So I went last Thursday to crossfit and was barely able to finish it. I was practically in tears from frustration. Not sure if it was all the lactic acid build up in my muscles or the fact that I was trying to do burpees with an extra 40 lbs on me, but I was about ready to quit right there. Other folks there told me to not get discouraged and I tried to keep that in mind as I went home and proceeded to sit hunched over my laptop for hours working. I slept for about an hour and then went to work for the whole day. I was sore, tired, grumpy and made others grumpy too. Ahhh....spreading the joy.
I did however get up Saturday morning and go to the gym (LA Fitness) and do a benchmark workout for about an hour. I was NOT at the prescribed weight for any of the exercises, but I did 3 rounds in an hour. Not the prescribed rounds, but hey we had stuff to get done that day.
I took Sunday off, but signed up for classes last night, tonight and Thursday night. Last night I struggled with chin ups, tonight I struggled with mountain climbers and Thursday I'll struggle with something else, but there are other things I don't struggle with. Like tonight I shoulder pressed 70lbs, more than once! I know there are things I have to work on on my own like double unders, wall squats and strengthening my wrists, but like someone said earlier - I was there! Showing up is half the battle. Once you're there, you might as well do the workouts right?
Right now, my shoulder aches, my knee and my hip ache and I'll wake up in the morning to 2 Aleve and some aches and pains, but my shoulders are getting definition, doing certain motions are getting easier and I can see a difference in my posture. I mean just the amount of sweat I am putting out after a workout means I'm doing something!
So I'm off to shower and the bed. With luck, some of this weight will start falling off so I have less to lug up in the air for chin ups or toes to the bar. Baby steps, right?
Here are the workouts I did for the last four visits to a gym:
Thursday:
After a warm up which for the life of me I cannot remember:
AMRAP in 10 minutes (should have been 5)
4 overhead squats (I used a 10lb weight)
6 Ring Dips or box dips
8 Burpees
I got about 5 rounds in
Saturday:
WU: 4 sets of 10 reps each of Sampson lunges, OH squats, situps and dips
WO: 5 RFT (rounds for time) of 800 m run, 30 kettleball swings (started with 15lbs, moved down to 8), 30 pull ups - I moved to a reverse row after the first round. I made 3 rounds in an hour.
Monday:
WU: 4 sets of 8-10 reps of reverse lunges with bar - I had 35# but could probably have done more, and chinups - as many as possible but at least 5 per set, I used 2 bands for this one.
WO: 3RFT of 8 front squats (35#) and 400m run. I finished in 10:56
Tuesday:
WU: 8 sets: 5,3,3,2,2,1,1,1 Shoulder presses - I did 55# from the floor for the 8 sets and then did a couple more at 65# and 70# from the rack.
WO: 4 RFT - 150 Mountain Climbers (MC) - I will be getting the hang of double unders so I only have 50 of DU's to do instead - 15 Wall Balls (WB) (I used 6# ball) and 10 toes to bar (T2B) - this I could get at least to waist level. I finished in 18:44 I think.
Tomorrow is a rest day. THANK GOD!
FxF
Annie
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Hump Day!
Surprisingly, I feel good considering I was feeling day one pain from last night's workout starting about 1 pm today. As long as I don't move, I'm fantastic! Trying to get out of the chair, the car or go to the bathroom....I am like my grandmother with the broken hip, using whatever I can to leverage myself up. Once I get going I'm alright, but changing from up to down or down to up...OMG!!!!!
Tonight, the rest of the group was just as sore as me. We had a different trainer today. We learned more about the different types of typical exercises that will be included in the various WOD's (that's 'workout of the day' in case you missed it). That was our warm up for tonight including box jumps, jump rope, kettle ball swings, wall balls and some different types of lifts with the weight bar. I will have to get a jump rope to practice my DU's - double unders. I love it when I get code words. So basically, not only do I have to jump rope (making all my jiggly parts jiggle a lot more), but I have to at the same time, work on my coordination to be able to pass the jump rope under my feet twice in one jump. And this is where the low copay on medical visits comes in handy.....
The WOD was:
10 to 1
Dead lifts
Power Push
I used a 35 lb bar and could zip through the dead lifts, but the overhead lifts, my arms are like jelly. I will definitely be a T-rex tomorrow....very little arm motion range.
After this week, I have to decide when I'll be fitting the classes into my schedule. Getting there is a struggle, but I am hoping as the days get longer, traffic will improve so it's not so bad. We'll see right?
Learning my lesson from last night, I ate at 4 so as to give enough time to digest before doing the workout. Of course I was starving when I finally got home from class and from taking Alex to his dad's. I was fairly good - scrambled eggs with wild onions, garlic powder and some cheese sprinkled in. DELICIOUS! The trainer tonight asked if we had any nutrition questions. She said that people tend to put the nutritional changes last when implementing health changes, when really they need to do that first. I mentally want to, but convincing that evil twin that craves a box of chocolate covered donuts at 1 am, that's gonna be a struggle!
Well off to bed...hopefully I'll be able to get out of bed in the morning....come on Day 2 pain!
FxF
Annie A.
Tonight, the rest of the group was just as sore as me. We had a different trainer today. We learned more about the different types of typical exercises that will be included in the various WOD's (that's 'workout of the day' in case you missed it). That was our warm up for tonight including box jumps, jump rope, kettle ball swings, wall balls and some different types of lifts with the weight bar. I will have to get a jump rope to practice my DU's - double unders. I love it when I get code words. So basically, not only do I have to jump rope (making all my jiggly parts jiggle a lot more), but I have to at the same time, work on my coordination to be able to pass the jump rope under my feet twice in one jump. And this is where the low copay on medical visits comes in handy.....
The WOD was:
10 to 1
Dead lifts
Power Push
I used a 35 lb bar and could zip through the dead lifts, but the overhead lifts, my arms are like jelly. I will definitely be a T-rex tomorrow....very little arm motion range.
After this week, I have to decide when I'll be fitting the classes into my schedule. Getting there is a struggle, but I am hoping as the days get longer, traffic will improve so it's not so bad. We'll see right?
Learning my lesson from last night, I ate at 4 so as to give enough time to digest before doing the workout. Of course I was starving when I finally got home from class and from taking Alex to his dad's. I was fairly good - scrambled eggs with wild onions, garlic powder and some cheese sprinkled in. DELICIOUS! The trainer tonight asked if we had any nutrition questions. She said that people tend to put the nutritional changes last when implementing health changes, when really they need to do that first. I mentally want to, but convincing that evil twin that craves a box of chocolate covered donuts at 1 am, that's gonna be a struggle!
Well off to bed...hopefully I'll be able to get out of bed in the morning....come on Day 2 pain!
FxF
Annie A.
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