04/05/2012 jogging

Same as the other day, in so many ways.  Forgot to put this in for yesterday, same workout bluh bluh bluh.

5 minute warm-up
alternate 1:30 jogging at 5mph and 2 minutes walking at 3 mph x6

I forgot to bring my belly support and went without.  My lower belly is sore today and hurts when I move, not terribly, but I notice.  Then I also realized that I worked out 4 days in a row, and I couldn't tell you when I was last able to do that!  I also think it contributes to my soreness, so I'm taking today off and will pick back up tomorrowish if I'm feeling good.

04/04/2012 Strength/Crossfit

Backsquat (max 145)

5 @ 40% = 60#
5 @ 50% = 75#
5 @ 60% = 85#

WOD

21-15-9

Push Press 33#
Box Jump 12" step ups

4:54

04/03/2012 jogging

I forgot to record this one yesterday.  I hit the treadmill at the work gym and did the following:

5 minute warm-up
alternate 1:30 jogging at 5mph and 2 minutes walking at 3 mph

Afterwards, I had a nice lil stretching session.  I also did some of my physical therapy exercises to unstick my glutes...maybe should have done those ahead of time.

The fan was on high behind me.  Some crazy decided to come in and jog on the treadmill behind me and block the wind.  I kept from screaming at him and sucked it up.  Seriously, preggers needs some air!

strength/crossfit

I decided to start with a deload week, so my muscles don't completely turn on me.  I also didn't think this through and did deadlifts for strength and for the WOD.  Oh well, I'm still alive.

Deadlift (150 max)
5 @ 40% = 60#
5 @ 50% = 75#
5 @ 60% = 90#

WOD (scaled)
21-15-9
deadlifts @ 60#
box dips

4:55

Bye for Now Crossfit!

I have continued to exercise.  Unfortunately, I haven't been very good about actually going to crossfit.  I feel like I have so much to try to do and so much less energy that just going to the class is an exhausting thought.  I get an hour to exercise at work, so that's where most of it has been happening.  I mean, I'm already there and don't have to make any extra trips, so it just makes sense.  In light of this, I cancelled our crossfit membership.  I still plan on doing what I can, just on my own.

My plan is to continue to follow my crossfit gym's blog.  Since my work gym doesn't have all the equipment they use for strength, I'm going to go back to using the Wendler 5-3-1 system that my CF used to use.  It has less variation and is a little more simple for me to follow on my own.

I've also been jogging!  Craziness!  I had stopped even considering the thought when my back went all haywire, but pregnancy has been good to my Maigne's Syndrome problem.  I actually love doing a little walk/jog on the treadmill, so I'll keep that up.  Hopefully, this good back stuff will continue after baby is born.

I'm also happy to report that I had my routine test for gestational diabetes and am free and clear.  I do have to take an extra iron supplement for anemia.

In less than awesome pregnancy news, my mid back hurts and my shoulders are tight as hell.  I continue to visit GD, which helps.  It would probably also help if I had better posture while sitting at my desk.  My feet and lower legs are morphing into cankles on a regular basis, and my wedding ring no longer fits most of the time.  I was a sweller before pregnancy, though, so I kind of expected it.

Squatting for Two

My doctor's nurse wrote me a note for work this month.  I really just need one that says I'm on "restricted duty," but she took it upon herself to add that I'm not to lift more than 20 lbs.  No, really, stop laughing.  That's what my note says.

Since getting my new restrictions, I have PR'd my overhead press and today my front squat.  I didn't really set out to do this, it just happened.  I think this child is giving me super powers.  The other (slightly more plausible explanation) is that I was out of exercise for so long that I lost all my PRs and have pretty much started over anyway.

I was just going to town on the front squats today and not really even paying attention to the weight.  On the last one, I felt my form break the teeniest bit (my back is still the weakest link), so I decided I was done.  After it was all said and done, I had squatted 115 lbs.

And just for the sake of recording PR's, I pressed 63 lbs on Jan 11.  Up from 57 a couple months before.

Front Squat:  115
Press:  63

Remember that adventure time thing?

Apparently, it leads to pregnancy.  So my back is sorta under control, I try to go to crossfit sometimes, and there's a human growing inside me somewhere.  I think it's in my hips.