Life gets so hectic around the holidays!! I don't know how people keep up with it all. I feel like I start to fall behind around Thanksgiving and by the New Year I'm ready to throw in the towel.
I made it into crossfit the day after Thanksgiving. I felt extremely swollen due to all the salt I consumed. I had just one plate of food, and really just normal/proper amounts of everything. Potatoes, stuffing, green bean casserole, turkey, gravy and some cranberry sauce. Nothing too extreme. Still the next day my joints hurt and my fingers and toes felt stiff. I was glad I got right back on the horse the day after the holiday. I was also proud that I only had about 6 bites of pie that evening. I used to use holidays as an excuse to not only eat bad food, but to stuff my face for days afterwards.
By the weekend I started to developed some terrible migraines. They were so bad that noises, smells, light, just about everything made it almost unbearable. Because my head hurt so bad I couldn't eat because it would make me feel sick. I couldn't sleep, couldn't eat, couldn't listen to music or watch a movie. It was all I could do just to make sure my kids got out the door for school and there was food for them to eat. That has been my existence for most of this week. I don't know what's causing them. I'm guessing stress, but who really knows for sure?
I felt a lot better this morning. I was able to make it to crossfit today. Hurray! My head still hurts but it's only a slight headache. Friday's are deadlift days, which are my favorite. I really feel badass when I can lift heavy weights. I lifted more than any of the girls there today. I'm still the fattest, but it's nice to not be the weakest as well.
We did a 10 minute kettle bell warm up. Followed by 5 sets of 5 heavy dead lifts. I pulled 205 lbs for my dead lifts. My personal record for a single rep is 225, so I'm pretty sure the next time I test my limit, I'll be able to beat my last record. 205 is hard. By the time I finished all my sets I was exhausted and sweat was dripping off my face. They sure don't look like they are hard or that they do much, but if you research the deadlifts, they are one of the better lifts as far as results go.
Here's an article that goes into way more detail.
Our WOD was a 6 minute AMRAP.
5 air squats
5 kettle bell swings
10 air squats
10 kettle bell swings
etc etc until the 6 minutes runs out.
I used a 25 lb bell. This was HARD!! 6 minutes sounds like it would be cake....it was not cake, it was more like torture. Jonathan came by about half way through the WOD and told me that my squats were looking awesome. He said my form was so much better than it used to. Hurray! I was ablet to get up to 25 squats and 17 kb swings before time was up. My lungs burned SOOO bad!
We finished off class with some cool down stretches and we were done.
I'd really like to finish December strong. No more sickness, no more migraines and getting in all my crossfit workouts. Time to get in a hot bubble bath and relax. It's flipping cold here today! I think our high today should be about 3 degrees. Brrrrr!!!!
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Friday, December 6, 2013
Friday, August 16, 2013
50 burpees.....third time around
Last night was awful. I barely slept due to a horrible migraine. I'm allowing the stresses of life get to me and it's dragging me under. Significant stress always seems to manifest itself into migraines for me. Ugh!!
I didn't go to crossfit. I instead took some medication and stayed in bed until it was just a mild headache.
After I felt better I decided to do what Derek told me to do a few months ago when I couldn't make it into the gym. 50 burpees. I set my stopwatch and started. I was able to complete 50 burpees in 6 minutes and 21 seconds. Now this is the 3rd time I've timed myself doing 50 burpees.
April 26th ~ I completed 50 burpees in 11 minutes 51 seconds.
May 29th ~ 9 minutes 31 seconds
August 16th ~ 6 minutes 21 seconds
What a huge difference!! I've almost cut my first time in half. Woot woot!! I followed the burpees with 10 minutes of kettle bell exercises. I'm bummed I couldn't make it in today, but I'm proud of myself for at least doing something.
My goal for this weekend is just try to let go of the things in my life that I can't control. My health is more important than stressing over every little thing.
Have a happy and healthy weekend!
