mellow workout

Still recovering from my weekend in Vegas! Pictures are above, of 1)The Bellagio Fountains, 2)me in front of Cesar's Palace, and 3)my friend Sara and I out at a lounge. It was a lot of fun, but not as much sleep and more alcohol than I needed.

I did today's body power class, 3 sets of 20 of:


pushups with PPU


renegade rows with 16k's


pistols


box step ups with 16k's (high box)


PW curls


PW pikes





The workout sounds hard, but I was tired. Probably due to my crazy weekend. I did sleep 12 hours last night, and will probably put in a long night of sleep tonight too.

CRAZYLegs

Hey! I ran in the Crazylegs on Saturday. It's the first time I ever participated in any sort of event like that. It was 5 miles. I ran 53 minutes. Felt good, refreshed, energized at the end. Had a beautiful relaxing bikeride on Saturday (only about 15 miles). Did this morning's workout on my own: 2-3 set, 20 reps of everything each set, going through like a circuit:

pushups (full, no resistance)
renegade rows (10 each side) 16 k
foot up lunges (10 each side) 16 k x 2
box step ups (10 each side) 16 k (held on opposite shoulder from starting leg)
PW pike-ups (used stability ball)
PW leg curls (used stability ball)

I made it through twice. I liked working with my core stability using the kettlebell on one shoulder with the step ups (used a stool just above knee height). I'm working with my form more than range of motion on the lunges, but I feel like I'm ready to start challenging myself there. Weather here is beautiful! I'm intoxicated by the sunshine!!! Be strong! Smile big!

Sleep IS the key

And I am not getting enough. I need to sleep more, I know it.

I struggled through two pathetic rounds of "Fight Gone Bad" this morning, with less than the prescribed weight, and then decided to call it quits. (FBG = 1 minute at each the C2 rower, box jumps, wall ball, barbell high pulls, and barbell push presses; no rest between exercises, 1 minute rest between rounds). Then I did 10 pushups and 30 situps and decided not to tax my body's resources anymore. Oh yeah, earlier this morning I did tabata squats (20 sec on/10 sec off for 8 sets or 4 min...rest is in the squat position, not standing).

I know I need more sleep. My quads are tender and painful to the touch today too. Owwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!

Have a great weekend!

Taking it easy

Did go to workout this morning after taking yesterday off. Still a little sore, but not as bad as yesterday. Today's workout was as many reps as possible going for 1 minute on each exercise. The exercises were:

cleans
presses
front squats
deadlifts
renegade rows
PW crawling

You were supposed to do 2-3 warm-up sets of each exercise before tackling the full minute set. Well. I didn't even come close to doing this workout. I knew it would kick me, and I'm feeling a little too sore and depleted at the moment, so I just did what I felt like of each exercise until I could go further. Took a break, went back to whatever I wanted to work with, and finished up in about 30 minutes. I can't even reconstruct what I did, it was that unstructured. When I'm more rested, I want to come back to it and see what I can do. Be strong!!

Owwww!!!!

Wow, I am soooo sore today! Beside the workout yesterday, I also messed around with the KBs for a while, and I don't think realized how much I did. I forgot to put that in my entry for yesterday...I also did 4x30 situps and 3x15 pushups. Everything is a little sore, and my quads are super, super sore.

Anyway, today, I decided to try to run the soreness out with 3 x 10min intervals. It didn't work. Oh well. My first interval felt good, the second was a little harder, and the third was a real struggle. Hopefully I'll be able to work out in the morning. :) Be strong!

BINGO

Today's workout was a bingo card, with different exercises on each square. The idea was to call out BINGO everytime we got it, and to do it as many ways as possible in 30min. I wanted to cover the whole card, but fell a bit short of 30 minutes. I finished it in about 35 minutes or so. I liked the format of the workout.

Its my birthday today, and I'm headed to Vegas for a bachelorette party. I'm pretty excited, except I'm pretty sure none of these ladies is going to work out with me while I'm there. Ah well. I'll do my best to get some mini-workouts in this weekend, nothing too intense (unless you count dancing!) I'll get some pics up when I get back!

