WODs & Well-Being

May 7, 2013 Here we go again... If there is one thing in life that every "adult" learns over time... its the fact that anything can happen when you least expect it. Those things can be good, but those things can be bad... most you cant prepare for. You just have to learn how to go with what happens in life and deal with it as best you can. I plan, plan, plan... and sometimes... it dosent matter. Live takes over and I find myself in a crappy sutiation that more often than not costs money. Well... I just put on my big girl drawers and suck it up. Que sera sera... Today "life" brought me back tot he dentist. I had planned a few months ago to take care of some dental work that I have been putting off due to lack of insurance. The "plan" was one crown a year... so my dentist (that I love) advised which tooth to do first. We had a plan of attack for the order in which we were going to do the rest. Well... as "life" would have it.  Another too...

October 9, 2012 This is the perfect image for todays workout. Practice practice practice. This weekend is the Beast of the East and we now know what some of the WODs are going to be. I know what I have to do and I am really not as nervous as I thought I was going to be at this point. JM was lucky enough to WOD with me this morning. The rest of the 5:30am group was doing the WOD that was programmed for the day and M asked her if she would do the first of the WODs for the BOTE with me. JM is kick ass, and might I add pretty competitive,  so she was more than happy to play long! Plus she can push me pretty hard and keep my ass moving when I need it. Great practice session and a great WOD! Really excited for the weekend!! WARMUP: 3 Rounds - Row 250m - 5 Handstand Kickups - 10 Inchworms - 10 Around the Worlds - 10 Burpees WOD: "Beast of the East WOD #1" Team WOD w/JM 10 Minute AMRAP - 25 Burpees to Plate than - Thrusters (95) Alternating (107 Reps total) ...

**Had to post some of the few dates I missed back in June/July for my archive** July 16, 2012 WARMUP: 400m Run 3 Rounds - 5 Pushups - 10 Ring Rows - 15 Air Squats 400m Run Group:Clean WOD: Masters WOD - Row 1K - 30 Cleans (65) (Row 3:30, 5:56 total Rx) SKILL/STRENGTH - MU Transitions 5 X 5 From Floor - Rope Climbs 3 X 3 . 

September 20, 2012 Whats that old saying... "excuses are like assholes, everybodys got one." Dosent it seem like that sometimes. I hear it so much especially when I talk about the paleo way of life. I dont really talk about it much anymore unless prompted and sometimes people notice that I might not eat what everyone else is eating or what not... but when the ask and I tell them that I dont eat bread, I dont eat grains, I dont eat dairy and I dont eat sugar their first response is usually that epic line "I could never give up my XYZ." Than you have the people that load up on the excuses... They could never get up that early because there is no way they could get to bed early enough. They cant make it to the gym because they dont get out of work until whatever time and they have to go home and cook dinner for their husbands. They have too much to do with their kids. They dont have the time, they dont have the money... of course you also hear the good old, I have ...

September 8, 2012 Garage Games Day 1... Wow, what a day! It was filled with all sorts of emotions and excitement... and a little bit of not so good excitement as well, Ill get to that. It all started off with getting up dark and early (because it was everything BUT bright at 5:00 in the morning). Hubs and I had a little breakfast, some coffee and got everything loaded into the truck to get to our meeting spot to hook up with our fellow CFWers. My stomach was doing its usual nervous flip flop. I know I really had nothing to be "nervous" about, I think it was just the whole buildup to the day that was getting to me. I was all chatty on the way down and just overall ready to get the day going! When we arrived we unloaded set up our tents and as the rest of the CFW Team arrived we all got more and more excited! We checked in, got out numbers and awaited the athletes meeting. I can remember looking around when people were showing up thinking "I remember that girl,"...

August 22, 2012 Oh how true this is. There are days that you feel like everything is all put together and tied up neatly in a bow... things seem to be perfect and you could not ask for anything else. But, we all know life isnt perfect. That amongst those "perfectly tied up" days there are days just feel like you are walking an endless road with weights tied to your feet that just keep getting heavier and heavier. The issue is that you never know when either one of those days are coming and sometimes there is nothing you can do when one of those "not so perfect" days pops up. I have been doing my best to keep a positive attitude as often as possible, to thing about things a little more before reacting and letting some things roll off my back that I may not have in the past. I wake up in the morning and start each day fresh, however, this dose not guarantee a "perfect" day every day. When I first started thinking this way I would get really upset i...

August 15, 2012 Man, running is just not my strong suit. Its like a mental block that I am trying to get past. I have never been a "runner." When I was a kid I loved to play and run outside. My mom always joked that I would be a track runner. When I was about to go into the 9th grade (yay high school...) some of the girls from the high school cross country team showed up at our school to talk about joining for our freshman year. I had absolutely no idea what Cross Country was... and when I asked I was told it was "running." Like any other kid who enjoyed running around I thought... "cool, running... must be like track" and I signed myself up! Holy bageebus was I in for it. I showed up for my first practice and the coach said "ok guys, go do the mile loop for a warmup." Hahahahahaha... a WHAT? A mile warmup, are you out of your f@#King mind!? Well, apparently, cross country and track (at least my idea of track) had NOTHING in common except the...

April 23, 2012 Stress is a huge part of most peoples lives. Stress comes in many forms and can be totally self inflicted or set off by things that are out of our control. Like most things (I feel like I say it a lot at least) it is how we handle the stress, how we deal with it that determines the severity of the problem. Personally the way I like to deal with my stress is with the gym (shocker I know). In all honesty when I am there nothing else matters. Its me, the weight or the clock and my mind. I am not focused on marriage, work, friends, family... I am focused on what I am doing and how I can get better at it. Its a place that I can es cape from the everyday stresses in life and there is nothing like it for me. When I have a bad day I look forward to the gym, when I am going to have a stressful day at work I look forward to the gym, when things are going not so good at home, I have a fight with a friend or the whole world seems to be falling apart around me… I look forwar...