Brilliant. We're into the second month. The major goals for this month are consistency three times per week at crossfit plus excellent food during the week and only a smallish cheat or two during the weekend. I continue to reserve the right to one night of drinking per week but need to keep it to one, and hopefully some weeks without.
Crossfit was wicked this morning. I was dreading it a little -- knowing I'd feel great when I got out but feeling out of shape and a bit intimidated by the idea of working hard this morning. When the alarm went off a bit before 6am this morning there was a wee bit of me that thought about how nice it would be to simply pretend I'd messed up my alarm and go back to sleep. Laying there, I thought a) you've felt like crap the last few days, and if you go you'll feel awesome, b) you've eaten badly the last few days and if you go you'll eat well, and c) you're dreading your work day and if you go you'll have energy and motivation for it.
What a freaking difference from the way I usually have to motivate myself to work out. "Go and you'll feel awesome and be really productive"? Yeah, cool.
Warm ups 2X15 situps, pullups, ring dips (green band, I think), kettleball swings (16kg), pushups.
WOD: 10 rounds for time. 15 deadlifts, 15 pushups. Time 21:20
Scaled to girl pushups and didn't make it even close to 15 in most of the rounds. half and half pushups and then girl pushups from rounds 5 on. 25kgs deadlifts, working on form. This is the first time I've had deadlifts in a workout. Being really careful about form and about keeping the lumbar curve as I could feel it in my back.
Major (if small and ridiculous) milestone: I got one 'real' pushup today! It's been a LONG time since I've been able to do that, if ever - I just get failure at the bottom. Very cool. Now to string a few more of those together. I can't wait to get off my knees.
Week 5. Day 1. March 2010
Week 4. Day 6-7. March 2010.
Oh, my. Being away from crossfit all week meant that my primary drive for good nutrition was absent over the weekend. We chose to have a quiet Saturday night rather than throw a Fuck You Winter party in commemoration of the first day of Spring, but then a mid-evening phone call got a friend of ours over for drinks, and then some more, and then some more. Sunday was a planned hike in the country, downgraded to a city hike, then shortened when we got a lunch invitation at his place from one of our favorite people, and then showed up to find several more friends and copious amounts of alcohol. And roast potatoes. Oh, the roast potatoes.
At 4am on Sunday eve/Monday morning I awoke to get some water, realized I was still drunk, and turned off my crossfit alarm set to go off in two hours.
In other news, I'm healthy again. So just trying to not beat myself up about the stupid weekend and just focus on showing up tomorrow.
Week 4. Day 5. March 2010
I was feeling so much better yesterday (outside of the box) and now this morning I'm massively sore throated again. I don't get it. This is not a normal cold, I can't tell what's happening. Will give it through the weekend and see how things go.
In other news, all the clean eating is working. Scale's at 136.2 this morning down from 141 originally, and my tummy looks purty. Consolation that I can still make progress in fat loss, at least a bit, while I'm stalled from getting fitter in the gym this week.
Date night. Enjoy your Friday guys.
Week 4. Day 3-4.
Frustrating. Still no crossfit this week. Tuesday night I was coughing all night and while staring at the ceiling at 3am trying again to get back to sleep turned off my 6am alarm, realizing I needed to give myself more rest. Thursday I showed up for the 7am class, got about five minutes into the WARMUP and was gasping for breath and covered in sweat, took a look at the mess of me, and told Brian I wasn't fit enough to be there. He's exiled me til Monday.
In good news, I've been awesome on food and took hour long walks with Wonder after work on Tues and Wed to soak up all the new sun. I cooked a great pork tenderloin on Wednesday and it's now one of my new favorite cuts of meat - ultra cheap, easy, lean. I grabbed the recipe from Mark's Daily Apple and will use it again.
Cooked up some turkey thighs with the rest of the peppers and olives and that was breakfast and lunch Thursday. That and some brazil nuts and cashews, and some salmon and broccoli later in the day was food. Good stuff.
So, boring updates. Can't wait to get back in the gym. How cool is it to be desperate to work out?
Week 4. Day 2. March 16 2010.
