Monday ohhh sweet Monday!

First things first....

Today is the first day of our soft opening at Eternia Athletics!

Secondly....I paper cut my top lip this morning getting into my car with papers in my hand. Hows that happen? Hey paper, sure get all up on my face and cut me. NO. It hurts. Lame.

I had my first class this morning at 5:30am...it was AWESOME!! I had so much fun and have missed coaching A LOT. Glad to be back at it. My people kicked ass, and had a blast doing it! Proud of them! Surprisingly I didn't have a hard time getting out of bed. Some might have been a little worried about me and the bed/sleeping in situation. But I showed them :) On the other hand, our dogs were like WTF?! We usually snuggle in bed till 8 or 9, sometimes 10....you'd do it if you could. Anyway, we are all stoked to get back into coaching and helping people achieve their goals! If you are in the Grants Pass area, come check us out!!

Now I am sitting here with frozen fingers. Waiting for the bathroom to get installed. WAHBAM! You know whats even better? I get to be the first person to use it. OHHH YYYEAAAAH! IN YOUR FACE  BOYS! :) Haha. I kid, I kid. 

Week one in the books on the new training redge. I'm having a good time! Today's will be fun, get to do some snatching and squats...Nice little workout for me today!!

Snatch - 60% x3, 65% x3, 70% x3, 75% x3x3
Snatch Pull - 95% (of SN) x3x4
Back Squat - 75% x6x5
SLDL - 3x5

For the record, I'm pretty darn sore today. I got rolfed yesterday. That Gary, he really got me this time. I feel like I got hit by a bus! I'm better for it though. So THANK YOU Gary :)

We had a taco party at the house last night. It was fun! I fried up some of our new ground beef and made cilantro lime WHITE rice, and black beans and a garlic lime slaw and of course all the taco fixings. I pretty much made a big pile on a plate and inhaled it. It was delicious. EVEN BETTER we watched the American Weightlifting documentary. It was great! Go watch it. You'll be inspired. At on point, or five, I had goosebumps. Such an amazing sport. I LOVE IT.

I want you all to have a goooooood Monday! :) 

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Oh, HIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BACK AGAIN!!!!

Ha...So I have been inspired to start writing my diary again, read it if you want. OR don't. I don't care either way. But if you don't you'll probably miss out, just saying. :)

As far as my diet/eating journey has been going, Ive played around with a couple different things. I haven't been 100% paleo.....EEEEEK. Its okay, I am still alive. Paleo isn't really realistic for my life, and I say this because I love treats. And when I say I love treats, I mean.... I LOVE TREATS!!!!!!!!!! When I say that I think of the little girl from Monsters INC when she yells "IT'S SO FLUFFY!!" Goodness, shes cute. Anyway, I eat primal most of the day. Breakfast consists of fat and maybe some fibrous vegetables. Sooo that is eggs and bacon. OR since I have a phobia against eggs lately it'll be bacon. Or maybe not even bacon but some leftovers. Sometimes just coffee. Honestly, I have been neglecting breakfast till about 10-11 so it might be lunch time already. If that's the case, its a salad with meat. I get in trouble if I don't eat breakfast. I KNOW I KNOW.... I need to do it. So far, this week has been good. So back on track, lunch. Lunch is leftovers or chicken and a homemade green salad. Lately I have been loving the crisp deliciousness of romaine lettuce/cabbage. Mmmmmm. Throughout my day I am drinking a huge jug of water. I aim to get a gallon or more in. Easy to do when theres a hefty jug that I haul around with me everywhere. Dinner is where I waiver. This is the Carb-Backloading theory. I have found that it works. But for the ladies its not as fun as it is for the gents. I cant just eat 800 donuts and a huge bowl of ice cream while having 16 cups of rice and pasta and bread and pizza and rolls and potatoes and cheese and fries and and and and..... the list goes on. ANYWAY, I do whatever it is I make for dinner with a limited amount of carbs. So like a little white rice...That way I can have a cookie. Or ice cream. But nothing too crazy. Truth is, sometimes I get crazy. Like with all this Halloween candy. OR the brownie skillet with ice cream I had last weekend...(I didn't eat it alone... Jill helped me) Shessh. Or beers, or wine. Those suck. Its just fun to celebrate life with friends. But my belly doesn't look awesome afterward. That's the scale though. Gotta live and love life, cant live in a jail cell of the diet world. I have and did, and I bet I was annoying. "Ummmm I cant eat that." What a snood. Haha. So bottom line, we all have slip ups. And its okay, tomorrow is a new day and one slip up isn't going to ruin everything. Just like one good meal isn't going to make you perfect. So take a breath and LOVE yourself. :)

Dem Quads....Seriously!?

FITNESS....I love that I found something that I am SO passionate about. I amaze myself everyday with where I am now. I watch the elitists and am inspired on a daily... and the beginners, cause that's where I started. To see the fire in their eyes to want to be better. MAN! Its great. Cross Fit is great and gives results, but I have found something that I want to be better at...and that's weightlifting. Something about it intrigues me. I want to be better. I want to prove to myself that I can be better at these technical lifts. And I will. So this drive has taken me down a different training path. I started this week. Day #4 is today. Snatch...Clean...Squat...Squat...Jerk....Squat.SQUAT. So far so good. I'm excited to be better. I am prepared for more bad days then good days. To break things down and rebuild. Needless to say, I am stoked.

Gosh, this is going to be a million miles long...Sorry. NOT. :) Anywho, Eternia Athletics is in the works. What?! Yep, its for realsies. Our own spot. Its awesome. We are all so excited. Its been truckload or 63...of hard work, sweat, tears and stress. But the end result is that we have a place to workout that's not our garage. To have fun, to laugh, to hangout and cheer each other on. To SLAM BARS....to drink a beer, to release stress, to listen to loud music, to have community, to PR...to fail....to be BETTER then we were yesterday. And that is priceless. Stay tuned...its coming soon!

Me, practicing snatch

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