Weekly Workouts

Hey pumpkin! How was your weekend? Tell me all about it! I had some family in town and we did something reaaaal interesting, but that has to be talked about on a different post. Gotta keep my Weekly Workouts post professional. HA. Right. No but for real, that conversation has to wait.

Workouts were nothing special this week. Going through the motions a lot and not feeling too great. But honestly, I don’t care. If I get a workout in, I’m happy with that. Stress is just such a b*tch and I can totally tell when it’s really taken a toll on me because I’m just not myself. This was one of those weeks. My quarterly taxes were due AND book was due so my brain went in to freak out mode. For me, I don’t want to work out when I’m stressed. I want to stay home, buckle down and figure out every detail to hopefully destress me. But I still go to the gym when I don’t want to.

Remember to hit in the gym in some way when you’re stressed out. Even if it’s just going through the motions. Stress is inevitable so you might as well keep a routine going when things to tough. Amirightoramiright?

Sunday – CrossFit Open Gym – aka make up your own workout

5 rounds:

10 chin ups holding a hollow rock position

20 hollow rocks

Then

4 rounds for time:

200m run

20 overhead walking lunges (45/35)

50 double unders

Monday – CrossFit Class – Mondays are my least favorite days to go to the gym because I know lots of squatting will be involved. Sure, I want to squat and make my butt look better, but alas my knees hurt because I don’t stretch enough and my butt still doesn’t look any different after 5 years of CrossFit. BUT HEY, gotta get a workout in and act like I enjoy Mondays. So I went. And hated it.

EMOM x 8: 2 x Power Clean + 1 Hang Squat Clean.

Set 1-4 @ 80% – 120#

Set 5-8 @ 85% – 125#

Then

Front Squats: (12 mins)

Max Reps at 85%

Max Reps @ 80%

Max Reps @ 75%

I did 10 reps each time with light weight 

7 min Clock:

400m Run

then AMRAP Of:

15 Wall Ball

9 Burpees

No clue what I got. I think I got 5 rounds, but I may have completely made that up.

Tuesday – Rest Day – Book work and blog work kind of day!

Wednesday – CrossFit Class – This workout was real fun. I was SO INCREDIBLY SORE afterwards. You should do it.

EMOM x 3: 3 x Split Jerk @ 70% of 1 rep Split Jerk.

EMOM x 3: 2 x Split Jerk @ 75%

EMOM x 3: 1 Split Jerk @ 80% – I finished at 105#

Then

For Time:

1000m / 900m Row

then, 3 rounds of;

21 Pull Ups

15 Deadlift (255/175)

9 Strict HSPU

I got 13:24 (125# deadlift)

Thursday – CrossFit Class – Going through the motions, kind of day.

Bench Press: (12 mins) – 6% more than last time.

Max Effort Reps at 76% of 2 rep max

Max Effort Reps at 71%

Max Effort Reps at 66%

Then

9 min AMRAP Of:

15 KB Swings (70/55) – I used 45#

9 Burpee Box Jumps (24/20)

5 Thrusters (135/95) – I used 65#

I got 4 rounds + 10 kettlebell swings

– 3 min REST THEN –

400m Sprint For Time

I got 1:32

Friday – Unplanned rest day – My third cookbook is in the last few stages of editing and goes to print reaaaaal soon. So I worked on the book most of the day to make sure things were exactly how I wanted them to be. You guys, I seriously CANNOT WAIT for this book to come out. I am so excited to share it with you all and show you what I got to dream up and what my publisher helped make happen. EEEEEEEKKKKK.

Saturday – CrossFit Class – You guys. Sometimes, I get bummed out how much slower and weaker I am then I used to me. I used to do the workout “Helen” in 8 something and “Annie” in 5 something. I’ve been doing CrossFit for 5 years now and have added time to both. I should probably be more upset, but thankfully I did not feel bad whatsoever. Because I feel way more comfortable in my skin now then I did back then. Has anyone had the same experience? Doing worse on workouts but better at life? So weird.

“Helen”

3 rounds for time:

400 m run

21 kettlebell swings (55/35)

12 pull ups

I finished in 10:27 rx

Then

“Annie”

50-40-30-20-10

Double unders

Sit ups

I did it in under 9 slow minutes. Why do sit ups have to hurt your tale bone AND shoulder blades?