I hate burpees

21:03/26lbs
Run 200 m
10 kb swings
15 burpees
X5 rounds

I HATE Burpees!!

Two WODS

Monday
12:22/50lbs/box
21-15-9
Squat Cleans
Ring Dips

Tuesday
19:02/25lbs
100m waiter walk right
60 situps
100m waiter walk left
30 supermans
X 3 rounds

8 minute AMRAP

15 minute to find Max push press
100lbs

16 lb swings
8 push press 60% of max
4 dips

4 rounds + 16
26/55/box

Felt good. Was off a week due to Garrett's dad having a stroke and Garrett going home. He is a marathoner and his walking is severely impaired. He has decided to go to inpatient physical therapy to hopefully run again. If he can overcome this, then I can get out of bed and get my butt to the box. I'm making strides. I'm stronger, have more endurance, and I feel good.

Here's to a serious month of Crossfit and Paleo.

Baseline again...

Crossfit did baseline again this morning.

500 M row
40 squats
30 situps
20 pushups
10 pullups

1st time 7:52
2nd time 6:54
Today 6:16

It feels good to make progress. I'm stronger and more fit and it feels good...

LOVE it...

I miss my Boot Camp buddies, but this 5:15 am Crossfit group is fun. They have fun, they are fit, and they work their hineys off.

WU
400 m row
10 OH squats with PVC
50 Double unders
10 pull ups

WOD
5 box jumps
10 pushups
15 air squats
12 min AMRAP
Every 2 minutes 4 thrusters at 75% of your max

CD
Stretch

Score
6+5 (45lbs)

It feels good. So very good. I am strong. I'm gaining endurance an I feel like I can conquer the world after a workout. It feels good to push my body every morning and it feels good to know my body craves it and ways it. I deprived myself of physical activity for far too long.

Crossfit

Crossfit is changing my life. Period.

I'm proud of who I am when I work out. I'm proud of what I get accomplished while my family sleeps. During the day, I get no time for me. Someone always needs something or something always needs to be done. But while they sleep, I get up, work my butt off and it feels good.

Why did it take so long for this to connect for me?

Moved on over...

So today was my first day at Crossfit. I was nervous. I've seen pictures of the (mostly) ladies who go to the 5:15 am class and they are fit and in shape. I wasn't looking forward to being the new girl again.

Everyone was nice. Very friendly and you can tell they all get along really well. So for that, I'm excited.

The WOD? Well, as soon as it was posted to the board I knew I wouldn't be able to do what everyone did.

Run 800 m
Finish with pullups
For 6 minutes
3 rounds

Seeing as how it takes me 14:56 to run a mile I wondered if I'd even get all the laps in. So my goal? Make all the laps and who cares about the pullups.

And I did it. Aaaaaand I didn't come in last. There were two others who got zero pullups on all their rounds too!!!

So I did it. And I will do it again tomorrow. And one day, I'll be one of those fit girls too.

Oh and by the way.... I weighed. I finally let myself go there.

Minus 16. Was pretty happy that day too.

Winners never quit.... Quitters never win!

My dad used to always say that to me in tough tennis matches. I've had to dig deep this week to find some sort of inner strength.

I had Garrett measure me Monday. It had been a month. I about died when he gave me the results. 4.5 inches lost. To me, it was devastation. Complete devastation.

I came to workout and about a minute into the workout I lost it. Years flowing, sobs, weeping. I had hit a plateau. I wanted to go home. I wanted to put up my box and ball and go home.

I pushed through and finished dead last with a horrible time. Everyone was rooting for me, cheering me. I was sobbing. I cried for the next two days straight.

My mom tried to encourage me. My sister tried. Garrett tried and even sent me a bouquet of flowers telling me how proud he was of me. Each of them reminded me that my dad would be so completely proud of me. However, the one person I needed to hear from wasn't here. Couldn't tell me. Couldn't hug me. Couldn't give me the affirmation I so desperately needed.

And so on top of being discouraged I started to get angry and feeling robbed of my dad... A relationship I still very much need.

I realize this won't be an overnight thing. I will have highs and lows. And that's ok. This won't be the last time. By far. But I have to get up and go on. Pick up my ball and play again. It will get better. It will get easier.

And what do you know? Wednesday and Thursday were amazing workouts.

I will do this. I will.

