"Nancy" (is pregnant!)

Good workout today... I think the day of rest in between each training day has been really good for me. I don't get as sore and it helps me with the aches and pains I'm starting to feel from carrying around the extra weight. I get concerned when doing things like squats because I don't even know if I'm squatting low, but today a friend took a picture of me working out and despite my belly pulling me forward, I still go below parallel haha!

Conditioning:
“Nancy” – 5RFT: (18m cap)
400 meter run (I rowed)
15 Overhead squats (I used 45lbs)

I finished 4 Rounds in 17:30... would have definitely finished all 5 if the cap was 20 Min.

Accessory:  3x10 Romanian Deadlift  (95lbs)

Food: Bad cheat! I had gluten free pizza for lunch  :/  That's what I get for watching Louie last night and getting a craving that I obsessed about all day.

Upper Day

Got caught up today and had to jump into the class late. I missed doing shoulder press but figured I would make it up another day this week. I have my baby shower on Sunday so I wanted to get my hair colored and cut beforehand  :)

4x 3 Min Rounds:

10 Push ups

10 Bent Over Rows (50lbs)

Max Kettlebell Swings (53lbs)

Rest 1 Min between Rounds

Score: 81 Reps

Did a nice shoulder stretch afterwards. Kind of a short day but I still felt like it was a good workout regardless!

Food: Rainforest smoothie.... Nothing else special  :/

Squat, Push Press, Jump Rope

Good day today. I trained two clients and then did my own workout before coming home to relax. That's pretty much gonna be the schedule after this week. I can only handle a few hours on my feet being active a day... It's weird cause you see and hear about other moms who do CrossFit up until the day they go into labor, but I can't imagine that! I guess every pregnancy is different though so you just gotta go with it.

Anyway, today was good but I needed a lot of rest due to tummy tightening. The class did an every minute on the minute for 15 Min, but I had to take it down to 10. I needed the minute break in between each minute haha! Here was my scale for the workout:

Back Squat: 2x5 (50lbs), 3x5 (75lbs)

10 Min, EMOM:

5 Dumbbell Push Presses (25lb db's)

Max Jump Rope with remaining time

Score is total jump rope. I got 250

The class did Power Cleans and Double Unders (I wish!!). Just gotta keep repeating I'll be back there soon enough  :)  

Food: Gluten Free bagel with Breakfast sausage. Chicken Vaca Frita and Avocado for lunch.

Looks like I'm down to three....

So, not planning it but just going by how I feel, I seemed to have brought my workout days to only 3 times a week! I guess that's ok... I mean I'm assuming I'll only last a few more weeks working out anyway before I just scale back to long walks with my dog haha. Anyway, here's what I did today. Short and sweet but really gassed me!

Conditioning:
AMRAP 4 Min x3
4 Burpee Box Jump (I did burpee step ups)
8 KB SDHP (35lbs)
12 Knees to Elbow (I did leg raises on dip station)
1min Rest
*Score is total reps.

My score: 164

Food: Sushi night!!!  kanisu roll, spicy crab roll, edemame

upper day

Jumped in and did some 5/3/1 sets today, even though I havent been following it. I just worked with someone I knew was at a similar weight to mine... Workout felt good. Did singles instead of doubles, Push ups on the box, Ring Rows instead of pull ups, and scaled the wall ball weight to 10lbs instead of 14. All reps were unbroken  :)

Weightlifting: 5/3/1 Week 3
5 @ 75%, 3 @ 85%, 1+ @ 95%  (53, 60, 67lbs) Did 6 reps of the one or more

Metcon A:
100-80-60
Double Unders
50-40-30 Push ups

Rest 5 Minutes, then

Metcon B – 3 Rounds:
10 Unbroken Pull ups
15 Unbroken Wall Balls

Time: 23:41

Food: Ground beef w/ sundried tomato, squash, garlic and spinach. Topped with avocado. Frozen apple juice, mmm!

Monday Workout

Starting off the week with a competition workout! We went to Beast Mode Battle this weekend, a few people competed from the gym. We decided to program one of the workouts this week for our class so I jumped in. Those lunges sucked!!

