I won't crown myself the king of excuses, but I sure do have a lot of them. This last week, or really since the last WOD, was nothing short of awful. I was sore for days, which I shouldn't have let stop me, but I did, then I got sickly over the weekend, then work kept me "too busy" to get to the box during a class time... I'm working on reforming this, I promise.
Yesterday found me at the box in spite of my excuses. I had glasses and not contacts (been getting <4hours sleep the last two, now three nights), and I hate working out in my glasses. Didn't have the right box attire. Didn't have enough rest. Showed up anyway. Plan on doing the same today...
Still worried about my calf... will be for a while I suspect. Did split jerks today, building to a heavy single. We worked on form a bit first, then started adding weight. Didn't know where my PR was, and being a few months removed from anything approaching a normal workout regime, I just went with it. Got up to 145, which is apparently 10 pounds shy of my PR. Thing is, I did it with what has probably been my best form... 155 will be crossed off soon enough, I'm pretty sure it was one of those struggling jerks when I did it. 145 was tough, but it felt good, like one that actually would be counted as a rep in a competition. After I hit my heavy, went back down to 95, and worked on form while everyone else was getting in their last attempts. Good work.
Some of the other stuff we did was work on muscle up progressions. My bit was ring pushups, which I hate more than regular pushups (the struggle is real), and more ring rows and things like that.
Last thing was pistol practice. Yeah, no. Especially at the rep number that was on the board, even if it was attempts, just... no. I tried to do air squats. My lord, I struggled mightily. A few times my right knee crashed in a bit. Don't know if I was trying to go too low or what... might have to re learn how to do a proper squat. :/
Friday, January 15, 2016
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Finally
I'm back. Past month has been nothing short of disastrous from a fitness standpoint. I'd bare my soul if it would help... blunt talk, I was lazy, unmotivated, and scared.
To expand on that, I wasn't enjoying the workouts Brian had setup for me. I worked out in the cold, dark side of the box (it's walled off, basically a whole separate gym). I was there to stay out of the way of the morning classes, and to muffle the music ol' boy likes to play (that I can't stand). So I'm cold, I'm a little bored, and on top of all that, I'm not fully commited. To make all that worse, I kept showing up with the expectation of a workout that would last 1 hour. Of all the things I had going against me, this was the worst. Nothing like starting a workout, and having it seem to go long, even though it's not. I skipped things early and often trying to fit a non hour long workout into an hour long space.
Ok, thats the unmotivated part. Lazy speaks for itself, when it speaks at all. Scared, that's the other big one. Getting hurt sucks. Re-hurting/injuring the same spot multiple times can make anyone gun shy. I've been "taking it easy" for a while now, possibly too long... all on the fear that I might not be ready.
Well, I'm done being scared. (done being lazy and unmotivated as well).
5pm class here I come! I actually thought it was at 530, but apparently thats only on Fridays. Oops. Been a while since I've done an evening class. As it was, I was 15 minutes late, and just jumped in. Missed the warmup, missed stretching, missed everything that I should have been doing for probably the last 30 minutes... I mean, it's my first WOD in 2ish month... and I just jumped right into it. LOL.
3 rounds of 3 minutes of +3 hang cleans and situps. +3 being you start with 3 and 3, then 6 and 6 and so on. 1 minute rest between rounds. Went LIGHT at 75lbs. Felt good, probably could have done 95, but like I said, it's the first WOD in months, I'm trying to make it back again this week right. After the last round, we got a minutes rest, and then it was straight to 3 minute AMRAP of wallballs. THIS I could have stood to have some stretching before hand. I felt all sorts of things tweak, creak, and groan. No idea how many I did, not enough, but more than had I not been there. We'll call that progress.
The last bit of the WOD was 7 minutes to find a heavy hang clean. I don't, or didn't have a hang clean PR listed when I checked, so 145 is now it. I got tired, and my 155 attempt wasn't very convincing, but 145 is a solid start for me.
So thats it. That was about 30 minutes of workout. Not a full WOD, but certainly the meat of it. I ended up sitting down after I cleaned up my mess... I'm pretty sure my body was in shock.
