The blizzard was OK, not monumental. I got one day of couch time. Good, but I was kinda hoping for two. It warmed up at the end of the storm so it was more like rain, and the snow was so heavy! I was really glad all I had to do was uncover my car and the area around it. Even with just that, my back was tired. I was going to go to crossfit yesterday, but my back wasn't into it. I thought I might regret it because yesterday was not a bad WOD, but then today was just fine!
We started with back squats in sets of 5. I did one set at 65 pounds and then four at 85 pounds. On the first one I kept thinking "I can lift way more than this!" But by the last one I was like "no I can't." 5 is a lot!
WOD:
1000 meter row
100 jump ropes
50 sit ups
25 toes to bar (I did knees to chest)
50 sit ups
100 jump ropes
1000 meter row
my time 20 min 28 sec
I think tomorrow I'm going to feel like someone punched me in the stomach.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Monday, March 13, 2017
Blizzard!
We're expecting a blizzard tomorrow! It will be our first really big storm this year, though I guess we did have one other blizzard already. Work is already closed, which I'm pretty excited about. The storm is going to go all day tomorrow, and I don't have any appointments on Wednesday, so I may get two days at home! I will have to do work, but whatever, it will be on the couch in my jammies with the cats.
I really didn't want to go to crossfit today because it was full of bar facing burpees, but given that I may be snowed in for the next two days, I decided I had to. Everyone else had the same idea, the place was packed! Which meant that there wasn't enough room to be jumping over bars, so it was just burpees. Which still sucked.
We started with deadlifts, 5 sets of 3. I didn't want to hurt myself since I'm just getting back into things, so I kept it light. I started with 105 pounds for the first round. Then I did 125 for the next two. For the last two I did 130. Not bad, but less than I have done.
WOD: 3 rounds
8 burpees
8 power snatches (I lifted 45 pounds)
8 burpees
16 kettlebell swings
my time 12 min 12 sec
The first round I used the second smallest kettle bell, and it nearly killed me. For the second and third rounds I used the smallest kettle bell. On the second round I also accidentally skipped the burpees between the power snatches and kettle bell swings, and so then I had to do 16 in a row. Brutal.
I really didn't want to go to crossfit today because it was full of bar facing burpees, but given that I may be snowed in for the next two days, I decided I had to. Everyone else had the same idea, the place was packed! Which meant that there wasn't enough room to be jumping over bars, so it was just burpees. Which still sucked.
We started with deadlifts, 5 sets of 3. I didn't want to hurt myself since I'm just getting back into things, so I kept it light. I started with 105 pounds for the first round. Then I did 125 for the next two. For the last two I did 130. Not bad, but less than I have done.
WOD: 3 rounds
8 burpees
8 power snatches (I lifted 45 pounds)
8 burpees
16 kettlebell swings
my time 12 min 12 sec
The first round I used the second smallest kettle bell, and it nearly killed me. For the second and third rounds I used the smallest kettle bell. On the second round I also accidentally skipped the burpees between the power snatches and kettle bell swings, and so then I had to do 16 in a row. Brutal.
Friday, March 10, 2017
Flu
I can't believe it's been three weeks since I went to crossfit! I don't know why long weekends often go badly for me, but President's Day weekend started out with a migraine on Sat night. Monday I was still feeling woozy, though I did go climbing. I went to work on Tuesday, but it was obvious to me by that point that it wasn't still the migraine. I went home at noon that day and was sick for a whole week! I'm pretty sure it was the flu, even though I had my flu shot. I had a fever (and I never get a fever), my whole body hurt, head ache, stuffy nose, sore throat. Poor me. After being sick for a week, it took me another week to feel like normal again. And then last week I was just lazy :) Today I had to get back to crossfit.
It actually felt really good to be working out again. Much as I think I like sitting on the couch eating and binge watching, we started doing jumping jacks and my body was happy about it! The WOD was a confusing one, basically if you finished three rounds of pull ups and squat snatches in 4 minutes then you got to do 3 more rounds. I did two rounds and then was seeing spots out of my left eye and decided that was enough.
WOD: Prior to 8 min complete:
3 rounds of
6 chest to bar pull ups
6 squat snatches (I lifted 35 pounds)
3 rounds of
7 chest to bar pull ups
5 squat snatches
There was more after that, but it took me 8 minutes and about 10 seconds to do the 6 rounds and, as I mentioned, I was seeing spots.
