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i have a wide grip on this

Why am I doing this again?

Sunday’s are lifting club. I head to a friends garage where a small group of us lift heavy things with help from Mike the coach.  He has me on a 5lbs a week increase. So I’m only up to 135 on my dead lift as of yesterday. I did my five sets of five lifts and then at the end used one of the others girls weights, at 185. I just lifted it twice, but I had to know if I could. I think I will make my 200 lb goal.
I  have a wide grip too, I’m blaming my short torso. It might be my wide stance too.
Then it was bench presses, which he has me at 60 lbs, I was good until the end when I added 20 more. I could do it! Here my grip is not as wide as it should be.

I know I didn’t listen well, but I felt pretty good about it anyway. Lifting is a simple way to push my self with out leaving myself grasping for breath on the floor.
Then we did pull ups and no. No, I can’t do those at all. Can’t do push ups really either. I have to do them on my knees and I can only do around 25 before I just can’t get up anymore. We did the Chief last  Thursday. We had 3 minutes to do as many rounds of 3 power snatches (for which I also have a wide grip) , 6 push-ups, and 9 squats (this is 1 rep). I never thought I would regard squats as a resting period. Then we would get a 1 minute break and then go again. We had 5 rounds of this, I averaged 2.5 reps. The pushups where the worst part for me. The coach suggested I try them with a box under my hands, so you don’t go down as far, it really helped.  But I skipped my usual Saturday class because it had more push ups. I keep feeling bad about this, but then I think about push ups and have to admit I would skip it again.

and the right side wins – or why graphing would have been a good idea

Craft'n, Knitting

So only a couple more rows in and I have decided it. The right side is better.
new left sideIt lays better, and the left side made it’s border look funny and well you probably couldn’t tell from the photos any way. See, just knitting my two options till I decided was a completely rational idea. So here it is now, with almost 2 leafs done. The DNA’s twist are working nicely, they don’t add and extra increases I have to find a way to hide either.
And I’m thinking, it’s coming along nicely, what a nice treat for something I’m just making up as I go.

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the repercussions of avoiding test swatches

Craft'n, Knitting

I have been very slowly knitting & designing a lace shawl w/beads. Affectionally nick named the man-thong. I like complicated patterns, so the plan is, as I get bored of knitting one element of the pattern, I will add another. But I have no real plan for any of this. So I’m really just making it up as I go. Which is fine till I decide something really  isn’t working for me. Do I rip out till the starting point or make a mistake?
No not me, I have a crochet hook.
Or my current problem, if I can’t decide between two different designs? Well why not try both? One on each side. Then I’ll go a few rounds and compare.
Then the loosing side will again suffer the crochet hook of correction. Continue reading →

pancakes, my gateway gluten

Food, Parenting

We try to eat pretty healthy at home.
We try to follow a roughly paleo lifestyle, which for us basically means lots and lots of veggies, good protein (like grass fed beef from a local farmer), low amounts of dairy, no milk (before anyone says anything about calcium, me and my son are sensitive to lactose- I will not not go into what a big ol’glass of milk would do to us, but it isn’t pretty) and if we can help it no wheat. We are pretty loose on the fruit thing too, but paleo encourages no sugar, so only low glycemic fruit and small amounts of it. Continue reading →

what’s another word for loincloth

Craft'n, Knitting

photo_3So I have started knitting what I hope to be a lovely lacy mo-hair shawl.

I’m just using Patons lace yarn, which isn’t super pricey and knit’s rather nicely. But will hold up better with frogging a few times better than the reeeeally nice dark gray alpaca I bought.
I’m also working beads into it. I love knitting with beads. I have no idea why, it’s a pain in the rear really. I have to hook each one on a tiny crochet hook and place it on the right stitch in the pattern. I’ve done it before by stringing them on the yarn ahead of time, but the mo-hairs fuzz gets stuck in the beads and bunches up.  Not pretty. Continue reading →

why am I doing this, the post!

Miscellany, Why am I doing this again?

I should explain that I try very very hard not to be a judgey person, and I try to embrace what is beautiful in every body type.

But that being said I am over weight, and a lot of people would be in my position.
I spent five years as a full time student who spend most of her time sitting at a computer doing homework and when not doing that my preferred way to relax was again sitting on a couch with 2 needles and yarn. My sleep schedule was non-existent, I opened a coffee shop at 4:30 am half the week, while staying up to at least midnight to get work done after my child’s 8pm bed time. I considered it good night when I had 6 hours of sleep.
So five years of sitting a lot and not sleeping.So now with the support of a great partner I have started attending a crossfitt gym (or box, you call them boxes).

My goal is not to be skinny, but comfortable in my own skin again. I was a healthy size 10 who could lift around 200 lbs ( i worked in a warehouse) five years ago. By BMI standards I was still considered overweight then!  Crazy!

That  all being said, crossfit work outs can be crazy, just plain nuts. I don’t know what I was thinking. So I will complain about them for now and brag when I one day finish one of them at RX.  🙂

what does 300 hundred sit-ups feel like?

Miscellany, Why am I doing this again?

Well first off, so bad as you might think.

The work out was 300 sit-ups for time, but every minute the coach would yell and we all had to do 3 burpees .
Here is a Burpee Video link to some crazy cross-fitters from another box, sorry the music is loud.
Being the band new wuss to cross  fit  that I am, my burpees are slow and scaled,  and if I tried to do 3 every minute my 25 minute max work out would have been mostly burpees. So I scaled down to 2 and finished in 19 minutes and 48 sec!

After the workout my throat tasted of stomach acid and my legs where shaky.
The day after usually  sucks after a tough work out, but I really feel okay? Just a little sore in the mid section.
Weird right?

We’ll see how I am after lifting club today. My goal is to get over 200 for my dead lift before the end of the year.

 

 

So, I’m making pasta sauce

Food, Miscellany

So after a couple of years of not feeling the need, I very urgently needed to make red sauce this year. Like lets wake up at 6am in the morning and go to the farmers market and buy those whole baskets of tomatoes right now kind of need. It turned out being more like 9am, but still…
(WHY is it called “red” sauce, i know, I know it’s red. But there has to be more to it. Just calling it red makes it sound very mid-western I guess.) Continue reading →