Hello ladies!
Let's see...workouts.
Sunday I did a bonanza of a workout.
LOL After my recovery week (where I only did gentle-ish workouts 4 times instead of my usual 5 day workout week), I felt the need to go HARD! Hey, when your in the mood for a marathon, might as well scratch that itch, right??
I started off with
Crossfire w/u + fitness blast/firewalker tabata, then I did
100 rep hip thrusts with my barbell at 81 lbs (resting 1 minute at 30 reps, 3 x 20 reps than finally the last 10 reps). I decided to experiment with doing hip thrusts before lower body work. I'm on the fence with whether I liked this approach or not. On the one hand, it affected my performance with
Pyramid Lower Body (which I did after the hip thrusts). OTOH...DOMS big time yesterday!
My glutes and hamstrings were oh so sore!
After that I putzed around a little and, still being in my workout clothes, I decided to do
Ruthless: Lunatic Intervals (~20 minutes). It wasn't as hard as it sounds, although it was a good workout. I am so glad I caved and got this Ruthless set. It is SO worth the $30!
Yesterday I took off, thank goodness! lol Then today I did
HoCo August Year 2 Hardcore. I love me some HoCo, but I have to admit this one was not a favorite. I love 95% of the ones I have but I guess they can't all hit it out of the park. This one used the ball and so many moves just felt awkward so I didn't really get much out of the workout. Oh well!
Sarah- Oh man, you should totally look into the symptoms for interstitial cystitis.
Interstitial cystitis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia That's what I finally came to realize I have rather than what I thought was recurrent UTI's. My urine was always sterile and I'd have problems whenever I would travel or be stressed out (or eating poorly, not drinking enough water, drinking too much coffee or alcohol). I came to realize between my stomach ulcer and the IC that I had to cut out coffee and other acidic foods/drinks (including green tea, orange juice, salsa, etc). I found I can tolerate small amounts of alcohol, but my days of drinking more than one glass of wine in a sitting are over. Which is just fine with me, actually...I am TOO OLD for hangovers! LOL
Man, I sure hope the home schooling works out for you. That's a bummer about the schools in your area. Mark and I always talk about moving to Florida and how great it would be but the schools down there aren't as good as the schools in Wisconsin (from what I gather anyway). So...not until the kids have graduated, at least!
Nancy- I am so sorry to hear about your brother. How devastating.
Hopefully the workouts will help you cope with the grief and loss you are going through. {{hugs}}
Natty- WOW on your deadlift numbers! I tried to load my barbell to 100 lbs the other day to see if I could do it, but nope.
The most I can deadlift is 91 lbs with only a few reps. I could do 81 lbs during PLB and do the full 12 reps, but I found I really couldn't increase the weight despite lower rep numbers.
Of course, I'm not working on a strict program of increasing my strength in any kind of organized way. I'm just fine with that though...I am a cardio and variety
junkie!! LOL I love what I do and how I workout at this point. Some day, though, I swear I am going to focus on some kind of organized strength progression just to say I did it.
Waving HI to
Marie, Justina and
Jen! Gotta fly for now.
