Raptron: Queen of Monsters

[RedStone]

<3

 

 

[Mad Hatter]

RAAAAWWWWWRRRR!!!!

 

also eugggh abs.

 

I should do more abs.

[annyshay]

Rawr <3

[raptron]

On 6/30/2017 at 4:36 PM, RedStone said:

<3

 

 

Yessss.

 

On 7/1/2017 at 6:46 PM, Mad Hatter said:

RAAAAWWWWWRRRR!!!!

 

also eugggh abs.

 

I should do more abs.

YES! We alllll should, really.

 

On 7/1/2017 at 9:26 PM, annyshay said:

Rawr <3

Hiiii~

 

Day 00.5

I was really struggling during this workout, stamina-wise. Everything felt super heavy. I ate half a banana during the workout when I was really feeling run down. It definitely helped. My abs accessories this workout were playing around on the bosu ball:

 

Workouts: 5/5

Veggies: 6/14

Cleaning: counters 1/2, sweeping 1/2, boxes 0/1

Beautifying: braiding 15/30, lotion 0/1

 

Day 00.6

Gymnastics practice! It was pretty good, actually. I was really really really close to throwing a front handspring + front pike + front tuck, but ultimately chickened out and then couldn't get my set-up to be nearly as good on future attempts. It remains in the Soon (TM) category of skills to learn. Otherwise, I worked on balance beam for a bit and continued hammering those front walkovers to try to get them to be more consistent up on the high beam.

 

Edit: I neglected to mention that this was also a really fun day of wandering around town! I met up with a friend at a beer garden for a very prestigious local brewery, got lobster rolls, swung by another bar on the way home, and then went to visit my friend who was bartending for probably... too long.

 

Workouts: 6/5

Veggies: 8/14

Cleaning: counters 1/2, sweeping 1/2, boxes 0/1

Beautifying: braiding 15/30, lotion 0/1

 

Day 00.7

Day off of workouts! I walked around town a bunch with a friend of mine to get ice cream, brunch, pick up something I left downtown the day before, etc. It was really warm but I'd rather be out walking around on my rest day than trying to coop myself up in the house in the AC.

 

Workouts: 6/5

Veggies: 10/14

Cleaning: counters 1/2, sweeping 1/2, boxes 0/1

Beautifying: braiding 15/30, lotion 0/1

 

^This was not a week that I was actively trying to hit these goals very well, haha. It was DOUBLE ZERO WEEK, after all.

[Deciduous]

That bosu crow blew my mind, just WOW. 00 scores look pretty good considering we're pre-gaming!

[CourtnieMarie]

50 minutes ago, raptron said:

^This was not a week that I was actively trying to hit these goals very well, haha. It was DOUBLE ZERO WEEK, after all.

SAME

[miss_marissa]

On 6/30/2017 at 3:03 PM, raptron said:

It's SO GOOD FOR YOU, guys. SO GOOD FOR YOU. I have a chronic problem of over-relying on my hip flexors to avoid using my lower abs (sigh) so they remain perpetually weak. Working these back in while being very conscious about trying to pull from the core instead of from the back + hips is both mentally and physically exhausting but 100% necessary if I want to continue doing the things I like to do. So I shall continue doing these ab torturefests.

^^As someone with the same issue I second this

 

 

Also, hi!

[karinajean]

I am pretty jealous of lobster rolls!

also re: abs - I need to do more, I am sure, esp because my hips are all out of whack right now. adding this to my "areas of the body I need to research more about."

[ArgSki77]

Hey Friend

[raptron]

Day 0.1

Left work a couple of hours early because pretty much no one was in the office. 

 

Climbed for a little bit after that but most of the routes are harder than I can manage right now so it was a lot of falling and staring at problems I couldn't quite figure out. Then I had some time to kill before meeting a friend for dinner so I decided to walk to the restaurant about 5-ish miles away instead of taking public transportation. It was lovely and continued my 3-day trend of walking a buttload.

