One More Thing

Just because it's still funny!

Life Update

So I am officially done with winter semester! (as of Thursday evening) YAY!  I love being done with school.  Mainly for that instant stress relief.  Ever since school got out things have been amazing too!

After I finished my last test Thursday night,  which I'm pretty confident I aced ;], I zipped over to my place grabbed some things and then headed over to Midway to meet the family!  I love little family vacations!  I had a great time with the WHOLE family (a rarity these days for us all to be together).  Mike and Laci graduated and that was fun to go to as well.  Then we were all able to sit and relax in the condos, swim some, eat lots, and joke even more.  You know you're having a good time when security calls at 11:30 because they're "worried" about us.  No no, everything is fine, we're just really into this game! haha

This week has been pretty lazy.  It is my last week up in Utah for a while and I mainly stayed to work, but am only working like 3 days haha.

I had Monday and Tuesday off, so I decided that after 2-2 1/2 weeks I needed to get back on the Crossfit wagon.  Now I'm saying....OUCH!  I LOVE CROSSFIT, don't get me wrong, but boy o boy does it work me.  Just a little glimpse of what we've been doing lately.

Monday

Warm-Up

w/ partner (while one runs the other is doing something else)

200m run - air squats

200m run - crunches

200m run - air squats

200m run - crunches

Then after the warm up we had Strength

5x 5 Push Press

Then the WOD

4 Rounds

25 KBS (Kettle Bell Swings)

10 Strict Pull ups

400m run

I don't know what it was, but this killed me and I was probably the slowest one there, also I got confused and started doing a fifth round and didn't realize it until I got down to my 7th strict pull up on that set. DOH

Tuesday was a good day for me because I pushed myself in weight and I felt really good overall

Warm Up

400m run

15 yards of Toy Soldiers

10 Rapid Toe Touches

400m run

15 yards of Toy Soldiers

10 Air Squats

10 Rapid Toe Touches

Strength

7x2 Deadlift Linear

 (Linear - which is no increase in weight, pick a weight and stick with it)

WOD

AMRAP 15 Minutes

AMRAP = As Many Rounds as Possible

10 Power Cleans

10 Butterfly Sit Ups

10 Hand Release Push Ups

I barely finished 6 rounds with 3 seconds left!

Today (Wednesday) 

Worked until 4 

(no breakfast and no lunch = terrible idea!)

When it came to Crossfit, I almost didn't go haha

Warm Up

2 Rounds

250m row

15 Hand Release Push Ups

10 Air Squats (5 second pause at lowered stage)

Tricep Rolls (1 Minute Each Side)

Strength

5x3 Front Squat (Linear)

WOD

4 Rounds

15 Goblet Squats (Squat with a 53lb kettle bell)

10 Games Standard Box Jump (Men 30" Women 24")

40 Double Unders

Anywho, I am seriously considering doing my first Half-Marathon as well as the Tough Mudder in October.

I will be moving back to Vegas for a bit this weekend (YAY!), but may have something else in store, but I'll get more into that as it comes nearer.

Big Changes are coming my way! What what.

Bahhhh....stereotyping..so funny!

So my friend just posted this on Facebook and I thought it was hilarious so I'm sharing it with you all.

I'm really against stereotyping, but I have come to the conclusion that the reason why stereotypical jokes are funny is because THEY'RE TRUE!

RAWWRRR

Okay...so this is how I feel today, but without a happy grin and more of a pained look from being sore.

Yeah, I'm still sore and I honestly have T Rex arms today because my biceps are so tense! I went to lift the toilet seat to pee and had to squat a little and bend over so my half bent T Rex arms could lift it open.  Yeah, it's bad haha.  Stupid pull ups are killing me!

And another thing.  DO NOT TRY AND DO ONE MORE BOX JUMP WHEN YOU KNOW YOU NEED A BREAK. Because if you do, you end up barely touching the sides of the box, slipping and rubbing the skin off your inner thighs and leave the weights on the box covered in a skin white powder.  Yes, ouch, haha. The pictures aren't that great, but they're pretty big bruises/rashes.

So unfortunately I did not go Crossfit yesterday or today. Stupid Work and School.  Why can't I just be a hood rat and do whatever I want all day.

Anyway, I'm kind of happy that I didn't go today. The WOD was "Death by Burpees".  Which I HATE!! 

