Posted on September 1, 2007 by Susan C
It’s September. I absolutely adore Autumn in so many ways. Unfortunately I have to spend 6 days in Orlando at the end of October (which is my favorite month). What a waste.
Anyway, here is a list of things I am looking forward to over the next few months:
1. Autumn. The weather, the trees, Oktoberfests everywhere, [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2007 by Susan C
Great workout this morning. Becky and I worked out with Jen. Here is what we did:
Warmup with windmills
10 burpees
Mountain climbers for 1 minute
Run across Connecticut ave bridge - stop and do squats, lunges or boxer jumping jacks at each lamp post
Run back
Ball slams 2 sets of 20 with 15lb medicine ball
Ball toss 2 sets of [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2007 by Susan C
If any of you have been reading my blog over the past few months, you will see a series of boring posts about my crossfit workouts. I love these workouts, they are extreme and painful but when I am done, I feel invincible! I am a very strong person (both physically and emotionally) and these [...]
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Posted on March 21, 2007 by Susan C
Again, that is Workout of the Day:
I woke up at 5am and was here by 6 ready for my workout. It was ok - but not very well planned out prior to my arrival. When I work out alone I like to have a plan in my head but I didn’t, so this is what [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2007 by Susan C
Crossfit this morning was so challenging that both Becky and I wanted to throw up. Becky (my absolute favorite workout partner) and I met at 6am for a 45 minute long journey:
Warmup:
Powerwalk across the Connecticut Avenue bridge - the run back (total of about 400 meters)
Then:
Repeat the following sequence two times through -
20 thrusters with [...]
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Posted on March 14, 2007 by Susan C
I cut all of my hair off yesterday - not Britney style, but about 4 inches came off so now I can see my neck. It’s all part of this exciting and sometimes scary transformation I seem to be going through.
This morning I woke up at 4am and made it to work to do my [...]
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Posted on March 7, 2007 by Susan C
As promised - part of my March challenge is to accomplish 5 crossfit workouts each week. Since it’s been a while, I started out small. Here is what I did:
10 Laps (quickly) up and down stairs (thats 24 stairs total x 10)
1 round tabata squats
Thats it. It was fun, it was hard. But i did [...]
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Posted on February 6, 2007 by Susan C
Becky and I met this morning and did a pretty intense workout:
Warm up - together
4 laps side shuffle
50 boxer jumping jacks
10 burpees
Phase 1: Repeat the following a total of 3 rounds through:
20 thrusters with 2 – 15 lb dumbells
20 triceps dips off bench
20 deadlifts with 20 lb dumbells
20 air squats
Partner: Run until partner [...]
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Posted on February 4, 2007 by Susan C
this means workout of the day (learned this on Friday). Yeah, I am sorta slow sometimes.
This workout was excruciatingly difficult (mentally more than physically) for some reason.
Here is what i did:
Warmup 10 mins on treadmill walking/with incline: 3.5 mph
Then:
jogging/walking 1 mile (as much as i could stand) incline level: 2
Then for 15 minutes:
5 burpees
5 medicine [...]
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Posted on February 3, 2007 by Susan C
While cleaning my house today, I incorporated a brief crossfit workout:
100 air squats in rounds of 20
100 lunges (50 on each leg while vacuuming)
10 laps (skipping steps) up and down my 4 flights of 6 steps while putting things away
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