Crossroads again

This morning's workout:
Line drills with several laps of running around the building. Then we did a bear crawl all the way around the building. Probably about 200 m. Then I did 150 thrusters - I started out with 2x30lb dumbbells, but it was too much. I moved down to 2x25lbs and it still took me a looooong time to finish.

I think I am still sleep deprived. I have NOT been sleeping much lately. So much is going on. SIL got in a car accident last night. I swear, its always one thing or another with her. She's OK, and the accident wasn't her fault.

Our evil corporate landlord wants to raise the rent AGAIN on this little slum we call home, SO I contacted a realtor and have started shopping for mortgages. If we're going to pay with blood for our living quarters, it might as well be for something that we'll get some return on. We've been pleasantly surprised by the selection of homes in our price range, as well as the mortgage programs offered to us so far.

Finally, I may be approaching a career crossroads. I MIGHT have some real answers about the whole career situation, which you guys have been familiar with, next week. I also got a very interesting, exciting, and unexpected offer for another career option today, which I would love to go after if I wasn't to committed and invested in career choice #1. So I need to do a lot of thinking and praying in the next week or so to figure out what I want to do.

Sometime next week, I think I may do this workout: 150 burpees, 150 swings, 150 thrusters, 150 wall ball. It might hurt. The goal will be to finish in under 60 minutes.

Here's something fun...my dear friend taught me how to knit this past weekend. Here's my first knitted work ever:

Still pushing...

Made it into the 6:30 again this morning... It might become a habit. We did 6 sets of:
Handstand hold (until fatigue)
PW rollouts (hold extended position for 5 counts, then do 5 reps regular pace)
Front Squats (hold bottom of position for 5 counts, then do 5 reps regular pace)
PW leg curls (hold starting position for 5 counts, then do 5 reps regular pace)

I used 2 20kgs for the front squats and on the hand stand, worked with unweighting my left hand then my right hand in preparation for one-armed. I didn't use resistance on the leg curls. I'm really working on getting better extention at my hips, and I know I'll just compensate in some way with weight and shorten my hip flexors, which means, no resistance for me for a while.

I went for a little run last night when I got home from work. I was so slow, even though I felt wound up with energy. I signed up to do the Crazylegs this Saturday. I've never done any sort of event before, so I think it will be a good experience for me. Be strong!!!

packing in the workouts

Again, I have a short workout week. I'm headed to Vegas for a friend's bachelorette party this weekend, so I need to push myself the days I have! I like this format though: a few days of hardcore double workouts, then a few days of R&R!

Yesterday did an IGOUGO workout pyramid (you do one rep, partner does one, you do 2, partner does 2, so on until failure, then back down the pyramid). I did:
pushups (made it to 11)
chins (made it to 6)
vertical jumps (made it to 10)
pw curls with 20# (made it to 9)

Today my chest and triceps are sore!

Then I did a 5-mile run, from MBG to the Sheraton and back. Nice easy pace, took about 50 min.

Today I did the FIT class run/slide/crawl that BBG described, plus similar core exercises.

Tonight I plan to do some yoga and balance work. All in all, a good day of work, and I feel great!

High Energy!

Took Monday off after the weekend and also had a late class. Today, almost didn't get myself into the gym for 6:30, but after a little tea and cereal felt a boost of energy and got over there. Did 4 sets of partnered: run-run, slide-slide, crawl-crawl for 5 minute intervals. The first two sets were with 1 partner, the second 2 were with groups of three (longer rest interval). I regretted eating before the workout, but did o.k., didn't get too intense. We finished with power wheel intervals 4 sets of 20 sec crawling-20 sec pike ups-20 sec rockers 30 sec rest. Ouch. I could really feel that my form was a lot weaker than it used to be, but I'll just do what I can do for now and appreciate change. Be strong!!!!

