by Jen
on October 17, 2012
I have been off the CrossFit wagon for a few weeks now. I’ve kind of been off all exercise-specific wagons given my travel and work schedule. I just fit in whatever, whenever. I have been thrown back into CrossFit given my training weekend and then the convenience of being at the gym and having it available as a quick workout.
So yesterday my arms died.
We did the CrossFit Hero WOD “J.T.”
21-15-9 reps of…
Handstand Pushups
Ring Dips
Pushups
I finished in a little over 8 minutes and I don’t think my arms have been in that much agony in a long time. That workout is just mean!
And today my legs died.
We did one of the “Girl” WODs. Fun fact: a lot of them are named after hurricanes. I felt like a hurricane blew over me after this one. It took me 18 minutes to finish and it seriously hurt to walk down the stairs after.
I miss yoga. 😥 I dare someone to try to drag me out of the studio this weekend. I may sleep there.
Food is more interesting than CrossFit, right? I know CrossFit has overtaken the blog world but I am forced to embrace it because it’s kinda my job now! Dinner last night was chicken, green beans and leftover apple, cranberry, walnut quinoa. Then I ate a bowl of ice cream at 10 p.m…in bed. Classy.
Egg and cheddar on wheat. This is three mornings in a row of eggs and no oatmeal/greek yogurt this week. Loving it.
After my carb-fest for breakfast I made a big salad for lunch. Spinach, acorn squash, tofu, walnuts, dried cranberries, carrots and feta. So good.
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