My My May

Thursday, May 14

K - Pure Barre

C - Stepper for 20 minutes

Elliptical for 20 minutes

Bike for 20 minutes 

Friday, May 15

K - GRIT Cardio

1000m row

8 running laps (7.5 = 1 mile)

1000m row

Stretch and Roll

C - Biked 8 miles

3 Miles Elliptical

Core work

Biceps

I've got to say, we have been going at it for a good while and have improved our eating, yet we are struggling (especially me) to lose much weight. I'm worried that due to getting the Skyla 5 months ago, that it could be a contributor. I'll keep pushing forward and hope for better results, but i've never not seen results after this long and I'm growing increasingly frustrated that my efforts, while not necessarily wasted or in vein, are not yielding the results I'm used to or expected.

We'll keep going as we took quite a veer off the healthy and very active path after the Half, and I'm hoping all of this hard work will finally pay off not only in our overall health, but in our appearance as well.

Happy Friday!

More April

Tuesday, April 14

K - GRIT Strength

Rowing

Random exercises

C - 30 min elliptical

10 min stepper

Wednesday, April 15

K - Complete and utter exhaustion after awful sleep

C - nada

Thursday, April 16

K - Pure Barre

C - nada

Friday, April 17

K - GRIT Cardio

Little bit of biceps, triceps, abs

C - 15 min stepper

30 min elliptical

10 min AMT stride

Post-Gym. Happy Friday!

First Full Week of April Part 1

Monday, April 6

Both
GRIT Strength

K
Rowed 3 min

3 Rounds

10 25# slam balls

Rope Slams

C
5 min stepper

Tuesday, April 7

Both
Walked to All Sports

Slow Jogged back home

Wednesday, April 8 - Happy Rex Manning Day!

K
10 Min AMRAP

10 box jumps 20"

10 AKBS 44#

10 wall balls 10#

1 farmer's carry 35# kbs

3+ 26

1 Bear Complex @35#

Cleans (Power and Hang Power)

55/75# (no count)

Back Squat Light

5/5/5/5

55/75/85/105#

AMT Open Stride

15 minutes

00:00:56 running lap (7.5 laps = 1 Mile)

C
Elliptical 30 min

Hang Cleans 3x10 @115#

Push Press 3x10 @115#

Crossover Cables 3x10 @50#

50 sit-ups

What is it about gyms with old men who clear their throats like old judges? They are inundated with them! So annoying!

August and Everything After

Friday, August 1st
Nothing. I had intended to do something, but did not. Tired!

Saturday, August 2nd
Kate
3.12 Mile Run
Chad
Walk with Piggy due to his nerve/back/leg/foot issues.

We stopped by O'Brien Meats afterwards and picked up some delicious fresh beef, pork, and chicken, bacon, and eggs. What a deal! Then we looked at 5 houses, unfortunately none of them being "it," we are back to the drawing board. Definitely need to keep upping the workouts and must improve the diet as it it has been OOC lately.

Sunday, August 3rd
Hit up the RAC this afternoon as I felt we needed to get moving. We did clean the house this AM, but had a lull in activity, so alas, we went and I'm glad.
Kate
Got this little ditty from Carbyne CrossFit:
1500m row
150 DUs
1.5 mi run
Here are my results including transition and breaks.
Triple 1.5
I also did some work on the Gravitron as well as some moves from Pure Barre for arms and abs for just a little something extra.
Chad
20 min elliptical
500m row
core work
1000m row
Arms.

PS - The RAC has been under major construction and they have just painted a bunch of stuff. Looks nice. Ciao now.

June to July

Friday, June 27th
Kate
Run on Parkway trail
Chad
Run around Cedar Point

Saturday, June 28th
KatePure Barre with Emily. This was much more difficult than I expected. Looking forward to adding more of this to my repertoire.

Sunday, June 29th
I wanted to do something, but didn't. Dumb.

Monday, June 30th
Kate
AMT (1 CC)
Lifting
ChadElliptical
Lifting

Tuesday, July 1st
Kate
3 mi bike (1 CC)
"Chief" WOD
3min AMRAP x 5 (1 min rest between)
3 Power Cleans (65#)
6 Push ups
9 Air Squats
Didn't record...
ChadWalk/Run
Lift

Wednesday, July 2nd
Nothing - travel to Raleigh right after work.

