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20 Minutes of 5 Minute AMRAPs {Workout Post}

by Jen on June 19, 2013

Hey there. I don’t have much to report from today other than…

1) My head still aches.

2) My AC unit is on it’s way out but all hope is not yet lost so for now we wait. Best case scenario I pay $400 for a motor in several months…worst case scenario I replace the whole thing but we’re not focusing on that scenario!

3) I had an amazing yoga practice tonight. My body was perfectly open and accepting of the practice and I loved the energy in the room – some of my most favorite people were there practicing. I can’t tell you how much the energy in the room impacts my practice. It’s honesty kind of unbelievable. Nothing but GOOD tonight!

4) I have another AMRAP workout to share!

I received excellent feedback on my 7-Minute AMRAP workout so I couldn’t wait to share this 20 minutes of AMRAPs workout with you. It’s four different five minute AMRAPs that combined provide an awesome full body cardio strength workout.

Let me know what you think if you try it! As always, shout with questions. Enjoy!

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Starting Off With A Bang

by Jen on June 18, 2013

First, thanks for all of the happy birthday wishes. It was a happy weekend. But I have to say 30 isn’t off to the greatest start!

I got my first migraine headache on Saturday night and it completely freaked me out. I couldn’t sleep because my head hurt so bad so I got up at 1:30 a.m. to Google “headache on one side of the head starting behind the eye.” It was the craziest, most intense pain. I don’t get headaches often and I’ve never had one like this so it was a little scary. I’ve now had a residual headache in the same spot for the last three days that dull aches and comes and goes. I honestly just think the headache is the result of stress and exhaustion. I’m so happy that I’m finally able to take a huge step back and chill out. Has anyone else started getting migraines later in life? I’m praying (hard) that this was a one-time thing.

Second, the AC in my house stopped working yesterday. The unit is making a crazy weird noise. I’ll have more details on that tomorrow but I’m pretty prepared for one thing…it won’t be cheap to fix.

And third, I had to get cavities filled today. That’s not fun to start with but I had to get like 5 shots in my mouth because there’s something about my bone structure that has always made it hard for dentists to get me numb.

Bad things come in threes (says my Mema) and these are just life things. I’m pretty determined not to let this stuff stress me out and make me think this is any indicator of how this new year is going to go. Just bad timing, right?

In happier news, this week is all about detoxing from birthday cake (delicious while it lasted!), eating clean and good workouts. I kicked it off with a double green smoothie from Whole Foods.

I went out for dinner last night at Basil for a friend’s birthday. I ordered the Basil Chicken and instead of rice I asked them to add extra veggies to the dish.

After dinner we stopped by another friends condo who lives on the 35th floor of a building downtown. The views are amazing! We were lucky to catch the sunset as we chatted.

Late morning snack to hold me over to lunch after teaching and practicing (well, for 30 minutes but that’s better than none!) yoga this morning was watermelon, blueberries and a hard boiled egg. I have officially entered the time of year where I am obsessed with watermelon. I ate it last night, this morning and tonight. I just crave cold, sweet, juicy watermelon.

Lunch today was chicken and corn chowder before getting my dental work done. I wanted something that would satisfy me but not make me feel gross as I has people mess with my mouth for hours. I loved this soup because they used tons of chicken, corn, pureed corn, onions and stock to make it thick and hearty with no cream.

After my dentist appointment I got crazy with birthday thank you notes. When I finally somewhat regained the ability to chew I had an apple with peanut butter.

I needed a low impact but high sweat workout tonight so I took my friend Lauren’s spin class at the gym before teaching yoga. This was officially the third spin class I’ve taken in the past year. So hard. It gave me the cardio fix I needed but spin is still just not my fave workout.

And finally, dinner tonight was a stir fry of eggplant, asparagus and red peppers with panko coconut curry chicken.

So there’s a big snapshot of everything that’s been going on over the last few days! Hope your week is off to a better start than mine.

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Metro CrossFit Throwdown…One Successful Year

by Jen on June 17, 2013

Metro CrossFit celebrated its one year anniversary on Saturday and I planned a throwdown to celebrate! Typically, throwdowns are a little more chill than official CrossFit competitions. The idea is that you invite athletes from your gym and other CrossFit gyms in the community to come together and workout.

The past few weeks of my work life have been dedicated to throwdown planning. The bulk of the work was in emails and social media to get everyone aware of and registered for the event. Once the event got closer I had to schedule everyone into heats and assemble a volunteer team to help pull off the day of logistics.

I felt pretty good going into Saturday. I had over 80 athletes scheduled to complete the workout in 9 heats. We had three kegs reserved and a food truck booked to serve meals. I actually felt pretty relaxed and confident which is usually not the case for me going into big events.

The throwdown went off perfectly. We were set up and ready to go long before anyone arrived, the turnout was awesome with over 150 in attendance, every heat went off on time, the food was delicious, the beer was flowing and the workout crushed everyone!

Lots of action pics to share to give you a taste of what the day was like!

Girls RX heat lined up for wall balls.

The apparel that was literally getting printed on Friday afternoon. A huge thank you Ink Floyd for pulling it off!

Men’s heats – ground to overhead.

Took these sweet pups about 2 minutes to figure this trick out. SO CUTE.

This shirt = awesome. The back said “Time for ____ (blank).”

Food truck courtesy of The Herban Legend and so delicious.

In addition to cute puppies we also had cute kids. Check out the form (attempting) to lift a 35# kettlebell.

Cheering every athlete to the finish.

Including myself. I wasn’t planning on doing the WOD but got pressured into doing the last ladies heat. I’m really glad I did the workout but I felt like death when I finished. (Surprise birthday party the night before was NOT kind on my body.)

I cannot even express how appreciative I am for everyone who came out to celebrate our first anniversary. It’s been an amazing first year an I cannot wait to see what the coming years hold for Metro CrossFit!