My days have been a little crazy weird lately. I’ve had some babysitting gigs in the late evenings this week and it’s making me do my fitness in the mornings. It’s safe to say I’m all out of whack. I’m hungry at weird times. I’m tired in the afternoons. I’m not eating my normal humongous dinners. I have a hard time falling asleep at my normal 11pm bedtime.
Life’s in shambles.
M-Wod
For those of you who missed it, click the link above for full Cross Fit disclosure. But I’ll do a little recap. I decided I really wanted to do Cross Fit but cant:
- find the courage
- pay the bill
- handle being around all the body builders
- deal with the pressure on my girly psyche
- do it without being intimidated which I guarantee will include tears.
- process all the testosterone…
So I found a fun little app for my hand-dandy iPhone that gives me a WOD that doesn’t require a ‘box’, ropes, strange metal contraptions for climbing, or semi-tires. I’m calling them my M-Wods (Maren’s Work Out toDay).
I checked my app first thing this morning (in excitement and anticipation) and this is what I saw…
Holy death!
I couldn’t handle the day knowing I’d saved that (see above) for post babysitting at 9pm. So I did my fitness right after waking up.
I ran 2 miles at a minute under my 1/2 marathon pace. Which is between 11-12 minutes. My average mile pace today was 10:41. Perfection!
Then I did my 100 burpees in 12 minutes and 48 seconds.
… I didn’t die!
Breakfast
Usually after high intensity fitness I don’t like eating right away. And since I didn’t wake up super early by the time I sweated and showered it was 10am. I thought I’d skip breakfast since I wasn’t hungry and load up on bbq at lunchtime!!!
I drank this SoBe Life Water at work.
I don’t really like them too much so as I sipped at it I added water to tone it down. So much better.
I broke down in hunger and ate a granola bar. Crazy hunger struck at 11:05. :shock:
I also had a huge glass of water post run and I drank a mug of green tea.
A happy tummy means a happy Friday. :mrgreen:
Tell me about you!!! I want to know…
What exercise do you absolutely hate?
burpees!!!
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I hate anything that could potentially hurt my back!
I totally get that. I won’t do a lot of balance type exercises because I’m afraid they will hurt my ankle.
NICE JOB ON THE BURPEES!!! Woohoo!! I love burpees. Lol. And box jumps. Those are basically my two faves. I have problems. That was fast for 100!! Seriously!! Way to get after them!!!!!!! I’m intimidated by CrossFit too… hahaha… but I pretend I’m one of them. I just joined a gym so I don’t think Kevin is going to be willing to fork over $300+ for 2 gyms!! Lol.
I love box jumps. I’m trying to get Mac to make me a few boxes for jumping.
Wow. Great job with the burpees! And ialmost wrote down a nasty little joke about the last time I did a ‘burp’ee hahaha. Oiye. I think it was earlier this year when I tried out a trainer. I hate squats. Grr. Squats suck.
burpees. hate burpees also!
and in all honesty… im not a huge fan of push ups, but i dont dislike them as much as burpees!
I’m the opposite. I don’t like burpees but I’d rather do 100 burpees than a few push-ups. Lol. From now on I’m pushing all my push-ups to you an I’ll do all your burpees. ;)
I have been feeling off too lately, I hate not knowing what is wrong, you know? Hang in there but you killed those burpees. Way to go girl.
First, I hate wall-sits. With a passion. Way to go on those burpees!!
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Aww thanks girl!! You are too sweet. I hate wall sits too. Once my legs get to shakin’ I lose all my will power.
burpees are the best!
I love your burpee enthusiasm. I wish I could get some, lol.
Holyyyy burpees is right!! My goodness..great job getting those done!
I actually kind of love burpees! I’ve done the 100 burpees for time WOD before and it definitely is killer but I think half of it is more mental than anything! I’ve also done as many burpees as possible in 7 minutes! It was the first workout for the CrossFit Open (part of the games) this year!
You are crazy awesome if you actually love burpees. I liked them for the frist ~20 then I was like, this is going to kill me.
I totally hate burpees too! And six inches… Our couch would make us do it for two minutes and if someone dropped we would have to start over and then run suicides. Those were rough days… But I get you about being a former athlete and believing you can conquer cross fit! There is a place a block away from me but it looks so scary!!!
Hey Camille. Thanks for stopping by my blog and commenting. I’m excited to check yours out. Burpees are the worst!! Gah. In the words of Alysia… Gross!
I hate how no one ever mentions how EXPENSIVE cross-fit is!! I was kind of shocked.
I know! My mom and I went into the box that’s right next door to our new office to say hi and they said their membership is $125 dollars a month. That’s insane when you can be a member at a normal gym (with almost all the same stuff plus treadmills and ellipticals) for $40.
100 burpees? gross. no other way to put it.
LOL!!! That needs to be a bumper sticker or a shirt… “100 Burpees? Gross!”