Foggy Monday morning

Foggy...in my head, and outside! My friend and I had way too much fun this weekend, leaving me very, very sleep-deprived...which made my workout this morning interesting. :)

50 wall ball
Run 1080 m
35 wall ball
Run 800 m
25 wall ball
Run 400 m

Even though I was tired, I thought I would burn through the workout at a good pace. I started out using the 15 lb med ball, but Adam came over and made me switch to the 20 lb ball...so that slowed me down a bit. It was a great workout though...and I'm glad that Adam made me use the 20. I was a little surprised I could do it, so I was really happy about that, even though it took me a lot longer.

Beautiful weekend!!

Finally! It was sunny and warm both days. Did 30 miles on my bike Saturday, and 40 on Sunday. Also raked out my backyard which is no small feet as it's not grass but prairie flowers and allergies prevented me from doing any work out there last year. So, cleared out a lot of dead brush, sawed down a couple over grown limbs from trees...A good workout in addition to the bikeride. Shoulders are sore and my thoracic spine feels stiff. I wonder if I have a good position for my seat or when I ride. Have to check with my bikeman.

back at it

Yesterday I did 2 workouts, to make up for my upcoming weekend. I'll be in FL, and my only activity will be applying sunscreen. Unless I can get the BF to run with me on the beach, that is :)

In the morning I did 4 one-mile repeats. First one was in 11:30 (ouch!). They got progressively faster, but my last one was only 9:45. Ah well. At least I ran. It was beautiful outside for once, too.

Then in the afternoon, I did FIT class. We did 100 yds of each:
traveling burpees
slides
crawl
crab walk
lunge walk
sprint
broad jumps.

I did it in a Power Sports Trainer, which was fun but hard. I also did it on the bike path, so got quite a few stares in my getup. Which is always amusing.

Today's workout is listed as a prison workout of Dball clean, lunge, press, walk to start. Starting at 10 reps, going to one rep. I'm hoping to use the 60#. There, now that I said that, I have to use the 60#!

Life is a rollercoaster

I went for a 3 mile run this afternoon. Medium-steady pace...didn't feel too great. I just didn't feel as strong as I normally do, but I didn't feel awful either.

I did feel pretty exhausted and a bit sore when I woke up this morning, and my hamstrings were really sore when I started running. Maybe I need more sleep, maybe its stress. Anyway, at least it's a beautiful day and the air and the sun felt good when I was running.

I had a great time with my Dad in town last weekend, and now this weekend, one of my dear friends is coming from the east coast to visit. She'll only be here Friday through Monday, but that's plenty of time for us to cause havoc and chaos in Austin. :D (Good havoc and chaos, for the record!) Be strong!

Why is life so hard?

Just whining. No workout yesterday---too wiped out from Monday and Tuesday (mostly due to lack of sleep on Monday night), and have a sinus headache that won't go away. Not excrutiating, just constant ache on the rigth side of my face. Shall I go on? I shall. At this point, it's been 36 hours. Asprin, tylenol, ibuprofen don't seem to make a dent in it. This is not new. It's been something I've experienced over the years since I was a teenager. Why mention it now? I'm just not going to pretend that it doesn't affect my training and fitness. For example. Nutrition this morning: steamed rice, tofu, chai with soy milk, hummus with spinach. A calming walk with my dog who has diarrhea (really bad). I contemplated taking a run before work this morning, but was running late (due to all the unscheduled cleaning). Once at work, had stressful conversation with co-worker who doesn't know she creates stress. Ate a bunch of chocolate M&Ms. That's it! I wish I had taken that run. Maybe it would have made my headache less. Maybe it would have decreased my ambient stress. Or, it might have made it all worse. On days like this, I can't tell anymore. I will get a massage tonight. That will help. Be strong!!

I'm (almost) a homeowner

I've been in Charlottesville home shopping, and just found out this morning that my offer on a townhouse has been accepted! So 3 very long hard days of searching for housing seems to have paid off. Pics of it are at the bottom of the post.

