Missed my window to go to the gym for a WOD on my own, so I did an hour of yoga at home instead.
If you're looking for some decent power vinyasa flow classes to do at home, check out this podcast: Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga with Kinndli. I've done the "Hour of Power" class from 1/7/09 several times, and I love it. I really like the 60 minutes when I'm on my own, rather than 90 minutes.
Still very sore quads today from Saturday's WOD, shoulders are feeling less "crunchy".
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Sunday night my husband and I filmed submissions for a max chin-up challenge issued by one of my fav fitness peeps on Facebook, Jen Sinkler. Sorry for the sideways video. :)
Husband did 33. Yes, he's a total freakin' beast.
I did 5. Sounds so measly next to 33, but I'm still proud of it. Next goal is 7 consecutive. :)
Showing posts with label yoga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yoga. Show all posts
Monday, February 20, 2012
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Catch-up
Today
Short beach loop
Distance: 4.61 miles
Time: 53:17
Pace: 11:33/mile
I took 3 fairly long walk breaks. The sun was too hot -- I should've done this run about an hour earlier. Also, this was my first long-ish run in quite a while. Due to wildfires conditions have been really smokey here off and on for the last month. I've really lost a lot of what I built up, but hopefully I can get it back quickly with runs a few times a week.
Wednesday 7/6
Did a WOD I got from Angie.
50-40-30-20-10
kb swings (16kg)
AbMat situps (butterfly)
Results: 13:10
Would like to try this one with Russian swings and the 24kg kettlebell sometime.
Tuesday 7/5
"Fran"
21-15-9
thrusters (65#)
pullups
Results: 10:28
Not my fastest (9:10 @ Level I Cert), and not my slowest either, but only barely. The issue this time was just conditioning. My heartrate was off the charts, and that's what slowed me down the most -- catching my breath. I probably could've benefitted from someone getting in my face too. :)
Sunday 7/3
I ran for ~37 minutes and I don't the distance of my route. It felt good to be up early and outside.
Friday 7/1
Yoga, good times as always. I realized that doing the 11am class really makes a difference in how hot it feels in the room. I think it must be the sun coming in or hitting the building. I never start to feel like it's too hot to breathe in the 5pm or 6pm classes that I've taken.
Thursday 6/30
~30 minute run in the morning.
WOD @ 5:30 (only had 1 student in class, so we did the WOD together :))
4 rounds
800m run
50 air squats
then
50 hands-off pushups
Results: 30:09
Monday 6/27
Squat 12-12-12-12 @ 105
That really hurt.
Metcon:
10-1
Pullups
AbMat situps
14:56
Went mental on the pullups, eeek.
Hit yoga that night as well.
Short beach loop
Distance: 4.61 miles
Time: 53:17
Pace: 11:33/mile
I took 3 fairly long walk breaks. The sun was too hot -- I should've done this run about an hour earlier. Also, this was my first long-ish run in quite a while. Due to wildfires conditions have been really smokey here off and on for the last month. I've really lost a lot of what I built up, but hopefully I can get it back quickly with runs a few times a week.
Wednesday 7/6
Did a WOD I got from Angie.
50-40-30-20-10
kb swings (16kg)
AbMat situps (butterfly)
Results: 13:10
Would like to try this one with Russian swings and the 24kg kettlebell sometime.
Tuesday 7/5
"Fran"
21-15-9
thrusters (65#)
pullups
Results: 10:28
Not my fastest (9:10 @ Level I Cert), and not my slowest either, but only barely. The issue this time was just conditioning. My heartrate was off the charts, and that's what slowed me down the most -- catching my breath. I probably could've benefitted from someone getting in my face too. :)
Sunday 7/3
I ran for ~37 minutes and I don't the distance of my route. It felt good to be up early and outside.
Friday 7/1
Yoga, good times as always. I realized that doing the 11am class really makes a difference in how hot it feels in the room. I think it must be the sun coming in or hitting the building. I never start to feel like it's too hot to breathe in the 5pm or 6pm classes that I've taken.
Thursday 6/30
~30 minute run in the morning.
WOD @ 5:30 (only had 1 student in class, so we did the WOD together :))
4 rounds
800m run
50 air squats
then
50 hands-off pushups
Results: 30:09
Monday 6/27
Squat 12-12-12-12 @ 105
That really hurt.
Metcon:
10-1
Pullups
AbMat situps
14:56
Went mental on the pullups, eeek.
Hit yoga that night as well.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Clogged sinuses, BS & press, yoga, K2E
When I brought up my blog, I thought, "I must've done something between Murph and today??"
