Be You

4/6
Deadlift
5x2
265-275-295-315-335

I know it's pretty light in comparison to others, but I'm taking the approach to not get hurt again.  I was laid up for about 2 months in the fall because I used shit form with heavy weight.  Remember, functional movements?  Not very functional if I can't move.

4/9
3 Rounds for Time:
165lb. front squat, 5 reps
18 pull ups
225lb. deadlift, 5 reps
18 toes-2-bar
165lb push jerk, 5 reps
18 hand-release push ups

22:11.....I had to kick my ass after a few days of rest.  All the weighted lifts were unbroken, but the body weight lifts were all broken up.

The Mill:  Nutrition from the weekend, or better yet, the lack of nutrition from the weekend was definitely felt in this morning's wod.  I literally ate all weekend, and not nibbles either.  I had peanut butter pie (which was delicious), cheesy potatoes, beer, Dominos, and a ton of other good food. Not to mention Subway for dinner topped off by 4 chocolate chip cookies last night just in case my stretchy pants had a little room left.  I don't know much about nutrition, but what I do know is that my performance over the weekend was sub-par.  Also, the most physical activity I did over the weekend was change a few diapers and clean up spit up.  Lets be honest, I loved it.  I have a made a habit out of cleaning up the food I take in and trying to eliminate some of the shit that doesn't help me function.  But I had to take it all in this weekend.  The entire family was home; three brothers, three sister in-laws, grandma & grandpa, and all the amazing nieces and nephews.  In addition to my wife and son.  That's a total of 17 people hanging out eating peanut butter pie.  That's a lot of dirty dishes (thanks Emily).  Also, one of the newest members of the family is crawling all over the place and swinging a wooden hammer.

Back to the beginning.  The shit food (mind you it was delicious) was definitely noticeable in my workout this morning.  I'm not crazy conscience about what eat, but I'm going to start getting better at it.  Why not, right?  Give your body the fuel it needs to do daily tasks at a high level.  I may sneak a few cookies, beer, or hot dogs though, but I will limit the amount and probably not all at the same time.  So, instead of 4 ginormous cookies maybe I'll start with 2, and keep the peanut butter pie coming.  Well, in moderation I guess.  Once a year is good. And on vacation anything goes.     

I had that whole bottom row this weekend.

A huge shout out to the family and especially all the cool sister in-laws and kids...

Also, I have to give a shout out to Mike Montecalvo for his recent text in quoting Edge in his Hall of Fame speech,"Decide what you want to be, and go be it."   Mike I'll get back to this in my next blog...possibly title material...feel free to share it on your facebook page or comment below.

Kinda creepy Mike

Be you and be awesome at it

The Flex and Opening Day

3/31

Thrusters

3-3-3-3-3

135-155-165-175-185 (2)

4/3

5 Rounds for time

50 ft. Walking lunges, 45lb. barbell overhead

21 Burpees

12:43....8 seconds faster than last time (2/20/11).  You wouldn't think to look at it, but this one sucked something awful.

4/4

155lb. Squat clean and jerk, 30 reps

10:01....Essentially after the clean it's a thruster which according to the 3/31 WOD isn't that great.  Managed to do this one rx'd at about 80% of my 3 rep max.  This was a good one for sure, a supped up Grace with the mandatory squat cleans.  I did 5 consecutive at the beginning and 4 at the end.  The rest were done 1, 2, or 3 reps at a time.  I hit my big italian nose once on the way down.  It always manages to get in the way.  A little scrape but no blood.  

The Mill:  Schedule been a little crazy lately.  Missed some workouts and skipped the swimming workout.  There's no way in hell I'm swimming by myself.  I want to try it with someone, preferably a lifeguard, since I swim like a rock.  No, seriously, swimming sucks but when there's someone around who can save my life then I'll do this workout for sure.  

Oh snap....Opening Day in the MLB happens today.  I want to be on record saying that the Pirates will finish above .500 and compete for the NL central.  No Pujols and Fielder, a steriod-less Braun, the Cubs and Astros, and 20 years of losing spells victory in the Steel City.  Here's hoping!

Happenings of the gym (all locations).  The Flexor.  Yeah I'm going to use it as a  noun.  We all know who this is in any gym.  Ran into a few at various gyms in the southwest up to the northeast.  Depending on what they're lifting that day, they will flex those specific muscles in the mirror/s after each set.  Not the "walk by hope no one is looking" flex either.  This is the "I want people to look at me flexing" flex.  So I sent some texts to my buddy about it, then realized that people probably send texts about me.  "You should see this guy wearing his Captain America shirt with Chuck Taylor's.  He looks like a loon."  So I don't have any room to talk because I'm the guy who takes up a lot of space and different bars and whatnot.  So I know what it's like to annoy people in the gym time after time.  Get after it and do your thing.  

  

Get out and make it happen today.  Whatever IT is for you let go of the excuses and bullshit reasons why you haven't done anything an do it.  

Happy Opening Day!