Librarian of Doom

Thanks! Sometimes things are going great, and sometimes it seems like I'm just hanging on by my fingernails. Yeah, sometimes I really wish I had a job where I could wear scrubs. Week 6 wrap-up Did CrossFit Monday (slight PR on Grace, and that's after doing Helen first), Tuesday (Front Squats and Barbara), Thursday (wallball twofers are the work of the devil), not on Friday (HoD was DMing a Mage game) but on Saturday (Deadlifts and a partner WOD). Mobility each time. Writing happened like twice. Macros were good except for Friday. No additional pull-up work, but during the partner WOD today, there were burpee pull-ups, which for me end up being burpees where I jump up and grab the bar at the end. This time, instead of barely grabbing onto the bar, I was able to pull myself up a little and hang with my arms flexed instead of dropping back down immediately! So that was kind of awesome. No running. Not sure why I keep doing running goals. I don't like running and will avoid it however possible. I run when CrossFit makes me, and that's pretty much it. CrossFit Days: 21/22 Runs: 7/16 Pullup training: 11/16 Macros: 29/37 Mobility: 26/37 Writing: 29/37

Glad to know it's not just me. You'd think it'd be hard to forget something so everyday... Yeah, it just feels wrong. If it hadn't been for having to do jumping pullups, I could've modified everything else...but yeah. Not happening. If I didn't have to be business casual I would totally wear my sports bra all the time. But it gives me uniboob. Truth! Week 5, Day 4: Better! Went to CrossFit in the morning before work, since Thursday is my late night. Surprise squat day! (they didn't include it in Wodify) 6 x 3 back squats at 75% (155 for me) 12 rounds 10 wallballs (1 burpee every time you stop or drop the ball) 5 toes to bar 11:33 I was determined not to do burpees and I didn't. I asked the coach which would do me more good, situps or hauling my legs up as high as I could, and she said the latter, so I did basically hanging knee tucks instead of T2B. Was not the last one finished, which was a nice change. Accessory work: 3 rounds of 10 kb rows each arm 1 minute banded plank Went up to 35 on the kettlebells, which was hard, but mostly doable. I was feeling it for the rest of the day. Did my mobility work at CrossFit, macros were good, writing was good. Tried something new to help A not wake up during the night; ended up not being able to lay him down until 1:30 am. Fail. Good thing I didn't have to work on Friday. Week 5, Day 5 Was able to sleep in so I wasn't too exhausted, yay! Went to 11:30 CrossFit because HoD was DMing his Mage game in the evening. Run 800m, rest 3 minutes, run 400m (coach suggested I scale to 400m, rest 1 minute, 400m, to get my running conditioning back. I was glad she did, since it was super windy again. Then Nate: 20 minute AMRAP 2 muscle-ups or 5 pull-ups 4 handstand pushups or 4 kneeling kb presses or 8 pushups 8 kbs I did jumping pull-ups, kneeling kb presses at 25 lbs. Tried doing kbs at first, but my hips started to protest, so I did the pull and press instead with 25. Was 2 reps short of 17 rounds. Mobility done at CF, writing done. Macros were shot all to hell bc of a cascade of events starting with sleeping in. Suffice it to say, not good. Didn't get to bed until like an hour late bc A decided to wake up after I'd laid him down and HoD wasn't home yet. Week 5, Day 6: Like a zombie all day due to not enough sleep. CrossFit rest day, but no running or mobility. Got my writing done. Came home and HoD had a migraine of the puking variety. Kids refused to go to sleep. Gave up and ordered pizza bc I hadn't eaten in 8 hours and all the prepped stuff was gone. Strangely, macros still came in ok. No writing. CrossFit Days: 17/22 Runs: 7/16 Pullup training: 11/16 Macros: 24/37 Mobility: 22/37 Writing: 27/37

Things have been getting away from me lately, too. My go to "snowed in" workout is Room Service 20 rounds 5 pushups 5 situps 5 squats Deceptively brutal, and simpler than the BWW. Unless you meant that you don't like all body weight workouts, in which case I'm all out of ideas.

Great work so far this challenge. You know what to do; keep with it and you'll get where you want to be!!!

Woot for finishing your running challenge! Enjoy the taper and not having to be outside!!!

The arm-ring is awesome, and so is your challenge. Get on figuring out those goals, already!