I looked back at the blog for our gym, and yes, I did. :)
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Wednesday, June 1
First day of our strength cycle, which I'm co-programming with my boss. Has been interesting so far, we'll see what everybody thinks when we get to the end of 5 weeks. :)
Back squat
3-3-3-3-3, working up to 90% 1RM
125-135-145-145-150(f)
No reps on that last set, I just went down, stopped, and bailed the bar behind me. Ugh, my ability to back squat heavy weights SUCKS. I wish I was as good at that as I am at weightlifting movements. The slow lifts just don't seem to make as much sense to me, maybe I have too much time to overthink it?
Press
3-3-3-3-3, working up to 90% 1RM
65-75-80-80-82
Had to go for 82 just to have the highest female numbers on the board for that one. Come one, I need one thing I can brag about. :)
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After that workout, I pretty much succumbed to a horrible sinus infection / cold. It's actually still hanging on, though I'm at the point where working out is something I need to do to drive the bad stuff out of my body.
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Monday, June 6
Yesterday night I went to heated power yoga, and it was great, as usual. I'm going to miss this studio and the husband-wife team that owns it and teaches the classes I take. They are great. I almost talked myself out of going, and I'm glad I just did it. It was annoying to have my nose clogged up a lot of the time, but oh well. :)
I'd like to attend this Monday night class regularly, and also Friday afternoon. I think yoga twice a week would be a great addition to the work I'm doing with my chiropractor. Gotta get myself all fixed up before I have to move away from him, too.
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Today's workout was pretty interesting. It was an AMRAP, and the time actually went by pretty quickly, which is always a good thing. I hate WODs where the time just seems to drag on and on.
WOD:
Wow, I was really running slow for this one. And I need to get faster at knees to elbows.
I kept having these little glimmers of insight into how to string them together, without an extra kipping swing in the middle, but then I would suddenly find myself wildly swinging on the pullup bar with no clue what I was doing. I'll have to search out some videos on that, though maybe I'm on the right track and just not executing properly. I'm trying to bring my knees down as I push forward to start a new swing, and then pop out of that swing into another K2E.
Any tips from anyone reading would be appreciated! :)
I looked back at the blog for our gym, and yes, I did. :)
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Wednesday, June 1
First day of our strength cycle, which I'm co-programming with my boss. Has been interesting so far, we'll see what everybody thinks when we get to the end of 5 weeks. :)
Back squat
3-3-3-3-3, working up to 90% 1RM
125-135-145-145-150(f)
No reps on that last set, I just went down, stopped, and bailed the bar behind me. Ugh, my ability to back squat heavy weights SUCKS. I wish I was as good at that as I am at weightlifting movements. The slow lifts just don't seem to make as much sense to me, maybe I have too much time to overthink it?
Press
3-3-3-3-3, working up to 90% 1RM
65-75-80-80-82
Had to go for 82 just to have the highest female numbers on the board for that one. Come one, I need one thing I can brag about. :)
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After that workout, I pretty much succumbed to a horrible sinus infection / cold. It's actually still hanging on, though I'm at the point where working out is something I need to do to drive the bad stuff out of my body.
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Monday, June 6
Yesterday night I went to heated power yoga, and it was great, as usual. I'm going to miss this studio and the husband-wife team that owns it and teaches the classes I take. They are great. I almost talked myself out of going, and I'm glad I just did it. It was annoying to have my nose clogged up a lot of the time, but oh well. :)
I'd like to attend this Monday night class regularly, and also Friday afternoon. I think yoga twice a week would be a great addition to the work I'm doing with my chiropractor. Gotta get myself all fixed up before I have to move away from him, too.
--
Today's workout was pretty interesting. It was an AMRAP, and the time actually went by pretty quickly, which is always a good thing. I hate WODs where the time just seems to drag on and on.
WOD:
How high up the ladder can you climb in 20 mins:Results: 7 + 6 K2Es of my 8th round
200 m Run
1 Knees-to-elbows
200 m Run
2 Knees-to-elbows
200 m Run
3 Knees-to-elbows
...
Record highest set of knees to elbows completed.
Wow, I was really running slow for this one. And I need to get faster at knees to elbows.
I kept having these little glimmers of insight into how to string them together, without an extra kipping swing in the middle, but then I would suddenly find myself wildly swinging on the pullup bar with no clue what I was doing. I'll have to search out some videos on that, though maybe I'm on the right track and just not executing properly. I'm trying to bring my knees down as I push forward to start a new swing, and then pop out of that swing into another K2E.
Any tips from anyone reading would be appreciated! :)
Monday, May 23, 2011
Busy weekend
Fit today's WOD in this morning between coaching and chiropractor. My adjustment is always awesome when I work out just prior.
