evenings. fingers crossed!
What I ate today:
Breakfast~2 eggs, 2 turkey sausages
post workout~2 ounces of beef jerkey, 1 apple, 2 TBS almond butter
Lunch~2 eggs, 2 turkey sausages
Dinner~Yet to be determined.........
I was able to make it to CrossFit this morning. Today seemed to be a little easier for me. I don't think the WOD was too horrible. We started off doing something I can't recall the name of. I was told just to do down and ups. 5 then 6 then 7 then 8 then 9 So basically 35 of those buggers. Blah.....I feel so awkward doing them. I have to step back with one foot, then the other, and then I jump forward back to where my hands are and then jump and clap above my head. I don't know what it is about the clapping, but I feel like a retarded seal......cow......errr whatever. So I'm the only one in the room clapping like a moron. Super fun. Next we did three rounds of 15 hollow rock rolls. Those things are freaking hard!!! My trainer kept saying I was doing great since I was rolling, but I don't think I was doing them quite right. My behind is still large enough that I was really just rocking on my big bahooki instead of on my spine. Ugh! Oh well, it still gave my core one heck of a workout!
Next we did a skill set. I'm not qualified to do it yet, since I don't have enough core strength. So instead I did three rounds of 10 air squats, 10 ring rows, and 10 hollow rock rolls.
Our WOD was a mixture of using the rowers and stationary bikes. We calculated our calories burned and watts during short intervals on both machines. We ended up using the rowers three times and the bikes twice. Back and forth, back and forth. It was exhausting and I was so ready for it to be over.
After my workout I headed to my parent's house. I clean for them twice a month to earn a little extra $. After cleaning for 2 1/2 hrs, I headed home. I had my own house to clean. I was quite a bit behind since yesterday was full of taking care of my sick daughter. After a couple hours cleaning my own house, my husband called and asked me to go to the store so I could put together something for him to bring to a work pot luck.
It's dinner time and I'm so tired that making food feels like climbing Mt. Everest. A hot bubble bath and then crawling into bed sounds much better. I'm wondering if after a little while my body will get used to this whole CrossFit thing and maybe I won't get so tired in the evenings. fingers crossed!
What I ate today:
Breakfast~2 eggs, 2 turkey sausages
post workout~2 ounces of beef jerkey, 1 apple, 2 TBS almond butter
Lunch~2 eggs, 2 turkey sausages
Dinner~Yet to be determined.........
Thursday, March 28, 2013
My 2nd CrossFit bootcamp workout......
Well I must say my 2nd workout was MUCH better than my 1st. I didn't puke. I didn't cry. I actually finished my entire workout. woohoo! Last night we started off with more squats. Then we squatted again. Then we squatted all the way down....to where your rear is just a fraction of an inch above the ground. I can't personally go that far down because of all the excess fat on my stomach and thighs, but I did the best I could. We held this squat for 3 or 4 minutes while Derek was yapping about the importance of squats. I couldn't hold it.....I kept standing back up to rub my burning ham hocks. He eventually had me hold onto a support beam while I was in a deep squat to help me from falling over. He told us that we need to practice deep squats at home for about 5 minutes a day...basically sitting in a squat for a solid 5 minutes without standing up. Good grief! He told me to start off just doing 60 seconds at a time and holding onto a doorknob to keep from falling over and to slowing extend my time as I got better at it and then to eventually not hold onto anything.
After panting from our squats we moved onto dead lifts. Of course these involve squats as well. We practiced using metal pipes that will eventually have weights added to them. We did several of these as Derek watched our form. I love that all the CrossFit instructors are really big on form. That really sets my mind at ease. I don't want to get injured by doing these moves wrong and I feel better knowing they're watching me and letting me know when I'm doing it wrong.
