First class at PinUp

Made a huge discovery today, well maybe not huge but it was definitely a game changer in my mind. During my lunch hour I went to whole foods to pick up some groceries mainly because I was completely out of food, and me being out of food leads to eating out all the time and making up excuses to why I should keep eating out rather than go to the grocery store. This is why its important for me to get groceries on sunday, because if I miss I usually end up eating out triple the amount over the course of the week. Back to the discovery... I found that whole foods not only has grass fed beef, its the same price as central market. Like I said, not huge by any means, but I always assumed whole foods was twice the price of central market, but I was wrong. I'm going to compare other products, but with the meat being the same price AND more readily available (central market only gets its grass fed beef on wednesdays (or so they say) ) looks like I was just converted.

The next question you should be asking is "how the heck do you have time to eat and go grocery shopping on your lunch hour??", ahh great question very perceptive of you. I recently (i.e. today) moved work locations to greenway plaza, and moved crossfit gyms to midtown. My total driving distance for today was about 6 miles, which is about 1/4 of what I usually did with my old work location. My new boundaries are, nothing west of buffalo speedway, and nothing north of gray. Forget being a loop snob, I don't even have to go near I-10 save for sundays.

Also I discovered that when I take the link out of my gchat status, my "total page views" plummet. Its okay, my favorite people have already confirmed they read this, so I'm not really looking to gain too much more of an audience (who am I kidding, I need about 100x the readership to get my book deal).

I guess I should include some "fitness" updates to in this blog. Today was my first day to work out at pinup, which I immediately enjoyed more than bayou city. The classes are smaller (aka you people should come join me) and the people are more personable as most people at pinup are new (this could be you!) to crossfit and don't have the built in friends already. The negative to pinup is that its much smaller, and much MUCH hotter on the inside. Working out in the summer might be the worst thing ever, but I'm gonna give it a go.

WARMUP:

5 Handstand pushups

30 Squats

10 ring dips

Actually attempted to do real handstand pushups, still working on kicking up into the handstand and feeling comfortable. I managed a couple of real HSPU's but then scaled back down to the box. At least its a slight improvement. The ring dips were humbling as well, as I had much more trouble with them then I thought I would. I can do regular dips but ring dips add a whole new dimension of tough.

WOD:

25 burpees

20 T2B

25 Burpees

20 KB Swing (53 lbs)

25 Burpees

20 Box Jumps

25 Burpees

20 OHS (45 lbs)

25 Burpees

15 lunges (per leg, holding 45lb plate above head)

25 Burpees

This was a partner WOD, in which partner A completes and exercise while partner B rests, and then switch. My partner had the appearance of being strong and in shape already, so I naturally assumed I would be holding him back. How wrong I was. He struggled mightily with the exercises, and is proof that looks doesn't mean you're in shape. Granted this was only his second week, but he was definitely humbled (which happens to EVERYBODY including me almost every class), but I was just as impressed how hard he worked to fight through the workout. Thats the thing about crossfit, everyone's in it together. The newbies understand just how hard and accomplished the guys doing the full workouts are, and the "better" guys recognize the effort that the new people are giving (might even be more effort than the regulars). So I can say I was proud of my partner, no matter how confused I was that I was the "stronger" of us.