Day 19

Strength training today:

-Circuit 1: (4x)
---Front Squats (45# 10reps, 95# 3 reps)

-Circuit 2: (4x/3x)
---Romanian deadlift (115#, 6 reps)
---TRX Y's (8 reps)

-Circuit 3: (4x/3x)
---Decline Bench (45# 5 reps, 85# 2reps (3x), 75# 5 reps)
---Lunges (50#, 8 each side)

-Circuit 4: (3x)
---Cable pull from ground - for core - with rotation (17.5#, 8 reps)
---Chin ups (36# assist, 6 reps)

Black Swan Gather and Crows, Run Times Tank in Flare and Some sort of Grey, Deep zin yeah yoga

Day 18

Pickup Basketball for 2.5 hours tonight - my legs are pretty sore, which is nice - that rarely happens from bball anymore.

New lulu runner up (haha) top, and some random shorts.

Day 17

Basketball game.  Was a tough game for me - everyone on the other team was huge.  Then I did drop sets of pullups+dips (@60#, 42# respectively) from 12->2 and 3 sets of 10 TRX rows.

-Circuit 1: (6x)
---Pullups (60# assist, 12,10,8,6,4,2 reps)
---Dips (42# assist, 12,10,8,6,4,2 reps)

-Circuit 2: (3x)
---TRX rows (10 reps)

The pullups felt really easy at this weight and I figured I'd gotten stronger, till I realized I've lost 6 lbs lately.  sigh.

New Groovy Stripe Cadet something or other lulu CRB.

Day 16

Basketball - just some 1-1 and shooting drills, I kept it pretty calm to not destroy my ankles since we may not have subs for my game tomorrow.

Whatever shorts, VSX singlet and new waterbound.

Day 15

Strength training today:

-Circuit 1: (5x)

---Sumo deadlift (115# 6 reps, 145#, 4 sets of 2 reps, 135#, 4 reps)
---reverse crunches (8 reps)

-Circuit 2: (3x)
---Half Kneeling Landline (8 each side) (stood for last set)
---Step ups onto tall box with 2 front racked 8kg kettlebells

-Circuit 3: (3x)
---Upright row from ground (20#, 12 each side)
---Glut bridges off bench (body weight, 10 each side)

And the important piece:

 Black Gather and Crows, VSX Singlet in bright blue over new Burlap Water bound.

Day 14

More work on the wall - today was running up and down two flights of stairs with the various pieces of trim and bending to paint them and them putting them up.

Day 13

After a week of my ankles not really bending I decided a few gentle days were necessary.  Also needed to do a bunch of work on the closet we're building.  So I decided that would count.  Feels a little cheaty but my ankles need to heal. No picture of my gross painting clothes but a picture of the thing I'm painting instead. ;-)

Day 12

Strength training today:

-Circuit 1: (4x)
---Front Squats (front-racked 18kg kettlebells, 3 reps)

-Circuit 2: (4x/3x)
---Romanian deadlift (115#, 6 reps)
---Inclined Y's (2.5#, 8 reps)

-Circuit 3: (4x/3x)
---Decline Bench (70#, 85#, 80#, varying reps)
---Lunges (50#, 8 each side)

-Circuit 3: (3x)
---Cable pull from ground - for core - with rotation (17.5#, 8 reps)
---Chin ups (42#, 36#, 36# assist, 6 reps)

And the important piece:

Black Swan, Tender Violet, and Herringbone Gather and Crows, new (!) WAFS Blue Trpoics CRB

Day 11

Basketball today.  about 45 minutes before my whole lower left leg just felt like it was full to the point of exploding.  Whatever that means.  I think it means you can't do 100 days in a row of high impact sports.  Or I can't.  Oh well.  Lifting tomorrow and then I'll do something easy Saturday.  Maybe take Rascal for a long walk.  Then Sunday maybe versa climber or something and not basketball.  Sure....

Forgot to take a picture again.

BBall shorts, some random singlet and the new Water Bound from lulu in all of its strappy glory.  Oh and the new KOR Duffel, super exciting!

Day 10

Day 10 is some sort of milestone right?  ha.  My body really wants a rest day.  Trying to think of something for day 11 that "counts" but isn't going to kill me.  (um, basketball I guess?)  My ankles cry at the thought.

No lulu for day 10:

 under armour bball shorts, CK jacket, VS singlet.  boring boring

Day 9

Today was pickup basketball for about 90 minutes.  No knee pain but when I got home I realized my body really needs a rest day.  Sadly Wednesday is a league game so no rest.  But maybe I can figure out something for Thursday that is still enough to count but won't kill me.  This challenge is making rest days difficult to figure out!

Bball shorts, lulu lab Anti-Tank.

Day 8

Strength training today:

-Circuit 1: (5x)

---Sumo deadlift (145#, 4 sets of 2 reps, 130#, 6 reps)
---reverse crunches (8 reps)

-Circuit 2: (3x)
---Half Kneeling Landline (8 each side)
---Step ups onto tall box with 2 front racked 8kg kettlebells

-Circuit 3: (3x)
---Upright row from ground (20#, 12 each side)
---Glut bridges off bench (body weight, 10 each side)

-Circuit 4: (3x)
---With a chest level resistance band at my side: Side lunge, straight press, extension up, then reverse back to start.  (8 each side)
---T's on bench (body weight, then 2.5# for 2nd and 3rd set, 12 each side)

And the important piece:

Gather and Crows, Run Times Tank in Bali over Yeah Yoga in Surge

Day 7

1 week down!  Motivating to get exercise over the weekend was hard.  It's not the laziness, it's the time.  I have so many errands and stupid things to do each weekend, and I always think I'm going to get a bunch of work done on top of that.

