I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend! Tomorrow is 4th of July, and that’s crazy to me because I feel like the summer has flown by so far! Today we’re going to do a little weekend recap and then go over the week’s workouts!
Friday I didn’t have work, but I had a lot of errands to run. I made a big smoothie with banana, cocoa, chocolate protein, and milk for breakfast, and then took Chloe for a little walk.
I had an early lunch at home of a salad with maple/miso/garlic salad dressing, grilled chicken, and soft goat cheese. I recently got soft and creamy goat cheese from trader joes, and I love it!
The first stop was to buy scrubs, which was more complicated than I was hoping because my favorite scrub top was discontinued. I had to try on a million pairs of scrubs! Next, I visited IKEA to look at bedroom furniture. My last several stops took me to a shopping center.
^iced peach tea
After getting everything I needed, I actually stopped in for a SoulCycle class since I was down right next to one. Another SoulCycle opened up closer to me, but I refuse to go to that location out of principle, because it is literally right next to my favorite locally owned studio. RIGHT next to.
The class was fun, but SoulCycle still is not something I would recommend to everyone (unlike normal cycling classes, which I suggest everyone try!)
After class, I met my parents for dinner at True Food Kitchen. I had heard of this place, and was excited to see one had opened up! We started with torched avocado and cucumber noodle salad.
And beer for me.
For my meal, I got the seasonal salad with chicken, which had roasted cauliflower, chickpeas, roast broccolini, asparagus, raisins, and manchego.
Also delicious was my mom’s spaghetti squash!
For dessert, we shared a few things, but I ate most of this flourless chocolate cake with caramel sauce and ice cream.
Saturday, I had work as per usual.
For lunch, I packed a goat cheese, chicken, and nectarine salad with a side of microwaved sweet potato dipped in ketchup. It was fun to mix up my carb source from my usual crackers!
My parents met me with Chloe downtown after work and we tried a wine bar that served small plates style food. I skipped the wine because I had to go back into work later that evening for a treatment, but I enjoyed my food! My mom and I split a lemon poppyseed salad with goat cheese, and my main plate was a delicious ratatouille.
Since dinner was on the lighter side, of course I had to big a big cup of froyo. I had chocolate and blueberry, and a tiny bit of cake batter, with chocolate sauce and chocolate covered raisins.
We ate our yogurt outside, and there were a couple of dogs out there. Chloe was sitting right next to this pretty golden and she honestly couldn’t have cared less!
After I got home from work round 2, I popped open a bottle of this dark beer and watched the replay of the baseball game from earlier that day.
Sunday morning, I was up BRIGHT and early. I actually made the drive to Sacramento to volunteer at a spay and neuter clinic for feral kitties with my future classmates! Every month, vet students go to a local shelter and help spay and neuter anywhere from 60-90 feral cats, which are then released. This helps keep the feral cat population from exponentially increasing. As an incoming first year with limited knowledge, I was a little nervous, but everyone was super nice and helpful, and I learned and practiced some new clinical skills. It was such a cool experience, and I had a blast!
^My beautiful stethoscope.
On the way home, I stopped for gas at the gas station near where I’m going to be living (soon!) because there is an amazing produce stand attached. The prices cannot be beat, and the produce is so fresh and beautiful! I got 6 ears of corn for $2, and peaches were 79 cents a pound.
I got all that for $11! It’s a TON of food too!
My two hour drive back flew by thanks to both my road trip playlist (made for my road trip to Chicago for playoff baseball last fall!) and a phone call with a good friend from college! We’ve been trying to Skype for a couple of weeks now, so I figured, hey, I’m stuck here for 2 hours, might as well chat for a bit!
When I arrived home, my family did a beer flight from our final box of beer of the month club.
This was a good one! More summery than past shipments (no dark beer or stout). We had an IPA, a lager, and 2 red ales that were very different from each other. My favorite was the Gypsy Lager. I love a good lager int he summer!
For dinner, we had grilled burgers (mine was turkey served bunless), roasted broccoli, and roasted sweet potatoes. Of course with lots of ketchup.
For dessert, I had a piece of cranberry orange bread with chocolate chips form the freezer. I am slowly but surely getting through my freezer stash!
And now onto the workouts!
Monday:
Crossfit! We did sets of 5 lighter squats for a “deload,” but then the WOD was rough! It was 21-18-15-12-9-6-3 of thrusters at 65# and lateral over the bar burpees. This is basically Open workout 14.5/16.5, but lateral vs. bar facing, which in my opinion doesn’t really make much of a difference. From 2014 to 2016, I improved my time by over 4 minutes, so I was curious how this year would compare to last year. I believe I beat my time by 45 seconds, finishing in 18:39. Is that the difference between lateral vs. bar facing? I don’t know, but I’ll take it!
Tuesday:
I worked the closing shift, so I had time for morning yoga! Pre-yoga, I did a little speed work on the treadmill. I did a half mile warm up at 8:00 pace, and then did 5 rounds of 2 minutes at 7:00 pace, 1 minute walk. It felt good! Then, I did an hour long yoga class that ended in perfect time for me to go straight to work!
Wednesday:
Crossfit again. We did lighter presses, and then the benchmark WOD Grace. I did this in March in Hawaii, and again was curious to see how I’ve improved. I used 85# and did it in 4:59. My previous time was 6:08, so I was SUPER happy with that improvement! After dislocating my shoulder 2 years ago, and then breaking my foot last year, I never really got my Olympic lifting strength back since I was out for a while between the two injuries. I feel like I’m finally starting to get some of it back, which is probably why I have seen such a huge improvement just from March to now.
Thursday:
I did my own gym workout before work. I’m not willing to do 6am Crossfit on days I don’t start until 10:30, or I’d never make it to closing! Plus, it’s good to have a day to work on what needs work!
Here’s what I did:
Squat program: 6-6-4 this week at 155#, 165#, 175#. It felt surprisingly good! One more week of this squat program!
3 rounds of this circuit:
6 each of single leg squats with 30# dumbbells
10 rdls with 30# dumbbells
12 speed skater jumps
10 squat jumps
10 push ups
Then I did this little conditioning number:
10 minutes, every minute on the minute of 5 burpees+5 push ups.
I finished with a 3 minute Blogilates ab video.
Friday:
Crossfit again. We did lighter deadlifts, and then this arm crusher that I had to scale every part of: 21-15-9 of handstand push ups, ring dips, and push ups. I had to scale this to strict press, box dips, and push ups on my knees. I was going to try to not scale the push ups, but my shoulders were absolutely shot by the time I reached that movement!
Saturday:
Rest
Sunday:
Rest