So first things first, and most important things first. One of my favorite people on the planet, Jennifer Champion, beasted like legit 40 hours of labor and gave birth to an absolutely perfect baby boy. Logan Nicholas Champion! I even got to hold that beautiful baby Wednesday and it was magical. I just love him already. Congrats Jennifer and Shaun! :)
now, for the lesser important things. Like me bitching about how hard my workouts are. I worked with Kevin Thursday afternoon per my usual, and in an hour I burned 691 calories and sweet baby Jesus and his teen mom Mary. whewwwwww. I felt the burn. Everywhere. I felt like we did all the things. No lunges, can I get an amen?! but a butt ton of glute bridges. see what I did there? and barbell hip thrusters can suck it. They're a lot harder than I imagined. I don't know why I thought they would be easy. I don't know why I think a lot of the things I do, but that's the beauty of this blog. You all get to experience the mess that is my mind. Kevin has this way of encouraging you to do more, without being pushy and it's really nice. Like I was down a few minutes(hours) of cardio this week and Kevin told me I was welcome to stay and row if I wanted after, but obviously if I didn't want to that was fine too. I did 1000 meter row in 5:52 and then slowed down and rowed for like 4 more minutes and left plank. 10 minutes I did there is 10 I don't have to worry about later.
Annnnnnnnnnnnd I hit a new PR on the stairs on Wednesday! 20 freakin minutes. I almost died.
I did Zumba on Tuesday night at the rush, and it might be my new thing on Tuesdays. I really, really, really hate any kind of chest workout, and Tuesday was chest/triceps, and I cranked out the first like 10 bench presses and wanted to die. I decided to get water and come back, and then happened to see Zumba started in about 3 minutes. Sooo. I took some liberties and decided to do Zumba instead and then rearrange my lifting schedule. but I'm also giving myself a learning curve, because I feel like every week something changes with work, my life and then Darin changes things periodically, usually at my request, sometimes not. I'll get everything done...hopefully. I also like to think that I'm somewhat stepping out of my comfort zone. Yes, I've done zumba before...actually around this time last year, and I love it, but I hadn't done it at the rush and walking in to a huge ass group class and joining took my anxiety from like a 2 to 19. BUT, I didn't die, or make a huge ass out of myself (I hope), it was fun and an hour of it burned 680 calories and it was an hour of cardio. I really, really liked the instructor. She was this 5'4 woman who wasn't in perfect shape but she was having a BLAST teaching and she really made it fun. We zumba'd to come and get it by selena gomez, booty werk by tpain and roar by katy perry...and some pitbull song I hate. All that interspersed with some traditional Latin music. I wasn't a fan of that but my heart rate stayed in the mid 160's, and it wasn't slogging it out on an elliptical so I call it a win.
I also went to bodypump this morning with Brooke. I've been seeing les mills stuff on my IG and decided to try a class. First of all can we talk about the ridiculousness that was getting up at 7am on Saturday? whew. that was a workout in and of itself. Then we get in the class, and the instructor asks if anyone is new. So we raise our hands, and he immediately tells us to drop the weights on our bars. I use the term bar loosely, as it weighed maybe 5lbs, and Brooke and I had 10s on each side. So we had 25 pounds to work with. We both were like um no and since I'm ridiculously stubborn, I refused to take any of the weight off during anything. I did ALL THE THINGS with at least 25lbs. and now my poor muscles are paying the price because I am already feeling it. It was a fun class, and I like that you do every muscle group in an appropriate order. Except the tricep song, whewww. it was the light 'em up song by fall out boy and light 'em we did. Can I just say fuck a push up in general, but tricep push ups are ridiculous. I did the modified ones and I'm pretty sure my arms are gonna fall off. This week has been all about group fitness classes for me.
All the above on a sketchy right hammie kind of sucked. Especially because we did like no lie 3 minutes of nothing but lunges. Kevin suggested I stretch and foam roll but I'd rather chew on razor blades and swish with running alcohol. I can't be the only person who feels that way but I may get desperate. Especially tomorrow. #help.
I'm considering a small return to crossfit. and by small I mean doing the on-ramp at Pisgah again and then 2 days a week for cardio. maybe. I don't know. I just want something more competitive and something I can get better at. Haters gonna hate, but it really is fun. I don't know though, especially how it would fit in with everything else I have going on. I just like to do all the things, really.
Enjoy this cold shitty weather my friends, I'm about to roll up like a burrito and take a little ride to sleepy town before I die of sleep depravation.
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