Next we move onto kettle bell dead lifts.....again......it includes squats. We do several of these we all can feel our thighs quivering from exhaustion. We follow up the kettle bell dead lifts with burpees, which I now see are slightly different than down and ups. I'm tired, all my muscles are quivering and I'm ready to go home. Derek lets us take a quick water break and then it's time to start our workout. Derek pulls me aside and lets me know that we'll be doing 4 rounds of 10 kettle bell dead lifts and 30 seconds of burpees, but that I can just do the kettle bells if I want. I tell him thanks, but am thinking, HELL NO! I came to CrossFit to push myself all the way and I'm not going to sit out on anything. Nope nope nope. I appreciate him trying to take it easy on me, but I need to prove to myself that I have the will to get through anything.
I got through all 4 rounds. I did a modified burpee, and could only do about 5 each 30 second round, but at least I tried and I gave it my all. Afterwards we were all dripping with sweat and were panting like dogs. It felt great!!!!! We talked more about nutrition and went into depth on Paleo eating. I stood there listening and just felt at peace. As if I finally found what I've always been looking for. This is where I want to be, these people are the type of people I want in my life, and my life is never going to be the same from this point on. If I had the energy and the capability I would've done cartwheels all the way home.
I go again today for my 3rd bootcamp workout of the week. I'll get 3 days off to rest and enjoy Easter with my family before we start up again.
What I ate yesterday:
Breakfast~2 eggs, 2 slices of bacon, 1 cup fresh pineapple, 1 cup of coffee
snack~handful of organic unsulfered dehydrated apples
lunch~1/3 cup sweet potato, 4 oz of ground turkey
snack~green salad with 2 oz of leftover steak and homemade oil and vin dressing
dinner~7 oz ground turkey patty, large green salad w/ homemade dressing
snack~1 TBS almond butter and 1 square of 72% dark chocolate
After panting from our squats we moved onto dead lifts. Of course these involve squats as well. We practiced using metal pipes that will eventually have weights added to them. We did several of these as Derek watched our form. I love that all the CrossFit instructors are really big on form. That really sets my mind at ease. I don't want to get injured by doing these moves wrong and I feel better knowing they're watching me and letting me know when I'm doing it wrong.
Next we move onto kettle bell dead lifts.....again......it includes squats. We do several of these we all can feel our thighs quivering from exhaustion. We follow up the kettle bell dead lifts with burpees, which I now see are slightly different than down and ups. I'm tired, all my muscles are quivering and I'm ready to go home. Derek lets us take a quick water break and then it's time to start our workout. Derek pulls me aside and lets me know that we'll be doing 4 rounds of 10 kettle bell dead lifts and 30 seconds of burpees, but that I can just do the kettle bells if I want. I tell him thanks, but am thinking, HELL NO! I came to CrossFit to push myself all the way and I'm not going to sit out on anything. Nope nope nope. I appreciate him trying to take it easy on me, but I need to prove to myself that I have the will to get through anything.
I got through all 4 rounds. I did a modified burpee, and could only do about 5 each 30 second round, but at least I tried and I gave it my all. Afterwards we were all dripping with sweat and were panting like dogs. It felt great!!!!! We talked more about nutrition and went into depth on Paleo eating. I stood there listening and just felt at peace. As if I finally found what I've always been looking for. This is where I want to be, these people are the type of people I want in my life, and my life is never going to be the same from this point on. If I had the energy and the capability I would've done cartwheels all the way home.
I go again today for my 3rd bootcamp workout of the week. I'll get 3 days off to rest and enjoy Easter with my family before we start up again.
What I ate yesterday:
Breakfast~2 eggs, 2 slices of bacon, 1 cup fresh pineapple, 1 cup of coffee
snack~handful of organic unsulfered dehydrated apples
lunch~1/3 cup sweet potato, 4 oz of ground turkey
snack~green salad with 2 oz of leftover steak and homemade oil and vin dressing
dinner~7 oz ground turkey patty, large green salad w/ homemade dressing
snack~1 TBS almond butter and 1 square of 72% dark chocolate
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