5/4/11 High weight: 2155/4/12 Low weight: 133.5
Current: Deacrease body fat, increase muscle mass
1 marathon done
1 century ride done
Currently doing CrossFit due to many running injuries
Goal: Do the best I can be at whatever I do.
Other stuff:
This is turning into a life blog. A place where I learn how to grow from my past experiences. I place where I learn how to garden, become more self sufficient, raise chickens, and become more aware of how our food got to our table.
2011: First garden
2012: First time growing seedlings, chickens, and ducks.
I was crabby.
*General Warm-Up* SWOD:
Snatch Balance:
Warm-Up w/ 60%x5, 65%x5, 70%x5, 75%x5 (No Rest)
Snatch Balance 3x5 Reps @ 80% 1RM-New 5RM
Followed by Warm Up w/
65%x4 Snatch Pull to Knee, Mid-Thigh, Shrug, Hang Snatch (thru 75%), Full Snatch (starting @ 80%), 70%x4, 75%x4, 80%x4 (No Rest) Snatch 3x4 @ 85%80% 1RM
Dropped the bar on myself somehow and it landed on the front of my ankle. My foot was numb for a bit and the area was pretty sore. It is fine now.
Also, got very shaky towards the end of these and just didn’t have the umph to get 85% over my head so I had to back down to 80%.
WOD
CCF Quincey
12-9-6-3-1 Rep Rounds For Time of:
Deadlift #225/155 (125#)
Ring Rows
Toes-to-Bar (Almost knees to elbows)
8:50
My knees to elbows are getting much better. I think I have the movement down. Now it is getting the power and the strength into it.
*General Warm-Up* SWOD: Warm-Ups w/
50%x5: 60#
60%x5, 70#
70%x5, 80#
75%x3, 85#
80%x3, 90#
85%x3, 100 #
Back Squat 3x3 @ 90% 1RM-3 RM
105# X 3 (25# PR)
105# X 3 Failed on 3rd rep. Got stuck under the bar at the bottom. Very scary!
100# X 3 Failed on the 3rd rep. Had spotters to help me out.
WOD
3 ME For Total Time of:
Kettlebell Hold in Hang #70/53 (each hand)
Rig Hang
Ring Hold in Upward Extension
Cash Out—
50 Burpees AFAP
Felt weak on the squats tonight. Coach said my form wasn’t very good. Kept folding at the bottom. I don’t feel like we have worked on squats very much…. I guess this is the summer of squat/dead/bench. Hoping so!
The things son says…
“Here I was blazing through girls like they are my clothes and he didn’t even have one girlfriend”
We were talking about how he hooked his friend up with a girl……
It is here.
I tried it on. I will have to sew some adjustments to the top. Otherwise it fits pretty well.
I didn’t feel like a total blowfish.
Husband says I didn’t look at all like a blowfish
Food
I am struggling. Not in the classic way. I have been eating well after I got back on track last week.
I am struggling to figure out how to not get obsessive.
Also, it seems like 80% of the things that I eat that aren’t Whole30 approved cause my gut to instantly blow up. Once this happens it starts the obsessive cycle over again.
Example: For supper we grilled veggies in foil. The whole foil packet had approx. 2T of organic butter. We had that with Trader Joes uncured basil pesto brats. No bun. Within 15 minutes I was miserable. So instantly my stupid brain starts down the restriction/obsessive path.
I don’t want to live like this. Being obsessed with what will or won’t make me feel like shit. What will or won’t stop my weight loss progress.
I have a bikini coming in the mail to me this week. I don’t want to look like a blow fish in it.
Considering sticking to Whole30 again except for a party this weekend and the weekend after the 4th. A) I feel best. B) I lost weight. Yet, I feel trapped in the restriction.
Ugh…. So stupid yet I can’t seem to shake it.
Festus is growing and doing better then I ever thought he would!
Okay, so why is Krippner reading Indian newspapers? Well — he’s just weird, okay?