In those 3 days, I did little more than get into and out of cars, so my workouts were not so hot. But I got back to it today, doing Monday's BP workout with Robyn:

6X3 of one armed:

presses with 24k

cleans with 32k

squats with 20k

swings with 32k

The workout was tough, and I experimented with some heavier weights. I failed cleaning 36k, and failed pressing 28k. It was fun to lift heavy!

Also, its amazing how hard squats were with weight only on one side. So much core required!

How much does lack of sleep really affect you?

Today's workout:

8 x 320 m run (run a lap, rest, run a lap, rest, etc...)

75 burpees

75 pushups

25 burpees

4x 30 situps


I was able to run fast, burn through the burpees pretty fast, and did all 75 pushups with decent form. However, the pushups took me a loooooooong time. I went to bed about 11 last night and got up at 3 this morning to see my Dad off. I haven't been getting a lot of sleep lately, and I haven't been eating normally because of my Dad visiting.

Do you guys find that even though you feel good, a minor lack of sleep, or change in diet has a noticeable impact on your workouts? I know we talk about this stuff all the time, but aside from being slightly tired, I felt pretty darn good, so the pushup segment of the workout really surprised me.

Be strong!

Morning workouts??!!

So, when I was teaching the morning classes, I would get up at 5:00 at the lastest so that I was awake enough to motivate people and teach. Even then, I would think, I can't work out at this hour. It's too early for my body. Now it's the only time that really works for me, and so that's my new deal, get up, drink water, drink some more, head to the gym. Today was FIT. 90 sec. on, 30 off, groups of 3 people working through each set. Two people stayed at opposite ends of the room, while a third did a traveling exercise back and forth for reps then took the place of one of the others who traveled and then switched out with the third person and so on... The sets were:
Wall sit--running (5 lengths)
Skaters---lateral slides (3 lengths)
jumping jacks---crawling (one length)
mt.climbers---karaoke (3 times)
touchdowns---inchworm (1 length)

I did manage a pretty good pace, breathing and nausea were manageable. I don't feel like I overdid it, which sets me up well for the rest of the day. Nutrition---I love Acai juice with Energy Crunch cereal. Planning on steaming some pea pods and carrots and tossing with fresh tofu and some seasoned low sodium soy sauce. Don't know what else... Have a good one!

I love Mondays

Life must be good. Overall, in spite of the stress of trying to accomplish what I can in life, I think I'm pretty happy. I actually look forward to Monday mornings. I love my weekends, and my weeks. :)

This morning we did a fun barbell workout. I really enjoyed it.

We did a 5x5 of:
1. high pulls
2. muscle snatches
3. thrusters
4. good mornings

I worked with two guys, and we used 65lbs and burned through the workout in decent time. We each did a full round of high pulls through good mornings before the next person went. I think it was just the right pace and weight for me, because on the fifth snatch in the fifth round, I failed and had to rest for a bit before I tried it again.

After that, we all ran a mile. :)

Sunshine!!!

Hey! Out of town for the weekend, but did squeeze in a workout Friday morning before I left and had a great bikeride on Sunday when I got back. Worked out this morning too. Today was one-armed everything: cleans, presses, swings, front squats. 3 reps each side for 6 sets. Low overall reps so used a challenging weight, which for me these days is 24k for everything but the presses (20k). Took me a while to finish. My partner was using a much lighter weight so she finished much sooner. Nutrition was very bad over the weekend---too much cake. But I did manage to avoid anything that would make my stomach really act up which was difficult because my sister made homemade spaghetti sauce and it smelled and looked delicious. I wanted to say thanks K-smash and Burpees for the feedback about over-training, stress, and over-eating. It helps to be able to recognize it can be physically based (like PMS or not getting enough sleep) and not get all caught up in my head about not being able to manage the simplest things in my life!! Be strong!!

Bad K-smash, bad!!

I've been very, very bad these last couple days. My Dad is in town, so yesterday we went to a Persian buffet for lunch, and today we went to The Salt Lick, and got barbecue... And on top of that, I didn't work out Thursday or Friday.

