I’ve started a new blogging adventure. Here I have my fitness ramblings, over here I have my “life” ramblings, and now, I’ve started Paleo Recipe City to document my adventures in cooking and living the Paleo dream. Haha, really, I’m just having so much fun trying new concoctions and improving my skills in the kitchen that I wanted something to show for it. Plus, people are always asking for recipes for the yummy things that I brag about making on Facebook, so hopefully this will accomplish all that!
In fitness news, I’ve had several encouraging exercises of note lately. We recently did three sets of five heavy dead lifts, which I worked to 160. That’s only ten pounds less than my last one rep max, so hopefully, since I did that many that heavy, I’ll be seeing progress on my dead lift next time around. Same goes for front squat – I hit 105 for my 3rd set of five reps, which is also only ten pounds less than my previous one rep max. I see improvement in my future there too! I did 60 pounds during a WOD that involved thrusters, which is the heaviest I’ve done on those. Goal is 65 pounds during a WOD to RX thruster weight in most cases. I’m getting there!
Finally, last night, the strength portion of the workout was weighted pull-ups on the rings. Those of us that are still working with our own body weight were to do three sets of negatives. I immediately did my first set of those, but the coach caught me and said I needed to try pulling up on the rings, even if I needed to kip. I expected it to be a bust, but sure enough, I kipped myself up there, and continued on to do my second and third sets doing kipping pull-ups on the rings. It was exciting to gain another new skill and improvement in strength/coordination, and having the people around me, cheering me through each rep, was pretty sweet too!
Pulling Up | A Fitness Diary 
