Workout & bewbies

Last night's workout:

• 20 double-handed, 20 left hand, 20 right hand swings with the 12kg kettlebells.
• 15 times on the BOSU ball - lean back on the ball and then stand up without using your arms, keeping your legs straight, inch forward with your hands and do a push-up, inch back with your hands and stand up, repeat.
• 15 times on the BOSU ball with bouncy side down - start with hands on the sides of the BOSU and legs crouched, jump your feet back and do a push-up, jump your feet forward and stand, lifting the BOSU against your chest, repeat.
• 15 times on each side - lunges with the forward foot stepping on a mini-BOSU (I think it was about 12 inches in diameter)
• 20 roll-outs on the ab wheel

Over the weekend, I FINALLY got of my butt and went to the Wizard of Bras. It's a bra store in Monrovia that the ladies at my knitting group have mentioned. I've been wanting to go because I've never been properly fitted (I've learned that Victoria's Secret does NOT count). I found out that I am in fact not a 36C, which I had suspected because my bras did not seem to fit like they should. I'm actually a 36D. WHOOO-BOY.

So...I know bra-fitting didn't actually make my boobs bigger, but they sure feel bigger in my mind now. The bras I bought are also now properly supportive. The band in the back is actually supposed to sit a lot lower than I realized. The lady helping me out also said that it's the band that supports, not the straps.

Yay for teh bewbies!

Star Trek

All the drooling on the Nerdy Knitters forum on Ravelry over the Star Trek characters is hilarious. I admit, I loved Karl Urban as McCoy. I'd love to put together a montage of those super hot photos posted on the forum.

The Boiling Crab

Ate at The Boiling Crab last night. It was an interesting experience. They give you the food fresh and piping hot in these plastic bags, and you just eat them out of the bag and leave the shells on the table. We got 1lb of crawfish and a crab, both medium spicy with all of the seasonings (cajun, lemon pepper, garlic butter). It was actually pretty awesome eating the crab whole because the body meat stayed in large chunks that we could easily pull out. The way they cut up the body pieces at Chinese restaurants, the meat gets split up and you've got these compartments that can be difficult to get the meat out of.

Prop 8

California Supreme Court decision = :(

sucky Monday

I think my whacked up sleeping/eating schedule and relative laziness this weekend cause me to have a sucky workout on Monday. I felt tired and nauseous when I really shouldn't have. I took longer breaks than I usually would.

Cable exercises, 15 on each side (the last four with arm extended as straight as possible):
- straight on, step into a lunge with arm extended, step back up raising the knee and pulling the arm in
- sideways with the opposite arm bringing the cable across the body
- sideways with the same side arm bringing the cable across the body
- straight on with arm extended up, bringing the cable down
- facing away with arm extended down, bringing the cable up

Kettlebells (12kg)
- 30 two-handed swings
- 30 single-handed swings on each side
- 15 suitcase squats

Kale Chips

I don't remember where, but I saw these mentioned on a site somewhere. They're really easy to make. Get a bunch of kale and cut the leafy part away from the stem. Break the leaves into bite size chunks and mix with a bit of olive oil and whatever seasonings you like. Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes (I've heard anywhere between 15-25). They come out these crispy dried leaves that remind me of dry seasoned seaweed. Too bad Lawrence hates kale.

Sprint schedule

Here's the 5 day sprint training schedule Melody wrote up for me (before I lose the paper)...

1) Sprint Intervals - Start with: 4 minutes basic run, 1 minute sprint. Repeat until unable to continue (4-5 times). As this gets easier, adjust the ratio to 3:30 running/1:30 sprinting, 3:00 running/2:00 sprinting, etc.

2) Farlek Drill - 1 minute running forward, 1 minute running backward, 1 minute side shuttle, 1 minute carioca (a sideways step alternating one foot stepping in front and and then behind the other food), 1 minute skipping, 1 minute sprinting

3) 1 Minute Sprints - repeat 10 times, taking brief breaks in between

4) Rollerblade (she said this was a low impact alternative to running and I mentioned I wanted to pick it up again)

5) Sprint Intervals - on the elliptical/bike/stairs