Strangeness.....Tomorrow I have my preliminary appointment with the GI doctor. Basically to see if they think I need to have the endoscopy or not to get the Celiac diagnosis. At this point, I just want the yes or no, so I can get back to eating the way I need to. Hopefully soon!
Saturday, Poppa Joe, Patty and I decided we were going to head to the park and do our own workout. Jonathan was out of town, but we were going to do it anyway, after all, we are addicted aren't we??
So, silly us, we decide to go, and come up with a plan. 100m lunges, 21 pushups, 21 situps, decrease the pushups and situps by 3 each round, until you get through 6. Poppa Joe was going to run the hill, while Patty and I lunged away. Great idea, right? Well, we aren't quite good enough to figure out exactly what 100m is, so I estimated it at 50 lunges. 25 each leg. After round one, Patty and I looked at each other, and said, how about 40. After round 2, we looked at each other and said...how about 30? I guess the plus side is, that we didn't go down from 30. The workout wasn't bad while we were doing it, but let me tell you - I am feeling every single one of those 210 lunges today!! Jonathan was talking about gluteal activation or some such thing, I'll tell ya what, my glutes are activated something fierce! Of course, it's disappointing to look back and not see the firm round ghetto booty that I feel like I should have after something like that, but someday it will be there. Maybe when I'm 60.
Today, we did the "Dirty Dozen" YAY!! I was really disappointed when this first came up, and I couldn't do it. It's a doozie! Here's what it is, and the play by play. Keep in mind, it sound deceptively simple - 12 of each exercise, for time.
1. Pull to inverted hang. I started with these, because I figured once I got tired, the element of danger increases exponentially. I'm not fast, and in reality, they are a jump to inverted hang. So, not exactly the full core workout for me that they are supposed to be, but someday, I'll get to the pull rather than jump part of it. These were slow and methodical.
2. Power cleans - 95# - The first one or two were way off, I don't know what the heck I was doing, but it sure wasn't a good power clean - then Jonathan said something like "stomp". Oh yeah - I forgot the stomp!! The last 10 were much better.
3. Thrusters - 95#. These sucked. With my butt and thighs still sore, these were not happy things for me, but I wanted to get through them as fast as I could because the 95 lbs was feeling uber-heavy. I did them in two sets of 6. Simply painful.
4. Handstand pushups - These were with Foot assist on the bar. I did them 6/4/2. Not sure why I know that....I just do.
5. Pullups to chest - I kipped these in 2 red bands. I don't know that all of them were to chest - but J said at least the first 4 were. Wonder if I'll ever get an unassisted pullup....?? That just seems to be a pipe dream.
6. Wallball 16# - These were fine -the only odd thing was the ball. The weight in it was off center, and it was softer and cushier than I'm used to, so it was going all over the place, my throws were highly inaccurate, and I missed the catch more often than normal.
7. Ring dips - These were assisted with the red band. I can't lie - I kind of sucked at these. I was tired enough, I should probably have used the blue band to make sure I got the full range of motion. I was not getting my arms anywhere close to locked out at the top. I think I was most disappointed in the way I did these more than anything - they were just ugly.
8. SDLHP 95# - Strangely enough, these feel really weird with 95#. I got through them, 2 sets of 6.
9. Push Jerks 95# - These were the easiest of the barbell lifts. Again, I did these with 2 sets of 6.
10. Burpees - blech. Full range with the pushup. Well, I wasn't breaking any land-speed records with these, but I got through 'em.
11. KB Snatches - 16kg - I am super glad I saved these for the end. These were actually the easiest thing we did, and it was nice to have a slider at the end. WOO HOO, all those KB snatches we've been warming up with were good for something!!
12. Deck squats 12kg - Ok, I've only tried deck squats once before today, and that was close to a year ago, unsuccessfully. Deck squats are these funky things where you hold a kettlebell, and act like a pill bug. Basically curl into a ball, roll on your back, then extend your arm with the kettlebell and pop onto your feet. The key that I learned was momentum. Once you get them, they are actually quite fun!
So this whole mess took me 27:40 to complete. Not exactly speedy, but first time through, and not having done much metcon recently, I'll take it.
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