I didn't go to crossfit. I instead took some medication and stayed in bed until it was just a mild headache.
After I felt better I decided to do what Derek told me to do a few months ago when I couldn't make it into the gym. 50 burpees. I set my stopwatch and started. I was able to complete 50 burpees in 6 minutes and 21 seconds. Now this is the 3rd time I've timed myself doing 50 burpees.
April 26th ~ I completed 50 burpees in 11 minutes 51 seconds.
May 29th ~ 9 minutes 31 seconds
August 16th ~ 6 minutes 21 seconds
What a huge difference!! I've almost cut my first time in half. Woot woot!! I followed the burpees with 10 minutes of kettle bell exercises. I'm bummed I couldn't make it in today, but I'm proud of myself for at least doing something.
My goal for this weekend is just try to let go of the things in my life that I can't control. My health is more important than stressing over every little thing.
Have a happy and healthy weekend!
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Caught in a pickle.....
I'm not quite sure what to do. I was supposed to go to CrossFit at 9:30 this morning but I was up all night with my daughter who was throwing up. She's staying home from school today, and I'll be doing laundry and cleaning up the after math. I rescheduled my workout for tomorrow and then I guess I'll be working out the following day as well. What an exhausting night! Hopefully my daughter will take a long nap this afternoon, so I can maybe catch up on some much needed sleep. I must say that I didn't want to make a paleo breakfast this morning, I wanted to have some sort of sweetened breakfast pastry or two or three and a sweetened latte. Oh man that sounded so good!! I'm starting to see that stress is defnitely a trigger for poor eating. Instead I stayed the course and made some turkey sausages and eggs. I'm hoping that tomorrow is a much better day and that I can send my daughter to school. *yawn* Time to go work on the laundry and cleaning the carpet. sigh....................
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The flu from hell....................
I know in my last post I mentioned getting out for a night to celebrate my 11th wedding anniversary....well.....it looks like it's going to be cancelled. Apparently the flu we all had last weekend came back with a vengeance. We haven't been this sick in years. Why did it have to ruin Easter, my anniversary, and wreck havoc on my CrossFit workouts? I know it's out of my hands but it really ticks me off. STUPID FLIPPIN' FLU!
On another note, I'm really starting to enjoy finding and eating new paleo foods. Yesterday I grilled up some turkey burgers and put them on a bed of organic spinach leaves and topped them with slivers of red onion, dill pickle, bacon and avocado slices. I also baked up some homemade sweet potato fries. Mmmmm it was so good! Even the kids liked it.
Despite not feeling very well, the workout was great. We learned about dumbbell squat cleans. Wow, what looks like a fairly simple movement (and it is) is also a great workout. We did several of these and then learned all about pull-ups. Only a couple people in my group can do a regular pull-up, so we learned all sorts of modified ones. After doing several of these we did 5 rounds of dumbbell squat cleans and pull-ups. 12-8-6-4-2
After our workout was complete we talked more about nutrition and how several elements need to be in check for us to succeed as athletes. EXERCISE~NUTRITION~SLEEP~STRESS
If any of those are out of whack, then we fail to get where we need to be. My biggest issue will be the sleep part. I've been an insomniac since I was in grade school. It takes me a good hour to fall asleep on a good night and on a bad night it'll take several hours or I might never fall asleep. It doesn't matter how much I exercise, sleep doesn't come easy for me. Once I'm asleep I'm fine, it's just getting there that's the problem. I've tried EVERYTHING to fix this problem and nothing seems to work that well. We'll see how the sleep thing goes after a few months of CrossFit. I feel like I have the nutrition down. I like it, it's easy, I feel good eating it, I don't feel deprived.......hopefully it stays that way.