In other news, I'm planning a vacation! I'm planning a trip to Africa. I want to go to Tanzania on safari. I found one today that's a bike tour and safari, it mixes biking and riding around looking at the animals. I'm a little nervous that I would have a hard time keeping up, and kind of psyched about the idea because it's a little different. There's also a tour of a coffee plantation. I think given the combo of activities, I might be able to get my brother and his girlfriend to come - coffee, biking and travel are some of their favorite activities. You can do an optional balloon ride over the Serengeti which is very expensive but might be my birthday present to myself (since I'm gonna be old this July). Most of the nights are camping, with a couple sleeping in an African igloo! And, unlike the Inca Trail, there's a sag car if you can't bike :) I haven't really biked in years, I did 3 miles on the stationary bike to think about it.
I hope this isn't one of those ideas that seems good until you are doing it.
It actually felt really good to be working out again. Much as I think I like sitting on the couch eating and binge watching, we started doing jumping jacks and my body was happy about it! The WOD was a confusing one, basically if you finished three rounds of pull ups and squat snatches in 4 minutes then you got to do 3 more rounds. I did two rounds and then was seeing spots out of my left eye and decided that was enough.
WOD: Prior to 8 min complete:
3 rounds of
6 chest to bar pull ups
6 squat snatches (I lifted 35 pounds)
3 rounds of
7 chest to bar pull ups
5 squat snatches
There was more after that, but it took me 8 minutes and about 10 seconds to do the 6 rounds and, as I mentioned, I was seeing spots.
In other news, I'm planning a vacation! I'm planning a trip to Africa. I want to go to Tanzania on safari. I found one today that's a bike tour and safari, it mixes biking and riding around looking at the animals. I'm a little nervous that I would have a hard time keeping up, and kind of psyched about the idea because it's a little different. There's also a tour of a coffee plantation. I think given the combo of activities, I might be able to get my brother and his girlfriend to come - coffee, biking and travel are some of their favorite activities. You can do an optional balloon ride over the Serengeti which is very expensive but might be my birthday present to myself (since I'm gonna be old this July). Most of the nights are camping, with a couple sleeping in an African igloo! And, unlike the Inca Trail, there's a sag car if you can't bike :) I haven't really biked in years, I did 3 miles on the stationary bike to think about it.
I hope this isn't one of those ideas that seems good until you are doing it.
Friday, February 17, 2017
clean and jerk
Today's workout had a lot of lifting, which I've decided is the kind of workout that I prefer. Not that I can lift a ton, but I'm getting better at the technique and I want to build up muscle. It's supposed to help your metabolism, though I don't see any signs of that working.
We started with squat cleans, every minute on the minute for 10 minute. For the first 5 minutes you did 3 lifts, and for the second 5 minutes you did 2. I got up to 70 pounds. I tried to do 75, but failed. IDK what my deal was with 75, I think I kind of freaked out. I went back down to 70 and couldn't do it, but one of the coaches reminded me how, and I got it! I did do 70 pounds like 6 times, so that's something.
WOD:
10 clean and jerk (I lifted 50 pounds)
200 jumps on the jumprope
8 clean and jerk
160 jumps
6 clean and jerk
120 jumps
4 clean and jerk
80 jumps
2 clean and jerk
40 jumps
my time 12 min 22 sec
I like clean and jerks. I probably should have lifted a little more, though that's actually a lot of lifts. They're cool be cause you lift, get under the bar and lift some more. Double knee bending.
This weekend is a long weekend! I'm planning to start my big paper for class. Exciting, I know how to live.
We started with squat cleans, every minute on the minute for 10 minute. For the first 5 minutes you did 3 lifts, and for the second 5 minutes you did 2. I got up to 70 pounds. I tried to do 75, but failed. IDK what my deal was with 75, I think I kind of freaked out. I went back down to 70 and couldn't do it, but one of the coaches reminded me how, and I got it! I did do 70 pounds like 6 times, so that's something.
WOD:
10 clean and jerk (I lifted 50 pounds)
200 jumps on the jumprope
8 clean and jerk
160 jumps
6 clean and jerk
120 jumps
4 clean and jerk
80 jumps
2 clean and jerk
40 jumps
my time 12 min 22 sec
I like clean and jerks. I probably should have lifted a little more, though that's actually a lot of lifts. They're cool be cause you lift, get under the bar and lift some more. Double knee bending.
This weekend is a long weekend! I'm planning to start my big paper for class. Exciting, I know how to live.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Lots 'o squats
We started the workout today with 4 sets of 5 back squats. That's a lot of squats! I did 80 pound. I could have done more for the first three, but not for the last one. 20 squats at 80 pounds is pretty impressive!
WOD: 6 rounds
5 snatches (I lifted 35 pounds)
7 overhead squats
9 box jumps (there weren't any soft boxes, so I stepped)
my time:11:11
It was actually an easier workout today. We did some tabata warm ups. All the squats, and then the shortish wod. I was wishing for a soft box so I could jump. I gotta get over the fear of jumping.
