Kept it pretty low key. Just hung around the house and did homework. Breakfast/lunch was a shake, cleanse, green tea and some water. Mid-afternoon snack was a Zone bar. For dinner, a few friends wanted to go out so I ended up getting a chicken BLT panini, which was just plain chicken and the BLT parts. Now here's the bad part...I was a very bad girl....I had a cupcake for dessert. It wasn't just any cupcake, it was a Cannoli Cupcake. There's this place near me called Sugar Mountain Bake Shoppe. My friends have been begging and begging to go and of course they do it right in the middle of me being good. Figures. So I had the cupcake. Let me tell you, so worth the diabetes. Alright, I'll stop being bad!
Today was a day off from the gym so I've just been nursing some sore muscles. It's not too terrible. I can feel those push presses and push-ups pretty much from my triceps, all the way down to my shoulder blades. Yikes! Abs hurt a little bit too. I'm going to try out Strongman tomorrow versus my regular Crossfit workout just to see how I like it. I guess it just fascinates me because it has such a focus on lifting strange objects like atlas stones and weighted bags and just overall basic body movements but adding the twist of coordination required to do the movements while lifting something that's not a barbell. After reading the blog from the gym that I go to, they said that the strength components they work on focus a lot on back/leg strength. I don't really need the leg strength but I need the back strength. I've had weak lower back muscles since I was in high school. One day I was running sprints in track and all of a sudden I felt this awful spasm in my lower back, which essentially left me unable to walk for a few days. Ever since then, I have yet to fully recover. EMS doesn't exactly help either. It seems like no matter how much I strengthen my legs, I will always feel a lift in my lower back because I don't have the core strength to keep it tight. So I'm looking forward to this class and seeing if it could be the thing that helps me. Crossfit itself has already helped me slightly in that body area but I'd like to kind of jumpstart it a little bit now that I'm stronger.
I just want to post this link because this is the first video I ever watched about crossfit and it's the one that got me started. Half of those movements scared the shit out of me, and I told myself that I wouldn't be doing any of them on my first day. I was right, I did them on the second day instead. But that's the awesomeness of it all. There's no build-up or suspense. There's "here's what you're doing" and you do it.
Tomorrow is weigh-in day again! I can't believe that a week has already gone by. Well, I guess I can just because I spent a good 4 days of it working my butt off. Time flies! I don't expect huge results this week since I was so bad over the weekend but I at least hope I stayed steady.
Have a happy Wednesday!
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