Friday, July 1, 2011

Sucky Shoulders

Again with the tiredness today! yuck. Today was a super slow day at work. A good majority of the people took a vacation day, so not much to do, Pretty much sat on the cumputer searching for a career I'd be interested in. One of my goals in my "friendly wager" with my brother included spending time every week to find something I'm interested in Mechanical Engineering. I have now changed that to "spend at least 30-60 min every week searching for something I like in Mechanical Engineering or another career path." I've really been thinking a lot about my ME degree lately and I don't feel like I did it for the right reasons and I don't feel like I'm going to find a job I'm going to like in it. I'm going to try my best and not waste the 5 years to get that degree, but I have a feeling more school is in my future. SO if anyone wants to be my life coach and help me figure out a great career path for me, I would love you for ever!! By the way....I'm totally not joking at all, I need some insight!

Strength: 2 Thrusters on the 1:00 for 11:00 at 55% of 1RM 30kg

So these pretty much felt awful. Front squat part of it was great, but my shoulders have been giving me issues. I haven't had this problem in awhile, so I'm pretty disappointed it's coming back again. My right shoulder is worse than the left. So every time I pushed the bar overhead, I got this tight almost like a pinching feeling in the top of my shoulder. Guess I've got lots of mobility to do on my shoulders...blah!

WOD: 3 rounds of:
400m run
21 KB swings (24/16)
12 HSPU (used to green bands for assistance)
12:18

This wod felt pretty good, I was nervous about my shoulders, but it went well. My first run was solid, second a little slower, and the third even slower. My legs just weren't feeling it today. All rounds of KB swings were unbroken. HSPU felt MUCH better this time than the last few times we've done them. The first set went 7-5, second was 5-4-3, third set was 4-3-2-3. The HSPU were definitely what slowed me down during this wod, but I was much happier with them today, than in the past. No cash out today, going to do some tomorrow after team Saturday. Did some mobility on my shoulder, hips, and back.


Friday 7/1/11 - Day 13
Breakfast: 3 eggs, 6 circle slices of Canadian bacon, 4oz blueberries
Lunch: 1.5 cups of chicken fajita stuff, 2 TBS guac, 1oz almonds 1 oz cashews
Snack: 2 oz pistachios
Dinner: cashew chicken and beef
Dessert: Watermelon

2 comments:

Jamie said...

I have been there and done that with school and careers but I could totally see you as a teacher! You are so patient, caring and have a great heart.

Be-Rad said...

So, definitely feel ya on the career stuff. Here's a little background on me and my "career". I have a BA in Humanities with an emphasis in History, Philosophy, and Literature. Before my Humanities path, I was pre-med. I'm bilateral with my brain, so I'm as analytical as I am creative.

All that said, I work as a Financial Analyst, which allows me to creatively problem solve during the course of analytics. Mining data and the tools for that are my analytical side, the interpretation and presentation of it represents my creative side. I also get to speak in front of audiences about my findings as my company weighs whether or not they're going to make a decision like buying another company, or expanding our retail operations, etc....

Long story short, it was important for me to find something that taps into things I enjoy using/doing. I love creativity and sciency things, so my job gives me a chance to satisfy both of my "cravings" which at the end of the day, gives me satisfaction.

My advice: be patient and wait for the right opportunity. You'll find it. You are a very gifted woman and have nothing but good things ahead!