We had another snow storm on Sunday into Monday. Sadly, it ended early enough that we were still able to go to work, just a delayed opening at 10 am. This is the difficult time of year, with the first deadlines. Plus, I have a ton to do with my classes. I'm a little cranky. I know I'll be glad I did two classes come April, but now it kind of sucks.
WOD: 6 rounds
5 snatches (I lifted 35 pounds)
7 overhead squats
9 box jumps (there weren't any soft boxes, so I stepped)
my time:11:11
It was actually an easier workout today. We did some tabata warm ups. All the squats, and then the shortish wod. I was wishing for a soft box so I could jump. I gotta get over the fear of jumping.
We had another snow storm on Sunday into Monday. Sadly, it ended early enough that we were still able to go to work, just a delayed opening at 10 am. This is the difficult time of year, with the first deadlines. Plus, I have a ton to do with my classes. I'm a little cranky. I know I'll be glad I did two classes come April, but now it kind of sucks.
Friday, February 10, 2017
First Snow of the Season
We finally had a real snow storm. Apparently it was officially a blizzard. What was nice about it was that it started right at the morning commute and went all day, so they had to give us a snow day! Yay! I spent most of it working and doing work for my class, which wasn't that exciting, but at least I got to do it in my jams. I did snow shoe around the block, about 2/3 mile, which was fun, and really hard work! Glad I didn't try to break a trail up Cannon! They're talking about maybe another storm this weekend too.
I was such a bad crossfitter this week. I brought my gym bag in to work Monday-Wednesday, but I just didn't feel like hitting the gym. Today I knew I had to go, we'll see if I can motivate for tomorrow as well. We started with front squats, in sets of 5. I got up to 75 pounds with pretty good form for two rounds and then did 80 pounds for one round with so-so form.
WOD: 5 rounds
15 calories rowing (this take about 1 min 15 sec for me)
12 deadlifts (I lifted 35 pounds)
9 hang squat cleans
6 thrusters
my time: unknown
I think it took me about 3 and a half minutes per round, so like 18 and change for the whole thing. I was beat at the end, it was a tough one, and I just forgot what time it was when I looked at the clock! I wound up on a rower between two guys who were literally rowing twice as fast as me. Wow.
I was such a bad crossfitter this week. I brought my gym bag in to work Monday-Wednesday, but I just didn't feel like hitting the gym. Today I knew I had to go, we'll see if I can motivate for tomorrow as well. We started with front squats, in sets of 5. I got up to 75 pounds with pretty good form for two rounds and then did 80 pounds for one round with so-so form.
WOD: 5 rounds
15 calories rowing (this take about 1 min 15 sec for me)
12 deadlifts (I lifted 35 pounds)
9 hang squat cleans
6 thrusters
my time: unknown
I think it took me about 3 and a half minutes per round, so like 18 and change for the whole thing. I was beat at the end, it was a tough one, and I just forgot what time it was when I looked at the clock! I wound up on a rower between two guys who were literally rowing twice as fast as me. Wow.
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Back to Rowing
Today had a ton of rowing, which I was glad about when I read the WOD, and a little less so when actually rowing. I probably rowed for about 18 minutes. A bunch of that time I imagined I was in Head of the Charles Regatta, and my boat was winning. :) We warmed up with 500 meters of rowing and some stretches.
WOD:
1000 meters rowing
20 overhead squats (I lifted 35 pounds)
30 kettlebell swings (I used the smallest one)
10 burpee box jumps (no foam boxes, so I stepped)
1000 meters rowing
10 burpee box jumps
30 kettlebell swings
20 overhead squats
1000 meters rowing
my time: 27 min 22 sec
That was a long workout!
I got my paper back from my research class, I had put a ton of work into it because it can be the start of my dissertation if it's done well. My instructor found one typo, and other than that she just gave me a 100. I'm pretty sure it's not actually that good, but whatever, I'll take it. As long as whoever is my advisor also accepts the thing.
WOD:
1000 meters rowing
20 overhead squats (I lifted 35 pounds)
30 kettlebell swings (I used the smallest one)
10 burpee box jumps (no foam boxes, so I stepped)
1000 meters rowing
10 burpee box jumps
30 kettlebell swings
20 overhead squats
1000 meters rowing
my time: 27 min 22 sec
That was a long workout!
I got my paper back from my research class, I had put a ton of work into it because it can be the start of my dissertation if it's done well. My instructor found one typo, and other than that she just gave me a 100. I'm pretty sure it's not actually that good, but whatever, I'll take it. As long as whoever is my advisor also accepts the thing.
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