Wow, lots of catch-up for me! Big woots on the bikini and keeping your calm at the gym! And yes, bench press sucks. Stupid overly dominant lower body.

Thanks! And yeah, second only to deadlift PRs in my book! Thanks, I needed to hear that. I think part of my problem is that when I made the goal, in my head I was all "I will run in addition to CrossFit" so it feels like they don't count. But I am a busy person and juggling work and family and life makes fitness tricky. I should take all available doubling up. Thanks! The Spartan is a wonderful experience. I basically just did CrossFit beforehand. I kind of wish I'd done more running, but not really, because I hate running. Okay, so I'm playing catch-up a lot. Let's see: TL:DR: Lots of excuses, and a little bit of fitness. Week 4, Day 5: CrossFit rest day. Should've run, but I was coming down with a sore throat, so I decided sleep was the better part of valor. No nothing on any goals, between the sore throat and the disruption of my sleep schedule thanks to Toddler A (I can't keep calling him baby A anymore, because he's really not. Baby A was a sweetheart. Toddler A is a little hellion) Week 4, Day 6: Worked, so no CrossFit (Saturday work makes making it to a class impossible). Feeling a little better. Ate pretty well, but IIRC I didn't get all my carbs because I was tired and wanted to sleep, or something. Week 4, Day 7: No CrossFit bc HoD was up with A and needed to nap in the afternoon. Eating for joy in the evening because "Super Bowl" (aka, watch commercials and play Smash Bros. and Cards Against Humanity) party. Super fun with friends. Week 5, Day 1: Macros were a little over, but not bad considering I had a mandatory meeting with catered lunch (not comfortable enough at the new job to ask if I can just bring my own food). A little high on carbs and fat, pretty good on protein. CrossFit in the evening. Blargh. 40 bar thrusters 40 hang to overhead 40 med ball situps 80 double-unders/160 singles (guess which I did) 30, 30, 30, 60 (120) 20, 20, 20, 40 (80) 10, 10, 10, 20 (40) For those playing the "Let's Do The Math" game at home, that is 100 of each movement and 400 single jump ropes There was optional assistance work but it was all upper body and I had t-rex arms, so I went home. Did mobility beforehand and got my writing done and good macros. Week 5, Day 2: Rest day. No running bc of wardrobe issues (400 jump ropes is not good for my bladder, and I only have one pair of compression shorts) and bc HoD crashed as soon as I got home. Not comfortable leaving him sleeping with the kids sleeping to go run. Macros were good, writing happened. Week 5, Day 3: All excited for CrossFit, got there, started to change... realized I left my sports bra at home... swore a lot... considered doing the WOD in my regular bra... tried an experimental jump and decided fuck that shit... put my clothes back on, cried some frustrated tears, and went home. Writing is done. Gonna finish my macros, do some mobility, and go the fuck to sleep. Tomorrow will be a better day. CrossFit Days: 15/22 Runs: 6/16 Pullup training: 9/16 Macros: 22/37 Mobility: 20/37 Writing: 25/37

Squats squats squats squats squats squats

That coat is super adorable. If I were local and my girls didn't already have like 3 coats each from hand-me-downs, I would totally bid on it.

I'm totally with you on the perfectionism/ratcheting down thing. Even when I reframe my challenge for totally legitimate reasons, it still feels like failure. Proud of you for all the things you're accomplishing!

My coach let me use her Stick on my calves today after CrossFit...I have gotta get me one of those. Nice workout!

Nice shirt, and nice hair! As someone whose hair won't hold a curl even when I want it to, I'm always super jealous of people with naturally curly hair. As is only traditional for women, who tend to want the hair they don't have.

It was squat day for me...can you live vicariously through my squats?

