My Wrist!!

Missed a few updates.  Had another two a day on Thursday last week.  Did some extra goalie later movement work, rowed another mile, and sweat out a pound and a half, or more... so it seems.

Had a much better game between the sticks this weekend.  STILL let in my avg of 5 goals (still got the W), but I can get that down to 3 with a little more work.  Missed a near post I should have had, had one slide off my gloves and back into play, and then there was a miscommunication for a third.  We'll get there.

Did hurt my hand though.  One of the ones that was 50/50 coulda/shoulda saved, was in a bad spot, and had a shot blasted high.  Caught it, or rather it bent my thumb backward while flying into the goal.  I mention that because 2 days later, it's impacting my WOD. 

Weights today, lots of barbell work.  Didn't want to get up, super sleepy, but decided to drag my butt out of bed anyway.  Did some lunges, power cleans, and push press in a 12-9-6 format for 5 rounds.  Struggled mightily, thumb and subsequent wrist just weren't' having it.  Did some additional squat work, and some heavyish push presses at 135.  Glad I stopped when I did, my wrist just wasn't having it.  Might do an afternoon session again, though I don't actually have the gear for it with me, but we'll make it work. 

Need the thumb/wrist to get better quick tho.  Light work till then. 

Great day

Boy it's warm.  Yesterday was a great day.  Good morning workout, minus this one part, but overall it was good.  Sweat all over the office again (maybe I need a fan?).  Germany won their game, that was great.  USA lost badly to Argentina... that part sucked.  So maybe it wasn't a great day, but it was good, better than normal. 

Workout was good.  Did some squatting, rolled up to the mid foot, used way too much quad.  Worked on lower weights to stay back.  Been talking about this for 2 years now, need to get the weight off, and fix this counter balance that I've got.  Had some other things as well, like a 20 minute AMRAP team bump event.  Had two girls on my team, and the workout was a 100ft "heavy" sled push.  I say "heavy" because it was 180 and that's light to me.  While that person is going, person 2 is doing ring pushups, and person 3 is doing a calorie row.  What made workout suck a bit, our newest, weakest member was on the sled push while I was on the rower.  As a team, we did 168 calories over that time.  I had over 100 of them.  Let that marinate. 

Still, a good workout. 

Work was work, then I went home... except I didn't go home.  I went back to the box.  I think this impressed Brian a fair bit, coming back to work on things.  Did a lot of extra work on little things.  Did some more squatting sitting back more and more.  Did some lateral movement with bands, working on my side to side strength and speed.  Rowed another mile.  Got some new stuff to work on from Brian for my goalie isms. 

So maybe it was a great day? 

Morning fitness

I've tried to write this post for about a week now.  Short version, I'm switching to mornings, but it's been a process.  This is going to be short, I've got 9+ hours of work to try to get done in about 6.5, wish me luck.

Today was awesomely awful.  Highlights was a 10 minute EMOM of 5 power snatches.  Never did like doing weights for cardio like that (I know thats now how it's designed, but thats how it feels).  We also had a nice 15 min AMRAP of 50 singles, 200m row, 5 clean and jerks.   There was some other post WOD stuff that I skipped in order to shower and get to work sooner, but it was a pretty solid workout, and I'm happy enough with my efforts, considering I'm running on 4.something hours of sleep. 

But wait, didn't you say sleep was important.   Yes.  Yes I did.  Had a late soccer game last night, got home close to midnight.  Showered then I stay up a little because I hate going to bed damp.  So bed at 0130, and I woke up at 0600.  No alarm.  Was like well, I can sleep to the time I was going to, or I can get up.  Put it to you this way, I didn't want to get up, but I've got goals that can't be met by staying in bed. 

The one downside to this am workout stuff is my body is hot afterwards.  I don't mean the physically hot, that goes without saying.  I'm talking about that raised core temp, raised metabolism, etc etc.  I take showers at the box, and today I got it cold before I got out.  Stemmed the sweating a bit, but still not enough.  I get to work (no AC in the car), and I'm usually back to sweating bullets by the time I get to the door.  Either need to get the AC fixed, or try something else on the way to work.  I mean this is what I looked like (below).  No collard shirt, got a swetband on.... trying to make this mornings thing work.  Life is hard.  LOL!! 

Soccer, if I haven't mentioned it till now, has been going well.  Got humbled last night by the 0-5 team in the league, let in 10 goals.  5 we're on me.  Can't let that happen again.  Pride won't let me.  Keep you apprised.

Thats all I've got, have a great Monday everyone!  

Time for a fresh beginning.

I've been dragging ass ever since I got stopped traveling for work... that's over now.  I just played my first indoor soccer game last week, and had a great time.  Nervous... like as nervous as I was walking into CFDS 2 years go, but after a few shots, I was mainly just thirsty.  LOL.  This isn't going to be much of a post, just putting it out there that after that game, I have A LOT of work to do to get better, but thats the great part about starting at 0. 

A week later, I'm finishing this post.  Hit a couple of WODs last week.  Rowed for two miles in one sitting as well.  Working on that conditioning.  This goalie stuff has breathed a bit of new life into my drive, which frankly, it needed.   Played a doubleheader this weekend, have some jammed fingers and toe that might be broken, or also jammed.

Tomorrow morning starts a fresh beginning.  Back to mornings, back on paleo as of today, and back in the drivers seat of this fitness journey.  I'll get more into the mindset and new goals in another post soon.