BRATTITUDE - chapter 2

[CF-OC_gal]

Well there's no better time for change than now. I have to leave myself open to walking away from my current fitness resources at the drop of a hat so I am cutting off gym commitments and planning to adjust to a "never gymless" type of schedule indefinately. Meanwhile I'll be back to my more physically demanding work mid April so I might as well plan for it.

The goals for the next 4-6 weeks are loosely:

• Eat 5-10 fruit and veggie servings a day (track in Fitday)including at least 1 green veggie serving.
• Maintain pull up strength - work towards increasing it
• Maintain ability to do unbroken cardio workouts as intervals or other
• Learn workout routines to maintain fitness level without paid memberships or special equipment.

How:

1. Keep up with a regular fitness schedule 6 days a week
2. Do CV training 2-3 days a week and make one a running session. This could be biking, running, rowing or bodyweight Crossfit sessions.
3. Do 2-3 strength training sessions per week. Use up gym membership then switch to paid for Crossfit, paid drop-in sessions and home equipment.
4. Fill in on tired days with light workouts like pilates, yoga and stretching.
5. Make the next weeks schedule before it starts

[arbit]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo..............what happened to u'r avatar ?? I LOVED that crazy frog !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CF-OC_gal]

I love M&M's! I had a riot on becomeanmm.com

I can bring the frog back later. I saved a whole bunch of cartoon clips of him but I am not feeling so bipolar with fitness enthusiasm these days (like the frog). So I'm giving him a rest.

[arbit]

That frog is a cartoon character ? Which one ?

[CF-OC_gal]

Plan for Mar. 31-Apr.7

Saturday - 2 mi Run outside or take a 45 min walk
Day 1: Sun - gym
Day 2: Mon - crossfit ladies night
Day 3: Tues - CV
Day 4: Wed - gym
Day 5: Thurs - crossfit (or light W/O)
Day 6: Fri - CV
Day 7: Sat - rest

After the 15th I can switchup the day off to join in the weekend "Suffer on Saturday and Suffer on Sunday Crossfits.

If I can make myself do it I'll post my green veggie eating plan (oh, that is such a commitment )

[CF-OC_gal]

Originally Posted by arbit

That frog is a cartoon character ? Which one ?

Go rent some old Bugs Bunny/ Looney Tunes episodes arbit. I grew up on that stuff. Here's a link.YouTube - One Froggy Evening

[tim_mcf]

This is exciting! Good luck in your new plan.

[CF-OC_gal]

Originally Posted by tim_mcf

This is exciting! Good luck in your new plan.

Yeah staying one step ahead of change is always easier than dealing with the stres of "reacting" to it. Funny how a week off and not commiting to something, anything, just makes me want to procrastinate and live off the progress I just made.

I've got to jump back on that train.

The 2007 Tour Nortel is the first weekend in May. If my bike can do it with no money put into it and I am going to be around still then I will enter the 30K bike tour. I just picked up and did the 12K with no training a few years ago.

[arbit]

Originally Posted by Brat

Go rent some old Bugs Bunny/ Looney Tunes episodes arbit. I grew up on that stuff. Here's a link.YouTube - One Froggy Evening

I HAVE seen that cartoon !!!!
Is he a recurring character ?

I do plan on getting the looney tunes dvds

[gymgirl]

Hi brat! your plan looks great! Suffer on sat. sounds like fun.I've been wanting to go to ours but it's on hiatus or something. have fun with taht and report back.

what is crossfit ladies night?

[CF-OC_gal]

Originally Posted by gymgirl

what is crossfit ladies night?

I don't know, only that it is offered on Mondays as ladies only WODs and training.

It seems I did pick up some kind of flu bug (after speaking with a nurse at the clinic by phone). The worst seems to be over and the chills/sweats are controlled by OTC drugs. (I only seem to need them at 4pm to get me through the evening).

BTW - my Fitday journal is back

[minime]

hey brat! new journal looks good! Good goal with the fruit and veg... i usually get about 5 servings of fruit/veg a day and it is not enough. I need to work on that too. I could eat 10 serving of fruit easily, but the veg... another story.

good luck with your new goals!

[JDR3]

Brat, love the new avatar!

Peanut M&M's are my biggest weakness!

[CF-OC_gal]

Mar.31

Morning Wt: 126lbs (I like the little jiggle that has returned after a week off. Wish I could bottle it and spray it on at will.)

The random, leftover, get back in form, workout before it counts:

45 min walk - 3.35km
600m light jog in 4 min.
Going to go stretch now

Like clockwork at 4pm the chills and achy skin returned.
Barely ate supper.
Wanted to go to bed.
Forced myself to accept the "walk" option.
After 20 min. a mild sweat replaced the chills and I decided to add in the run around the block at the end.
Glad I did.

JDR3 - I can't resist the peanut ones either!

[CF-OC_gal]

Yesterday, Apr. 1, I was a victim of higher priorities which I am glad to have taken the time for (I'd have been stupid not to). By the time I got around to attemping a workout all I had the strength for was 8 pushups and 8 crunches. I'm trying to shake out the last of the 4:00pm on skin chills. Knowing that I didn't want to back out of today's planned CCF workout, I was OK with that.

Apr. 2
CCF - Ladies WOD

I had another young girl show up to join me at this one, yeah!!

We did a crossfit warmup:

• 2x samson stretch
• run 400 m (outside - no coat)
• 2x Burgener WU
• 10 jumping PLU
• 5 RD (ring dip subbed ring balance squats)
• 10 SQ
• 5 L-sits (subbed best effort knees up)
• 5 box jumps on 18"

* That was both of our 1st times for the BJs so TrainerP told us just to try. The other girl was having trouble getting into the mood so I said I'd go first. I jumped up and promptly lost my balance and fell right off onto my backside rolling on my elbows and back.

Nice example! She was even more hesitant to try after seeing me do that. T-P just corrected my form and I finished them off with no problem from there. (It didn't hurt!)

Did some KBS review practise and learned ring rowing (like a reverse plank lat exercise)
Shoulder Press - 45# 5 sets of 3 reps easy

WOD - 5 rounds of ...

12 x ring rowing BW
12 KBS - 35#
run 400m

Time: 21:41

I totally suck at running. I was kicking butt every round until I had to run!