I did a circuit of: (5x)
-Versa Climber 2 min sprint
-20 Body Weight Squats

Then I took my then-jelly legs over to the the basketball court for a 20 minute game.

BBall shorts and a ghost snowy owl CRB.

Day 6

Today was a rest day before this whole thing, so a light day during the 100 day challenge.  Just did a 1.5 ish mile power walk/jog with the pups.

Ziggy August WUC, some random ombre tank, and a purple free to be wild under.

Day 5

Strength training today:

-Circuit 1: (5x?)

---Front Squats (65#, 85#, 95#, 6 then 3 reps)

-Circuit 2: (4x/3x)

---Romanian deadlift (95#, 6 reps)
---Inclined Y's (2.5#, 8 reps)

-Circuit 3: (4x/3x)
---Decline Bench (85#, 65#, 75#, varying reps)
---Lunges (50#, 8 each side)

-Circuit 3: (3x)
---Cable pull from ground - forget the name (17.5#, 8 reps)
---Chin ups (42# assist, 6 reps)

And the important piece:

Black Gather and Crows, Under Armour twisty tank top.

Day 4

Pickup basketball for an hour or so.

Nike (?) men's bball shorts that are basically pants on me, Hard Tail over easy tank. :-)

Day 3 Take 2

Basketball game.  I played like crap.  But I ran. Also there is now a weird hard lump on my knee where it is torn.  It is not swelling and it doesn't move when I poke it.  I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to look like that.  I will ignore it.

Forgot to take a picture, but I wore crappy mens basketball shorts and an (older, non crappy release) of lulu's black camo CRB.

oh and I ate 119g of protein today and 121g carb.  That's the best ratio I've had ever. Time to go eat something crappy and ruin that.

Day 2 Take 2

Basketball today. Shooting and some full court layup drills.  Tuesday is usually my rest day (after lots of lifting Monday and before basketball games wednesday) and my knee hurt and my low back was sore so this was a relatively tame workout.

Crappy basketball shorts, petal pop CRB and matching bangbuster.

Day 1 Take 2

Restart due to complications with travel last week.  Sigh.

Strength training today:

-Circuit 1: (2x)

---Sumo deadlift (95#, 115#, 6 then 2 reps)

-Circuit 2: (4x)

---Sumo deadlift (135#, 2 reps)
---Reverse crunches

-Circuit 3: (3x)
---Half Kneeling Landline (8 each side), got stolen on the last one so I did 6 each side presses with 6 kg kettlebell
---Step ups onto tall box with 2 front racked 8kg kettlebells

-Circuit 4: (3x)
---Upright row from ground (20#, 10 each side)
---Glut bridges off bench (body weight, 8 each side)

And the important piece:

Gather and Crows, new Ultraviolet CRB, and a black CK jacket.

Day 3

Basketball game.  Which I played terribly.  I could barely run because of my knee injury (torn patellar tendon 2 weeks ago) and I couldn't stop on that leg.  Oh well.  Decent cardio still.  Even if my knee screamed the whole way home.

Ugly mens basketball shorts and a heathered royalty luxtreme CRB to compensate :-)  And a track attack jacket.

Day 2

Today I just jogged/walked, because my knee hurt and I couldn't think of what cardio would be easy on it so that it'd last for my basketball game tomorrow.

Black Swan (+herringbone/tender violet) gather and grows with an Angel Blue/Lullaby Tonka Stripes CRB.

Day 1:

Today's Activity: Working out with my trainer, Cory.  He changed my program today (he does every 4-5 weeks) so everything was new.  Here's what we did:

-Circuit 1: (4x)

---Straight bar deadlift (bar, then 85#, 6 reps): I'm used to doing them with the trap bar at 135.  This put less pressure on my injured knee which was nice but I found the grip harder. 

---Inclined Y's (2.5# plates, 8 reps).  I usually do Ys on the TRX.  Had some trouble isolating and not just using arms or upper traps.

-Circuit 2: (5x)

---Front squat (bar then 65#, 3 reps with short gaps): felt like too much more weight would want to tip forward.  I'm using to doing squats farther back.

-Circuit 3: (3x)

---Decline bench (65# then 75#, 85# varying reps): so easy compared to a flat bench, woohoo

---Weighted Lunges (25# per arm, 6 each side): a little bit of pressure on my messed up knee but otherwise fine.

-Circuit 4: (3x)

---Chin ups (42# assist, 6 reps): easy peasy

---Cable row from ground (20#, 10 each side): easy peasy

And the important thing to record:

Gather and Crow crops in black and a Whamo Camo CRB (great for hunting flamingos)

Day 0:

Inspired by Ashley, an awesome girl in  my facebook fitness group, I'm going to make an effort to work out every day for 100 consecutive days.  We shall see if it's possible with my schedule and without (further) injury.  I'm starting this with a tear in one of the tendons in my left knee but it's healing and it feels ok to use.  Also inspired by Ashley (and because I'm addicted to lululemon clothes) I'm going to document 100 days of cute workout outfits.  Because that's what's important here. :-)