I think it's one of the things I just have to do, even when it scares me. I had not thought of that, but it's brilliant! Holding it in reserve for when we actually have a house and can do projects I live to serve Week 4, Day 3: Had the most horrible training at work that I have ever suffered through in my life. I felt a little bad for starting up a book on my Kindle app about 20 minutes in, but afterwards all of my coworkers agreed that it was horrific, and one of them told me she'd been playing Candy Crush. I swear my brain tried to crawl out my ear in self-defense. CrossFit was one of those days where I went, I finished, and that's about it. I've decided, however, that any workout which contains 2400m or more of running counts as a run for purposes of my challenge. 3 rounds of 10 thrusters 10 ring push-ups Run 800m Repeat 2x At least the weather was nice for running. This time the wind was directly in my face when running downhill, not uphill like on Sunday. Still wasn't any easier. I did my mobility at CrossFit. Went home and ate, but as soon as I had food in my stomach I basically crashed. HoD tucked me into bed. I was short on my carbs but protein and fats were good. I only got about 150 words written. Day 4: CrossFit first thing in the morning after taking C to school, since I work late on Thursdays. Find a back squat max PR at 205! I felt like I could've done more, but the coach said I was just barely getting to parallel, so she wanted me to work on my depth and controlling my descent. 3 sets of max reps @ 75% of max (155 for me) 5-6-8 Then the WOD 3 rounds 1 minute each Weighted lunges 75/55 Wall balls Pullups Jerks 75/55 Box jumps 1 minute rest That was just as horrible as I thought it would be. The coach said we should try to keep at least the same number of reps per round, if not more. I got 71-71 (almost more, but I tripped on one of the box jumps when I got in a hurry)-75, for a total of 217 reps. I made myself do the box jumps, so I was proud. I think this "You have to do it, but you can go to step-ups if you really hurt yourself" bargain with my brain is working on the box jumps. Did my mobility and my pull-up work. Macros are good, and I've got about 200 words left to write. Going to look at a house tomorrow; fingers crossed it'll be the one! (HoD looked at the pictures and said "It's got a roof! Let's make an offer!" It'd be more funny if we both weren't about to that point) CrossFit Days: 14/22 Runs: 6/16 Pullup training: 9/16 Macros: 20/37 Mobility: 19/37 Writing: 22/37

Agreed!

That first line is what I was telling myself the whole time I was out there Husband of Doom actually started doing the batch cooking after K, our second child, was born. We were ordering too much pizza or Chinese because it would get to be dinnertime and it was too much trouble to cook/we didn't have ingredients to cook, etc. It used to be mostly him cooking while I wrangled kids; lately it's mostly me cooking while he wrangles kids. The key is finding recipes that reheat well and that you don't mind eating over and over. Week 4, Day 2: Had two anxiety dreams last night, probably due to the meeting hanging over my head. It went better than expected, but my director doesn't really understand how social media works, so for now I have to suspend the work I was doing to try to build a presence on Tumblr. Makes me sad, but I'm not confident enough in my standing there to disagree with her, since I've been there less than a year. And from what I hear, she doesn't lay down the law much, but when she does, she expects it to be that way. Hopefully things will loosen up eventually. But then I got to go to CrossFit, which makes things better. 10 minute AMRAP 7 deadlifts 1 kettlebell clean & jerk right arm 7 power cleans 1 kb c&j left arm 7 push press 1 kb c&j right arm 7 box jumps 1 kb c&j left arm Rest 4 minutes 10 minute AMRAP as above, starting where you left off. I did 65 lbs for the bar lifts, which was the mid-range of suggested weights, and 25 for the kettlebells. I couldn't manage the clean at 35 without smacking the bell painfully into my arm, which the coach said was not the correct way to do it. I didn't want to do box jumps, but I pulled out the 14" box (I'm estimating) and bargained with myself that I would jump until I tripped and hurt myself. I did 7 rounds total + 7 deadlifts and only tripped once, caught myself on my hands, didn't bang my shins. I wish I could convince my hindbrain of this. Every single fucking time I jump, between my feet leaving the ground and hitting the top of the box, the bottom drops out of my stomach. But. I did it anyway. Dean is proud of me. Did mobility before and after the workout, and did my pullup work. Need to finish off my macros and writing before bed. CrossFit Days: 12/22 Runs: 5/16 Pullup training: 8/16 Macros: 19/37 Mobility: 17/37 Writing: 21/37

Sorry there were struggles last week, but you did great on your walking goal and made a great start to week 4!

Listen to the happy Dalek, she speaks wisdom

*looks at Xena's pic* *looks at own whiny posts about wind and cramping calves and whatnot*

Looks like a pretty good day, aside from the car getting towed of course.

Ugh, speculum. Glad you're enjoying the gym and that you've taken some steps to feeling better!