Crossfit Update

Just so you know....Crossfit is kicking my butt!!  It is sooo draining, but honestly amazing.  I am HOOKED!

Tuesday I went and we did this:

STRENGTH

Power Snatch + Snatch (full squat): 1x70%, 1x75%, 1x80%, + 3 - rest 75 sec.

WOD

30 Box Jumps 30/26"

30 T2B 

(Toes to bar - hang like a pull up and try to get your toes up to the bar)

20 Push Press 95/65

30 Situps

20 Row for Calories

30 Alternating Weighted Pistols 25/15 - plate

(These things suck. Basically one legged squats. with your opposite leg straight out in front. Supposed to use a 25lb weight too, but yeah right haha.)

30 Box Jumps.

Yeah....it only takes about 14 minutes to get all of this done, but when you're done...you're spent.

Then yesterday I went again.

STRENGTH

5x1 Clean (full squat) & Jerk (split) @80-90% - rest 90 sec.

4x2 1&1/4 Front Squats - heavy, rest 60 sec

(the 1&1/4 sucked...you lift, squat, go up 1/4 of the way, squat down again then go up and then do it again.)

WOD

5 rounds for total working time of:

Sprint 400m

15 C2B Pullups

(Chest to bar pullups - yep, they're exactly what it says and they blow!)

*rest 2 minutes

I am still very sore haha. My abs, My arms, My Legs, My lats, I could go on on and, but mainly what this means is that it's working.

I also did calculated my caloric intake and how many calories I burn without doing anything. Just laying in bed all day I would burn 1900 calories.  So that means being active I should eat about 3,000 a day.  That's a lot!

Last Day of Foundations

Today was my last Foundations class :[.  Sad because I know the "easy going" workouts are all over, but I'm also a little pumped because the new classes are going to rock my world and take my fitness to that next level!

On a sad note, one of the coaches last day was Friday.  She's opening up her own Crossfit gym in Draper (So I may have to transfer there later, because she's awesome).  Even though it was her last day, she didn't go easy on us and seemed to enjoy herself (Proof in the picture below with her comment on the side of the page).

Yes that's me on the right trying not to pass out haha

This is Chelsea on the left (she has awesome shoes).
 The dude in the middle is future me ;] 

NEW ADDICTION!

CROSSFIT!!

So this is something that I found out about last year in late August/early September and have been wanting to start for a long time, but it's been WAY EXPENSIVE.  Usually around $150/month.  Yep...pricey!

Thankfully I have a roommate who's been looking out for some good deals and we found a 1 month membership for $50 including the foundations class (basic movements and technique).  All in all it's about $300 worth of classes and we got it for cheap.

I've only taken 2 out of the 3 Foundations classes and I AM HOOKED!!  It's amazing and I'm sore and tired and haven't even started the real workouts yet!

For those of you who have never seen Crossfit here are a couple of youtube videos to enlighten you.

Today for just our WOD (Workout of the Day) we did.

3 Sets of

200m Run

15 Squats (No weights)

10 Knees to Elbows (Hanging like a pull-up you bring your knee's to your elbows)

^You have to do all of this as fast as you possibly can.

Monday the WOD was

200m Run

25 Push Press (with 45lb) bar

25 Push Ups

25 Crunches (with a pad behind the back-touching hands to the ground above your head and at your feet)

then 15 Push Press

15 Push Ups

15 Crunches

10 Push Press

10 Push Up

10 Crunches

200m Run

(All of this as fast as you can)

Monday I got my butt kicked with the Push Press.  (where you grab a, in our case, 45lb bar and you lift it from the rack position just below your chin to above your head while giving your knees a nice little bend and sticking your butt out a little) I never realized that I've never really weight lifted before. Bench Press a handful of times and dumbbells here and there, but never squats, pushes, jerks, or anything overhead and let me tell you my shoulders were SPENT!

Excited to see what Friday and all next week brings to me.

I have taken before pictures and depending on results I may post them.

Also I am starting another picture blog on tumblr of pretty much everything that catches my eye.  Whether it's cars, bikes, clothes, hair styles, tattoos, art, architecture, interiors, random design, etc..

http://aweinspiringruckus.tumblr.com/ 

Just found this on Crossfit Sandy's Facebook page.

Yep that's me on the right doing push-ups like a weakling! 

(although in my defense they are chest to the ground - hands up - push ups which get pretty tiring)