C_Q GLOWS

[Charlie_Quinn]

 

Season 3 of GLOW starts in August so in honour of this, I'm doing a GLOW themed challenge. I'm re-watching the series from the beginning again and I forgot how much I love this show. If you haven't watched it, watch it! 

 

GLOW stands for The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling and it was a real thing that existed in the 80s. I don't actually remember the original wrestling series - and yes, I am old enough to! - so I don't think it was shown in the UK. Which is a shame as I was very into wrestling as a kid and I would have watched the hell out of badass women wrestling and goofing around. 

 

Challenge Goals

 

1. Crossfit 3 times a week

 

 

I can't find a gif of Alison Brie doing ring pull ups, that would have been perfect here

 

Step 1: Book into Crossfit

Step 2: Go to Crossfit 

Step 3: Profit Get Ripped.

 

2. Do Bulletproof Shoulder Program 2 times a week

 

Crossfit, destroyer of shoulders!

Step 3 above is taking a little longer thanks to reoccurring shoulder niggles. Thankfully, one of the coaches at the box is a sports therapist, and she's written a program for us weak shouldered people. It's a mix of mobility work and exercises to strengthen the rotator cuff and surrounding area. I'm 1.5 weeks into the 6 week program so I should be finished this by the end of the challenge.

 

3. Run 2 times a week

 

 

Last challenge I used the excuse of running being in the crossfit WODS as an excuse to not run outside of class. When I did finally go out for a run by myself, it sucked! 400m sprints are great (they are not) but they aren't going to help me run 10k OCRs and I have a few of those coming up. 

 

Side Goal - Don't fall off the challenge threads

 

 

I took a long break from challenges and last time around was my first time back. I set a goal of updating at least once a week and I'll continue that this time around too. I'm extending it to include checking in with others and commenting on other threads. Rangers gotta stick together.

 

Lets get it on

[Salinger]

Sad there is no Kate Nash on here YET....so here you go. 

 

This what i think you are....

 

 

 

YOU ARE A STAR AND A WINNER CHARLIE <3

 

So glad you are here...hope we can organise to meet this summer in London with @jonfirestar! Sending you love and encouragement xx

[Charlie_Quinn]

37 minutes ago, Salinger said:

Sad there is no Kate Nash on here YET....so here you go. 

 

This what i think you are....

 

 

 

YOU ARE A STAR AND A WINNER CHARLIE <3

 

So glad you are here...hope we can organise to meet this summer in London with @jonfirestar! Sending you love and encouragement xx

 

I forget that's Kate Nash! I wasn't a big fan of her music, but she's great in Glow. 

 

Aw thanks Lizz. I've been sick this week and been feeling a bit down so that's lovely to hear. Thank you 

 

Absolutely! We really need to meet when you're down south. 

[Salinger]

Just now, Charlie_Quinn said:

 

I forget that's Kate Nash! I wasn't a big fan of her music, but she's great in Glow. 

 

Aw thanks Lizz. I've been sick this week and been feeling a bit down so that's lovely to hear. Thank you 

 

Absolutely! We really need to meet when you're down south. 

 

I havent actually SEEN Glow... (i know i know) but i do love Nash...and knew she was in it!

 

No problem, i really really mean it <3

 

We will arrange it soon, ill be down probably in August xx

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

Following! 

[Sloth the Enduring]

Lol. We used to watch GLOW in the dorm.

[Maigs]

Obviously I'm following along, but I have to excitedly post because I just found out a friend is moving to England soon so I have an excuse to come to your country! I already asked Hubs if it would be weird to meet up with my imaginary OCR peeps out there and he just rolled his eyes a bit

[DJtrippyT]

Following!

[Charlie_Quinn]

17 hours ago, Salinger said:

 

I havent actually SEEN Glow... (i know i know) but i do love Nash...and knew she was in it!

 

No problem, i really really mean it <3

 

We will arrange it soon, ill be down probably in August xx

 

I think you'd like it. 

 

Keep me updated. It's my birthday in August. Just sayin 

 

15 hours ago, Tanktimus the Encourager said:

Following! 

 

Hey Tank!

 

14 hours ago, Sloth the Enduring said:

Lol. We used to watch GLOW in the dorm.

 

That's awesome. I've only seen a few clips of it on YouTube. 

 

9 hours ago, Maigs said:

Obviously I'm following along, but I have to excitedly post because I just found out a friend is moving to England soon so I have an excuse to come to your country! I already asked Hubs if it would be weird to meet up with my imaginary OCR peeps out there and he just rolled his eyes a bit

 

Oh, exciting! Do you know where in England she's moving to? Obviously any visit will need to be well timed to coincide with an OCR 

 

7 hours ago, DJtrippyT said:

Following!

