Category Archives: Health

Week 2, day 5: “Beer before liquor” then gaming with beers

Really glad today was a short workout. I don’t have a ton of weights so it was not terribly hard and that’s really, really good since I’m feeling pretty beat up from the past couple weeks. First time wearing CVG … Continue reading

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Week 2, day 4: feeling frustrated

I flip flopped the workouts for yesterday and today since this workout scared me and I was already tired yesterday. But I did it today. I’m not feeling great about this workout even this is the most I’ve sweat in … Continue reading

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Week 2, day 3: trading workouts since I’m feeling beat

I decided to do my “active recovery” today instead of tomorrow so I got on the treadmill for 30 minutes. My treadmill says that I only went a mile in that 30 minutes but my Garmin watch says that I … Continue reading

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Week 2, day #2: I will climb mountains

Warm up: ✔️Strength: 10#, modified planks 30 second hold is my limit for nowMetcon:  2 rounds (80 toe taps, 8 abmat situps, 20 wall push-ups, 10# DB step ups)Cool Down: ✔️ I did 90 mountain climbers! Granted they were modified … Continue reading

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Week 2, day #1: feeling strong is relative

Warmup ✅️Strength: 10/15/20/25/25Endurance: 14:16 (800m)Metcon: 3:29 (10# barbell)Cool down ✅️ Considering a year ago I couldn’t even pick up a coffee with my right arm (post surgery) I’m pretty impressed that I was able to do dead lifts, even at … Continue reading

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TTSL Day 6: Bruised and sweating but no tears

After going shopping on Saturday for some new equipment, getting a proper STEP, immediately trying jump on it and FALLING ON MY FACE AND WRECKING MY KNEECAP I decided to swapped Saturday and Sunday so I just did this the … Continue reading

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TTSL DAILY day 5: Kettle ball swings and all the squats, but really…I’m fine.

I spent all day looking at the exercises for tonight and stressing about the STRENGTH and METCON parts yet when I actually got started it took me 26 minutes to get through the warm up and that was without doing … Continue reading

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Day 4: “Active Rest Day” and All I wanna do is Bicycle!! Because fat bottomed girls make the rocking world go round.

I don’t have any green workout gear to wear yet (come on Medusa print capris, arrive at my door already) and hate the idea of St Patrick chasing snakes since I keep snakes and adore all my slithery friends, but … Continue reading

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TTSL Daily #3: hopping is for the damn bunnies

TTSL Day 3.  I really hope the zombies we are training to outrun are the slow shambling ones from the original Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. Cardio is so hard for me with my COPD. My heartrate was through … Continue reading

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TTSL Day 2: Inchworms are worse than situps?

I made it through day 2 of my first TTSL daily cycle. Who knew I would despise inchworms so much? I despise them almost as much as the 40 situps I did in lieu of “toe to bar”. Surprisingly I … Continue reading

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