No, I do not have any cereal

I went to the grocery store today and purchased about 15 pounds of chicken, 5 pounds of beef, strawberries, bananas, onions, and artichoke hearts. Oh, and guacamole. As I was checking out, the cashier exclaims "You don't have any cereal!"

"Um....no. I don't eat cereal"

"It's the 13 hour sale!"

"Ok."

"All the cereal is on sale for $1.79 a box"

All of a sudden I don't feel so bad about paying $3/pound for grass fed beef. Don't these people know that sugar costs, like, 8 cents a pound. Cereal is pretty much all sugar. Do I need to go into the math or do you get it?

No, I don't have any cereal, nor will I ever again buy any. Especially not for my future children.

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Sorry I have been a terrible poster. I have been really incredibly busy at the gym. So much to do, so little time. Here's my WODs this week: I hope to post more, tomorrow.

Tuesday

Front Squat 3-3-3-3-3

135-145-150-155x1-135-135

That sucked. My legs were shot from "Kelly" on Monday. Oh well.

Wednesday

Rest - I haven't been this sore in a loooooonnnnng time!

Thursday (today!)

"Fran"
21-15-9 reps for time of:
65# Thrusters
Pullups

4:15 PR by 1:11

I've got a video of this I'll post up tomorrow or the next day, or maybe Sunday. My goal was to do all sets unbroken. I didn't get through 15 pullups unbroken. I did 10. Everything else was unbroken. When I was done, my fingers were completely white and I had no feeling in them. It was really strange. I was really hoping for under 4 minutes. Next time!

Aaaannnd, finally, I got my videos up from Regionals. Here is the video of me doing WOD #2 (3 rounds for time of: CTB pullups, 105# front squats, burpees). I am kind of in the middle of everything. I did this WOD in 5:33 which was the winning time (by 30 seconds, and about 90 seconds in my heat!)

Pullup/Front Squat/Burpee from Jenna Rettenmayer on Vimeo.

Just Another Workout

Yesterday was Day 2 of the Paleo Diet. I feel really good. I have a LOT on my plate right now, so it's good to not have to think too much about my food.

And, because I have so much on my plate, this will be a really short post. Yesterday we did a WOD that we made up. We are evil. Very evil.

AMRAP in 20 minutes of:
5 Ring Dips
10 CTB Pullups
15 Front Squats, 65#

8 rounds

The last couple of rounds I did my ring dips 1 at a time. I managed to get more than 1 in a row for the first 6 rounds, so that was pretty good. I am sore today, but not like I used to be after a WOD with ring dips.

I know my pullup form is pretty terrible - at least when I do chest to bar. I need to work on my form, but at the same time, I need to keep the intensity of my workouts up at this point - get ready for the qualifiers. I'll keep working on my form in as skill-work, but during the workouts, I'm going to get my chest up there however I can.

The front squats were really hard - I would say they were the toughest part...but I think the ring dips were still harder. The front squats were definitely harder than I thought they would be.

Overall, I was pretty destroyed after this WOD. I had to push pretty hard to finish 8 rounds, that's for sure.

And I thought Fran was bad

Woke up with a terrible sore throat this morning. I had planned on working out between 6:30 and 9 (not for the entire time, but in that time frame!) but ate breakfast, then decided to come home and take a nap before the 9 a.m. class. To my surprise, I fell asleep almost immediately upon laying down, which I can almost never do so early in the morning (it was about 7 a.m.). I slept so hard, that between the time my alarm went off the first time at 8:20, and the second time at 8:25, I had an entire second dream.

I decided to work out this evening with Meriah. I had been working on greasing the groove all day for HSPU - and I actually got my first static HSPU! My brother and good friend Lauren were spotting me, but they didn't help at all! I think I must have had a lot more confidence with 2 spotters, so I went for it. I got a total of 5 or 6 HSPU today, static. I also spent some time doing sets of 2 with the purple band, which I think will help me A LOT.

Anyway, here's the workout:

Front Squat 3-3-3

• 45x5x2
• 75x5
• 95x3
• 135x1
• 140x3
• 150x3
• 160x3

I think I had more in me. But, my recent 1RM is only 165 (all time 1RM is 198 aka 90kg) so I thought this was a pretty good showing. I'll go for 170 next week, and then my Strength Bias cycle is over and it's time to go for a 1RM again!

Skill work: Ring Dips. I did 2 sets of 5. It feels good to have these sort of back. My left shoulder is still kind of bugging me, but not bad. After seeing that the qualifiers happening this weekend had both HSPU AND Ring Dips, I am a little worried. Time to get to some serious work!

Metcon:

21-15-9 Reps for time of:
65# Thrusters
Burpees

6:15

Very, very happy with this. Makes me think that sub 4-minute Fran is possible after all. My goal was to do all my thrusters unbroken, but there was no way I was doing more than the 1st set unbroken. My shoulders were toast from those Burpees. I felt slow in the burpees, but I tried to keep moving. I need to get faster in these.

I think I am eating a little too much. I haven't been doing very well with keeping accurate track of calories. I am going to start measuring again. Not "dieting", per se, but at least keeping accurate track. It's hard to do, but I at least need to be doing my best. I think I have been eating too much in general. I feel....big. Too big. Hard to say. I wish I could see myself from the outside.