 

Workouts: 2/5

Veggies: 3/14

Cleaning: counters 0/2, sweeping 0/2, boxes 0/1

Beautifying: braiding 0/30, lotion 0/1

 

Day 0.2

Went for another 3 mile run. It was in the morning and slower than my previous runs, clocking in around like a 10:30 pace instead of my more usual 9:30-ish pace, but whatever, got it done. Then I cleared out some boxes, cleaned the counters, and swept. I picked up fruit from the store for my super patriotic pie, which turned out great: 

And tasted great too.  Stopped by a cookout hosted by a local nerd and said hi to some local Camp peeps. I feel like I look like I am gonna beat some kid up and steal their lunch money with this outfit: 

 

 

I TRIED BRAIDING REALLY HARD. It didn't quite work so I added in a hair tie. Sigh. Haha.

 

Workouts: 3/5

Veggies: 3/14

Cleaning: counters 1/2, sweeping 1/2, boxes 1/1

Beautifying: braiding 20/30, lotion 0/1

 

Day 0.3

I took Wednesday off of workouts for recovery and instead ate my bodyweight in comfort food, took a nap, and tried not to let the hangover dictate my life. Completely unrelated side note: I finished watching the first season of Twin Peaks for the first time last night and YELLED AT THE TV because nothing was resolved, so many more questions were raised, and there are cliffhangers for every single plot line. I immediately got to googling to find a blog or recap or something of that episode and the top hit was about how mad everyone was in 1991 when it originally aired. I found comfort in the fact that my response was so standard that there are ARTICLES about it. GRRR. 

 

[Mad Hatter]

I was going to say something intelligent but then I got distracted by your quads.

 

[dancezwithkittehz]

OH HAI.  FOLLOWING AS ALWAYS <3

 

Also GOJIRAAAAAA YAAAAAAS

 

[annyshay]

Camp nerds! Pie! Quads! Godzilla! <3

[Deciduous]

On 7/6/2017 at 9:17 AM, raptron said:

I TRIED BRAIDING REALLY HARD. It didn't quite work so I added in a hair tie. Sigh. Haha.

I dunno you look super great so mission accomplished?

On 7/6/2017 at 9:17 AM, raptron said:

Completely unrelated side note: I finished watching the first season of Twin Peaks for the first time last night and YELLED AT THE TV because nothing was resolved, so many more questions were raised, and there are cliffhangers for every single plot line. I immediately got to googling to find a blog or recap or something of that episode and the top hit was about how mad everyone was in 1991 when it originally aired. I found comfort in the fact that my response was so standard that there are ARTICLES about it. GRRR.

I don't even remember the finale for season one!!! All I remember is my deep deep deep love for Agent Cooper.

[raptron]

[raptron]

I am on an impromptu workout hiatus until tomorrow morning. Too much of this:

 

 

Not enough of this:

 

 

[RedStone]

too creepy not to post. The GIF search was legit! "party monster"

 

 

[karinajean]

2 hours ago, raptron said:

I am on an impromptu workout hiatus until tomorrow morning. Too much of this:

 

 

Not enough of this:

 

 

 

HASHTAG GOALS!

 

oh wait these are not the best goals.

 

[raptron]

On 7/7/2017 at 4:39 PM, RedStone said:

too creepy not to post. The GIF search was legit! "party monster"

 

 

This is from Party Monster, the movie, which is based on a book by James St. James about club kids scene slash his liiiife! 

 

On 7/7/2017 at 6:31 PM, karinajean said:

HASHTAG GOALS!

oh wait these are not the best goals.

Hahaha, they are perhaps not the best for fitness or overall healthy lifestyles, no. Maximizing FUN? Maybe. 

 

Day 0.4-0.5

No workouts. Lots of rosé, lots of fries, lots of pizza, lots of Twin Peaks, and important naps. 

 

Workouts: 3/5

Veggies: 6/14

Cleaning: counters 1/2, sweeping 1/2, boxes 1/1

Beautifying: braiding 20/30, lotion 0/1

 

Day 0.6

Gymnastics practice was actually really good. I took care of my floor basics, tumbling, front handspring + front layouts, etc. before moving on to balance beam where I had like a miraculous day of back handsprings on the low beam. They were really on fire. Super consistent, completely over the beam, and I felt such confidence with them that I haven't felt since trying to relearn them. Front walkovers were also fine on high beam and I played with trying to connect them to a cartwheel or dive cartwheel. It could be a new series if I don't manage to convince myself to get those back handsprings up on high beam this season.