Talked to a few coaches, caught up with a few folks, then I left.
Important thing to note. I missed the warm ups in the beginning, and didn't roll out at the end. Sitting here this morning, typing this up, I'm more upset that I didn't roll out afterwards. My calf had a slight twinge as I walked out, and I should have beat it up with a foam roller, stick, and lax ball... it's fine today, but it is something I'll be watching.
Ok, 2015 was a mixed bag. Got to some of my goal lifts, failed miserably on others. I lost capacity (especially with 3-4 months basically off), and I missed my weight loss goal by a country mile. In fact, I think the scales may have gone the other way slightly. :(
So my goals are the same as last year. Weight loss and lift gainz. I'm going to try to incorporate Concept2's daily workout's into my fitness plan a few times a week, as some extra rowing. I'm also going to try to get back on a low sugar, mostly paleo diet. Thats not off to the best start tooooday, but it will get better. I left my lunch at home you see...
To expand on that, I wasn't enjoying the workouts Brian had setup for me. I worked out in the cold, dark side of the box (it's walled off, basically a whole separate gym). I was there to stay out of the way of the morning classes, and to muffle the music ol' boy likes to play (that I can't stand). So I'm cold, I'm a little bored, and on top of all that, I'm not fully commited. To make all that worse, I kept showing up with the expectation of a workout that would last 1 hour. Of all the things I had going against me, this was the worst. Nothing like starting a workout, and having it seem to go long, even though it's not. I skipped things early and often trying to fit a non hour long workout into an hour long space.
Ok, thats the unmotivated part. Lazy speaks for itself, when it speaks at all. Scared, that's the other big one. Getting hurt sucks. Re-hurting/injuring the same spot multiple times can make anyone gun shy. I've been "taking it easy" for a while now, possibly too long... all on the fear that I might not be ready.
Well, I'm done being scared. (done being lazy and unmotivated as well).
5pm class here I come! I actually thought it was at 530, but apparently thats only on Fridays. Oops. Been a while since I've done an evening class. As it was, I was 15 minutes late, and just jumped in. Missed the warmup, missed stretching, missed everything that I should have been doing for probably the last 30 minutes... I mean, it's my first WOD in 2ish month... and I just jumped right into it. LOL.
3 rounds of 3 minutes of +3 hang cleans and situps. +3 being you start with 3 and 3, then 6 and 6 and so on. 1 minute rest between rounds. Went LIGHT at 75lbs. Felt good, probably could have done 95, but like I said, it's the first WOD in months, I'm trying to make it back again this week right. After the last round, we got a minutes rest, and then it was straight to 3 minute AMRAP of wallballs. THIS I could have stood to have some stretching before hand. I felt all sorts of things tweak, creak, and groan. No idea how many I did, not enough, but more than had I not been there. We'll call that progress.
The last bit of the WOD was 7 minutes to find a heavy hang clean. I don't, or didn't have a hang clean PR listed when I checked, so 145 is now it. I got tired, and my 155 attempt wasn't very convincing, but 145 is a solid start for me.
So thats it. That was about 30 minutes of workout. Not a full WOD, but certainly the meat of it. I ended up sitting down after I cleaned up my mess... I'm pretty sure my body was in shock.
Talked to a few coaches, caught up with a few folks, then I left.
Important thing to note. I missed the warm ups in the beginning, and didn't roll out at the end. Sitting here this morning, typing this up, I'm more upset that I didn't roll out afterwards. My calf had a slight twinge as I walked out, and I should have beat it up with a foam roller, stick, and lax ball... it's fine today, but it is something I'll be watching.
Ok, 2015 was a mixed bag. Got to some of my goal lifts, failed miserably on others. I lost capacity (especially with 3-4 months basically off), and I missed my weight loss goal by a country mile. In fact, I think the scales may have gone the other way slightly. :(
So my goals are the same as last year. Weight loss and lift gainz. I'm going to try to incorporate Concept2's daily workout's into my fitness plan a few times a week, as some extra rowing. I'm also going to try to get back on a low sugar, mostly paleo diet. Thats not off to the best start tooooday, but it will get better. I left my lunch at home you see...
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