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Change

Well I am over my cold now. Thank God! You don't realize how nice it is to breathe without a stuffy nose, until you can't! And this is coming from a Respiratory Therapist!

Anyways, I have decided to change up my training a bit for the next 6 weeks. I was going to train for the TSC on April 4th, but not only do I work the night before but I work that night too. The TSC starts at 10am. I really don't think my strength will be there with out sleep. So I have decided to combine a bit of everything for my training.

Kettlebells (I will always have KBs in my training some way or how...they do EVERYTHING!!)
Strength Training (Squats, DLs, Presses, Pull Ups, etc)
Conditioning

I started this on Monday and yesterday had a "heavy" day. Little sore but not too bad. So we will see how this goes!

Will It Ever End???!!!!

UUUUGGGGHHHH!!!!

So I have been sick for the past 7 days and I am SICK OF BEING SICK!!! I even had to call in sick to work last week. Which is very unlike me, but working in a hospital, I figured being around people who's immune system is down would not be a good thing.

But on a good note my body looks better than ever!

My abs are showing through very nicely and I am down another 2 pounds from 1.5 weeks ago. Since the beginning of the year I have lost 15 pounds! I give credit to my eating, training and my supplements that PJ Wilson, DC has suggested to help not only my thyroid but my over all health. BJ and I will be sending in our hair sample analysis again today so in about 2 weeks we should see how things are going.

Today I am going to take it easy and just grease the groove with my jerks and snatches. Yesterday I did a strength routine of deadlifts, squats, presses and ring rows. That was actually really hard, I think from me still being under the weather.

We enough for today...

Past Week

Workouts have been going well this week, but yesterday and today I came down with a lovely cold!

I have been concentrating on strength workouts. A lot of Deadlifts, squats, pull ups and presses. Then using my Jerks and Snatches as conditioning, and throwing in some running here and there.

I have been taking 2 days off of completely OFF! Well, taking the dogs (yes we got another one! She is a yellow lab and just a puppy!) for walks.

Hopefully my lovely cold will go away soon. I am the type of person who HATES to take any kind of meds for colds so I kind of just suffer through it.

I am sore!!!

So on Wednesday BJ and I decided I needed to really change up my training. I liked what I was doing, but I was getting a little bored. Well I should have just been bored!!! I have been sooooooooooooooo sore from Wednesday's workout it is unbelievable! I truly have not been this sore since...well honestly I can't remember the last time I was this sore! But this is a good thing. This means that I have some things I need to work on and muscles that have been neglected for sometime now. BJ has me doing squats, deadlifts, presses, rows, jerks and snatches w/ my KB....ouch!

Also, BJ and I are going to be sending in more samples of our hair to get another analysis done. I can't wait...I want to see if things have changed...I have a feeling they will.

WOW!!! I SUCK!!!

At least this is what I was thinking as I was running today!

No I didn't have a bad run, really, what I mean by that title is that my form is HORRENDOUS!!! I knew it wasn't up to par, but today I decided to run in my Vibram 5-finger shoes and found out just how band I truly am!

For those of you who don't know what Vibram 5-finger shoes are go here. They are WAY cool and feel funky when you walk in them. So today I tried running in them to see how I would run in "bare feet" which is actually better for you than the hundreds of dollars some shoes cost. Plus my arches are really high, so running in "bare feet" will help them.

Well all I can say is running in them showed me just how bad my form really is! I felt like I had never ran before in my life! But I am glad, this is why I did it to really see what I needed to work on. Also, I tend to walk and run like a duck sometimes, with my feet out...this showed just how bad.

I will say it took a little to get used to, but I like it. I am going to be wearing them a lot more with walking, running and just doing little crap around the house. I am interested to see how my running form improves and how my feet will adapt.

Good News and a Good Test Day

Well first I had a really good test day for my training. I was able to work with the 16kg for both my Jerks and Snatches. I was really happy with my performance. Here is what I did...

Warm Up:
Deadlifts w/ 135# 3x3
Pull Ups 3x3

Jerks w/ 16kg (6rpm) 4min
Snatches w/ 16kg (12rpm) 4min
**Yes only did 4 min but it was a heavy 4min and believe me...I was breathing hard!

Then when I came home I went for a nice jog with my doggie!

Now for the good news...I got my thyroid blood tests back and they are really good! I feel great, I am not sluggish and falling asleep every chance I get. For those who have ever had to deal with something like Hypothyroid you understand the feeling of not feeling good, and you also know how wonderful it is to feel...I guess you would say normal. YEAH I AM NORMAL!!! Well at least my thyroid is!