Weekly Post 11/25/2019

Highlights:

  • Went to the gym
  • Bears win!
  • Thanksgiving leftovers

Lowlights:

  • So much traveling

Goals for next week   Go to the gym again

I made it up to the gym for the first time in a long time. I found my old condo gym routine that hits the whole body with all of the weight machines at my home gym. It’s a basic 3×10 protocol with roughly 15 exercises that I can finish in almost 35 minutes with little rest. I need to make a concerted effort to make it the gym though. I don’t find the lifting and exercising to be that difficult. It seems that my brain doesn’t like getting healthier or put it at the top of the priorities list as I think it should be. There is time in the later evenings with my work and family schedule, but in the past working out late and taking a shower has made it difficult to fall asleep. To be fair back then I was getting an ample amount of sleep compared to now maybe this time will be different?

The Bears beat the New York Giants, but it wasn’t pretty we are still struggling and it this was a game we should have decidedly won but, we were so very close to losing I was on the edge of my seat for the entire game. This season is running of games and the Bears still is playing like trash. There are glimpses of hope but they are sporadic and we never seem to capitalize off them or put 2 good drives together. I’m hoping the Bears offense will start clicking so I can enjoy watching the games rather than biting my nails for 4 hours straight.

I had a great Thanksgiving with my family in downtown Chicago. Easily my favorite food of the Thanksgiving meal can only happen the day after Thanksgiving. The stuffing sandwich has been my go-to post-turkey day lunch for about the last 18 years. My Grandma whipped it up for me one year when she stayed over for the holiday weekend. It is a real game-changer combined with most of the food groups. Two toasted slices of white bread both have cranberry sauce spread like jam. Stuffing that was reheated in a frying pan giving it some crunchiness. Ham slices that are also hot, I mainly eat ham in Thanksgiving rather than turkey. That is the gist of the sandwich the hard part of the sandwich is cooking the stuffing into a patty and not burning them since you are working with leftover and you won’t have any more stuffing until next year. If you get that stuffing just right with the right ratio of ham this is my favorite sandwich of all time.

Weekly Workout Summary 11/25/2018

TL:DR 2 Work outs

Low count due to Thanksgiving travel

11/20/2018

A. 3 rounds:
20-40s/arm single-arm ring row flexed arm hang hold
-Rest 30s
60s single-arm KB swings, alternating (unbroken)
-Rest 30s
100’ double KB bottoms-up front rack carry
-Rest as needed

B. 10 min AMRAP:
10 DB snatches, alternating (moderate)
10 ring rows
10 push-ups

11/19/2018


A.
 20 minute handstand skill work 

B. 3 min AMRAP @ 85%:
10 Russian KB swings (70/53)
10 burpees
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(Rest 2 min)
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5 min AMRAP @ 85%:
15 Russian KB swings (70/53)
15 burpees
15 row/bike cals
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(Rest 2 min)
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8 min AMRAP @ 85%:
15 Russian KB swings (70/53)
15 row/bike cals
15 burpees
15 row/bike cals