i!i! kettlebell monday !i!i

Good morning!

Deanie - Doing ETK with 40# is seriously bad-ass. :cool: This program is great! I showed an amazing amount of restraint in BB&B...only bought some shelf liner, hand towels and a paper towel holder. :p

Jane - Great job on your race! Any PR is a good PR! ;) I like what you did yesterday. Sorry the massages got rained out...what's wrong with those people?!? Are they going to melt??

Melissa - Wicked time on your 100 burpees! Date night sounded great! Mmmmm...Shirazzzzzz. ;)

Hi Marcy and Rhonda!

Sorry to be MIA this weekend. Our electrician came on Friday, and our plumber worked with DH all day Saturday and got our main sink hooked up. He has to come back this week to do the prep sink and dishwasher. We pretty much spent the whole weekend getting the new kitchen "ready for occupancy", then DH immediately demo'd the old one, so there's no turning back now. ;)

The first meal in the new kitchen was scrambled eggs and tater tots! :p So I could test drive the new range without feeling bad about burning anything.

As for workouts. All I've gotten in since last Wednesday was a short set of TGU's at 12kg...my brain wasn't in it enough to try anything heavier.

I need to go grocery shopping tonight, so I'll jump back into swings tomorrow. I was hoping to start ROP next week, but this week is going to be kinda discombobulated, so I may hold off until the week after. I want to finish a strong Program Minimum week before starting ROP.

Sorry to ramble. :eek:

Have great day!
 
I just scheduled an appointment with an RKC, DH and I are going together because he has really taken an interest in kbs lately. He gave me the link ickbgirls.com (I think you guys have posted videos from here before). I am not really sure what I think about him because he gave a weird vibe: he hasn't even seen me yet and I have him very little information yet he mentioned me competing in stuff :confused: and kept tooting his horn, mentioning the people that he's helped get RKC. I didn't even express an interest in RKC, just that I needed help with my form, especially snatches. He honestly seemed really arrogant, but I am still excited to be able to get in with someone. Maybe he is just nervous on the phone, too - help me stay positive! He is the only instructor in our area code.

Deanie, of course you got a better workout with the 16kg snatches! :p
The pullups were so much easier to build up to the point of not ever having to take a break the second time through with a heavier bell.
I do feel pretty good about those burpees! Don't you feel awesome that you were aiming for 20 minutes and you killed someone aiming for 10? :cool:

Jane, better is better, could you imagine how much better you would have done without an icky quad? Good job! I am amazed at the 76 year old man - I want to be like him too! What an inspiration. At the mini, every year there is a blind man who runs with people taking turns leading him by a rope. He doesn't get why it's a big deal - and I am thinking about the cracks, the potholes, the trash that I can see... The most inspirational people I have ever met think that they are nobodies and blush when they receive praise. What is more honorable than humility?
I think I like your sister. Someone who is willing to come out in the rain to watch someone run by is pretty alright. :)

Gayle, I think that both Deanie and I did an extra week of the minimum, and I am very glad I did.
Did the new range pass the test? I can only imagine how excited you are!!! I am excited for your - and I gotta know: did DH have a good time demo'ing the old stuff?

I finished the workout, 5x3 with 8 minutes of snatching. Everything was great except for the end of the snatches... stupid LHS. :eek:

I had a run-in with cookies this weekend. It was very ugly, and I am shaking because I want to bake some more badly even though I ate until I had heartburn and wanted to throw up last night. Do any of you guys have this reaction to this stuff? I don't know if I have a chemical problem or what.

Have an awesome day! I will try to be back later.

Melissa
 
Good Afternoon,

Here is my workout for tonight.

KETTLEBELL DIRTY THIRTY​
Do 30 reps of each exercise​


Kettlebell push press x right
Kettlebell push press x left
Kettlebell sit up
Kettlebell swings x right
Kettlebell swings x left
Push ups
Kettlebell back row x right
Kettlebell back row x left
Kettlebell pullover/sit up/press
Kettlebell cleans x right
Kettlebell cleans x left




Gayle ~ I'm glad you got to cook in your new kitchen. Scrambled eggs and tater tots sound great! I hear you about the massages. It really wasn't raining all that heavy and all the food people were there. The guy that won the race finished in 32:51. I was just a minute from the 3 mile mark went he finished.