Thursday, July 3rd
Fitness Center at The Abbey
Kate
10 min elliptical
3 mi bike (1 CC)
Chad
Elliptical
Lift?
Both
WOD
22-16-10
Burpees
DB Snatches (20/50#)
Plank Hold for that many seconds
untimed.


Friday, July 4th
Both
Walk around Lake Geneva  (1 CC)

Saturday, July 5th
Kate
Run around Lake Geneva
Chad
Run around Abbey
Stretches

Sunday, July 6th
Nada so far...

June Cubed

3rd week of June

Sunday, June 15th

Rest

Monday, June 16th

RAC in the AM

Kate

Row 2500m (1/2 CC)

Lifted

20 min on ARC Trainer (1 CC)

Chad
20 min on Elliptical (1 CC)
Lifted Chest - The Rock Style
Stretching for Back/Foot

USA!! Bent elbows, cheering, and jumping around in the PM!!!

Tuesday, June 17th

Exhausted. Lazy.

Wednesday, June 18th

Felt sick, bronchial issues, exhausted

Thursday, June 19th

Kate
20min on AMT (1 CC)

Row 2500m (1/2 CC)

A little lifting

Chad
20 min on Elliptical (1 CC)
Lifted Shoulder and Biceps

Friday, June 20th
Kate
A very hot and humid run to and through the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center. Some great scenery. Felt long due to the state of my lungs and the heat and humidity - and hills.
Chad
Walked due to the state of his foot.

Saturday, June 21st
KateFound 12 Minute Athlete and did a riff off of the Tabata WOD-type workouts. 18 rounds of :30 on and :10 rest of 6 different exercises (I did each of the 6 exercises 3 times).
High Knees, Burpees, Air Squats, Mountain Climbers, Situps, and Lunges.
Definitely got a good sweat on from these 12 minutes!!

Plus some walking and dancing at DMB!!!

First Week of June

Sunday, June 1
Rest Day - We had been working hard again (finally).

Monday, June 2
Both
RAC
20 min Elliptical (1 CC)
Lifting
Kate
Bike Ride at Lunch (1 CC)

Tuesday, June 3
Intent to RAC or Run, but neither happened. Had felt weird, lightheaded, dizzy, and just not quite right and ended up taking another rest day.

Wednesday, June 4
Couldn't get in the AM and with pending Thunderstorms in the PM, will need to either do a video at home or head to the RAC, unless, of course, the rain holds. It will still be really warm and humid, though.

I went for a trail run (it had been longer than I'd like to admit - I used to go quite often!) but it was hotter than Hades, still beautiful, but I was a sweaty beast and was definitely challenged. I'd like to point out that my HRM must have malfunctioned as I certainly burned more than a measly 26 calories!

Thursday, June 5
Couldn't wake up this AM, so I went this PM after reading a Women's Health article about a good ab workout, which was actually courtesy of Men's Health. So, I went and did that, just that, even though I probably should have done more. The RAC smelled from the construction and I was tired and a little defeated at my lack of athletic prowess. Here's my results from the WOD.

Chad went to PT and hoping he can get back to where he needs to be in order to work out like he wants to. At least he can still lift upper body, do core exercises, and swim in the meantime.

Friday, June 6
Both
Swam 10 laps (1 lap = 50 yds/45.72 m) (1 CC)
Hot Tub

June

Saturday, June 7
We met with our EWOD folks and did a WOD at Longwood Park in Salem. To preface, my legs were quite sore from my Thursday WOD and in all of the wrong places for what was to come! This 30 minute endurance WOD consisted of: starting at the top of a huge hill and running down, 10 push ups on the walkway near the bandstand, run the loop on said walkway, jumping the wall obstacle, and when you reach the bottom of the hill on the path, 10 more push ups, then running up the huge hill, followed by 10 weighted goblet squats. In 30 minutes I believe - if my memory serves me - got through 5+all elements minus the 10 goblet squats. I had my Garmin and HRM in the car but neglected to put it on - darnit! Chad scaled some of the WOD and did different exercises due to his back/leg/foot issue. He managed to run a little bit, walked some, but did not run up or down the hill because that really could have exacerbated the problem. Instead of the wall jump, he did some dead hangs and dips on the parallel bars but also did the push ups, but with one leg crossed over the other to add to core strength as well.

It was a doosie, but I'm certain our activities that followed more than cancelled out our efforts. Live and learn.

