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Today:
Crossfit again finally (been busy at work so I couldn't make it again until today!)

• Warm-up 1: Inch-worms across the gym, Lizard Crawl back
• Warm-up 2: Bear crawl across and back, Crab crawl across and back (did that one in teams, first person goes bear across and back, 2nd person goes bear and back, then crab, crab - we were the first team done woot!)
• Now for fun - Timed section
• 50 push ups
• 10 sprints down and back the basketball court
• 5 backward sprints down and back
• 10 more sprints
• 5 more backward sprints
• 25 push ups - End of Timed section - did all the above in about 11 minutes 15 seconds. Nice!
• 4 sets of 8 bent over rows (35 lbs dumbells)
• 15 V-ups (could have done more but my tailbone was being dumb on the gym floor)

Not as tough on me as the dirty thirty - but I've been running a lot so the sprints weren't so bad. Great workout though!

Daily Exercise Digest 27

Today:

• 15 Pull ups
• Yoga - Warrior III was the most unique pose we did. Felt good. Unfortunately, I did not do it on a weird rock on the beach. That would have been great!
• 10 Preacher Curls each arm 30 lbs (very light, but I'd just finished yoga so I didn't want to kill the 'zen' feeling too quickly!)

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Today:

• 30 pull ups
• 50 push ups
• 50 squats (10 while holding a baby just before cool down)
• 20 Standing to Plank Ab roll-outs
• 10 Ab roll outs
• L-sits (15 s, 10 s, 10s)
• 5 minute cool down trying to get the baby back to sleep :p

Got some Creatine to try today. We'll see if there are any results from the update picture I did the other day and when this bottle runs out. I'm interested to see what happens!

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Today:

• Because of my allergies - I don't often mow the lawn anymore. I need to just wear a mask and do it. I DID sweep up the mess afterwards, I have no idea how that doesn't bother me as much or more than the actual mowing, but there you have it. We also cleaned out a window well that was very dirty. Push-broom work can be a decent tricep workout!
• 6.52 mile run - My knee started bugging me about 4 miles into the run. Not good. Need to work on my form.

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Yesterday:

• Yoga (f) - I was tired from this weeks other workouts!
• Poses of Note: Scorpion (not full, but that's a cool pose to work for!), Camel (I think I tweaked my back a bit but it felt so good at the time!), Wild Thing (My upper body was not happy)
• Also completed a Biometric Screening at work yesterday (for a contest! yay!)
• Results:
• Blood Pressure: 111/69 - Normal is below 120/80 so that's good!
• Total Cholesterol: 204 - 'Desirable' is anything below 200 - Closer!
• Triglycerides: 116 - Normal is below 150 so I'm really low on that
• Glucose: 89 - Normal is 70-99

Today:

• Strange day. All I did were about 25 Ab Roll outs and crashed on my bed right after I got home. Didn't feel great!

Daily Exercise Digest 23

I've been combining these 'daily' entries a lot lately!
Oh well!
As long as I'm documenting what I've been up to and I'm improving and forcing myself to keep working!

I'm happy.

It's not like many people are checking out these awesome 'Daily Digest' entries anyway.

Yesterday:

• 3.72 miles pushing a running stroller with 2 adorable little girls (f)
• Demo a few of the ridiculous Crossfit moves from Monday, could barely do them (f)
• Attempted some jump-assisted muscle ups on thick playground monkey-bars but could neither jump nor do the dip above the bar once my chest reaches that point. Pretty funny!

Today:

• 10 pullups
• Insanity Fit Test (Did comparison photos to my Insanity Results from over a year ago. (see below))
• Exercise - 5/4/11 -  3/10/10
• Switch Kicks - 150 - 157
• Power Jacks - 70 - 80
• Power Knees - 102 - 125
• Power Jumps - 82 - 85
• Globe Jumps - 14 - 15
• Suicide Jumps - 28 - 28
• Push-up Jacks - 40 - 58
• Low Plank Obliques - 85 - 124
• Interesting to see where I'm still tired from Crossfit on Monday! I did especially HORRIBLE at the power-knees, push-up jacks and the low plank obliques!

Here is a comparison of today and February of 2010:

Awesome hair today eh? OH YEAH!
And here's a front flex if you want to compare from today and March 2010 when I first finished Insanity:

Considering it's been over a year - I'm pretty pleased with where I am. I still have improvements to make, but Yoga, Running, and Intermittent Fasting have been great!

Daily Exercise Digest 22

Last Weekend:
Had a cleanup project up in the mountains - cleaning out the underbrush and dead growth from the soon to be overflowing streams in the area - this way there won't be as much debris to wash down and clog everything.

Last day of April and there was a bunch of snow up there. Awesome.

Today:
First experience with Crossfit. Nice workout! We did what is called "The Dirty Thirty" - but if you look this up online you get lots of different possible programs. 10 workouts, 30 reps each.
Before the dirty thirty, we did an active warmup: 6 laps around the gym, Soldier kicks across the gym, side-lunges across the gym 2 times (each leg), and inch-worm the final length back across the gym. Good warmup!
Then the Dirty30 starts, we did the following exercises 30 reps each:

• Broad Jumps
• Push ups
• Sit ups
• Wall Walks (Handstand against the wall, one arm lifting up to your shoulders/arm pits, other arm doing the same, both arms done counts as one)
• Split Jumps (Switching Lunge jumps basically)
• Burpees (I HATE burpees! But I love 'em)
• Superman (lay flat, lift arms and chest and thighs off the ground
• Dumbbell swings (like a kettlebell swing)
• Dumbbell squats
• Pull ups

Normally Pullups aren't tough at all for me - but after all the others - WOW tough!
I know I'm going to be sore tomorrow!