Thursday, July 19, 2018

Surviving Zombie Mode

Nights officially done. Thank goodness because my body did not like that round even a little bit. Wasn't the worst thing ever though. Just hoping I can sleep tonight since tomorrow is back to a daytime schedule already.

So Tuesday I was planning on going to the gym. Unfortunately the 730 AM class is no longer so that left me super indecisive on when I was actually going to get there. I debated with just going to open gym and trying to motivate myself to work out on my own, but yeah that just wasn't going to happen. Then I said I would just come up, make a quick breakfast and stay up until the 915. And then zombie mode kicked in at about 2 AM and I realized that was not going to happen. So I decided to try for the 545. Well I woke up at 2 and determined I didn't feel like waiting around for several hours so I went to the 330. So much drama and inner turmoil just to get to this one gym class, lemme tell ya.

3x3 snatch balance
5x2 hang snatch from below the knee
then...
2min AMRAP
- 3 power cleans
- 5 burpees
- max calories on the bike
Rest 4 minutes
Repeat 2 min AMRAP

I didn't think this workout was too bad, but my body, especially my quads, were just not feeling it. Plus I was dumb and didn't wear my lifting shoes, which help me feel much more stable with Olympic lifts. I have pretty good mobility but having the wider and completely flat base with the lifting shoes helps me keep my balance when I'm trust falling myself into a squat with a barbell over my head. Just one of my little nitpicky things. So, either way, didn't exactly hit the weights I was hoping to. I got up to 75 pounds with the balances. I tried 85 and could not keep it overhead safely. With the hang snatches I only got to 65 pounds. Kind of disappointing, but it gave me a chance to work on form at least. The workout really wasn't bad at all. The score was the total number of calories you were able to rack up between the two rounds. I got to 31, which was similar to the other women in the gym. I really love these short and sweet workouts, although my quads gave out in that last round of biking. They were pretty over it. It just felt good to get moving. I knew I wasn't going to break any records and I was ok with it.

I haven't been back to the gym since. I considered today, but I think I'm going to do tomorrow and Saturday instead. Which means I super have to try hard to get back on a normal sleeping schedule. I see Benadryl in my future tonight.

Eating this week has been interesting. I've been putting in a lot more effort to preplan my meals for the day the night before and it's been working out fairly well. Tuesday was tough because my plan got messed up with the ever-changing gym schedule so at 5 PM I still had like 1200 calories to eat before midnight. Don't get me wrong, I can eat my way through 1200 calories easily...but it wouldn't be on healthy stuff so doing it mindfully was tough. But I did it. Surprisingly I don't feel super full even with eating the actual amount I'm supposed to be eating and as of yesterday I had lost a little more weight compared to Sunday so it's certainly doing good things for my body. I'm definitely looking forward to trying it more while on a day schedule, which I think will feel a little less cumbersome since I'll actually be eating during normal person hours instead of over the span of two calendar days. We'll see how it goes.

Short post today. Mostly because I was actually just on here a couple days ago.....and my computer is about to die. And I should probably get off this couch at some point. *shrug*

Hope everyone is having a good week!

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