Melissa ~ I would reserve judgment until you meet the guy. He was probably had his "salesman hat" and was trying to rope you in. I bet he is a better instructor than a salesman. Give him the benefit of the doubt for now.



Wow...amazing about the blind man. There was also a 85 or 86 year old guy that did the race as well. He walks with 2 canes and has a neck brace. He starts early and I passed him around the 5 mile mark. There also was another lady in her 80's. She told me that she started doing races in her 70's.



I don't have any reactions when I eat bad stuff. I only feel "bad" afterwards but it's not a physical bad, it's an emotional bad. I am a bottomless pit and can just keep eating and eating. I tell people if EVER don't want to eat then take me to the hospital because SOMETHING is seriously wrong with me. BTW...what kind of cookies were they?? :eek:


Hi to Deanie and Rhonda!


Hope everyone has a great Monday!!






 
Hi everyone. I actually did MMA Kickbox on Friday and I hiked for 2 hours yesterday. It felt good to get moving. I have class today so I don't know if I can squeeze anything in.

Deanie- I've said it before, you are a beast!

Gayle- So excited that your kitchen is coming together. How you showed that much restraint in BBB is beyond me. When I moved out, I went crazy!

Melissa- I agree with Jane. Give him the benefit of the doubt and see how it goes. Glad that DH is wanting to get involved with KB's.

Jane- Way to go on your race. Now you just have to schedule a nice table massage instead. One of my goals is to do a 5k before next year.

Hi Marcy.
 
lioness said:
Melissa ~ I would reserve judgment until you meet the guy. He was probably had his "salesman hat" and was trying to rope you in. I bet he is a better instructor than a salesman. Give him the benefit of the doubt for now.
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Will do, thanks! :D

They were peanut butter cookies on Saturday night and chocolate chip cookies yesterday - with BIG chocolate chunks. His brother gave us those from his work (Max and Erma's) and they are so divine. I can imagine with all of the running and the super workouts you do that you NEVER feel full! I don't feel that way much anymore because I am doing shorter workouts, but I remember feeling like we would have to buy a new kitchen for just me if we didn't get it under control. :eek::p

Gotta run, I am driving the boys to the landfill for a field trip in about 5 minutes. DS is giving a speech on recycling so he wants to check out what happens with our stuff when we don't recycle. Luckily, we have one only 5 miles away, otherwise I'd have to find a youtube video. ;)

Melissa
 
Hey Rhonda! Hiking sounds awesome. :)

Melissa - ITA on the RKC and see how the first appointment goes. I'm glad to hear you and Deanie did extra weeks on the PM. :) As far as the cookie incident goes ;), I find that if I abstain from certain things, most notable sugar and refined flour products, I do have a bit of a reaction when I start eating them again.

I ate pretty well all last week, very little sugar (small amounts of honey and maple syrup) and almost no wheat/flour products (except whatever was in the tater tots). Anyway, MIL gave DH a chocolate cream pie (store bought) yesterday for his birthday, so I had a slice. This morning I woke up with a throbbing headache! I don't know for sure if it was the pie, but that was the last thing I ate. :confused:
 
hi again!:)

Gayle::: Do the pm for as long as you want!:) I've been reading on DD of people who have done it for 3 months!! WOW that is some restraint in BB and B!!!!:eek: I need you to teach me how to do that!!!:eek: Fun first meal in the new kitchen! I'm guessing everything is working well :)! How much fun did DH have demolishing the old kitchen!!?? Great way to let loose!! Happy Birthday to DH!!

Jane::: I really like your workout for tonight! copied it down and put it in my file!! So many workouts, so little time!

