So it's been a while, huh? Been a real productive month, but I haven't been able to get posts up so I'll try to recap. First two weeks of the month were pretty slow, I wasn't seeing progress as quick as I would've liked and I can admit my excitement and motivation for staying strict on the diet lagged a bit, but I refused to fall off. Did I have a night or two where I drank? Sure. But I really did keep it to a couple nights and tried to stay strong because I promised myself I'd finish this. My gym started a 30 day Paleo challenge at the perfect time, about two weeks into this month.. I signed up and partnered up with someone, and since that started I'm back at 110% and going strong. It was a nice kick in the ass to feel as though a bunch of other people joined me in what I was already doing so now I'm not just holding myself accountable I have a gym full of people holding me accountable. That's the way I need myself to look at it and it's been working well so far.
I had dropped almost 12 pounds in the first month, but like I said March started off slowly. I didn't see any change in my body or on the scale over the first two weeks - week 3 saw me drop almost 3 pounds. I haven't weighed myself since last week, so I'll attempt to get a weigh in tomorrow. At last weigh-in I was 217.6, that's a 15.6 pound weight loss since February 4th. I'm proud of that, but I am not done. My goal is to get below 205 by May, so I've still got plenty of work to do. With the extra push from all the other people doing the challenge, sharing recipes, motivating each other - I'm in great position to keep moving forward and have no excuses. I'm confident I'm going to blow past my goal by the deadline.
Here's some WOD's that kicked my ass over the last month:
3/28 (Last night)
18 minute AMRAP
500M ROW
400M RUN
Result: 3 complete rounds + 414m row
3/26
Tabata "Fight Gone Bad"
Complete 40 intervals of 20 seconds of work followed by ten seconds of rest. Perform 8 consecutive intervals of each of the following exercises:
WALL-BALLS 20/14 (REPS)
SUMO DEADLIFT HIGH-PULL 75/55
BOX JUMP 20" (REPS)
PUSH-PRESS 75/55 (REPS)
ROW (CALS)
There is no additional rest between exercises.
Each exervise is scored by the lowest number of reps (cals on rower) in each of the eight intervals. The score is the total of the scores from the five stations.
Result: 29 (6 reps for each exercise except wall-ball which was 5 - 6x4 = 24+5 =
29)
3/25
Birthday WOD (I need to start skipping these, they're the f-ing WORST)
Establish a heavy set of cleans in 7 sets
8 rounds of:
20 SEC ON: SIT-UPS
10 SEC OFF: HOLD MIDDLE OF SIT-UP
Immediately followed by
7 rounds of:
7 UNBROKEN POWER CLEANS 115/75
7 UNBROKEN PULL-UPS
If you break any of the unbroken sets it will result into a 7 burpee penalty each time to be conducted at the end of the WOD
Result: Had to drop weight on cleans after 3rd round to 75. Broke twice during the last round. 14 burpees, did them consecutively at least.
3/20
Perfecting the DL - 5x5x5x5x5
12 MIN AMRAP
20 LATERAL JUMPS (over the bar, 20 each side, so... 40)
15 EVIL WHEELS
20 DEADLIFTS (135/95)
15 EVIL WHEELS
Results: Not exactly sure, think I went around maybe 2 1/2 times. Evil wheels were absolutely the hardest thing I've put my body through so far. I've done them before and though that'd be a decent time to rest a little but instead absolutely crushed me. It's been almost 10 days since then and my stomach is just starting to feel normal again.
*3/18
Front Squats - Build to a heavy set of 5
*PALEO CHALLENGE BENCHMARK
For time:
1000M ROW
50 BURPEES
25 BOX JUMPS
Result: 11:30 - *This will be revisited April 18th to gauge what the Paleo Challenge has done for us in terms of improving our performance. I remember I was one of the first off the rowers yet one of the last to finish the workout. I was disappointed my stamina fell off so hard and how slow my burpees were. My goal is to be in the 9:30 range when we do this workout again.
3/16
Another birthday WOD, this one was terrible.
(1975) 20:15 AMRAP
Run 400m
38 BURPEES
38 TUCKUPS
38 WALL-BALLS
After time expires: Run 400m
Result: I think I managed 2 rounds of this. All I know is I got pretty much smoked by everyone. My burpees are awful and they're slow. I used a lighter med-ball to somewhat pace myself through, it just wasn't coming off the wall at all. I've never had an issue with my toss or where I wanted the ball to come down to me, but it was all over the place. It actually ended up landing in a puddle of coffee so I switched to the closest ball which was heavier, but the tosses were perfect. I just think the weight played a big role in that, had I used the heavier one from the beginning I think I would've sped through wall-balls - instead it took me much, much longer than it should have which really hurt my time. I'll also admit I had a shitty attitude during this workout and remember thinking I need to stop being a bitch when this was all over, I was pissed at myself for sucking so bad here.
3/14
5 rounds for time
250M ROW
20 RUSSIAN TWISTS
20 KETTLEBELL SWINGS
Result: Don't remember the time, think it was somewhere in the 10 minute range but I remember being done relatively quickly
That's a good amount right there to recap - the farther I go back the harder it will be to remember details... But it was a good month but definitely a very solid last two weeks.