 

Hey hey!

[Charlie_Quinn]

Week Zero..... is a little off track. But that's OK as it's not officially challenge time, right? 

 

I was sick at the beginning of this week. Just a cold but it left me very tired for two days. So that meant no Crossfit on Tuesday. 

 

Bulletproof Shoulders 1/2

I decided to go to the open gym session yesterday evening to do shoulder rehab, as the program called for kettlebells and I don't own any. I had to do kettlebell carries in front rack position. It was one of those movements that makes you think 'I don't get what this is doing' and then half way through the second round, you suddenly find out what it's doing! There was also a lot of passive hanging and scap raises. Maybe a nice added bonus of this program will be better pull ups!

 

Doing that workout in the gym meant that I had to skip my run. But I've got an OCR this weekend anyway so running will be done. 

 

Crossfit will happen tonight. Stu asked me this morning if I was going to CF tonight, to which I enthusiastically replied 'Of course!' He then told me 'I'm glad you started doing this, I can tell how happy it makes you' Which was really nice.

[Maigs]

2 hours ago, Charlie_Quinn said:

Oh, exciting! Do you know where in England she's moving to? Obviously any visit will need to be well timed to coincide with an OCR 

Liverpool I think. And yes, since I will most likely be planning any trips (even though it's actually one of Hub's college buddies) it will definitely coincide with an OCR

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

3 hours ago, Charlie_Quinn said:

Crossfit will happen tonight. Stu asked me this morning if I was going to CF tonight, to which I enthusiastically replied 'Of course!' He then told me 'I'm glad you started doing this, I can tell how happy it makes you' Which was really nice.

Tell Stu I respect his encouragement game.

[Salinger]

4 hours ago, Charlie_Quinn said:

 

I think you'd like it. 

 

Keep me updated. It's my birthday in August. Just sayin 

 

 

 

ooooooh what date? 

 

Hope you are doing ok today x

[Cheetah]

Great challenge!  You can do it!

 

[Charlie_Quinn]

On 6/27/2019 at 12:30 PM, Maigs said:

Liverpool I think. And yes, since I will most likely be planning any trips (even though it's actually one of Hub's college buddies) it will definitely coincide with an OCR

 

I'm sure we'll make it work. And I'm sure it will pour with rain, because England 

 

On 6/27/2019 at 2:31 PM, Tanktimus the Encourager said:

Tell Stu I respect his encouragement game.

 

He's like a one man cheer squad. Definitely a keeper! 

 

On 6/27/2019 at 3:09 PM, Salinger said:

 

ooooooh what date? 

 

Hope you are doing ok today x

 

20th. I have nothing planned so far!

 

19 hours ago, Cheetah said:

Great challenge!  You can do it!

 

 

Damn right I can!

[EricMN]

I actually used to watch GLOW when I got home from work at the grocery store. I also love this show. And I'm glad I found your thread.

[Maigs]

1 hour ago, Charlie_Quinn said:

 

I'm sure we'll make it work. And I'm sure it will pour with rain, because England 

What's a little rain during a mudrun? Now I just have to get my running to be not-shite so I can keep up with you loons out there. Ooh, and climbing!

[Kestrel Grey]

Following, if sporadically!

I'm curious about your bulletproof shoulder program. Is it something your coach would mind you sharing? My shoulders are always the first things to go on OCRs.

[Salinger]

How you doing CQ?xx

[Charlie_Quinn]

On 6/28/2019 at 4:39 PM, EricMN said:

I actually used to watch GLOW when I got home from work at the grocery store. I also love this show. And I'm glad I found your thread.

 

Glad to have you, as always.

 

On 6/28/2019 at 4:56 PM, Maigs said:

What's a little rain during a mudrun? Now I just have to get my running to be not-shite so I can keep up with you loons out there. Ooh, and climbing!

 

Exactly! My running is currently in the shite category. We don't exactly run when it's a fun run anyway. We plod along, mess around and stop to help each other and others. 

 

On 6/30/2019 at 1:42 AM, Kestrel Grey said:

Following, if sporadically!

I'm curious about your bulletproof shoulder program. Is it something your coach would mind you sharing? My shoulders are always the first things to go on OCRs.

 

Hey! I had to pay for the program and I'm accessing via a private portal. I'll see if I can copy it to a doc and PM it to you.

