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Last week was a great week. It is amazing the impact that eliminating stress can have on the body in such an immediate way! Sleep is deeper. I want to workout again. I’m not having the junk food cravings so … Continue reading
This morning I did my first SEALFit WOD. I love to do extra challenging wods to test myself not just physically but mentally. I like to see if I can finish, how hard I can push myself, and what kind of effect it has on me.
Today’s SEALFit WOD was:
200 m run, 20 pull ups
400 m run, 20 pull ups, 50 push ups
800 m run, 20 pull ups, 50 push ups, 75 sit-ups
1 mile run, 20 pull ups, 50 push ups, 75 sit-ups, 100 squats
800 m run, 20 pull ups, 50 push ups, 75 sit-ups
400 m run, 20 pull ups, 50 push ups
200 m run
It took me 66:12 to finish. The hardest part was the push ups!! Everything else was easy in comparison!! I would definitely do this WOD again!!
The Holiday season was busy!! I was without a car for over a week right before Christmas, so decided to take some time off the gym and being a food nazi. It was much needed. Then the week after Christmas we took a family trip to North Carolina to go skiing and snowboarding. My husband and kids had never done either. I skied as a young adult, but its been at least 19 years. The skiing came right back to me and was great. None of us had ever snowboarded, so that was new to us all. It was scary and hard at first, but after an hour lesson I started to get the hang of it and felt good going downhill – I even got down several times without falling and had learned how to slow down, speed up, and turn left and right. It was super fun, and quite the workout!!!
I got back on track with eating Ketogenically yesterday and am going through the adjustments again – yuck! But, I’m glad to be back on track because I was really getting sick of eating so much junk and frustrated at the cravings that were coming on!
Today was Row 2000 meters for time, rest 5 minutes, and then:
5 rounds for time of:
10 pull ups
10 sit ups
10 knees to elbows
10 jumping squats
I finished the row in 8:51 (oh that rowing sucked!!!!! its hell on short people, for sure!)
I finished the total workou in 26:59, which means my 5 rounds portion was a total of 13:08.
Posted in Jumping Squats, Knees to Elbows, Pull ups, Rowing, Sit ups
Morning Run – 3.75 miles @ 9:20 pace! GREAT RUN!!
My left arm/shoulder is bothering me, so I decided to skip the Shoulder Press progressions today. I don’t want to max out and make things worse. So, instead I put together another short WOD focusing on things I’ll be doing this weekend.
10, 8, 6, 4, 2 reps of:
Ground to Overhead 85#
Burpee Pull ups (7.5′ bar)
Double Unders (2x reps)
Walking Overhead Plate Carry (25# – 20 steps each time)
30″ Box Jumps
I finished in 22 minutes and some odd seconds. It was a good workout, except I should have done more double unders instead of 2x reps and I should have done walking lunges or something harder with the plate overhead. I’m starting to kinda like the burpee pull ups. I’m slow as molasses because I have to focus before I jump so high but I never waste any jumps and get it every time, so that is pretty cool and makes me feel super strong!! I about lost it on a couple of box jumps because one foot hit the stack of bumper plates wrong and shifted them forward – that would have hurt lots if I had fallen!! I’m going to have to really be super careful with those – jumping up on 30″ is HARD for someone so short!!!
When I was done with that I did an easy 10 minute row, and then 100 sit ups.
For the last couple of days I’ve been on basically a carb-binge. I’m not sure why, but starting Thursday I just had some massive cravings for sugar and just went with it. I don’t know what caused it, but I was stressing out and just didn’t feel like fighting it. Its been 2 months solid of low-carbing and this was the first time I really felt this kind of cravings. Stress + cravings = hard to deal with!
Today I did:
Back Squats
5 @ 100#
5 @ 110#
10 @ 115#
then I did Angie: 100 pull ups, 100 push ups, 100 sit ups, 100 squats. I believe I finished around 22 minutes, but the Coach turned off the clock to reset it for the next class when I was halfway through my sit ups, and he wasn’t sure what the time on it was at and I also missed time going to grab a timer to finish timing. That really sucked too because I was hoping to beat my previous PR of 23:01. Now I have no idea if I actually beat my PR or not. Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to do it again soon!
Posted in Air Squats, Back Squat, Pull ups, Push Ups, Sit ups
It was Jill’s 42nd Birthday today, so we put together a great WOD!
2 rounds of 21 exercises (21 reps each, except on the run):
1. Air Squats
2. Sledge Hammer
3. Pull ups
4. Sit ups
5. Superman
6. Burpees
7. Walking Lunges
8. Wood Chop
9. Push ups
10. Box Jumps
11. Push Press 45#
12. KB Swings 35#
13. Back Squat 45#
14. Turkish Get ups 10#
15. Wall Ball 10lb
16. SDHP 45#
17. Tire flips
18. Double Unders
19. Knees To Elbows
20. Hanging Power Snatches 45#
21. Run 200 m
It took me 1:07:10 to finish the entire thing twice! YIKES!!!!!
I was pretty tore up from Murph on Sunday, so I took yesterday as a total rest day. It was much needed. I thought I was ready today to WOD again, but it didn’t go so well. I knew as soon as I began my 12 deadlifts at 50% of my 1 rep max that it wasn’t going to be a good day. Usually that weight is pretty darn easy, but it felt heavy! Heavy on the first set, at 50%, is NOT a good sign. I got to the set of 4 at 205# and managed two of them. That was it. I wasn’t getting much other weight up past that unless I had another half hour to slowly get through it, which I didn’t have if I wanted to do the Metcon.
The Metcon was:
30-25-20-15-10-5 rep rounds of:
Sumo Deadlift High Pull (95#/65#)
Ab-Mat Sit-ups (feet anchored under dumbbells)
Push-ups, release hands from floor at the bottom
I went with the 65# and finished in 20:44 and felt miserable. No energy. Major CRASH. I wondered what would happen this week after a very hard week with heavy weights and the vest, along with Murph on Sunday wearing that vest. I found out….apparently I was seriously depleted of any glycogen. So, I went home and carbed up for a few hours. Since I wasn’t prepared to do that I didn’t eat the greatest things. I had pizza, pepsi throwback, and some granola cereal with milk. Let’s see how I do tomorrow with a little glycogen in my system. (I don’t like the carb ups….I feel bloated and gross after)