SO....today after gorging on barbecue, we went for a nice 4 mile walk around Town Lake.
Then tonight, I did a card deck with burpees, pushups, KB squats, and KB swings. I used one 24kg KB for both the squats (held it infront of my chest) and the swings, and finished the whole deck in 29:45. I warmed up with 3x250m on the C2, and afterwards, I did 4x30 situps. Hopefully that undid a little of the damage from these last couple days. :)

dice workout

Today we tried a new workout tactic at the gym: a dice workout.
There were six exercises, and rolling one dice decided which exercise would be done.
Then, three more dice decided how many of the exercise were done (between 3 and 18 reps).
Exercises were: pushups, renegade rows, split squats, tucks, touchbacks, and deadlifts.

It was a fun workout! I was sweating hard by the end. I finished it off with 60 pw rollouts and some balance work.

I'm trying to get the energy up to do some sprints. Hasn't happened so far today; perhaps tomorrow!

traveling workout

Today's Body Power:
4 sets of each, as far as possible
lateral handstand walks
pole climb
snowboarder front lunges (used 16k's)
walking swings (used 28k)

As far as possible wasn't all that far today, but it was still a fun workout. I was supposed to do a heavy KB workout with robyn tonight, but had to have some (minor) excisional surgery, so I'm not allowed to lift for 10 days. I'm trying to figure out how that's going to work. I think 5 days might be a good compromise, but that's still stretching it!

Fun stuff on a Wednesday morning

Today was a complete deviation from my normal type of training, but I loved it.

We did clean and jerks with olympic bars and bumper plates. I worked with two guys. We started with a 45 lb bar, and added weight each set. I maxed out today at 115 lbs (total, including the bar). I didn't really count - we just kept taking turns. We threw in 3 or 4 400 m runs too...I was keeping pace with one of my partners, who is a firefighter, so it was a darn quick pace. Felt good.

I think this is going to become part of my normal training - I'll throw it in once or twice a month for now. :)

Snow storm.

Yes. All day today. Mid April. Wisconsin is lovely. Taking the day off after wiping myself out yesterday. I'm not too sore, but tired. It would be good to go for a swim, but I don't think I'll be doing that today. Extra sleep is my plan for tonight. I'm realizing (probably obvious to everyone but me until now) that when I'm tired or stressed I tend to overeat. Working on strategies to not give into that impulse. Did I mention it looks like a blizzard outside today. That sort of takes the wind out of my sails too. Loved those pictures K-Smash! Keep shining!

A little sore

Yup....a little sore today. I probably should have gone a little heavier on the deadlifts yesterday...but I feel slightly sore all over today anyway.

Today I worked out alone and did my own thing. I did two rounds of:

500 m on the C2 rower
20 thrusters (65 lbs the first time, 45 lbs the second time)
150 fwd + 150 bkwd with green jump rope
20 pushups
50 burpees
20 snatches (10 on each arm - 20kg the first round, 16 the second round)

I dropped the weight on the second round and forced myself to go faster. I definitely felt better the second round, probably because I was warmed up. After my workout, I went for a nice long walk, enjoyed the sunshine, and took pictures of baby ducks and wildflowers. :)

Ouch!

Made to FIT this morning. It was a self-paced workout---100 reps for stability, 150 for strength, 200 for power broken into however many sets of however many reps you choose to reach the total. The exercises were: burpees, touchdowns, crawling (reps translate to yards), box jumps, swings, log jumps. My partner and I worked together starting with burpees and touchdowns, alternating until we reached our total reps. I was initially aiming for 150s, but quickly discovered that I wouldn't finish within the set time (30 minutes) not by a long shot, so we took it down to 100s and I still had to stay late to finish. My partner was newer, and maybe I would have pushed harder with a more experienced partner, but I felt good, didn't get too stressed breathing wise, and I finished which is what mattered to me. I am really feeling it now. Sore!! It wil be a while before I have the energy for a FIT class like I used to! Stay strong!

Rebound time

Today was my first workout since last Wednesday morning. I worked out with the evening Crossfit class. It felt OK. Not great, not bad.

