courtniemarie crosses the horizon

[CourtnieMarie]

 

let's go with a fun moana beach theme for this challenge which involves a beach wedding and the final days of summer!

 

Challenge goals:

get in 5 workouts per week; 2 of them being weights - i worked in 1 weights day/week last challenge. now it's time for 2 or more.

go on a 5 min walk once per week - at least 5 minutes. i have the time for a walk i just need to do it.

under 1950 weekly calorie average - this is a hard and fast max calories until the wedding. i don't want to be super uncomfortable in my dress. i've got 3 weeks. do i wish i had a bigger dress? yes. can it be altered? no. do i freaking love my dress so much that even if this cut doesn't work i'll wear it? yes.

 

 

per usual:

track restaurant food

track yoga

 

 

things.

8/10: moulin rouge

8/11: brewery crawl

8/12: baby shower

8/18: clean apartment thoroughly

8/19: pack for wedding; plan for labor day

8/20: send final headcounts

8/23: leave for ptown! clean glassware for centerpieces, put together welcome bags

8/24: hand out bags, nails, check in dog watcher, rehearsal

8/25: IT’S OUR WEDDING DAYYYYYYYY

idek what happens after that.

[Mike Wazowski]

[CourtnieMarie]

Week 0 – Monday

 

30 jumping jacks

20 bw squats

30 high knees

20 Sit Ups

30 Tuck Jumps

20 Reverse Lunges

30 Mountain Climbers

X4

 

did well with cutting. trying to make sure I plan for that brewery tour I have on Saturday! dinner was just pre-marinated chicken with roasted Brussels sprouts. and I got some yoga stretching in! also my traps are super sore today… mountain climbers??

weekly tracker

workouts: 1/5

calories: 1749

walk: 0/5

restaurant food: 0

yoga: 11

[Grumble]

1 hour ago, CourtnieMarie said:

also my traps are super sore today… mountain climbers??

 

Normally shouldn't be, you should still be in standard pushup position, which hits shoulders, but not traps. You're not rounding your back or anything, putting yourself in a pike-esque position?

[CourtnieMarie]

3 minutes ago, Grumble said:

 

Normally shouldn't be, you should still be in standard pushup position, which hits shoulders, but not traps. You're not rounding your back or anything, putting yourself in a pike-esque position?

PROBABLY. sunday was a rest day and saturday was a run so I can't think of anything else that might've done it. no weird heavy lifting that i can recall...

[raptron]

FINAL COUNTDOWN. 

 

 

[CourtnieMarie]

4 minutes ago, raptron said:

FINAL COUNTDOWN. 

 

 

surprising to no one, this song is on our "getting ready" playlist which we meticulously created.

[CourtnieMarie]

Week 0 – Tuesday

 

deadlifts (weight in lbs x reps)

160x5

145x6

 

romanian deadlifts

90x9

90x8

90x8

90x8

 

one-arm dumbell rows

20x8

20x8

20x8

20x8

 

DB side bends

20x8

20x8

20x8

20x8

 

front squat

70x7

70x7

70x7

 

didn’t get yoga in and made a kind of terrible dinner of beef and broccoli. it needed a starch or other vegetable and the broccoli got too mushy in the instant pot. it ended up basically a bowl of beef. I added spinach to my lunch portion today but will probably add some carrots to the rest of the leftovers.

 

weekly tracker

workouts: 2/5

calories: 1883

walk: 0/5

restaurant food: 0

yoga: 11

[raptron]

Howwww has your shoulder been lately? Is it mostly doing better?

[RedStone]

9 minutes ago, raptron said:

Howwww has your shoulder been lately? Is it mostly doing better?

 

^^^???

 

Also

 

[CourtnieMarie]

25 minutes ago, raptron said:

Howwww has your shoulder been lately? Is it mostly doing better?

 

15 minutes ago, RedStone said:

 

^^^???

 

it is... and it isn't. i'm still doing ~100 reps of scapular retraction daily which definitely helps since i notice it's worse on mondays (when I haven't done the PT over the weekend). but i still have to be careful on upper body days and haven't touched bench or OHP in a long time  

[Stronkey Kong]

[Grymm]

[CourtnieMarie]

Week 0 – Wednesday

 

8 box jumps

8 slam balls (15# ball)

x5

 

then 11 minutes of foam rolling and stretching.

 

spent some QT making dinner that wasn’t mush. cod and summer veggies with pesto. was going to do my walk last night but it was storming pretty bad so I’ll get it in tonight!

 

weekly tracker

workouts: 3/5

calories: 1764

walk: 0/5

restaurant food: 0

yoga: 22

[JustCallMeAmber]

MOANA!

This calls for a revival of a classic:

 

 

[Scaly Freak]

On 8/6/2018 at 8:42 AM, CourtnieMarie said:

 

8/25: IT’S OUR WEDDING DAYYYYYYYY

idek what happens after that.

 

No matter how desperate you start to feel, do not under any circumstances try to find out by googling what happens on a wedding night.

 

Just don't.

