Deadlifts & Thrusters

I feel like going heavy today. It's been awhile... still nervous about denting my floor, but if it's nice out this afternoon, I might do this outside to eliminate that risk.

Warm-Up:
1 x 400m sprints (legs felt like lead, so I stopped after 1)
10 Ring Rows
10 (1 band) pull-ups
10 Ring dips (1 band)
10 KTC's
20 Ball sit-ups
10, 20# KB Swings

Short Metcon:
"Mini-Cindy"
Complete AMRAP in 5 minutes of:
5 Ring Rows
10 Push-Ups
15 Squats

Rounds: 5 + 5 Ring Rows

CFJax.com 8.25.09:
Thruster
1-1-1

Deadlift
1-1-1

Loads:
Thruster - 55-65-75 (all done outside, which was FUN!)
Deadlift - 115-135-155(PR)

I can now officially say I can deadlift more than my bodyweight (and that's bw BEFORE the weight loss!).

Thrusters felt strong and that probably had to do with the mental aspect of not being afraid to dump the weight if I had to. Next time, I'll try for heavier (basically, I was too lazy to go back inside to get weights:)!)

Side note: I have been feeling REALLY great lately, like REALLY great:). I attribute it to my cleaner eating. My previous anxiety over any type of social situations has dissipated and no more stomach upset after practically every meal. I'm more alert at work (I was always really fuzzy-headed feeling before) and I even had the self-confidence to ask for (and receive) a much deserved promotion! Now, if only all this positive energy/attitude would translate to a pregnancy, I would be on cloud nine. Oh well, it'll happen when it happens. :)

"Cindy"

Picture taken from "Power Athletes Magazine" in an article on getting that first pull-up.

Warm-Up:
5 min. jump rope
20 Ring Rows
10 Ring Dips
20 ball sit-ups
10 HSPU progressions (toes on bench)

"Cindy" (Pack):
Complete as many rounds in 12 minutes as you can of:
5 Pull-ups/5 Ring Rows
10 Push-ups
15 Squats

Rounds: 10 + 5 Ring Rows

QUAD KILLER! I doubt I'll be able to walk tomorrow after this workout (and yesterdays). Ring rows were the strong part in this for me, push-ups got weak around round 6 and the squats hurt from the get-go:).

"Cindy" (Pack)

Well, I am exhausted from our weekend:). Lots of fun family time and we went to a St. Louis Cardinals game (which was a blast despite the rain), but there was just so much driving involved that the thought of getting back in the car to go to work this morning makes me want to scream!

Did little to no activity, just didn't have the time. I got in two 15 min. jogs with the dogs on Saturday morning, but that was it.

I'm happy to get back into the routine of working out and eating zone again. I always hate having to eat out, b/c I have a really hard time eating veggie zone out.

Oh, and I've decided to quit the burpee challenge. I made it to day 55, but I don't want to dread working out every day like I have since about day 40:). I'll just call it a day with meeting half of the burpee challenge and try not to feel like a total failure:).

Warm-Up:
5 min. jog
20 ball sit-ups
10, 15# KB Swings
10 KTC's
+ a few minutes jump rope with new speed rope (what a difference!!)

"Cindy" (scaled to Pack):
Complete as many rounds in 12 minutes as you can of:
5 Pull-ups
10 Push-ups
15 Squats

Total Rounds: 6 rounds plus 5 pull-ups & 10 push-ups

In Round 6, I did 5 knee push-ups. All pull-ups were with 2 bands.

"Cindy" - Day 19

Today's WOD is a choice between either "Cindy" or "Mary". "Mary" is a big dawg workout, though, so I'll do a scaled version of "Cindy" this afternoon.

Warm-up:
10 min. jog
20 ball situps
10 hspu progressions
10 KTE's (knees to chest)
10, 15lb. KB swings

"Cindy" - scaled to Puppies:
Complete as many rounds as possible in 12 minutes of:
3 jumping/reverse pullups
4 pushups
7 squats

Total Rounds: 13 rounds, with 30 seconds left, but was exhausted and DH came home, and it broke my concentration/determination.

I did girl pushups after the first round. I am going to stop doing 15 girl pushups in my warmups and start doing 5 regular pushups. Otherwise I'll never get my pushup numbers to increase. KTE's were better and higher today than they have been in the past. I was able to get my hips lifted higher than in previous attempts.