25 jumping pullups
50 deadlifts (did 95 lbs)
50 pushups
50 box jumps
50 KB swings (used 1x24kg)
50 KB clean and press (from the floor on each rep - used 2x12kg)
25 jumping pullups

I did it in 21:06 (I think). I know I can go heavier on swings, deadlifts, and clean & press, but I wasn't sure how I would feel, and it was also for time...so it was OK, I guess.

I have a cool HEY story. One of the guys working out tonight said that he must've been doing too much deadlift-type lifting at work today and his lower back hurt, so he couldn't do most of the workout. So I did a short HEY sequence with him, beginning and ending with supine bridge, and he said he felt much, much better. He was smiling and seemed pretty excited at how the pain in his lower back seemed to release. That made me very happy.

There's a lot of cool stuff out there, and I like learning as much as I possibly can...but I still always come back to MBG methods and HEY. Its so simple and so effective.

tired

I gave blood this morning, so I shouldn't have been surprised that I felt tired and lightheaded during most of my workout today! It still frustrated me though. Ah well.

I did 40's of bodyweight exercises:
downdog pushups off high box
pullups
pistols
one-legged deadlifts (I actually used 8k's for this one).

I had my bodyfat rechecked and am down nearly 3%, which I was pleasantly surprised to find. As long as I keep making more good choices than bad, I'll be on track to hit 25%BF in time to start residency.

Back for more...

Made it in for a workout this morning... Worked on my own, did the posted workout though. It was good!! K-bell presses, K-bell cleans, foot up lunges, and leg curls. The workout was for 60s, I used the 12ks. I made it through with 5 sets of 12s. On the foot up lunges I pushed to 3 sets of 20s. I used a smaller range of motion so that I kept my hips as vertical as possible. The leg curls killed me! Everything else felt very good. I'm hoping to make the 6:30 fit class...

another run

Today I did K-Smash's mile breakdown workout. It was the first time I've done it on a track, and it went well. I did the mile at 10-minute mile pace, 3/4 at 9-minute mile pace, 1/2 at 8-minute pace, and 1/4 at 7-minute pace. I feel so much better running this year than I did the same time last year. Too bad I won't be in town for Crazylegs; it would be fun to see if my time improved, because I bet it would.

Tomorrow for Easter I have a pretty sweet Easter Egg hunt workout planned for my FIT class. I can't wait!

Back to the gym

Did the noon class today. It was so good to treat myself on a day off to a good workout like that. I was careful not to overdo it. I know I could have pushed harder, but I'm glad I stayed within a range that wouldn't wipe me out. We did as many times through as possible in about 35 minutes: 15 reps per set:
down dog push ups, body rows, power wheel roll outs, followed by 150 jump rope forward and backwards or 150 running in place (high knees). I went through 3 times. That's it! Burpees has me looking into a getting a juicer...

Some time off

Its been a hard week. I have decided to take about 4 days off from training. I didn't work out today, and I think I am going to try to hold off completely at least until Monday. I had to go to the doctor today...he won't draw any conclusions until he sees my blood work. My Grandma died yesterday. The funeral is in Chicago on Tuesday. I don't think I'm going to make it. Between life stress and physical stress, I think time off is the best thing for me right now.

brrrr

Its ridiculously cold outside. So I did an indoor workout at the Shell:
3 miles, paced 11min, then 10min, then 9.5 minute.
40-30-20-10 reps of each exercise: situps, leg lifts, thinker(seconds)

The obstacle course I put together for class this morning looked so fun that I think I'll head to the gym this afternoon and try it. Being out of school and with little else to do gives me plenty of time to work out and plenty of energy for it. I love it!

And I just bought a juicer and I love it. This morning I made carrot, strawberry, apple, kale juice and it was delicious.

44 on 4/4--Not bad day, Birthday!