Baseline

Being sick stinks. Especially when you are trying to lose weight or get in shape. Nothing tastes good and it really just messes with your mojo.

So tonight when we did baseline I wasn't expecting any grand results. I haven't worked out in over a week so I expected my time to be the same or worse.

Baseline:
Row 500m
40 squats
30 situps
20 pushups
10 pullups

Last time (1 month ago) 7:56
Tonight 6:54

Y'all I surprise myself. I am getting stronger and even when I feel weak, my weak is still stronger than my strongest was just 30 days ago.

I feel good. This feels good.

Mile Time Trial

Two nights ago we ran a mile as a 'baseline' before our workout.

A little over a year ago I was running a few 5Ks. Back then I ran a 17:00 mile. I expected the same.

My time? 14:10. Y'all I can't even tell you how excited this makes me. I'm getting stronger everyday. I'm getting faster everyday. I'm working my butt off and it is showing.

Keep on truckin....

Still going.

My weekend eating is horrendous. We always have so much going on and we are out all day on Saturday it seems. It's so hard when we are always on the go. Eating at home while trying to change your eating habits is so much easier.

Here are two WODs from last week. Both were killer. Killer.

However, last night, in bed Garrett and I were doing some talking about Reese and his horrible behavior lately. He had his arms around me. Then, this morning he did his normal goodbye kiss routine and said 'babe, I'm so proud of you. All the places I used to hold on to aren't there anymore.'

The encouragement is coming just at the right times.

Discouraged...

I feel like I'm doing right. I'm working out, watching my diet, feeling pretty good. That is until PCF posted pictures of last nights workout.

My pictures are depressing. Seriously. I'm huge. I know I can't let this get to me. I have to keep going.

I expressed my discouragement to my mom an she tried so hard to build me up. She even played the dad card on me (gets me every time) but I still went to bed discouraged.

I woke up this morning to 85 degree temps and 100% humidity. So I had to find some light weight clothes. I picked a pair of thin black pants I have. I've had them on 3 hours. They are waaaaaaaayyyy to big.

Thank you God for the boost of encouragement. I needed it. Oh how I needed it.

100 Day Challenge

Crossfit Pearland offered its firt 100 day challenge : 50 squats per day.

Done.

Ohhhhhh Tabata

That just sucked. It was the never ending workout.

Tabata is 20 seconds of work with 10 seconds of rest-8 rounds. Sounds easy. Really, it does. It is brutal. Absolutely brutal.

So our workout was 20 minutes which is long for Crossfit. I really think it was worse than Helen!!!

Situps
Squats
Pushups
Supermans
Box Jumps

Ouch!

However, it was cold here yesterday. I bought a fleece vest about 3 months ago since you really don't need a full jacket here. It used to zip tight around my big belly. Yesterday? Didn't even touch it! So as bad as Tabata sucked, I'll keep doing it for feelings like that!!

Helen, I whooped your butt!

Y'all I can't even tell y'all how stoked I am!!

We did Helen again. Last time, my first time, was most people's second time. They had improved by 1:30-2:00 on most accounts.

So tonight, when I knew we were doing Helen, I set my sights at 17:00. Last time was 19:38 for me. I knew I'd have to bust it to make it in that time.

The workout:
400 m run
21 kettle bell swings
12 pull ups

My time........

Wait for it......

Wait for it......

15:22!!!!

Did you read that?! I improved by 4 minutes and 16 seconds.

In other words, I kicked Helen's butt!

I'm on cloud 9. Ecstatic. Through the roof. Could. It be more proud of myself. Seriously. I rocked it tonight.

I did a HERO

Tonight's workout was a HERO WOD. A HERO is when advanced crossfitters do their WOD. It's intense and the most hardcore.

It was running (which I hate but want to get better at) but I did it and my goal was not to come in last....

Goal made!

Finished in 24:12.

New Year New You!!

Cheesy, I know. And Crossfit is no different. So in order to handle the influx of new people we are doing 'baseline' workouts.

Tuesday was the Fit Test. They made me do this my first night and I barely made it through six rounds. In five short weeks I improved to TEN rounds. I was elated. I don't think I wiped the smile off my face until I woke up the next day.

I have taken before pictures twice and I see a huge difference in my face and shoulder area. Just the encouragement I need.....

Oh this feels good.