Pounding

Today I partied all day with big cats. There is a nearby conservation center for lions, tigers, lemurs, leopards, binturongs, servals, and more. One of my friends works there and invited a bunch of us to come volunteer for a day in lieu of a birthday party for her. (She's cool like that.)

We spent 9:30am-3pm digging, cutting pipe, and pounding metal fence poles into the ground. I was primary "pounder," a role which included standing atop a ladder and repeatedly forcing all my weight downward onto a pole-driver in quick succession to sink a fence poles into the ground, pole after pole. My core was super engaged and my legs and arms did most of the work. I was likened to a "machine" by one of the staff.

After all the hours of physical work in the hot sun and the close contact with roaring lions and the sight and smell of whole dead chickens being tossed into cages, I began to feel like an animal too. I loved the animals and I loved working hard and digging ditches with friends. There's no doubt I'll be back to mingle with the jungle cats again soon.

I got home and my feet ached, my hands had many callouses, my fingers and arms were throbbing and my body yearned for rest and hydration. Today was supposed to be a rest day!

Throw back

This was an old school workout. By that I mean I used to do these dreaded things in high school. What is that you ask? Well, I am speaking about a workout none other than HILL REPEATS. ::gasp:: Yeah, you heard me right. Hill. Repeats. Today's high was 75 but it felt pretty toasty in the late afternoon sunshine.

I did 6 sprint hill repeats, jogging down the hill between each climb. The work out took 30 minutes total, including the warm-up run to the hill as well as the cool down jog back home.

Some fellow college kids were drinking on the front porch of one of the houses located on the hill. When they realized I kept returning for more punishment, they cheered for me a couple times. :D

Happy weekend y'all!

steamy

Today was a humid one...yet quite windy! My GOSH my shoulders are sore. The past 24 hours of existence have been pitiful. All day I've had minimal arm/shoulder flexibility and so much soreness. For this reason, I did a workout that was primarily lower body and core.

2 rounds of:

5 x 200 m sprints with 100 m jog in between each

100 bicycle crunches

This was hard but it was perfect for me today :)

Afterward I went to the farmer's market to get a quart of fresh, organic strawberries!! I LOVE STRAWBERRY SEASON.

Hey girl heyyyy

I was sitting in the library today and I had so much energy, I literally couldn't keep from squirming in my chair. Too much energy to get fizzled out whilst studying, I say!

In 7 minutes I did:

3 thrusters, 65#

3 pull ups

6 thrusters, 65#

6 pull ups

9 thrusters, 65#

9 pull ups

12 thrusters, 65#

then, after that quick workout was finished...I did:

60 sit ups

3 rounds of 20 shoulder shrugs, 65#

2000 m row (easy pace. finishing time of 9mins40)

20 standing-oblique-crunch things, 35# kettle bell

20 kangaroo kicks

and some extensive stretching.

That felt so great, you guys.

big step

25 box jumps

20 burpee pull ups

25 box jumps

20 dips

20 knees to elbows

30 kettlebell swings, 35#

50 sit ups

25 back extentions

30 wall ball shots, 20#

whoa did my arms hurt after all those dips. DANG.

High Heat

Today I went for a 5.5 mile run in early afternoon.

I stopped 3x during the run to do:

40 walking lunges

100 sit ups/crunches

15 to-the-ground push ups

Felt great, but that sure was hot!

track

6 rounds:

400m run

100 sit ups

20 push ups

kept it simple.

standards of sweat

I think I've exceeded them. Today I was immensely sweaty. Like hair dripping on all sorts of equipment and my tshirt was drenched when I got home. Werq y'all. WERQ.

Today I was kind of sore from my workouts the past few days, which felt really nice since otherwise I've been sitting ON MY BUM doing mountains for culminating work for college. I felt like I was due to do some thrusters, so I planned my circuit workout around that ingredient.

3 rounds of:

500 m row (~2:12)

10 thrusters, 65#

20 kangaroo kicks on recline

10 pull ups (unassisted)

and now, BACK TO THE LIBRARY! *academic fervor*

Lickety Splits

Need. Energy. To. Do. ALL MY HOMEWORK. ughhh. so much work.

400m warm up

Sprint 100m

50 pushups

Sprint 100m

50 sit ups

Sprint 100m

50 squats

Sprint 100m

50 pull ups (assisted; more like upside down push ups using railing)

400m cool down

creeper haiku

Today I was super stressed about school work and projects and research papers (oh my.) and decided to go on a run to diffuse some frutration, stress and pent up aggression. It worked.