Haven't posted for a while, but have been still managing to get in my workouts. Today I'm 44! I did a birthday workout---4 sets of 4 exercises with 11 reps per set: one armed cleans (11 reps each arm), squats, push-ups, pistols (11 reps per leg). I tried to do regular 2-armed cleans but don't have the strength yet for the 20s and those are the only kettle bells I have. It's cold and snowy here today. Yesterday was warm enough to go for a bikeride, so I did. Came home to discover I had a bunch of mangled worms hanging from the bike frame (so gross). I've been working at just improving a little each week from the week before, and resisting the temptation to compare my fitness to a year and half ago, before the allergy drama started and blew my progress out of the water. Took a trapeze class on Sunday. Have lost some strength, but not as much as I feared and had an incredible time. I can feel that this is going to be a wonderful time in my life. It already is a wonderful time in my life---crappy weather, mangled worms, and all!

Bad day

Today's workout:
Run 1000 m
50 thrusters w/ 1x16kg KB (25 holding it in each hand) - used 16kg
30 KB swings - used 16kg
Run 800 m
50 thrusters - used 16kg for some, then 12kg
30 swings - used 16
Run 320 m
50 thrusters - used 16 again - broke it up into sets of 5
30 swings

Felt like shit.

The rest of this is a personal rant...please feel free to not read it if you don't want to read me whining like a baby...

I hate days like this...I feel weak, tired, and really frickin' pissed off at everyone. I need to be more disciplined about going to bed when I need to...at 9 or 10, even if it means I don't see DH. The alternative is for me to stay up until 11:30 to have some time to talk to him when he gets home from work, and then I spend the day being pissed off because he sleeps in until 9 or 10 and then works so late. I didn't sleep well at all last night, and this morning I felt so tired and so, so heavy. My weight is up ~3-4 lbs, and Adam says I look like I've lost a lot of weight recently, so not sure what's going on there. I am so, so tired, and so pissed off about it. My appetite is way off too. I'll eat if something is made already, but since I'm the only one that makes food, it means I'm not eating a lot. I feel like its too much effort to make anything. My heart rate is still pretty normal though - resting, about 55 bpm, and I'm not sore at all, so I don't think its over-training, actually. I have a doctor appointment tomorrow morning...I'm going to ask them to check my hemoglobin and ferritin levels to see if this new iron I've been taking is just not doing it. This supplement is by Shaklee, and for some reason they put calcium in the iron supplement...well, I know that calcium inhibits iron absorption, so it seems pretty counterintuitive. This whole thing could be stress too...I am really, really stressing out about our financial situation and this tight, tight budget we're on. All my clothes are way too big for me, and I can't afford to replace them. I want to get another job, but my hours at the gym are so all over the place, I doubt anyone would be willing to work with my schedule. I am so, so frustrated and feeling hopeless and angry today...hopefully this is the low point of the day. I hope you all have a much, much, much better day than me. :)

Dragging a bit

Not sure if its because my sleep pattern has been interrupted by family stuff, spring in Texas (new allergens in the air), or possibly not taking enough iron, but I am feeling a little tired. Well, maybe more than a little tired.

Anyway, yesterday's workout:

Five rounds for time of:
320 m run
21 burpees
12 pushups
Finished in about 20:20.

Today, two rounds of:
500 m row (on C2)
20 pushups
10 chins (90 deg with feet on 20" box)
20 renegade rows 2x12kg
10 OHS with 65 lbs

I wanted to do three rounds, but ran out of time because my client showed up early. I need to row more. It really kicked my butt.

I think its my sleep pattern being thrown off. I feel so out of it. I need to be more disciplined about going to bed early every night. That's my downfall. No discipline.

heavy kb workout

This was a killer 5X5 workout:
cleans with 20k's
presses with 20k's
snatches with 20k's (one arm at a time!)
squats with 20k's
swings with 20k's

I failed on presses and squats a couple of times, but I've figured out how not to fall forward during squats!

I also did an easy ~5mile run today, with 2 loops on Bascom Hill included. That took about an hour including panting breaks. It was nice and sunny today :)

As far as diet goes, I've been trying to cut out a lot of my dairy intake. We'll see how it makes me feel, but so far so good; my energy level has been quite good this past week.