If you’re wondering what’s new around here, it would be my little foster fail, Marie!
I met her when she was 7 weeks old, and fell in love with her. When she needed a new foster a couple of weeks ago, I jumped at the opportunity. I foster failed within a week. Jackson has been the most amazing older brother and they became instant BFFs. He didn’t hiss when he met her, just trotted up and wanted to play. It took about 5 minutes for them to start playing, and they literally played ALL NIGHT that first night.
Also new is that this has been my first week teaching spin for fall quarter! I taught a class the last two weeks, but this is the beginning of normal fall classes and I have 3 a week! It’s been fun but I need to adjust my sleep schedule for the 6ams because they have been wiping me out.
That all said, it’s fall so you know I’m enjoying seasonal foods. And zucchini. Always zucchini.
This is my new favorite dish. All the flavors of fall despite the summer veggies! Zucchini noodles with apple sautéed in, white cheddar laughing cow, and Trader Joe’s chicken apple sausage which is super mapley.
I felt like such a real adult peeling and cutting and roasting carrots. I served them with cheesy zucchini noodles and a salmon burger.
I love this breakfast for fall. Cottage cheese with sunbutter and pumpkin butter.
I finally got my first Jamba Juice Pumpkin Smash of the season! This is actually one of my favorite fall foods, and I never know when to get it because a smoothie is always seems awkward to have between meals. I went after teaching my first 6am spin and had this for breakfast. It’s basically ice cream for breakfast, but all this teaching is burning up my metabolism. Today I taught spin and then went to Crossfit, and instead of eating a banana for a snack like I was going to, I had some frozen donut pieces and it was amazing.
Trader Joe’s cauliflower gnocchi with zucchini slices and trader joe’s butternut squash pasta sauce.
Dessert of pumpkin pie filling and chocolate chips.
And finally, pumpkin pie filling and sunbutter with cottage cheese.
I haven’t posted in a while but I did want to share some of the workouts I did when my wrist was much worse than it is now. It’s not healed, but it’s so much better and there’s a lot I can do.
Workout 1:
4×5 barbell squats
4×8 single leg squats supersetted with pistols (to a bench for me)
20 minute (or 15) AMRAP: 30 sit ups, 20 lunges, 10 box jumps
Workout 2: No Barbell Workout (perfect for busy gym times)
4×6 heavy single leg RDLs
4×8 single leg squats supersetted with pistols
3 Rounds of tabata for conditioning (20 seconds working, 10 seconds of rest for 4 minutes—one tabata for each set of movements)
- Squat jumps/ speed skaters
- Air squats/ lunge jumps
- In and outs with a twist at the top
Workout 3:
Heavy backsquats
Hip flexor exercises—3×20 (fire hydrants, etc)
MetCon: 5 min AMRAP of kettle bell swings and box jumps 3-6-9….
That’s all i have today! Enjoy the fall season!