Anyway, ran into this item about more evidence that pests are becoming immune to BT corn and cotton, which are genetically engineered to produce poisons made by Bacillus Thuringiensis (BT), a naturally occurring pesticide.
Analysis of 77 different studies in 8 countries resulted in well documented cases of five major pests that have developed resistance to BT crops as of 2010.
That’s the basic problem with all of these GM crops; they ignore how nature works. Yes, they’ll work for a time, but sooner or later (usually sooner) good old fashioned evolution will produce new pests that are immune to the GM solutions.
The only way to deal with pests successfully over the long term is to break the reproduction cycle through biodiversity. You don’t put all your eggs in one basket. But we’ve lost so much genetic diversity that all it would take would be one very virulent plant pathogen attacking one of our core crops like corn, wheat or soy, and we’d be in deep, deep trouble.
And you’d think we’d have learned our lesson from numerous famines, plagues and infestations in the past (think Irish potato famine, for example). But obviously we haven’t.
(via impulsivefarmer)
SWOD
Strict Press 3-3-1-1-1-1-1-1
Ended at 70#. 10# PR!
Bench Press 5-5-5
First time doing these. Made it to 50 (did 55 but failed on the 5th rep)
WOD
“The Wrestler Complex”
20’ AMRAP of:
1 Plyo Push-Up #45/25 into (knees)
1 Burpee Box Jump 24/20” (Burpee + box jump)
5 Pull-Ups (1” blue)
5 Ring Dips (3/4” red)
10 Air Squats
20 Sit-Ups (crunch)
8 + 15
Happy with my performance. Stayed on it.
On the floor in between these two is a little bug. These pictures are 5 minutes apart. They just can not seem to take their eyes off of it!
Finally, I am not feeling like a fat cow anymore. Last weekend left me so bloated and yucky feeling!
Mental note: fall to the bottom of the canyon and it will take a while to climb out. Getting out is possible though!
Let every other weekend drinking commence (1 night only). This weekend = off.
WOD
Hang Squat Cleans
5 X 60,65,70,75%
= 55,60,60,65,70
Squat cleans 3X5 (new 5RM)
75#
I actually did power cleans for the middle set because I have squat cleans so much and they wear me out! They weren’t pretty and they weren’t unbroken.
I need to take a day and work on them at lower weights and get more comfortable with the movement. Especially since the coach now requires all cleans and snatches be full depth every time :(
Deadlifts
5 X 60,65,70,75%
105, 110, 120, 125
3X5 (80%) supposed to be 135, I did 145,155, and 160
I liked just lifting today. I could have done the workout that everyone did yesterday but didn’t feel like it. Since it is Thursday and open gym I could do what I wanted
Last night at Beginner’s Luck running group I got to run with a lady who was probaly in her 50’s.
She quit smoking 15 months ago and is now tackling her weight. She is at 250#.
It felt amazing to be with her and see her push. It reminded me of me in those first few months of running when I started in the summer of 2011 at 215#.
I told her that I started where she was at. That I walked a mile one time before starting the class and it was the hardest thing I had done in years. That I knew where she was at and how hard she was working. I reminded her that it is worth it. LIVING is worth it. Not dying at each flight of steps is worth it!
I really hope I get to keep seeing her and her progress!
GST baby trap edition!
I never thought I would have any definition in my arms/shoulders!
Crashing and burning
I like to think I eat pretty well. I do.
last weekend I drank and drank and drank and because I drank too much I ate pizza and ice cream and subway.
Now my sugar cravings are through the roof. All i want is cookies and cake and ice cream and chocolate and more of it all.
I find it amazing that having the white flour and sugar for a total of 3 meals have totally derailed all work I have been doing!!
I didn’t make it to the gym this morning. I still have this crazy chest congestion where I am left acting like a 3 pack a day smoker every morning for about the first hour. I also am feeling generally more tired then normal.
Tonight I am volunteering with a local beginners running group. This is where I started 2 summers ago and I love seeing the people who were in the same boat as i was working their asses off trying to get better!