Weightlifting:
Back Squat

45lbs (5), 75lbs (5), 105lbs (5x3)

Conditioning - AMRAP 12:
Beastmode Station 3
10 ft DB Farmers Carry x2 (45/25)
5 DB Thrusters
10 ft DB Lunges 

10 DB Snatches

My Score = 4 + Farmers Carry

Food: Spinach, turkey, sundried tomato and roasted garlic salad. mmm! Started drinking iced red raspberry leaf tea with honey. It's supposed to help with labor, according to the many women that drink it regularly during pregnancy. We shall see! Other than that, I'm going on 32 weeks and still feel good. Some days I am exhausted and having braxton hicks (belly gets hard, practice contractions) after a long day on my feet so I opt not to work out. For the most part, I hope to continue at least for another few weeks! HOLY SHIT only a few more weeks?! hahaha... We'll see how it goes, but it's definitely getting down to it  :D

Blah...

Took a couple days off... It's been getting physically taxing on me to train and coach lately. From what I've read, toward the end of pregnancy you start having "practice contractions" to get your body ready. Well, lately when I coach for 3 hours straight, do a really hard workout, or even just do something like carry a bunch of gym bags from my car to the front door, I can feel my stomach tightening. Maybe it's nothing, but the thought of me triggering something too early is enough for me to stop and sit down when that happens! Combined with the crazy almost 100 degree heat...

Anyway, today I coached then worked out with the class. Here's what we did:

Weightlifting:
Deadlift 5/3/1 cycle1, wk2
(I did 5x3 Romanian @ 115lbs)

Conditioning – 3 Rounds For Time:
3 Full Snatches (155/100) - I did 35lb kettlebell snatches, 3 on each arm.
3 Rounds of Cindy

I stopped after 2 full rounds at 11:54 because my stomach got tight and I had a crazy urge to pee! Like I said, I would really regret triggering early labor or something just because I wanted to finish the workout. The most important thing I've learned during this pregnancy is to really pay attention to my body and get out of my head. My head says "this is so easy, you're scaling like crazy!" but my body gets worked up real quickly. Overall I feel good about what I did today and even more, that I am still working out at 8 months pregnant!  :)

Food: Frozen apple juice and tonight we are going to a Peruvian Japanese place called Kopas that is amazing!!!

Rowing Day!

Today the class did a lot of running and burpees, both of which I can't do anymore. I decided to modify it and work with the class,not realizing I was about to row 2 miles... whatever!

4x 6 Min Rounds:

Row 800m

Max Push ups with remaining time

Score: 25, 25, 25, 30 = 105 total push ups

Push ups felt fine, they were from a box since my belly is so huge. The rowing actually wasn't bad and I was able to consistently finish right at about 4 min each time, with a 2:30 or so pace. Good workout!

Food: Frozen Orange juice!! Chicken and spinach salad.  Grilled salmon leftovers

DB Cleans, Rows, Jump Rope

So last week I was a total slacker! I have just been SO TIRED. I'm getting big too, so that doesn't really help lugging all this weight around. I really wanted to go home today after I trained my personals clients but decided to stay and workout with the class...

Weightlifting:  5x3 Back Squat (85lbs)

Squats are feeling kinds weird lately. Sometimes I feel like a pulling sensation in my groin so I have to take it easy, even with Air Squats sometimes!!

Metcon - 12 Min AMRAP:

7 Dumbbell Squat Cleans  (25lb db's)

14 Pull ups or Ring Rows (I did rows)

21 Double Unders (I did 2x singles)

Score: 4 rounds + 7 reps

Food: My awesome leftovers from last night. Ground chicken, spinach, tomato sauce, butternut squash. Yum, I am an awesome chef!  :D

After a nice long weekend....

Back at it! I took like 4 days off just cause I wasn't really at the gym and had a lot of errands to run Mon & Tues. It was actually nice to give my body that rest, although after yesterdays workout I am sore as shit!

Weightlifting: Shoulder Press

10 Reps (33lbs)

5 Reps (53lbs)

3x5 (63lbs)

Conditioning - For Time:

Row 400m

100 Wall Ball Shots (started w/ 14lb, had to scale to a 10!!!)

50 Russian KB Swings (35lbs)

15 Ring Rows

Row 400m

My Time - 21:21

Food: Random snacks throughout the day... 1/2 Burger patty and blueberries, Chicken sausage with apples and raw cheddar, nuts, Chicken and carrots. No good meals though unfortunately  :/  Went to see the Lion King on Broadway, that was awesome!

"The Chief"

Sweaty dirty workout today with the dudes... I can no longer do barbell cleans, so I use dumbbells now. I hate dumbbell cleans!!

"The Chief" - 3 Min AMRAP x5, 2 Min rest in between

3 Power Cleans  (35lb Dumbbells)

6 Push ups

9 Air Squats

My Score - 16 Rounds  (4 - 3 - 3 -3 - 3)

Food: Giradino's Salad, Whisk for dinner