New and Different!

So my sister, Meghan, is FAR fitter than I am (the woman did 100 pullups not too long ago!), and she is the one who introduced me to cross-fit.

We do the workouts and email each other back and forth on a nearly daily basis, so we decided that its possible some-one out there might like to take a peek into that conversation.

To that end we've started a blog over at wordpress. It's nothing big or fancy, but we're using it to keep each other motivated and to track our progress with the WODs.

So... if you feel like checking it out its called:

Crossfit Sisters!

July Challenge

So... end result of my 30 day CF challenge?

I lost 3lbs, 1.5" off my waist, 1" off hips, and 0.75" off of each thigh.

I'm pretty pleased with that... considering the fact that I've gained 10lbs since the start of this program last September, I still have a lot of work to do... but I am getting stronger and fitter and to that end I am starting again!

Today I'm starting a 60 day CF challenge... and my end goal is to get 1 pull-up (or chin-up, I don't care which) and be doing all of the pushups for the CF warmup on toes rather than knees, by the end of the 2 months. I'd ask y'all to join me, but as soon as I open comments I get spammed, and type-key is pretty much defunct at this point, so you couldn't even register to comment if you wanted to... maybe I can get my server-host to upgrade us to the latest version of MT or something and use those character/image recognition thingies that everyone is so fond of these days... but uh... I'm kinda busy these days.

In any case, Today is day one... get off yer asses and move, m'kay?

not as bad as I thought.

Mike taught me to swing a golf club today.

It wasn't as bad as I'd expected.

Day 30

What a way to end a challenge:

3 rounds, 1 minute at each station, time does not stop between stations... one minute rest between rounds... going for highest number of reps possible:

Three rounds of:
Wall-ball, 20 pound ball, 10 ft target (Reps)
Sumo deadlift high-pull, 75 pounds (Reps)
Box Jump, 20" box (Reps)
Push-press, 75 pounds (Reps)
Row (Calories)

Now, I'm going to have to scale this for a couple of reasons... first of all I only have an 8lb medicine ball, and I don't think I can do a SDHP wiht 75# (going for 45#) and push press the same. Also, because I don't have a rower I'll be doing speed rope jumping instead.

If you want to get fit... you should be doing crossfit. I've drunk the koolaid... that is all.

Night shift? O.H.N.

Yeah, my body doesn't like night shift.

In fact, its pretty pissed off at me. I am WAAAAAY behind in my readings (I have 100 pages to read for a test I have to take before midnight tonight and another 600 for the module that starts today) and I have clinical tonight, saturday night and sunday night. When I get home around 0745 each morning I am DEAD. Like nauseous, nearly falling asleep at the wheel on the drive home, DEAD.

AND right at shift change during my first shift on this rotation a patient that we'd been trying to keep comfortable all night died. Just up and died. Now, granted he was 87 had an ischemic bowel that he refused treatment for, and was VERY uncomfortable the whole night despite being pumped full of all the morphine and ativan we could give the poor guy... but the day nurse decided she was gonna stand him up to give him a suppository (tryin to save the freakin day or some shit) without TALKING to us about how his night had gone... and by the time they sat him back down, eyes were fixed and dilated, and he was gone.

If that stupid nurse hadn't stood him up we probably could have gotten ahold of his FAMILY before he died. But nope. I hope she feels like an asshole about that one for a while.

SO... two workouts today because I slept through yesterday... and this weekend I am going to start getting serious about the eating plan again. This stagnation has me frustrated and depressed and I'm just ready to re-apply myself fully so I can fit into my scrubs better and not be pounding the shit out of my knees and feet with these 35 extra pounds I'm carrying around when I run.

I'm looking at picking up a Zone book because I know its a good plan for fitness focused eating... and, as always, there will be food-accountability over at fit-day again.

For now I'd better get back to my text book... its not gonna read itself.

where am I again?

Oh yeah... Wisconsin. Right.

The theme of the last couple of weeks has been rain. Thunder, lightning and RAIN. Lots of it. Shit is flooding, lakes and rivers running over their banks. Lawns soaked and kids out of school... and thus, inside, and in my hair and on my nerves and I swear to God if one of them whines at me because its STILL RAINING one more time I just might have to smack 'em!!! (well... not really, but damn its tempting sometimes... that or to go find a really dirty sock to stuff in their mouths!).

I'm still in my 30 day crossfit challenge, we're in week 3 I believe... I missed yesterday's WOD, but I just finished making it up and I'll do today's later this evening. I'm making gains in strength and endurance but I'll be damned if the scale hasn't budged an inch. *sigh* I know that I can out-eat any work-out program, but damn... this is an INTENSE one, so I was hoping I'd get to take it easier on the diet. Guess not.

I start clinicals again next Tuesday. This rotation is geriatrics for me and I'm on the sub-acute unit of a local hospital. "Sub-acute" is just code for "rehab" which is where they send older folks after surgery when they need longer recovery than normal or who are "actively dieing" and are on comfort measures but don't want to be at home or in a hospice facility. Should be a relatively mellow rotation except for the fact that its a night-shift. Ugh. I can do days, I can do PMs (3-11pm) but nights is going to be a challenge for me physiologically. My body doesn't like night shift... it likes to sleep when its dark. That's probably one of the main reasons I ended up so depressed when I was living in Alaska... my body wanted to sleep all winter long, which isn't good for the social life of a teen-ager, if ya know what I mean. *sigh*

Kids are good... Older one is off to his dad's in OR for six weeks (yay!) younger one is driving me NUTS with no one to "play with!" I'm sending him off to a movie with Grandma tomorrow so I can take my Geriatrics final in peace and then its prep time for pediatrics. I have 121 days left until I graduate and I am nearly ready to start counting minutes and seconds. Being done still seems like a dream that is SO FAR OFF in the distance... but it IS coming and I just have to make it through 17.5 more weeks.

*sigh*

day 7

I nearly puked during todays workout.

I kinda wish I would have... maybe I wouldn't still feel like puking.

Day 7 of the 30 day Cross-fit WOD challenge and I'm REALLY hoping tomorrow is a rest day.

Please... dear cross-fit coach in California... please let tomorrow be a rest day.