I went for a 6 mile run and stopped to do 50 lunges, 20 push ups and 100 crunches twice throughout.

Shortly after returning from my run, one of my friends posted this on my Facebook wall:

"Creeper haiku from me 2 u:

Saw you on a run
Almost holla'ed but didn't
Damn you look good girl"

It gave me a nice case of the jollies.

So hard.

3 rounds of:

15 overhead squats, 65#

15 burpees

15 roman chair, pike position straight leg lifts

then

2 rounds of:

15 backsquats, 105#

15 box jumps (could stand any more burpees)

15 roman chair, pike position straight leg lifts

over head squats are so doggone difficult and awkward.

Wednesday

6 Rounds of:

300 m run

100 m sprint (no rest inbetween running & sprint)

50 walking lunges

+

100 sit ups

Jumped several hurdles that were left on the track too! :)

Camaraderie

Today's workout was an intense one:

5 rounds of:

20 box jumps

20 wall ball shots, 20# medicine ball

10 burpee pull ups/chin ups

20 kangaroo kicks on recline

+

quality stretching for 15 mins

During about the 3rd round, a guy in a green shirt and an orange sweatband walked up to me and pointed at his new vibram 5-fingers and said, "Look! You inspired me!" I laughed, smiled at him, and said, "Awesome job buddy!" Then I offered him a fist pound, to which he replied enthusiastically.

About ten minutes later, when I was finishing some kangaroo kicks, he walked by and stuck out his foot toward mine and said "toe five!!!!" And then we toe-fived. Hahaha. Hilarious dude.

As I left the fitness center I saw him playing ping-pong, so as I walked by his table I yelled, "On your toes! On your toes!"

These things always help me make friends, y'all.

Vibrams. Bringing happy, sweaty people together since 2009.

EIGHTY-SIX

DEGREES! Oh my goodness was it HAWT today. I loved it! I ran down to the track and did my fave ladder interval workout. You know what I'm talkin' bout.

Run 1600 meters (4 laps)

20 push ups

100 sit ups

Run 1200 meters (3 laps)

20 HSPU

100 sit ups

Run 800 meters (2 laps)

40 walking lunges

20 push ups

100 bicycle crunches

Run 400 meters (1 lap)

20 push ups

1 min plank on each side of body (4 sides)

50 sit ups

SO SWEATEHHH :D

Sunday

I rode my bike to the grocery store and back to get kale, apples, coconut milk and peanut butter. STAPLES, I tell you. Beautiful ride.

cyclinginginging

Today I went for a ride in this cool, gorgeous weather! I left at 11am for a 26+ mile ride. It was splendid. It wasn't a particularly fast ride at all since this was my first ride over 15 miles since the fall, but it sure was fun. It took me 1 hour and 40 mins and my average speed was 15.5 mph. Max speed was 29 mph and I was hooting and hollering down the hill– what a blast!

pretty rad day

Today I wore my graduation robe (or academic regalia if you wanna sound pretentious) for convocation. Felt WEIRD, you guys, but also like I was some important sorcerer. Either way, I left convocation feeling inspired (you did a great job panelists!) and wanted a nice workout on this high 70s day. So I went down to the track and did 10x200m sprints.

It went something like this:

2 rounds of:

5x200m (100m jog in between)

75 sit ups/crunches/ab exercise of some kind

20 push ups

Twas a great workout, and I ran 3 miles in total including my cool down, which I needed after such a hot day :)

destroyer

I usually just title each post with the first word that comes to mind. SO yeah: destroyer? destroyer.

As many rounds as possible (AMRAP) in 20 minutes:

15 kettlebell swings, 35#

10 dips (20# assistance)

5 back squats, 135#

7 rounds! RAWR.

YER A JERK

3 rounds of:

1000 m row

75# clean and jerk, 10 reps

20 kangaroo kicks

+

20 sit ups

30 back extensions

10 burpee pull ups

I had so much energy today. I also felt very strong!

Sunnyday

I went for a 5.4 mile run this morning. It felt so pleasant out and I felt great too!

2 Rounds of:

2.7 mile run (quick pace, with hills)

42 walking lunges (21 down hill, 21 uphill)

75 sit ups

16 HSPU

FASTFastfast

I jogged to the track then ran 10 x 100m sprints, jogging 100m in between each one.

After I was finished doing those, which took about 12 minutes, I did 100 bicycle crunches and 15 pull ups. Then jogged home, running a total of about 2 miles in intervals, took a shower and headed to work. So glad I had time to squeeze in a nice 30 minute workout during lunch! I sound like my brother (hey dave!).