 

On 6/30/2019 at 9:58 AM, Salinger said:

How you doing CQ?xx

 

I'm doing fine thanks. Busy weekend!

[Charlie_Quinn]

Week Zero wrap up

 

 

Thurs - Crossfit

This was a really good session. For strength, we worked on snatches. The last time we did this I spent the whole session working on form and it still didn't feel right. The format was 2 reps every 75 secs for 9 sets, and the coach said to stay light at first and only increase if moving well. I started off with the technique bar with the 5kg plates and I was surprised to move this easily with good form right from the start. So I switched to the regular bar for the second set and moved the weight up gradually. I ended up snatching 30kg in the last few sets which is now my PB. 

 

WOD

The wod was interesting

2 rounds:

12 front squats

12 DB snatch

Increase weight by 2.5kg

9 front squats

9 DB snatch

Increase weight by 2.5kg

6 front squats

6 DB snatch

Increase weight by 2.5kg

 

I can't remember my starting weight, as there was a little problem with a lack of 1.25 and & 2.5kg plates (the guys had to increase by 5kg each time) so the start of the wod was a little hectic. I finished the workout pretty quick, mostly because I was snatching a 9kg dumbbell and I find this way too easy. The problem is, the next dumbbell weight up is a 15kg - not sure why there is nothing in between - and I find this way too hard!

At the end of the session, I spoke to the coach about this issue, expecting her to tell me to snatch with a 12kg kettlebell instead. NOPE! I got told that the only way I'm going to improve is to use the 15kg and drop down to the 9 in later rounds, but only if I'm so fatigued that I can't lift it anymore. So in coach speak, that means Suck It Up Buttercup 

 

Saturday - OCR: Uventure 12k

Hubs and I ran this one together. The temperature on Saturday was very high (for England), so we took it pretty easy. The organisers told people not to be heroes and to take the 6km split on the course if they were struggling in the heat. We said we would see how we felt when we hit the split, but both intended to run 12km. I didn't run as much as I hoped, but mostly that was due to the heat. There was a lake swim around half way which felt absolutely glorious and helped to bring our body temperature down long enough for us to feel OK when we hit the course split so we carried on on the 12k. It was very hilly with a lot of technical trial in woodland, which helped keep the sun off us, but in the open, it was roasting and I struggled. I must have walked the entire last kilometer and by the time we finished, my head was pounding and I felt sick. I'm guessing I probably had a touch of heat stroke so we grabbed a pizza and some sodas from the event village, sat in the car and blasted the AC as high as it would go (not very high, apparently. I hate our car).

It took nearly the entire journey home for me to feel normal again and I went to bed very very early!

 

Sunday - Bulletproof Shoulder Program 2/2

I woke up a little grumpy in the morning, partly due to being woken up by rowdy neighbours. We had promised to help Stu's dad with his garden on Sunday. He had a stroke almost exactly a year ago, so we've been helping him with the bits of the garden that he finds difficult (which isn't a lot, his dedication to his recovery program has meant he is nearly back to full mobility). The weather was a little cooler so it was a nice day to potter around the garden and was a good recovery activity.

In the evening I finished week 2 of the shoulder program - a lot of mobility and bodyweight movements to fatigue. My shoulders were bothering me a little after Saturday so it the mobility movements felt good.

 

After a slow start, I'm happy with how this week ended. I've feeling very motivated right now, so I've got a feeling this is going to be a good challenge!

 

[Salinger]

YEAAAHHHH CHARLIE! I like to read all that  xx

[Kestrel Grey]

3 hours ago, Charlie_Quinn said:

 

Hey! I had to pay for the program and I'm accessing via a private portal. I'll see if I can copy it to a doc and PM it to you.

That's alright, thanks though. I was just hoping it was a random program she provided for free - I'm a big believer in making sure artists and programmers get paid for their hard work when they ask to be.

 

Im happy it's helping you!

[Cheetah]

On 7/1/2019 at 9:42 AM, Charlie_Quinn said:

this is going to be a good challenge!

 

You're doing great so far!  Keep it up!

[Charlie_Quinn]

On 7/1/2019 at 5:42 PM, Kestrel Grey said:

That's alright, thanks though. I was just hoping it was a random program she provided for free - I'm a big believer in making sure artists and programmers get paid for their hard work when they ask to be.

 

Im happy it's helping you!

 

As a compromise, I'll try and post a list of the exercises when I update. You might need to google some of the movements, but I'll do my best to explain them.

 

It really is helping, I can tell my mobility is improving.

 

10 hours ago, Cheetah said:

 

You're doing great so far!  Keep it up!

 

Thank you!