100 Burpees!!!

Do you ever wish you could be a kid again? That you could go back to the days where all you had to worry about was what game you were going to play with your best friend? When boys/girls had cooties? When you could wear pigtails and barrettes in your hair? When you had summer vacations? When you had snow days? When you could get up on Saturday mornings and watch cartoons?! When you had nap time and recess? Boy do I miss those days…

Today was one of those days where I really wish I was a kid again. I sat at my desk all day staring out the window, watching the snow fall. I was imagining all the fun I could have playing outside. Building snowmen and igloos, going sledding, having a snowball fight, making snow angels… that would be SO much more fun than sitting behind a computer all day.

Remember when we were kids and we wanted to grow up and have ‘big kid jobs’? What on earth were we thinking?! If I could have days where I was able to not worry about anything and be a kid again, I so would. I guess that’s what my weekends are for? Or that’s why teachers went into teaching, because they have summer vacations?! Maybe I should switch my career path? Well I do need a different job, I can’t be stuck behind a computer in a cubical the rest of my life…this isn’t what I signed up for. I want to have some fun too, what happened to that?! Is anybody out there a life coach and would like to guide me in the right direction for a job? That would be grrrreat!

Food for the day

Breakfast: 3 eggs 5oz ground beef, 3oz blackberries and 1.5oz pomegranate Lunch: 10 oz chicken thighs and small side salad with 3 large grape tomatoes Dinner: 5.5oz Pork Ribs and 1/2 cup mixed veggies Dessert: paleo brownie

Strength: Dead Lift 3(70% of TM)-3(80% of TM)-3+(90% of TM) (Training Max (TM) – 99kg) 3@69.5kg – 3@79kg - 6@89kg My dead lifts felt great today, however, it's definitely getting heavy! For the 3+ set I ended up getting 6 reps, which I was really happy with. My single rep max before we started this training was 92kg. I can't wait to get our single rep maxes again and see what I can do!

WOD: Complete 5 Rounds for total Pull-ups: In 1:30 complete: 25 burpees then with remaining time AMRAP pull-ups 1:30 rest.

I decided to scale to A which was 20 burpees. When we did the 1:00 of burpees on Saturday I got 19, so I knew 5 rounds of 20 would be a challenge. The first 2 rounds I felt good, but the last 3 once I got to about 12 burpees the last 8 were a struggle. I ended up with 21 total pull-ups on the single purple band. I'm really working my dead hangs to get off the band. I debated about not using a band today for this, but also wanted to make sure I got the full range of motion so that's why I went with the purple band. I also think I did a couple extra burpees since Jennie was photographing my awesome burpee form and I had people walking in front of my face to get to the bar. But what's a couple extra burpees when you already did 100 of them?!