WeakEnd

Hola.

So I traveled up to Erie, PA yesterday and had to wake up super early on very little sleep (slept very poorly), so no workout for me. I did, however, manage to get a minimal workout by carrying luggage for both myself and my dad. So, I did do a little something at least. It was a long, exhausting day of travel and helping out the 'rents, so I was elated to get some sleep. I woke up early to the sound of an opened door, but I think I had a pretty solid night of sleep. Score.

Saturday (today) I woke up, checked work email, set up Mom & Dad's ChromeCast, and have been fiddling around since with random things. Chad went to the RAC, so I knew I had to do something. I tried calling this one place for a free trial but no one answered. Scratch that for today.

Chad did the elliptical for a 1/2 hour, recumbent bike for 15 minutes, and lifted. I needed his motivation today, so I sent him a list of a ton of traveling WODs and he chose the following for me to do in my parents' basement:

"Thanks, Chad"
40-30-20-10
Lunges
Push Ups
Sit Ups

15:45 with many short breaks. Boo. Weak sauce on the Weekend. WeakEnd.

WELL...it was much more difficult than I would have suspected. I did add weight to the first half of each set of lunges cheating on the side of an even half (i.e. 16 for 30) with 15# dumbbells in each hand. I did stationary alternating lunges. As for the push ups -  o.m.g. I have not really been doing them and it shows. I had to alternate between shallow real push ups, deep knee push ups, and wormy hand release push ups. And for the sit ups - I usually crank through these, but they even gave me a little challenge today. Definitely humbling and also helps to point out that I can't skip on some things and cherry pick others. Too easy to do. Push ups and pull ups are again on my radar. Not being a slender musclebound smaller-chested broad, both of those movements are much more difficult, but I'll keep working at 'em.

Plan is to do another body weight WOD tomorrow and then add weights back in next week coupled with WODs and/or cardio.

At least I did something, at least we did something.

Being away from home in crappy weather in a relatively stressful/emotional situation certainly doesn't help, but it can't be an excuse.

Until next time...

Friday Already

TGIF - 2 days back to work then another two off. Too bad it's not another 20 off!! Got a late start, but we went.

We both did 20 minutes on our respective ellipticals. I prefer the Precor EFX while Chad prefers the longer stride of another.

I came up with this WOD whilst on the Precor and it seemed like it would be a good one to sweat it out. It was indeed.

"PRSUP"
5RFT
10 Push Presses (115/55#)
2 laps (7.5 laps = 1mi)
20 sit-ups
K 19:28
C 20:23

Then we went to the steam room to sweat even more. Always a nice end cap.

Back in the Noke, Back to the RAC

Last week of the Battle of the Bulge and I've been determined to earn at least 20 points to earn whatever prize may be in store.

I currently have 17 points and Chad has 12 or 13 as his trip to Cashier's didn't help on the exercise front.

We did 1 hour this morning.

Chad started out downstairs with Cardio - did the elliptical and then bike totaling 1/2 hr.

I headed upstairs and did a rendition of Lift 'n Run sometimes substituting mountain climbers and air squats for the run. Did that for about 45 minutes. Lifted chest and did abs as well.

This is what it looked like when I got up there at first (a few people were in classes and maybe in other areas) but quite different than usual. It filled in with some of the regulars after a bit. Chad came up and did 1 set of chest, bis, and tris each.

Then we did a WOD I found on The WOD Shop.

***Substituted Rope Slams for Slam Balls since those weights aren't available and made it 15MIN AMRAP.

KATE: 6 + 140m row

CHAD: 6 + 90m row

One more hour down. Just have to hit up tomorrow on the final day of BotB!!

Case of the Mondays

Back to the grind. We got our workout on. Clocked another hour for the Beat the Bulge.

Kate
Back Squat
5/5/5/5/4
65/95/115/125/135#

Calf Raises
3x10 @ 120#

Alternating Lunges
3x10 @ 40# barbell

SuperSets 
Sumo Goblet Jump Squats 3x10 @ 40# ea hand
20 sit-ups

SYNERGY ROOM
Step Ups (some weighted)
10 20" box jumps
Boxing
250m row

Extra Cardio
10min treadmill

Steam Room.

Chad
Arms and Chest on machines.

Cardio
15 minutes on bike
10 on elliptical

Steam Room.