Today was supposed to be weights, but I had to go to the dentist this morning. That means working through my lunch hour to make up. The yoga felt good though.
Yesterday Daily Activity
30 min step aerobics (Cathe Cardio & Weights, cardio only)
Today Daily Activity
50 Min Yoga (Yoga Mind and Body, possibly the most beautifully filmed yoga video ever)
Yesterday I was SO tired. I skipped my workout. I knew I would feel more energetic if I did it, but I couldn’t motivate myself. Today was much better.
Workout
TT Warmup
Specific Warmup
DB Split Squat 30
Low Incline Press 30
BB Row 75
Single Leg Ball Curl 8 (These remain evil incarnate)
Intervals
Bodyweight Circuits
10 Kettlebell Swings (both sides)
12 kneeling pushups
12 Reverse Prisoner Lunges (both sides)
12 Bodyweigt rows
12 Hip Extensions
12 Mountain Climbers (both sides)
Next week we get 100 baby chickens. I’m not sure we’ve ever done 100 chickens. Maybe once, but I can’t remember for sure. And if we did, it was a bad scene. One year we had very bad loses and I think it was due to too many chickens too early in the year with a wet, cold spring. Starting at the end of July should make a big difference. Since we are almost out of beef, we will be trading 20 or 30 to our friend in exchange for some. Thank goodness. We’re completely out of steaks and roasts and probably only have 15 lbs of hamburger left. I think there’s a tongue or a heart in there, but I’m not very interested in eating those.
Went to the gym this morning instead of at lunch. It’s kind of nice to go in the morning. I get a little extra time to stretch and I don’t feel rushed. I’m typically up in time to leave early, but for the last few months Sam was eating every few hours. Now he can sleep for longer stretches, so it’s not critical that I be there in the morning for him. Not that I don’t want to see him! In fact, going to the gym in the morning means I get to leave work at 5 instead of adding the extra 20 minutes going to the gym on my lunch hour takes to the end of my day. So I get home earlier! Bonus.
This will still be just an occasional thing though. Going on my lunch hour gives me something to do that doesn’t involve going out to eat or shop or some other activity that will cost money. But today is payday 
and I do like to go out to lunch with my coworkers every now and then.
Yesterday Morning
1/2 hr Yoga…Baron Baptiste Unleashing Athletic Power…great hip stretches in this video
Today
TT Warmup
Specific Warmup
BBSquats 75
Assisted Chins 82lbs assist
BB Deadlifts 100 <—that is pretty bad ass if you ask me!
DB One Arm Shoulder Press 20
No, not on my legs. In the pasture. Below are this years poopy cows. We had a scare last week when one of them got the scours. Bloody scours. Thankfully a round of antibiotics took care of it. We’ve never lost a calf and I don’t want to start now. They’re too expensive!
Lunch
DB Split Squats 30 (for all sets! oh yeah!)
DB Low Incline Press 30
BB Row 70
Single Leg Ball Curl 8 (Man, these suck!)
Bodyweight Circuits
10 One Armed Kettlebell Swing (both sides)
12 kneeling pushups
12 Reverse Lunges (both sides)
12 Bodyweight rows
12 Hip Extensions
24 Mountain Climbers, cross body
Repeated 3 times
I’m just gonna throw this out there…I pretty much don’t like to write code for the Compact Framework. You can’t view datasets in the pretty dataset viewer. Debugging is SLOW. It takes forever to deploy to the device. That’s what’s been going on in my world lately. At work anyway.
It was kinda warm today, but I haven’t been running with my friend for at least 3 weeks. I promised I’d do intervals today too and she’s not really into that. So I ran the first half of the route with her and on the return I did my intervals. I didn’t time them. I find that very difficult to do outside without some really loud timer going off and I’m weird and don’t really like to listen to music when I run. I had made a monster ass mp3 out of some favorite songs and added beeps where appropriate for intervals but they were too quiet and I was always like … did I miss it? So today I just picked a spot up ahead to run really fast to. Then I walked till I caught my breath. Rinse and repeat.
Morning
1/2 Foam Roller with Keli Roberts
Lunch
2.9 miles…1.4 jog then 6 intervals. Jog till the end.
Todays workout has a HUGE dread factor for me. It’s really difficult and I have to really psych myself up for it. I was trying to talk myself out of it, but at noon, I found myself heading to the gym with a just do it attitude. I skipped the intervals. Today and Saturday. Saturday because Sam woke up and today because I had to run to the bakery for these whole wheat hamburger buns that don’t have any dairy in them. I’m pretty sure the bakery closes before I get out of work and we needed the buns for dinner tonight. Yeah, yeah, processed carbs, I know. At least they’re 100% whole wheat with no crappy cheap oils. Intervals tomorrow. I promise.
Saturday
DB Split Squat 30
Low Incline Press 30
BB Row 75
Single Leg Ball Curl
Today
BB Squat 80
Eccentric Pull ups
Romanian Deadlifts 100
One Arm Shoulder Press 20
I wasn’t feeling super motivated today. Probably because I knew this would be a tough workout. Squats, chins and deadlifts? Ouch. I went anyway.
Morning
TT Ab work
20 min foam rollin’ it
Lunch
TT Warmup
Specific Warmup
BB Squat 75
Eccentric Chins 5
Romanian Deadlift 90
1-Arm Shoulder Press 20
6 60/60 intervals on the recumbent bike
My schedule is shifted this week. It’s National Cherry Festival and when Bill worked he always spent the week up here taking care of the computer stuff for his employer. Today he came up with me so I went to lunch with him and some friends instead of going to the gym.
Yesterday my iPod fell out of the bottom of it’s rubber case while I was running. I thought it went under the treadmill, but luckily I found it. That really sucked! Plus it made me look like a fool. I went out the front desk to ask the dude if they had something they could fish under the treadmill with and then when we went back into the cardio room, there it was on the rail of the treadmill. I have a black Nano, by the way, so it blended right in.
Yesterday
30 Min jog on treadmill at gym
Today
30 Min step aerobics (Cathe Low Impact Step)
I did NOT want to get out of bed this morning. I’ve been slacking on the abs again and it only takes 10 minutes, so I finally dragged myself up and did them. I aslo woke up with a headache. I hate when that happens. Nothing special happened this weekend. I got the other half of the garden weeded and helped Bill stack and cut more wood, but lil man needed more attention so I couldn’t help as much as I did last weekend.
Morning
TT Ab Work
Lunch
DB Split Squats 30, 25
Low Incline Press 30, 25
BB Row 65, 70
Ball Single Leg Curl, a few rests
Eating was horrible last night. I ate unknown quantities of pretzel chips. Oh well, back on track this morning.
Today was my last day on this phase of Turbulence Training for Women. I increased the weight on my Sumo Squat. I was going to back off the 20 lbs I used last time on the stepups because I thought I was using my back leg too much. I thought I grabbed 15s and slapped some plate mates on there to bump it up to 16.25. Man it was tough a tough set. I thought going heavier on the sumo squats must have taken more of a toll on me than I expected. When I finished the set I realized I grabbed 20s. So I just took the plate mates off and did the other 2 sets that way. So I had increases in two exercises today! Chins are still sucking though.
Lunch
Assisted Chin 8×70lbs assist
Eccentric Chins 6, 4
BB Sumo Squats 3×8x75
DB Stepup 8×21.25, 2×8x20
Cable Raise 2×8x15, 8×10