4 rounds:
3 DB power clean (45#/30#)
16 DB split clean (alternate lead foot)
3 DB power jerk
3 DB split jerk
30 double unders
Results: 18:20, Rx
I had to drop the DBs a lot more than I anticipated, but tried to keep things in consistent chunks to regulate my rest. I tend to rest too much when I have to break up sets.
Double unders were not going well until the last round when I finally got 15 in a row. That's probably the biggest factor in how long this took me to finish.
It was a gasser, I was breathing really hard and sweating a ton! Good way to kick off the week.
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On Saturday I ran a 5K on the beach. Didn't go for time, just ran with a friend with the only goal being to not walk. We achieved that goal, and she did great. It was great to run on the beach, I haven't actually run on the sand in quite a while.
Results: 37:30 (pace ~12min/mile)
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Sunday evening I went to heated power yoga. God is that a tough workout. I was really struggling to keep up and do all the poses as they were being called out, and at one point the instructor suggested I take child pose. I think we were doing a warrior and my legs were just shaking so bad I couldn't stay down in it.
At the beginning of class the instructors always talk about taking child's pose if you need it, so I knew I had that option. But it honestly didn't occur to me to do it in that moment of struggle. When I did, I just felt so much relief, it was palpable. In fact I felt some tears come to my eyes!
Taking child's pose in the middle of that tough "flow" was almost like the anti-CrossFit. Maybe...
Maybe it was "anti" to my idea of CrossFit?
If I think of my "CrossFit practice", there is a lot of struggle there, toughing it out, pushing yourself to do more reps than you think you can, pushing yourself to move a load that is heavy. Yes, we do scale workouts, but I don't know if that's really a good analog for taking child's pose during yoga practice...
It may not be a concept that necessarily works in CrossFit, but it's something for me to remember in yoga. I realize as I practice yoga that I'm not as good at listening to my body as I think I am. There are things going on in my body, my posture, my alignment, that I'm not consciously aware of. But once I focus my attention there, then I can see it. Shoulders super tight and drawn up ALOT. Hips also tight in ways that I don't notice in CrossFit, because they don't impede me there. That I know of!
It's been a while since I felt totally "in my body" during a CrossFit workout, but I easily experience that when I do yoga. There's no game plan, no reps to count, no clock to beat. It's a whole different universe, and something that I've decided I really need in my life. And I didn't even know it was missing!
4 rounds:
3 DB power clean (45#/30#)
16 DB split clean (alternate lead foot)
3 DB power jerk
3 DB split jerk
30 double unders
Results: 18:20, Rx
I had to drop the DBs a lot more than I anticipated, but tried to keep things in consistent chunks to regulate my rest. I tend to rest too much when I have to break up sets.
Double unders were not going well until the last round when I finally got 15 in a row. That's probably the biggest factor in how long this took me to finish.
It was a gasser, I was breathing really hard and sweating a ton! Good way to kick off the week.
--
On Saturday I ran a 5K on the beach. Didn't go for time, just ran with a friend with the only goal being to not walk. We achieved that goal, and she did great. It was great to run on the beach, I haven't actually run on the sand in quite a while.
Results: 37:30 (pace ~12min/mile)
--
Sunday evening I went to heated power yoga. God is that a tough workout. I was really struggling to keep up and do all the poses as they were being called out, and at one point the instructor suggested I take child pose. I think we were doing a warrior and my legs were just shaking so bad I couldn't stay down in it.
At the beginning of class the instructors always talk about taking child's pose if you need it, so I knew I had that option. But it honestly didn't occur to me to do it in that moment of struggle. When I did, I just felt so much relief, it was palpable. In fact I felt some tears come to my eyes!
Taking child's pose in the middle of that tough "flow" was almost like the anti-CrossFit. Maybe...
Maybe it was "anti" to my idea of CrossFit?
If I think of my "CrossFit practice", there is a lot of struggle there, toughing it out, pushing yourself to do more reps than you think you can, pushing yourself to move a load that is heavy. Yes, we do scale workouts, but I don't know if that's really a good analog for taking child's pose during yoga practice...
It may not be a concept that necessarily works in CrossFit, but it's something for me to remember in yoga. I realize as I practice yoga that I'm not as good at listening to my body as I think I am. There are things going on in my body, my posture, my alignment, that I'm not consciously aware of. But once I focus my attention there, then I can see it. Shoulders super tight and drawn up ALOT. Hips also tight in ways that I don't notice in CrossFit, because they don't impede me there. That I know of!
It's been a while since I felt totally "in my body" during a CrossFit workout, but I easily experience that when I do yoga. There's no game plan, no reps to count, no clock to beat. It's a whole different universe, and something that I've decided I really need in my life. And I didn't even know it was missing!
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