Happy Monday!! It’s time to get motivated and stay motivated all week long! This season change has left me feeling a tad less excited about working out and super sluggish in the dark mornings. But I’m choosing to recognize these feelings and behaviors so I can take the steps to push through them.
It is so incredibly easy to come up with excuses to not stay active. Maybe you had a bad day, maybe you didn’t sleep well, maybe work is stressful or you haven’t been following a healthy diet. And if you’re not recognizing those stressors, they can take over your body and mind and the excuses can become the norm in your life.
It’s easy to become the victim. It’s easy to come up with excuses to make yourself feel better for why you missed another workout. But being the victim won’t help you move forward. It won’t help you improve. And it won’t change your life for the better. You can choose to not be the victim and do whatever you can to improve. Whether that’s walking more at the office or getting in a 15 minute workout on your lunch break. Life is all about choices and it’s about recognizing your own behaviors that hold you back from your true potential.
Don’t be the victim. Be the person you are proud to look at in the mirror.
Sunday – Rest Day
Monday – CrossFit Broadway Class
Every Minute On The Minute x 10: 1 Clean & Jerk (squat clean & split jerk) – First set at 60%, add as you wish. – I got to 120#
Then with a 10 minute Clock:
40 double unders
1-2-3-4-5-6-7…..Clean & Jerk (185/125)
I finished 8 C&J using 95#
Tuesday – Orange Theory Class – see workout here
Wednesday – CrossFit Broadway Class
Overhead Squat: 12 mins to find a heavy 4 reps – I got to 115#
3 Rounds For Time Of: (13 min time cap)
21 Overhead Squats (135/95)
15 Burpees
9 Muscle Ups or Strict C2B Pull Ups
I finished in 12:52 using 65# and doing bar muscle ups
Thursday – Rest Day
Friday – Orange Theory Class – see workout here
Saturday – CrossFit Broadway Class
Partner workout:
10 minute As Many Rounds As Possible:
90 calories on rower
75 pull ups
60 burpees
5 minute rest
15 minute As Many Rounds As Possible:
100m sprint
10 thrusters (95/65)
We finished 15 burpees in the first AMRAP then 16 rounds + 100m sprint in the second AMRAP
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Free Travel Workout:
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
overhead squats
burpees
jumping lunges (each leg)
pop jacks
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What I Ate in a Day:
After waking up, I started my day off how I always do – with coffee. I made a hot cup of coffee with a tablespoon or so of heavy cream, some liquid stevia and collagen.
For breakfast, I tossed arugula in olive oil and lemon juice, microwaved some fingerling potatoes then smashed and cooked in 4th & Heart Ghee and cooked up some ButcherBox breakfast sausage.
For a snack around 11am, I had a Mammoth bar.
Around 1:30pm I had a handful of these butter toffee fuel snacks.
At 2pm, I had a bowl of leftover Mexican Pumpkin Soup (recipe coming this week) with a spoonful of leftover gluten free rice pasta.
Around 3pm, I had a piece of chocolate bark (recipe coming around the holidays)
For dinner, my husband and I went to dinner to use one of our gift cards (I won’t say where because our meals kind of sucked) – I had a burger with bacon jam, arugula, 2 different kinds of cheese and wrapped in lettuce (how could that suck, right? it actually did! so weird) and a side of roasted asparagus instead of fries like I wanted!
Around 9pm, I had 2 pieces of Hu Hazelnut Butter Chocolate.
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Ugh i totally want to fucking be you!! Honestly you are my inspiration. I have had the worst sinus infection since yesterday so 2 days off from the gym is killing me. So for now, i will drink my coffee and live vicariously through you. Always my motivation!