Melissa::: We did the same workout today :):):)!! I agree with Gayle and Jane about the instructor. He may be much better in person. How cool that Dan is going with you!! My DH would come with me, but just to watch me, not to learn for himself!!:confused::p I love the way you home school your kids. Have fun at the landfill.
....and I know since I have cut out "chemicals" when I tried to eat some jelly beans, they left a weird, not good, taste in my mouth, so I didn't eat any more..... same with some oreos I had recently.....:confused:

RHONDA!!! of all Cathe's new dvds, the MMA workouts were the ones that appealed to me the most! I love hiking! glad you had fun workouts!

later gators!:cool:
 
Farmer said:
Hi everyone. I actually did MMA Kickbox on Friday and I hiked for 2 hours yesterday. It felt good to get moving. I have class today so I don't know if I can squeeze anything in.

Deanie- I've said it before, you are a beast!

Gayle- So excited that your kitchen is coming together. How you showed that much restraint in BBB is beyond me. When I moved out, I went crazy!

Melissa- I agree with Jane. Give him the benefit of the doubt and see how it goes. Glad that DH is wanting to get involved with KB's.

Jane- Way to go on your race. Now you just have to schedule a nice table massage instead. One of my goals is to do a 5k before next year.

Hi Marcy.
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AH! I JUST MISSED YOU!!!

Have fun at class tonight. And I am jealous of your hiking! It has been raining here nonstop since Friday afternoon and we are feeling serious cabin fever right now. So, when you work out tonight that means that 3 of the last 4 days you have worked out - WTG! :D
BTW, your advice helped a lot. Kung Fu grip, no joke! I am ready to move on to something heavier. ;) You have no idea how good that feels!!! (pun intended now, but I didn't plan it, lol!)

Deanie, I notice that too, especially when we eat out at chain restaurants. It's like oil or shortening is coating my mouth and upper throat - nasty! I am this -><- close to eating absolutely nothing but what you can find in nature, completely untouched by man. I would have a hard time giving up my smoothies, though. Well, I guess that the hemp isn't so bad, but I am pretty sure that the soy milk wouldn't float - even though the soy has kept my girl part regular so maybe it would fly. What floats and flies? A duck. And witches and wood burn so if she weighs the same as a duck... forgive me, we just watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail this weekend. :eek:

Gayle, that is interesting about the headache. I was just talking to someone last week who had given up wheat and when she had one piece of pizza with the crust she woke up with a headache as well. Things that make you go hmmm....

I think I am done for the day now. DD just got home and we have tons of weekend vomit to clean up... not literal vomit, just messes.

Later gals!
Melissa
 
pink_fortitude said:
I am this -><- close to eating absolutely nothing but what you can find in nature, completely untouched by man. I would have a hard time giving up my smoothies, though. Well, I guess that the hemp isn't so bad, but I am pretty sure that the soy milk wouldn't float - even though the soy has kept my girl part regular so maybe it would fly.
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*raises hand like Arnold Horseshack*

OOH OOH OOH!!! How about coconut milk for your smoothies?! I use it sometimes and it's mighty tasty. It's also perfectly legal in that Paleo "untouched by man" sense.


pink_fortitude said:
What floats and flies? A duck. And witches and wood burn so if she weighs the same as a duck... forgive me, we just watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail this weekend. :eek:
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Or

SPAM?!?! :p
 
oooh! have you guys had the purely decadent coconut milk ice cream??????

It is SO good!!:D:D:D
my favorite flavors are mint chip and cookie dough!! Yummie!

I use almond milk for milk - choc. flavor for after my workouts, and vanilla flavor for in my oatmeal or cooking with instead of milk. not sure if its Paleo, but I don't do paleo:p I think what I do is called eating raw. (although not sure the almond milk counts as raw, but I count it as raw;))
 
Gayle, do you do Paleo? I don't read much about diets anymore, just try to go as natural as possible but I would dig finding out more about that if it is natural and not some fad. I think I read someone else in OD is on Paleo...
I honestly hadn't thought about coconut milk! I knew it existed, but hadn't thought of putting it my smoothies - oh, man! it would be so good!!! Strawberries, cut pineapples, blueberries... and COCONUT!!! :9

Deanie, I think I may have asked you this before - how does the rest of your family eat? My boys eat what I eat - except for the soy milk, I only let them have rice milk. DD is like Daddy. Picky. I don't make anything special for them, though, because that would mean that it was deepfried and sprinkled with sugar and Mama don't do that. ;)

Melissa
 
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