Today was the first day of our new block—GI! I’m personally excited because I think that’s my favorite body system. I’m back with another day of food!
Breakfast:
Tart Cherry and Chocolate protein muffin.
Lunch:
I didn’t snag a picture because I was in a meeting, but I had a salad with chicken, creamy goat cheese, blueberries, and balsamic, with a side of seedy crackers.
After my lunch meeting, I headed to the gym during our break between classes. The Crossfit workout today wasn’t a great one for me right now and the class times didn’t work great with my schedule, so I did my own gym workout. I’m currently working through some aches and pains. Ever since training and doing my powerlifting competition, my haps have been hurting so I haven’t been doing too much squatting. More annoyingly, I tweaked my back on deadlifts a couple of weeks ago. It’s a lot better, but I’m trying to avoid certain movements. Also, after my softball game yesterday, it was not feeling the best today so I tried to put a workout together that was easy on it.
I did a few push presses, thinking about working on that (the bench press bars were in use), but my thumb was randomly sore. Not sure if it’s from softball but it’s the same thumb I had issues with a little while ago. I’m basically falling apart. So I decided to grab some 30# dumbbells and get some strength in. I wanted to do some strength focusing on squatting muscles without putting a bar on my back or stressing my hips as much so I did 4 sets of:
8 single leg split squats with dumbbells
8 pistols
8 dumbbell bench press
Dumbbell work is great to do when the gym is on the busier side. It wasn’t too bad today, but this worked for what I could do!
Then, I did a 10 minute conditioning couplet of 3,6,,9,12,15 etc push ups and box jumps. I challenged myself to do push ups not from my knees so this was a little tough! I finished with 10 minutes of abs.
Snack:
Then, I had a 2 hour lab. When I got home, I snacked on a couple of crackers with a fancy brie-type of cheese, and some of these amazing churro puffs.
Dinner:
I made a veggie stir fry with zucchini and frozen mixed veggies. I sautéed them with garlic and tamari, and then served it on top of white rice, with some teriyaki sauce on part of it.
Dessert:
It may not be the best, but lately I’ve been getting my protein in through dessert. Chocolate Halo Top with mint chocolate sauce and of course whipped cream.
And then a couple of pieces of dried pear and a ginger chew.
Snack:
