Rest Day

Helped out with the wrestling tournament, we're definitely getting better at this :) Then watched The Thing, which was pretty good. Not an awesome film, but definitely enjoyable. School tomorrow :/

Everything's better with a flamethrower...

Rest Day

I helped set up for the wrestling tournament, which I'll also be helping out at tomorrow. If things were a little different, I might actually be wrestling tomorrow. Oh well. I really need my rest today anyways, to recover from yesterday and midterms. On Monday the slate will be wiped clean, and I can try to avoid my self-destructive patterns :) Oh, I don't know if I've mentioned this, but I got 1960 on the SAT. It definitely wasn't my best effort, and if I were in a different situation I would take it again, but the score is more than adequate to get into CSU Northridge. Valley Crossfit, here I come :)

Front Squat

3 x 5 Front Squat (75/85/95#)

Followed by some core work.

Yeah this was bad. The second set I had to break up 4-1, and the last set I hat to break up 2-2-1. I also had some weird pain in my right elbow, I'm not sure what that was about. It took some work to get this workout in, since there wasn't a "Body Conditioning" class because of midterms. Luckily, Mr. Chiroi was kind and let me just work out when his basketball team was in there. 

Then, I got some extra work carrying mats into the gym in preparation for the wrestling tournament tomorrow (10/23). 

Right now, I'm SUPER sore. My legs aren't that bad, but my collarbone and shoulder are :/ I have normal pain in my collarbone, but my shoulder joint is sore if I just touch it. Patience :)

Rest Day... Kinda

Today, our "Body Conditioning" class had their final, Fight Gone Bad. We do it a little differently to tailor to the students' skill levels and also because we don't have rowers. We substitute jump rope singles for rowing(10 jumps = 1 rep), we use kettlebells for SDLHP (20kg/24kg), we use lower weights on push press (65/45#), we do throwdowns(20/12#) instead of wall balls(I don't know why however, since we have dynamax balls, and everyone is fully capable of doing wall balls), and our boxes are lower, partly because the kids in wood shop apparently either don't know how to measure, or they don't know trigonometry/basic geometry.

It was "kinda" a rest day because I was running around a lot setting stuff up, putting stuff away, and cleaning bars that people dropped from push press. I took some video, I'll try to upload it tomorrow (10/23).

I'm pretty excited because this new girl, Kelci Marsh, got the third best score on FGB on her first try. She got 306, which is 70 reps behind what I got this same time last year. I don't really have any competition in this class, but it looks like she'll be a challenge in the future :) I'll have to make sure to set some records that will be hard for her to break next year.

This day I also had my psychology final, which I aced of course. Though it didn't help that I didn't have time during first period finals to finish my study guides, even though I was able to complete them in record time before we actually too the final.

And then.... studying for Friday's finals... So I got distracted for an hour watching kitty videos on YouTube, then again reading Cracked.com articles. So I ended up staying up until four in the morning, trying to finish my study guide and newspaper project. The newspaper project turned out alright, AP Bio... not so much. I'm just glad it's over.

But I digress. For your entertainment:

Press

3 x 5 (45/55/60#)

It's been awhile, sorry :( Midterms really jacked a lot of stuff up. Anyways, I don't remember a ton about this... Later I know my collarbone hurt, but less than it did last time, so that's good I guess.

Mmmmmm... Bacon.

Rest Day

I watched Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and it was pretty good. I do so love stories in which the world [almost] ends. I think I'll be adding some light, short met-cons to my programming, I really need the endorphins because I'm getting kind of really stressed out. I'm kind of stuck in a hole right now, and the only way to get out is to re-evaluate and deal with a lot of stuff. I'll be fine though, I'm a survivor. I just need to believe in myself a little more :)
 Cool video:

Ideas are bulletproof.

This Weekend... (Deadlift)

sucked and was very unproductive. Ah, stress. It didn't help that I had to run our "Body Conditioning" class since we were down a teacher and(for most of the period) a sub. And we have a substitute teacher for English for at least two weeks. And we have midterms this week... Considering this, I think I'll be adding some met-con to my program. I'll have to start out light, and I'm not sure if I should follow my class' programming, or just do my own. And hopefully my collarbone can hold out, because I'm really going to need the endorphins.

Today:

3 x 5 Deadlift (105/120/135#)

Pretty easy, except for the last set of course. My knee wasn't weird at all either, so that's good :) We'll see how press goes on wednesday.