[CourtnieMarie]

Week 0 – Thursday

 

5 Rounds:

Run 400 Meters

5 V-ups

5 bw Squats

5 elevated Push Ups

 

total: 1.33 miles in 14 mins

 

got in lots of productive things after work yesterday! laundry; pressure cooked pork; yoga; and a walk! the walk was great except for being awkwardly stopped by a kid in his car. 

 

weekly tracker

workouts: 4/5

calories: 1849

walk: 7/5

restaurant food: 0

yoga: 33

 

moulin rouge (broadway preview in boston) tonight! very excited to see how it's doing.

[Jord]

you know you are gonna be gorgeous in that dress regardless, right?

[CourtnieMarie]

1 hour ago, Jord said:

you know you are gonna be gorgeous in that dress regardless, right?

thanks   i needed that. i'm upset it's not the comfy dress i picked out. i am also buying bra strap extenders to use on the clasp in the back where it's tight. my ribbon/belt should be able to hide it! we'll see. if not, i'll just pretend i'm from the late 1800s and ignore the pain for a day.

[raptron]

1 hour ago, Jord said:

you know you are gonna be gorgeous in that dress regardless, right?

qft

 

HOW WAS MOULIN ROUGE?

[CourtnieMarie]

12 minutes ago, raptron said:

qft

 

HOW WAS MOULIN ROUGE?

SO MUCH FUN. extremely talented cast. crazy dancers. much glitter. don't go if you have flash induced epilepsy.

 

it wasn't a musical feel though. i don't know if that is how the new musicals feel these days with shows being made out of artists' popular songs. i want to say they added upwards of 50 new songs (some were just bits of a pop song) which was either too much or not enough. make a real concert/opera feel and dump the script or pare down the pop music references and make it a musical. that being said, i had an absolute blast and would go again.

 

 

[CourtnieMarie]

Week 0 – Friday

 

Barbell curls

50x3

40x9

40x9

I remembered how 50# made my shoulder feel last time and stopped before pushing through when it wasn’t great.

 

Cable push-downs

70x8

60x9

60x9

 

Underhand cable pulldowns

95x8

90x9

90x9

 

Alternating toe touchers

15, 15, 15, 15

 

I did end up drinking before and during moulin rouge. Dinner was some shared plates at a nearby restaurant.

 

weekly tracker

workouts: 5/5

calories: 2031

walk: 7/5

restaurant food: 1

yoga: 33

 

 

Week 0 – Saturday

 

Got home real late after the show and slept in Saturday morning. had just enough time for grocery shopping before getting ready for our self-guided brewery tour.

 

4 beers from 4 different breweries

Vodka soda and a tequila shot from a fav dive bar

Lamb hand pie

Carnitas street taco

Indian take out

 

all delicious. had a blast but started feeling nauseous by the end of the night, hence some takeout food. given what I consumed the nausea could have been anything.

calories: 2,067

restaurant food: 3

 

 

Week 0 – Sunday

 

Sister-in-law’s baby shower. ate a decent (not great) brunch there. stopped at the mall on the way home to exchange some shoes (never do this on a Sunday afternoon)

 

Went home and tried on my rehearsal dinner outfit with new shoes and loved it but it’s not comfortable to sit in so I ordered 4 new things lol I think bride brain has finally hit you guys.

 

SO did most of the meal prep which was a cabbage roll “stew” in the pressure cooker. I had leftover indian for dinner and got to bed on time. and then woke up an hour later to rush to the bathroom. I’ll spare you details but holy shit. Not sure what it was that didn’t sit well. maybe the not great brunch food.

 

calories: 2,117

 

week 0 scores!

avg cals: 1919/1950

workouts: 5/5

walk: 7/5

restaurant food: 4

yoga: 33

 

not too bad for zero week. see if we can up the yoga and lessen the restaurants in week 1!

[raptron]

Noooo, sorry about your meals abandoning you in violent ways. 

4 hours ago, CourtnieMarie said:

SO MUCH FUN. extremely talented cast. crazy dancers. much glitter. don't go if you have flash induced epilepsy.

 

it wasn't a musical feel though. i don't know if that is how the new musicals feel these days with shows being made out of artists' popular songs. i want to say they added upwards of 50 new songs (some were just bits of a pop song) which was either too much or not enough. make a real concert/opera feel and dump the script or pare down the pop music references and make it a musical. that being said, i had an absolute blast and would go again.

I DOOOO love glitter. I'll keep it on my radar.

[CourtnieMarie]

15 minutes ago, raptron said:

Noooo, sorry about your meals abandoning you in violent ways. 

hahaha they really have been. i should probably get allergy tested or something. merg.

[CourtnieMarie]

Week 1 – Monday

 

things.

8/10: moulin rouge

8/11: brewery crawl

8/12: baby shower

8/18: clean apartment thoroughly

8/19: pack for wedding; plan for labor day

 

20 bw squats

15 elevated push ups

10 burpees

x5

 

SO had yesterday off bc she works in a state that still gets Victory Day. she got a lot of household chores done which was really nice to come home to.

got yoga in after dinner and though I was starving before dinner I didn’t go to bed hungry which seems pretty crazy given the low cals.

 

hoping for a break in the rain this week to do my walk!

 

weekly tracker

workouts: 1/5

calories: 1680

walk: 0/5

restaurant food: 0

yoga: 11