 

Later on, we had a short evening trail race + longer post-race dance party to attend. I unfortunately rolled my ankle like 8x and had to slow down much more than I would have wanted to make sure I was being careful. It seems like it is uninjured, but it just KEPT turning and I was frustrated. 

But yeah, dance party was fun. It poured rain on us before the race and during much of the post-race party but it was pretty hot outside so no one really minded. After the built-in dance party died down, we tried to go dancing elsewhere but the place was packed and the cover band was not shining, so we wound up eating burritos on the sidewalk and doing an inebriated handstand clinic, among other late night shenanigans. 

 

Workouts: 5/5

Veggies: 6/14

Cleaning: counters 1/2, sweeping 1/2, boxes 1/1

Beautifying: braiding 30/30, lotion 0/1

 

Day 0.7

Continuing the week's trend of ups and downs, Sunday was a down. I had a really nice brunch and went for a long walk, but ultimately went home and took another nap in our arctic air conditioning in the bedroom. That's really the sum of my day's activities. I started watching Riverdale to break up my Twin Peaks binge. It's a gentler kind of melodrama. 

 

Workouts: 5/5

Veggies: 8/14

Cleaning: counters 2/2, sweeping 1/2, boxes 1/1

Beautifying: braiding 30/30, lotion 0/1

 

OK. Now that the two zero weeks are over, I am ready to buckle back in. More real food (vegetables!) and back to my regularly scheduled lifting life. 

[WhiteGhost]

23 minutes ago, raptron said:

Day 0.6

Gymnastics practice was actually really good. I took care of my floor basics, tumbling, front handspring + front layouts, etc. before moving on to balance beam where I had like a miraculous day of back handsprings on the low beam. They were really on fire. Super consistent, completely over the beam, and I felt such confidence with them that I haven't felt since trying to relearn them. Front walkovers were also fine on high beam and I played with trying to connect them to a cartwheel or dive cartwheel. It could be a new series if I don't manage to convince myself to get those back handsprings up on high beam this season.

 

 

Woohoo! Excellent!!!

[ArgSki77]

48 minutes ago, raptron said:

we wound up eating burritos on the sidewalk and doing an inebriated handstand clinic, among other late night shenanigans. 

I expect nothing less from your late night shenanigans.

[dancezwithkittehz]

All in all sounds like a relatively successful weekend! Also I totes need to watch Twin Peaks! Also LOLOLOL inebriated handstand clinic. That is so you and so fabulous!!!

[nightlight]

[raptron]

 

It WAS a good weekend. Come dance in the mud and rain with me, friends.

 

Day 1.1

Beast mode engage.

Soooo easy. It's almost like taking a week off of lifting is good for you or something. I'm going to write an ebook about my pizza and rosé filled rest week and sell it under  -- Rosé and Slay: Raptron's Guide to Having Your Cake and Lifting It Too. Real talk, we had pizza catered for lunch yesterday so I had pizza for no fewer than 5 meals between Friday and Monday. Pizza-fueled trash gremlin. 

 

Workouts: 1/5

Veggies: 2/14 <-- Salad with pizza and then a bunch of sauteed crucifers mixed into my mac and cheese (I didn't specify HOW to eat the veggies :P) 

Cleaning: counters 1/2, sweeping 0/2, boxes 0/1

Beautifying: braiding 0/30, lotion 0/1

 

I also made a pan of brownies and a rum cherry sauce to go with them for my brownie sundae needs. That meant I cleaned the counter afterwards because cocoa gets everywhere. Win-win. This is my favorite brownie recipe so they're these guys with some pecans: http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/fudge-brownies-recipe Awww yes. 

 

Lifting tonight, run or NP on Wednesday, gymnastics Thursday, lifting Friday, Gymnastics Saturday, ??? Sunday as per usual. I think I am going to the beach so it'll probably be a rest day. 

[CourtnieMarie]

i'd definitely buy that book. so weird that you ate and rested and then lifted a bajillion weights and it was easy!  nice job! great way to lift up a monday