I'm feeling MUCH better today but when I just did my two burpees for burpee challenge as a little test of how much, it made me winded and shaky. Yeah, not healthy. I'm catching myself wondering if I can go to this evening's workout but reminding myself that to show up while ill-ish, with my brokedown immune system, is madness.
So I'm sitting in bed typing away at job applications and taking mini procrastination breaks checking out crossfit sites. My obsessive nature is in full force with crossfit, with a wedding dress search coming in close second. You'd think that an informal wedding (we're doing a backyard hog roast) would mean I'm NOT that bride doing endless ebay searches and picture searches for dresses, but I'm simply a wee bit obsessive. I was the same way about finding our apartment and that turned out awesome, so hopefully we'll just get repeat success with the dress and about fueling crossfit motivation.
Wonder's cooking tonight so I'll be non-paleo but still wheat and dairy free, and then I take over the rest of the week. I'm going full paleo the rest of the week just to make up for it psychologically.
LET ME BACK TO THE BOX, BODY!!!
100 day burpee challenge.
Burpees are far and away the hardest thing for me in crossfit. Doing six or seven is hard. Doing 60 between two people at last Friday's workout was only possible because my partner was fit as fuck - I think I did about 15 total over too many minutes. My aerobic conditioning blows, but the thing that really kills me is kicking my legs back to start the movement. I just don't have that strength, can't get my leg out at all. Throw in the normal pushups on the way down, girl pushups on the way up and you have one ugly, messed up burpee.
So then I see the 100 day burpee challenge. You know, do 1 on day 1, 2 on day 2, 27 on day 27, all the way to 100. I need it. I think I'd really, really hate it. So yeah, might have to do it.
Today's day 1. Day 1 is easy!
Wish me luck.
Here's The Rules according to CrossFit Santa Barbara:
1. Use Burgener's burpee standards for form (see examples below)
2. You can complete each day's burpees all at once, or broken up and done at different times throughout the day
3. If for some reason you miss a day, you have to make up all the missed burpees the following day
4. If you don't start the challenge with us today, you can "buy-in" at any time by doing ALL the missed day's burpees on your first day
5. Any burpees you complete during your regular workout can count towards that day’s Challenge burpees, if you want them to
5. Have fun doing burpees and getting stronger doing it!
In other news...
Our next door neighbor, who is usually so quiet we don't hear a thing, has had West Side Story on three or four times per day since last Thursday. He just started up again. Tonight, Tonight, indeed.
Week 4. Day 1. March 15 2010.
Woke up early and started type type typing away on the job application. The bad news is that my previously waning cold is now back hardest yet, complete with big stuffy head and a bit of fever. I'm hoping this will burn off so I can go to lunchtime crossfit. Stop it, illness! I'm on a schedule! "20 weeks of crossfit except all those times I didn't go because I was ill" is a bit less exciting...
Update: By around noon I was not only not better, I was dizzy and fevery and feeling weak. Blergh. I completed the job application but cut out any idea of going in for the lunch and evening workout or the next day's 7am workout. I also let Wonder know I wasn't going to make the grocery run to make dinner for our friend Ian this evening. We ended up with Thai takeout (probably higher fat than I needed, but I didn't eat much of it and didn't eat any rice/bread/grains, only meat and veggies) and I crashed and left the boys to it around 9:30.
Food:
Brazil nuts (5)
Home-made lentil soup. Lentils, chickpeas, tomatoes and loads of fresh spinach. X2, breakfast and lunch.
A couple of sips of Wonder's beer. It looked so good.
Thai chicken, prawns, and broccoli.
This ain't exactly the ultra clean eating I was hoping for, but it's not bad. Home made fresh lentil soup is fairly defendable comfort food and a fuck of a lot better than the ice cream and pasta I was craving.
I did do my one burpee for burpee challenge in the morning. Heh.
To feeling better tomorrow --
Inspiration of the Day...
... for finishing applications, not fer crossfit. Although I could happily take this to the box.
All the way from 2009, on repeat while I get this shit in.
http://hypem.com/track/771667/Estelle+-+American+Boy+Feat+Kanye+West
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