Launch into the Good Life

This process of the good life is not, 

I am convinced,

 a life for the faint-hearted. 

It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and ore of one's potentialities.

It involves the courage to be. 

It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.

Sunday
Opted OUT of my lifting workout due to the fact that I could not get out of our road without the 4WD and we had other things to do rather than drive multiple times up and down into town.

Opted FOR 40 minute dry sauna and it was wonderful! I had a tough time the last 5 minutes just anxious to be done. Still salty when I test, so still have some minerals to balance.

Monday

3 mile walk in the snow ;) - a few tire flips in the snow. Some more shoveling. Yep! Still quite a bit here ;) and some nasty icy patches. Those are the real buggers.

50 Burpees inside
250 Plank around!

I have been hungry!

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'Rock'in the Planks

I . . . am always glad to touch the living rock again 

and dip my hand in the high mountain air.

~ John Muir

Burpee Jax - oh yes, that's one way to get 'em done!50
Cargo Net Climbs - just had to do a few, the class was having all the fun! Rest days on the same day as  coaching days can be tough mentally.6
Plank5x 50 seconds + jump rope between sets Sometimes waiting for the school bus takes on a whole life of it's own!
Food nuggsChicken thigh & sweet potato!Getting ready for tomorrow's Press & Squat ;)

Fall Flavor

Determination is defined by your movement.

I am sure that I say this over and over, but ... I LOVE SUNDAY workouts ;). Had to make this one quick and dirty. Family day and lots of stuff to get ready for Christmas.

Warm up
Jumping Jax 110

I know that I am going to like this incorporated into my programming. Feels good to have it in focus. Jump rope transition in a couple of weeks!

Not a big warm up, today's work will pretty much cover full body movement.

December Challenge - Burpees/Plank
I am starting with Hot will move to Bold and finish strong and Spicy!

• Bold - 50 Burpees, 250 seconds of plank
• Hot - 75 Burpees, 225 seconds of plank
• Spicy - 100 Burpees, 200 seconds of plank

Have to say, this is way better than the 10,000M challenge row from the year before last. WAY!

Work
5 RNDs
10 Burpees
50 seconds of plank
3-5 Ab rollouts/evil wheel - so glad these are in today
10 X Mtn Climbers

Conditioning
EMOTM 10 minutes
100M Sprints

Cool part of these is that at the end of each sprint, I picked up a fall leaf to mark my set. Yep, mental WOD too. I know that these hurt the next day ;). Low to no traffic in the back alley so full speed ahead. Too bad no track today.

Kicker
Had to. Saw this one and felt like a spin. Feeling a little slow on metcons lately, just slow in general.

3 minute AMRAP
5 Box vault - had to add some weights like an over the box movement brought it up to 20"
5 Hanging knee raise
10 KB swing (low & powerful, Russian style)

5 RNDs + 9 swings
SERIOUSLY!!! that last one just got away from me, felt so good to break out a bit!

Food stuff
Triple crock-pot of goodness. Perfect set up for the week. Back to school, regulating the schedule, new lifting cycle and the unknown.

1. Meatballs
2. Beef stew
3. Chicken thighs

Got to finish of an amazing turkey/chicken sausage chili. Seriously, inspired by the Chili Dog Chili recipe from Primal Cravings ... this is going to be a favorite of mine. 

Break on meditation and reading this weekend. Should be all introspective but ... not so much. We took a whirlwind tour on Thanksgiving and Friday was a long trip back ending up in the dry sauna for a long hot drip.