no socks, no service

but TG I had socks, so service was ON like KONG

I was ill prepared in PVD today (no sneaks) but I donned the socks I had on hand (see below) and banged out a quick mini-(not)Murph in the 15 minutes I had before my shower, meetings, Boston.

WORKOUT (12 minutes)
50 pushups
100 situps
150 squats

FÜD (thus far)
2 eggs hardboiled
... more to come


lurve,
P

Being ridiculous in NY

Dear All Friends,

This year for Valentine's Day some of the (B)older Bears are going to be participating in the Cupid's Undie Run to raise money for the Children's Tumor Foundation. What better way to celebrate then to spend the day with people I love and spread that love around (and clearly any excuse to run around NYC in red underwear and sparkles is too good to pass up). Any support you could give to any of us would be greatly appreciated! Even if you can't donate please pass the word along. 

As a thank you'll get a picture of us at the finish line! 

Click HERE to donate. 

Additionally, if you are close by, you should consider joining the team and coming. We have places for you to sleep.

What Bux said

Slacker!

Regarding posting. Here are my actual workouts:

Monday: concussion headaches at the gym, lots of rolling out and resisting urges to workout before finally giving in to sitting this day out
Tuesday: 3 miles
Wednesday: Boyles

Specifically:
Roll out + resistance band stretches + dyn warmup

3x10 45degree lateral bounds w stuck landing
2x10 med ball overhead, snap hips and throw to ground

3x5 DB snatch (35#)
2x8 med ball toe-touch-to-squat (10#)
2x8 in-line life in lunge position (12R) who knows what 12"Resistance" means

3x8-7-6 Bench (95#)
3x8 RFE split squat  (60#)
3x20sec lat band stretch R-L-R

3x8 TRX row
3x8 SLDL (25#)
3x10 standing push-pull (14R)

7x 20pushes on a slide board + 30sec rest

Listen to LOTR on tape while driving home.

Joining the fellowship!

Hi everyone!

After some encouragement from Mai to (publicly) track/share my workouts... here I am!! Sorry I've been lazy/too busy to post until now.

Here's where I am in my 2013 workout adventures!

• Reached life goal of 141lbs -- officially overweight (BMI >25)!! with the help of New Years. But maintained it for a week of workouts!
• Working out at Boyles M/W nights since November with Beantowners on a sweet deal 
• Running/xfit T/TH/F, resting weekends

Seems to be a big xfit trend with friends on this blog haha. Here are some of my life fitness-related goals:

• 10 chinups in a row
• 60 pushups in a minute
• 3x10 Bench 100 lbs
• Do wway more xfit and distance running because my rugby playing days are over and I need to shed my strong desires of bulking up and having speed.
• BECOME AN INTERNATIONAL RUGBY REF AND GO TO THE OLYMPICS!!! 

Which brings me to THIS! which made me go omgomgomg i wanna do that!!! NZ=rugby+lotr=soooooooAwesome!

More thoughts:

• why is this blog body so skinny?
• I finally finished the 1st stage of a huge work project after months of crazy hr days and it felt like I just finished finals, or my last orgo lab. In my dazed state I decided to run 3 miles and did it under 30min woo! I think it's the first time I've run more than 1mi without stopping since that time ploeg made me run 6 pre-concussion, yay!
• I was thinking of motivation for reaching fitness goals and about how I'd reward myself if I reached on. Then I thought, maybe reward myself with trips to see friends in far places? But nahh who has that money? so INSTEAD, what if... picture a table w goals in 1 column, and names of friends in the other column. These are friends who'd volunteer to write a sweet congrats letter or send a congrats care package if you reach the goal? it's easy and cheap and I love my friends! this also made me think of integrating this to the alum connection site that's in the works (read: in thought planning stages) and how we can organize alum around this or integrate the blog into that community once it exists. Anyways I'm rambling. work madness has set in...

In conclusion:

I'm here! And I'm boiling/xfit/running hopefully 5days/week or 3on-1off. And my mom cooks awesome food tg.

chewed-up

1/09/2013

Workout:

Every :45 on the :45  for 8:
1 Power clean
1 Hang squat clean
1 Split Jerk
@105#

Every :30 on the :30 for 8
1 Power Snatch
1 Hang squat snatch
@75#

Then:
10 min AMRAP:
KB snatches @ 16kg (rx)

163

My right hand got torn in the last 20 sec all up near the thumb too. no fun showering

Then some basketball with a bunch of guys from a developmental disabilities program at the Y in the evening

Food:

1 toast with butter and avacado
Coffee, 2 handfuls of almonds
1/2 croissant and 1/2 cup of fresh fruit (melons and berries)
1 small packet trail mix
Ham and Cheese Sandwich
Another trail mix guy
2 eggs, 1 sausage and toast for dins, and some flat oatmeal stout

lovely workout

01/08/13

I am very lucky to have found myself in the position I am in where I pay $0 for access to the awesome space of my gym. Anthony, the guy who runs the gym, is a "fitness industry"-limited-world-view dude to boot, but he works really hard, is open-minded, and is always looking for things to improve. I have a mountain of respect for him and feel honored that he values my contribution to the box enough to give me the opportunities he has.

I coached with him during the 5:30, then did the 6:15 myself:

Workout:

Couplet of Benchpress, strict weighted pull-ups:
8 @ 70%, 5 @ 75%, 5 @ 75%, 3 @ 80%, 3 @ 80%

70%= 75#/unweighted, 75%=85#/15lb weighted, 80%=95#/15lb weighted

FT:
30 Wallballs 14#
9 chest to bar, palms to you pullups
9 HR pushups
50 split jumping squats alternating legs
20 Wallballs 14#
7 ctb, palms to you pullups
7 HR pushups
40 split jumping squats alternating legs
10 Wallballs 14#
5 ctb, palms to you pullups
5 hr pushups
30 split jumping squats alternating legs

8:54

And then after all of those pull ups, I almost got a muscle up.


Food:
1 piece toast with jam
2 handfuls almonds, coffee
1 small packet of tropical fruit trail mix, coffee
1 ham sandwich, 1 bag carrot sticks
Another trail mix guy, tea
Some Italian pasta with lots of ground beef in the sauce, sausage and a couple pork ribs on the side (dinner out with jen and her mom= who knows what I'm eating based on the name, but it tastes delicious and makes my muscles happy)

Needless to say, my butt is sore

Workache

1/8
NOMS

1. Special K w/  half banana
2. burrito bowl
3. apple, handful of granola
4. pulled pork mini sandwich, with some cole slaw, and two pieces of cali sushi (lady at work had free food- and I was like, ok, lol nom)
5. half an apple
6. Half a large Nam Yaa at Angkhor

Left work early yesterday with a major migraine.

And Sydney's dying of something she picked up from visiting her elderly grandparents.

That said,

we did not feel like cooking or doing anything.

So we ordered the medicine soup at Angkhor.

And it was worth it.

lol

Also

my calves are still on fire from that knee crap.

lol