Tomorrow we are going to do the same workout we did day one. We're going to see if we can better our time. I didn't complete it because I was having a moment in the bathroom reliving my dinner, so as long as I can finish tomorrow, I'll be very happy. I can't believe bootcamp is just one workout away from being complete!!! It feels good to force myself out of my comfort zone and do something that really means something. It feels good to tell my kids what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I want them to learn that to change your life takes a lot of courage and effort, but it will pay off and be more rewarding than they could ever imagine. I want my family to see that just because we were raised to love to eat and not exercise doesn't mean that we can't change that about ourselves.
I'm going to have a cup of tea and maybe a square of dark chocolate while I catch up on some tv episodes before heading to bed.
What I ate today:
Breakfast~green smoothie(1 cup packed organic baby spinach, 5 large frozen strawberries, 1 cup of unsweetened vanilla almond milk, 1/2 scoop vanilla whey protein powder, 1 TBS organic chia seeds, stevia)
Lunch~3 cups organic baby spinach, few slices of red onion, dill pickle, avocado, bacon, 8 oz turkey burger, dijon mustard
pre workout snack~1/4 cup sweet potato, 1 turkey sausage
post workout snack~1/2 cup mashed sweet potato, 2 oz ground turkey
Dinner~leftover steak and a big green salad with homemade dressing
On another note, I'm really starting to enjoy finding and eating new paleo foods. Yesterday I grilled up some turkey burgers and put them on a bed of organic spinach leaves and topped them with slivers of red onion, dill pickle, bacon and avocado slices. I also baked up some homemade sweet potato fries. Mmmmm it was so good! Even the kids liked it.
Despite not feeling very well, the workout was great. We learned about dumbbell squat cleans. Wow, what looks like a fairly simple movement (and it is) is also a great workout. We did several of these and then learned all about pull-ups. Only a couple people in my group can do a regular pull-up, so we learned all sorts of modified ones. After doing several of these we did 5 rounds of dumbbell squat cleans and pull-ups. 12-8-6-4-2
After our workout was complete we talked more about nutrition and how several elements need to be in check for us to succeed as athletes. EXERCISE~NUTRITION~SLEEP~STRESS
If any of those are out of whack, then we fail to get where we need to be. My biggest issue will be the sleep part. I've been an insomniac since I was in grade school. It takes me a good hour to fall asleep on a good night and on a bad night it'll take several hours or I might never fall asleep. It doesn't matter how much I exercise, sleep doesn't come easy for me. Once I'm asleep I'm fine, it's just getting there that's the problem. I've tried EVERYTHING to fix this problem and nothing seems to work that well. We'll see how the sleep thing goes after a few months of CrossFit. I feel like I have the nutrition down. I like it, it's easy, I feel good eating it, I don't feel deprived.......hopefully it stays that way.
Tomorrow we are going to do the same workout we did day one. We're going to see if we can better our time. I didn't complete it because I was having a moment in the bathroom reliving my dinner, so as long as I can finish tomorrow, I'll be very happy. I can't believe bootcamp is just one workout away from being complete!!! It feels good to force myself out of my comfort zone and do something that really means something. It feels good to tell my kids what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I want them to learn that to change your life takes a lot of courage and effort, but it will pay off and be more rewarding than they could ever imagine. I want my family to see that just because we were raised to love to eat and not exercise doesn't mean that we can't change that about ourselves.
I'm going to have a cup of tea and maybe a square of dark chocolate while I catch up on some tv episodes before heading to bed.
What I ate today:
Breakfast~green smoothie(1 cup packed organic baby spinach, 5 large frozen strawberries, 1 cup of unsweetened vanilla almond milk, 1/2 scoop vanilla whey protein powder, 1 TBS organic chia seeds, stevia)
Lunch~3 cups organic baby spinach, few slices of red onion, dill pickle, avocado, bacon, 8 oz turkey burger, dijon mustard
pre workout snack~1/4 cup sweet potato, 1 turkey sausage
post workout snack~1/2 cup mashed sweet potato, 2 oz ground turkey
Dinner~leftover steak and a big green salad with homemade dressing
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