Recap of a Week

Hello beautiful people!

What a week it has been. Most of it was quite emotional so I wasn't really present on here because well, who wants to talk about all of the things that are going wrong.

Things didn't get much better after my last post. Tuesday I had great intentions. Actually I was pretty good on Tuesday. But there IS a such thing as too much of the good stuff. I've started adding a protein shake after my workouts. It's a great and easy way to just get some protein in myself so I don't feel like passing out until I can actually eat something. We've started using Earth Fed Muscle and love it. Well, you're not really supposed to chug that down and then have a protein pancake, boiled eggs and a whole crapton of water to wash it all down with. Needless to say, I spent the rest of the day at work hellaciously bloated. And then found out the hard way that excessive amounts of protein don't do your digestive system any favors so I actually spent the rest of the week feeling like I was toting around a beach ball in my stomach. Pro-tip, apparently my system cannot accommodate large amounts of water and protein at the same time anymore. I'm sure you can imagine how that felt at the gym.

Wednesday and Thursday I worked. My coworkers had a little mini celebration complete with cookies, muffins and mini-cupcakes. And it was like bringing an alcoholic to a bar. I was not ready to have temptation like right in my face. So I made some mistakes. Thursday I woke up hoping for a better day. Packed a metric ton of healthy stuff that I knew I'd like to eat and hoped for the best. Didn't happen. I think what got to me the most was that having the sweets were good, because it's better than none, but they weren't even the most delicious thing I've ever had so at the end of the day they weren't super worth it. But time and time again I would walk into the office, past the box of cookies and just like that I would have one in my hand and not even realize it until I was a couple bites in. It was scary to feel so out of control and it put me in a horrible place emotionally for the rest of the week. I won't even get into all the horrendous thoughts I was thinking because reliving it would suck. I just felt like I had failed myself and it hit me pretty hard that I'm still weak and despite how well I'd been doing up until now, I still have way more work to do than I thought. I knew if I could have just stayed away from the get-go I would have been perfectly fine. But once I get that one bite, it's all over. There was a lot of self-loathing going on. Because not only did I feel like shit emotionally, my body basically hated what I did to it too. I'm pretty sure it wasn't until like Monday that I felt like things were starting to work properly again. Before that, I felt like a pregnant oompa loompa. Yeah, picture that, no bueno.

Fortunately for me, I got Friday off and then my work week technically started on Saturday. So I got a little head start on a new week for myself. I'll admit, it hasn't been perfect. I was doing better before I slipped up, but it's an improvement from last week. Work thankfully kept me busy and the temptations were minimal. I've also changed up how I'm eating my protein in the morning. Now I just do a shake after the gym, with a pancake before work and I save the eggs until later, which has already made a huge difference. Only thing is work has been exhausting the past few days, hence why I haven't been doing a lot of blogging.

Today I finally got a day off after working the past 7 out of 8 days and my gosh it's amazing. The weather is nice so I spent a couple hours outside and just getting myself organized.

Our meals this week are a chicken stir fry that we made up. Couldn't get any veggies at the market this weekend since we were both working but we put yellow squash, zucchini and peppers in it. I flavored it with a little bit of sesame oil and coconut aminos, which is delicious. We kinda split off for the second meal because I've been jonesing fish and that's not really Matt's speed so he's having chicken and I'm having shrimp. We're making them with roasted green beans and potatoes on the side. Think I grabbed some mushrooms to put with mine too.

Now to catch up on some workouts.....

Last Tuesday:
Part 1
3x4 Snatch Balance
3x5 Hang Snatch
then....
For time, with a partner, row 3000 meters, switching every 500

By now, I forget the weight I used for the snatches. I remember the snatch balances feeling really good. Probably because it was nice to do something without a tempo for once. The hang snatches were tough because they wanted us doing them right from the hip so you lose a lot of momentum from that. I DO remember having to do those light. Now the conditioning. So my favorite partner wasn't in class, and my smart self thought that a husband and wife duo would be adorable and badass. Yeah, no. Mister "you're so much better at rowing than me" Rothberg kicked my ass. He starts off the first round at a 1:48/500m pace, AKA a full out sprint for me on a really good day if I make it the whole way. And he kept it up the whole time. So here I am dying and he's capitalizing on the fact that I'm slow and he gets a good break out of it. I can just hear Morgan Freeman now...."and that's when Ally realized she will never be doing that again."

Thursday I think I wanted to go but didn't for some reason? I forget why. Maybe I just wanted some sleep but I'm not quite sure. But I did go Friday.

4x6-8 deadlift
3x10 dumbbell overhead tricep extensions
then...
"Fran"
21-15-9
Thrusters
Kipping Pull-Ups

Wish I could say I remember what weight I used for this one too but I can't. This is the part where Matt's going to tell me to start carrying around a notebook. My back was feeling a little fired up so I definitely didn't go nuts, or anywhere near the 65% of my 1RM. But Fran. God I hate Fran. Thrusters are kind of one of the worst crossfit movements to ever exist. The prescribed weight is 65 pounds. I tried it for a whole rep and decided it just wasn't happening for an entire workout so I bumped it down to 55. Then did ring rows. I got 6:44 which is respectable. I wasn't the last to finish, but I was one of the most scaled so definitely room to improve.

Monday's workout wasn't too bad...
5x4-6 front squat at 65% 1RM with tempo
4x8 dumbbell curl
then...
10 min AMRAP
15 power snatch
60 single unders
15 wall balls
60 single unders

I didn't feel too horrible on this day. I ended up doing the front squats progressive because I didn't know how I was going to feel. By the last round I was at 65% of my 1RM, which ended up being 115 pounds. My knees aren't a fan of the tempo, but I felt strong doing it. The workout was a little rough. For some reason the power snatches were really hard despite only being 55 pounds. That's not normal for me. The wall balls I scaled down to 12 pounds, which I really shouldn't have done. I like AMRAPs because they're an opportunity to push myself. I don't have to worry about coming in last or being the person everyone is staring at because we're all working for the same amount of time. So I should have just done the prescribed weight with the wall balls. I'll get 'em next time.

Yesterday I woke up and it just wasn't going to happen. I was exhausted and decided to sleep. I'm kinda bummed I missed out on snatches again, but the extra couple hours of sleep was worth it. So I'll hit up the gym again on Thursday and Friday.

One of these weeks I need to force myself to go 4 times. Just once. I think it'll be good for me and I think I'm in a good place that I can handle it. I feel good after my workouts and the soreness isn't really a problem anymore. Plus I'm just going to need to push it there at some point if I want my body to keep getting better because soon 3 days a week won't be enough. Like wall balls, I'll get there.

I think that's all I have to report right now! I'd say I'll check back in within a few days but as I've learned the last couple weeks, life is a little unpredictable, so I'll just say see ya soon!