Rest days

The beauty of rest days is that you can and should still be active. 

I took my dogs for nice long walks, did hard work and then some light weight training and mobility. A beautiful day without any stressors. 

Just wished I could turn down the voices in my head that tell me I need to work harder, and have all these things to do. 

It's hard to train your brain to be ok with stillness and with rest but it's worth it. I'm sure tomorrow I'll be full of energy. 

Here is to rest days. 

Snatches, Cleans and Deads

Yesterday was rest day. I took the dogs for walks and did some mobility and PT exercises. Today, despite noontime exhaustion, I went to the gym and did e following:

Iron scap

Int/ext rotations

1k row in 4:26

Snatch work 

Power and squat up to 85# and felt good

Clean work

Squat clean to 120# and power to 125#

Deads

Deadlift 3RM to 190 and 1 RM to 230

Then mobi

20# kb lift ups and tgus

Strict banded pullups

Planks

Just another Wednesday Workout

This is day 11 of our 8 week (or approximately 57 days long) nutrition team challenge. I didn't sleep well, had to get up early and didn't get to breakfast before 8am. Had a small snack before I went home and forgot my water... That really showed in cravings around 1.30. I wanted pumpernickel so bad... Haha,but I had a couple of eggs and tuna on greens and olive oil and curbed the cravings. I went to PT and the gym and got tired quickly, had my recovery protein , went home, had a balanced dinner and snack and must say: I better hope this diet is working.... I'm getting tired of the cooking... 

And I start missing some items...

Anyway, working out is going well and I am looking forward to hitting heavy weigts and metcons again soon. 

45' PT

1k row in 4:25

Snatch practice

Up to 75# squat snatch

Up to 85# power snatch

3rds

5Toe to bar

2 banded strict pullups

5 10sec L-sits

5 kb reaches @20#

5 TGUs @20#

Garage WOD

Didn't feel like going to the gym so I warmed up by cleaning the garage and then accumulated 

100 tricep extendions with 6#

100 Arm raises with 6#

100 airsquats, 25 with 25#plate

100 lunges, 40 with 25#plate overhead

50 sit-ups

40 push-ups 

30 leg raises

20 deads @75#

20 cleans @75#

20 clean and jerk @75#

Yoga/Stretchibg cool down

Squats

Another day working out. It feels so good to be back. I'm weaker but that's ok. I'm just having fun for a while, maybe a year. 

I worked up to 175# 1RM front squat today. It was heavy but I made it and will slowly improve. 

So today:

45' PT

Iron scap

5x 250m Row sprints

Fastest at 1:48 split

5-5-5-3-3-3-2-2-1-1 

Working up to 1RM front squat 

Ended with 175#

3-3-3-2-2-1

Working up to heavy overhead squat

Failed at 100#

5-5-2-2-1-1

Working up to heavy bench

Failed at 95#

Superset 3-3-3-3-3

Push-ups 

Banded strict pull ups

Mobi