Morning Glory

Doing this in the morning is so much easier than trying to do it at night.  Anyway, tonight is the official start of the nutritional challenge at my gym.  I'm a wee bit nervous but I've been gradually easing myself into the paleo lifestyle these last few weeks so I think the complete switch won't be too bad.  However, I already know I'm going to miss cheese and alcohol. The challenge is eight weeks and includes a body fat dunk test at the beginning and end.  As of right now, I plan on doing the whole thing strict paleo, minus three dinners that are already planned, but even then I plan to do as best as possible.  I don't necessarily need to be super skinny, I just want to get rid of the belly!!!!!!!!!!!

My test is less than two months away now.  I've still got to submit the application but I should be doing that at the end of this week.  I've been trying to slowly chip away at the material during the week and then spending hours on the material over the weekend.  The only resources I've got are some study questions and some indexes to help break it down.  Hopefully, I become familiar enough with the books to do well.  I'll have more time to study at work as soon as I finish up the paperwork side of a project.  

I'm still not exactly where I want to be with school, I'm on time with all of my assignments and quizzes but ideally I'd like to be ahead of schedule to give myself a buffer zone in case anything should come up.  Next Tuesday my second class starts...eeek.

My budget this month is looking spot on at this point.  Hopefully, I don't blow it over the last ten days.  What, I haven't done is write down all my expenses on a spreadsheet.  At some point I will do that and then I'll know truly how well/bad I've done.  If I go over budget the plan is not to rob savings to cover the gap.  Anything over will be deducted from the next month's budget.  I think if I do go over in February, I'll more than make up for it in March, I've literally got nothing going on.

Yesterday, I had to workout twice!!!  I'm still hellbent on making commitment club, which means that this week I'll have to workout six times, and I can't use Friday and probably not Thursday.  First I did the gym's WOD,

Strength WOD:

Six sets of:

Shoulder Press x 2-3 reps @ 20x1

Rest 2-3 minutes between sets.  Use this time to work on hip mobility

Conditioning WOD

Four round for time of:

10 Push Press (115/75)

20 Box Jumps (24/20)

30 Double-Unders

For the warm-up we did a ridiculous amount of single jump ropes, which I'm counting as a drill/practice for running...woot, woot. I PR'd on the should press with 100 lbs :).  For the conditioning WOD, I used a 12 inch box and did 90 singles instead of the 30 double-unders.  I don't remember how long it took me and I forgot to write it how, but I think it was in the 12-15 minute range. After that I did this WOD from Renegade Rowing, 

"Clean Your Erg!"

For Time

500m row, 5 Cleans (155/105), 5 Push Ups

400m row, 6 Cleans (135/95), 6 Push Ups

300m row, 7 Cleans (115/85), 7 Push Ups

200m row, 8 Cleans (95/65), 8 Push Ups

100m row, 9 Cleans (95/65), 9 Push Ups

That was a beast that I finished in 16:59. I was sweating like it was going out of style.  But I actually really enjoyed it.  Plus, one of the girls at the gym who is a beast and incredibly fit said my push-ups were looking good.  It's the little things that make you feel happy, haha.

After working out, I took my mom to sushi because she is leaving town for a week :(.  Anyway, my whole family has been raving about this new sushi place that is all you can eat.  I was pretty excited to go and oh man, it was absolutely disgusting.  I'm getting a bit nauseous writing about it.  

All in all, yesterday was good I accomplished everything I set out to do, I even did some finger exercises on the guitar before I went to bed!!  

Wander on my friends, wander on.