I was tired today

It took a lot of effort to head to the gym for squats and deadlifts. I did it and I'm glad, but I am looking forward to a week "off" in a couple of weeks. I'll be on vacation and I'll be active, but I won't do any lifting. I think these old bones need a little break.

I've been eating on the fringes lately. I've been cooking less and eating more food from the outside. Even though I'm making healthy choices, I realize my nutrition is not nearly as good when I do this. No wonder I'm feeling tired and a bit sluggish lately. I know I was sick for a week, but it's more than that. Nutrition really is a big part of the game.

Running hard, hard running

The Crossfit WOD today was to run a 5K, which is what I had planned too. Perfect.

What wasn't perfect was the way I struggled....mightily...when I ran that 5k. Did I really lose that much not running for a week and a half? Is it the remnants of my cold clogging up my respiratory system? Is it the spring pollen in the air? Did I just get lazy? My 5k time was 24:26, and it damned near killed me running it. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

I tacked some abs on after for good measure. No 5k on Thursday. I'm going to run some 400m and 800m sprints. Saturday, I'm going to run some short Tabata sprints too. I need to get back to where I should be.

Catching up

I ran over the weekend for the first time in a week and a half, and it felt like it. I had a very tough time, but I pushed through my HIIT run and was glad that I did.

Today, I did an UBWO. I added the CF WOD to my shoulder workout. Well, I kinda did. The WOD was:

Thruster 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 reps

Instead, my mind read that as push presses. Not the worst thing in the world. I did end up having a really good UBWO today. I was feeling lazy before I went, and I feel great now. I knew it was going to be one of those kinds of days.

My nutrition was horrible over the weekend, featuring too much of the wrong foods, and too little of the right ones. I need to focus a bit more on my eating.

Angie, angie, aint it good to be alive?

Today's workout was special. I did my normal heavy chest and shoulder workout, and instead of doing my normal back, I did the Crossfit WOD. It's a fun little number called Angie. She goes like this:

For time:
100 Pull-ups
100 Push-ups
100 Sit-ups
100 Squats

Pullups 10:10
Pushups 5:45
Situps 5:02
Squats 5:14 Total time including transition was 28:11. Not a great time, but not too bad for my first Angie.

The squats were extra fun after the leg workout yesterday. The pullups were a bit of a bear, and my lats and biceps were on fire by the end. The pushups would have been much easier on a non-chest day. I wish I had still done some dips after Angie. I'll do some ring dips on Saturday.

If you see someone hobbling around

for the next couple of days, that will probably be me. LBWO today. Squats, deadlifts, stiff leg deadlifts. Standing calf raises with heavy weight. Abdominals. I feel great...and I'll be sore for days to come.

I've missed cardio this week due to my cold, but I'm getting my lifting in. I'll do my UBWO tomorrow, and hopefully run on Friday night and again Sunday. I'll see.

At what magic point

does your body go from being sick to getting over being sick? Is there a moment when all of the cold virus has been killed and your white blood cells are carting the corpses away through the mucous membranes? Are a large part of the virus organisms dead and the remaining ones being overrun by the defensive cells of the body? At this point, I wouldn't say I was sick, but I am "recovering". If I try running, my respiratory system is still affected by the remnants of the cold, and I perform accordingly. I'm just curious.

Anyway, I had a rather sedentary weekend, and I was feeling quite sluggish all morning. I attributed a lot of it to the aforementioned "recovering" nonsense. I didn't know how well my UBWO would go today, but I went anyway. I had a great workout, and I feel one hundred percent better. My breathing is clearer, my body has awakened, and I feel human again. I know some of it was the cold, but if I lay dormant, my body does not like it. Not one bit. Of course, there are those days here and there when I'm happy to make an exception.

For Shoulders today, I did a CF WOD from yesterday:

Shoulder press 3-3-3-3-3 reps

It's funny. I did this with no shoulder pain at all. In fact, when I work out, the shoulder feels great. It's only later on that it hurts. I'll see how I feel later.

I wasn't about to miss my UBWO today...

especially after missing my cardio workout yesterday. For the past couple of years, very time I get a cold, I get a swelling in my inner ears that causes a temporary bit of dizziness every time I lie down or sit up. This makes for an interesting bench routine. Sit on the bench, lie down, take a deep breath. Wait for the head to spin and then stop. Push out the set and rack the bar. Sit up, and wait for the head to spin and stop. Repeat. Now, that's a FUN way to do a workout.

Well, I did it. Bench, pullups, presses, dips, chins. I'm glad I did.

For the second week in a row, my lower body has some significant DOMS. Deep squats and deadlifts are my friend.