Snow Day AKA Active Rest

These pictures are from a few weeks ago but I felt like posting them none the less.

Had a great weekend that started with an evening with the girls and helping my bestie say FREEDOM to her old job.

Saturday was a baby shower for a great friend, great conversation with Bonnie and then dinner with Brett and Emily. The evening ended with some scrap booking of our Mexico trip last month.

Sunday was church, helping my grandfather put his shell back on his trailer, him trying to pay everyone for helping him and him being amazed that it only took about 10 minutes to complete the project. The evening ended with a great small group focused on going back and remembering the places in which God has met us in the past. Talking about how we recognized it and how to gauge where we are currently at in our relationships with God. Followed by time laughing with Andy and Bonnie before heading home and creating this post:)

Friday Fun Day

Pre-Workout

4 rounds of

20 med ball tosses (6lb)

1 min double under practice

Work Out

5 kb single arm weighted thruster (26lb kb/20 lb db)

5 burpees

400m run

10 kb single arm weighted thruster

10 burpees

200m run

2 rounds

Time: 14:17

2 lb Snatch PR

Nothing to big to talk about today. Went for a run on the dam after work this evening. Great run, beautiful view and I ran faster then last time.

77 lb Snatch! Nailed a couple then started to fatigue.

Food

8:00 eggs with pico and tri-tip

12:00 lettuce wrap burger with cheese and jalapenos and bacon

7:00 chicken with poppyseed dressing

Split Jerk and Helen

Split Jerk

55x5

77x5

87x3

92x3

97x3

102x3

First time in a long time 100lbs overhead!! Pretty stoked!!

Workout Helen

400m run

21 kb swings (35lbs)

12 pull ups

3 rounds

time: 9:52

Haven't done Helen in a while RX so it felt really good to complete it today. I need to work on my pull ups as Santos labeled that I was not getting over the bar with my butterfly. More work on that tomorrow.

Food:

6:00-Protein Shake

9:00- 2 eggs, tri-tip and pico

12:00-tri-tip

1:00-3 cookies

7:30-lettuce wrap burger with cheese and jalapenos, sweet potato fries, honey mustard

Snatch Work and Sunsets

Started my evening off with a run on the dam almost 2 miles, no stopping, may add another 1/2 lap tomorrow evening. It felt good to be up there and let my mind clear of everything that seems to be on it these days. Solitude can be a good thing and a dangerous thing.

Went to the gym after my workout, to foam roll and get some o-lifting in. Talked with Veronica and I am going to do more of a focus on snatch work rather then cleans cause I really need to get over my fear of going under the bar.

Tonight started out snatching 55lbs, 65 lbs, 70 lbs, and ended with 75lbs tonight. I was able to get under the bar at 75 which has been a struggle for me in the past. But the focus is not going up in weight right now but getting my ass under the bar. It is such a mental block and I am always amazed at how much power the brain has. I can power snatch 75lbs like it is nothing, but getting my ass under the bar is where everything goes out the window. I am afraid that I am going to mess up, drop the bar and hit myself in the head when I work on catching the bar in the squat position. I know that this is not going to happen and yet I continue to have this irrational fear. AHHHHHHH! I guess in life everyone has some irrational fear or another.

Food

B-Protein shake

S- coffee and 1/2 scone

L-Carne Asada Salad with guacamole, sour cream and cheese

S-cookie

D-Tri-tip steaks, broccoli, zuchinni

I love CLEANS!

This evenings workout included front squats
77x5
99x5
114x3
119x1
124x1
129x1
Felt really good during the squats, want to work on these more often in order to up my strength.

Work Out

AMRAP in 12 min

5 Hang Squat Cleans (65lb)

5 High Box Jumps (21 in)

200m run

6 rounds + cleans

Workout felt great! I need to get my strength up and I need to get my cardio up. Hoping to run the dam again tomorrow night and continue on a positive track with my food choices.

Food

6:00 Protein Shake

8:30 2 eggs, 4 bacon

10:00 protein bar

1:00 Caesar Salad

8:00 Lettuce Tacos, sweet potato fries

Fell off the Paleo Wagon

Totally crashed and burned yesterday in my attempts to maintain a semblance of a paleo diet yesterday. It is to embarrassing to post here so it will not be put up. Let's just say that I am getting back on the wagon today.