crazy week ahead.

i'm about to begin the craziest 3 weeks of my work ever. Every night this week, we'll be working until the wee hours of the morning. i don't expect much of myself at the gym this week since i wont be sleeping much. We have some compliance deadlines soon approaching and have a lot of final projects to complete. We're in good shape but have a TON to do. :( I'm going to need a lot of burritos to keep my mental health in check this week. i also need to ride or at least look at my bike a lot this week too. i also want to weigh myself this week. I was 175 2 weeks ago but i'm feeling like a hefty 180 with my recent burrito weight. i havent heard much from evan. i hope he's out of the fetal position and walking with the living again. i've been telling all my co-workers about him like he's a super hero.


warmup:
kb gobsquats
2hand swing
pumps


6 rounds
1 arm KB push press x 5: 16/20/24/28/32/36(3L,5R)
8 ring pullups(bw legs on box)
5 spidermen


5 rounds
20 seconds each no rest between all double kb
cleans
high pulls
lunges
push press
squats
bent over rows

Diet:
8am: Muscle milk
11:00am chile relleno burrito
1:30pm salad
2:00pm Pizza slice
4pm: 2 string cheeses
5:30pm: 1 chipotle vegetarian burrito
9:00pm: muscle milk shake

Jimmy Carter has a Rivendell

i don't have much to say today. i did learn that Jimmy Carter and I have the same bike. i've been running into lot of Rivendells lately. Been considering a new handlebar style but i'm not sure which one yet. May pick David or Ben's brain a little for some ideas on what to go with. The Rivendell site has a few non drop bar styles i'm considering.

workout:
not a damn thing.

Diet:
11:30am tofu scramble,toast, potatoes
12:00pm corn cake with mapple syrup
8pm: chicken sandwich and potatoes
8:30pm ice cream sundae

Tribute to the champ

for a victory we can't dispute
i write this small tribute

he entered the tourney late
as if it were no big thing
but when he left the competition
he was declared the Burrito King

when he started to fall behind
he quickly picked up his pace
and to prove he wasn't too full
he said "i'll eat your phuckin face"

Matty G was a good competitor
I thought he'd be the one to beat
cant blame him for dropping out early though
he had more tortilla to eat than meat

maybe i could have trained better
maybe i could have skipped that diet coke
at one point in the competition.
i thought for sure i was going to choke

we strutted in to pepinos
four proud competing friends
we exited the back door
wishing we wore Depends

for Orion's trip home
we were genuinely concerned
i think he spent the trip thinking
about the painful lesson we learned

next time, we do cupcakes
or I will sit that one out
when it comes to eating cupcakes
i'll show you what its all about.

congrats to evan
for a job very well done
but when we sit down for cupcakes
It will be no games and fun.

It will be all bizness!! :)

oh, and Melissa can vouch for me that i had 2 scoops of ice cream on a waffle cone right after we dropped Courtney off. If the burritos could have been swapped out for different food, i think i could have kept going. Not saying i could beat Evan though. he did good. Thanks to all the officials and fans for coming out to support a very important(and disgusting) event.

found an old baby pic

so i was going through my baby scrap book and came across this pic of me just 1 hour old.

Today was dead lift day. i was inspired by a crossfit video of a super fit friend of the gyms lifting 2x his bodyweight 15 times. He made it look so easy that i thought I could maybe do it. Well, it didn't happen. I only got 4 reps of 2x my body weight. i think it might take years before i can do that 15 times. oh well. long term goals are good to have. I did 46 consecutive double unders today! Just 3 weeks ago, i couldn't do even 1.

Warmup
(my favorite kind of warm up for deadlift day)
kb around the body

Skill:
dead lifts x3
135/165/185/360(x4)/415(x1)

Wod:
play day
this is when i got my 46 double unders.

Diet:
8am: muscle milk shake
2pm: 3 large slices of pizza schmizza pizza
7pm: 2.79 heavy burritos
9pm: 2 scoops of cool moon ice cream on a waffle cone

eye of the tiger

so many of you may have heard that our good friend John has been invited participate in very prestigious climbing competitions. Well many of you may not know that i've also been invited to participate in something pretty special. The 1st Annual Recreate Fitness Burrito eating contest. i've thinking a lot about how to handle myself during the contest. i had a learning experience when i was 16 that i think i need to keep in mind tomorrow. when i was 16, my swim team was invited to compete in a local country club swim meet. We wanted to show the rich kids how fast we were so for the 400m mens freestyle relay, we all swam breaststroke. Freestyle events are ALWAYS done as crawl stroke because its everyone's fastest stroke. When we finished in 1st place, we were strutting around thinking we were so cool and impressive. Our coaches and our parents have never looked more angry and disappointed. they said they had never seen anything so disrespectful or immature. I felt like scum after that. Needless to say, we were never invited back to that country club again because of our cocky exhibition. i'm going to try to approach tomorrows event with more tact and integrity than i had back at that swim meet. I want show respect for my competitors, for myself, and most of all for the burrito. I want to show you this video of some real life heroes. they aren't firefighters or EMTs but they are the wind beneath my wings.


in proofing my blog, i see how one might think english was my second language. i omit so many words. i'm too tired to edit them and i know the missing words make Trevor chuckle so i'm going to leave them missing. good night.

i was a wimp today

so today i was being a whiner at the gym. everything felt hard to me. i only got through 2 rounds of the warmup and 2 rounds of the skill. The workout was great though. Devon helped me with my squat. She said that Tina has a perfect squat so i guess i need to come to night class to see Tina's squat again. It was really freakin cold today. i did like it when it was all said and done though. got the heart rate up without really killing any muscles. good stuff. i asked Devon if my early complaints and whining could be stricken from the record since i felt pretty good once we got moving. :)

warmup
inchworm
10 gob squats(25lbkb)
10 cossack lunge
(oops cant remember the rest)

Skill
partner kb swing 16k
5 swing/high pull/snatch each arm
10 wall squat
10 plate squat
5 negative pullups

wod(3 rounds)
run around block
20 ball slams
15 16k kb snatch each arm
15 double unders
15 pushups

Diet
8am: Lean Body Shake
9am: Rocket Muffin baked by Kelly at work(not sure whats in it but tasted yummy and healthy)
1pm tofu soup
2pm tofu soup
3pm 5 newmans cookies
4pm 1 sw green chile burrito
6pm builder bar
8:30pm 4oz steak

deep squats and butt cramps. just another wednesday

every time i row hard my butt almost cramps. i have issues. People have been telling me that my squat is maybe lower than it needs to be. I'm blaming Steve for that :). Actually, Im squatting low so that i can hang out in the street like these guys with my friends. Thats all. :)

warmup
kb complex

skill/wod
Section A
6min kb clean and push press 16k x 109reps

Section B
2hkb swing x 20 reps. 32k
row your ass off for 250m
rinse and repeat for a total of 3 times

Section C
let circuit
12 k2e
everyone got 3 rounds. i barely got 2(think i only did 8 k2e on last set)