Well, it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything on here.  I’m still obsessed with my moley, and I actually ended up buying a second one- a watercolor book. It’s seen more use than my moley sketchbook lately, partly because I prefer sketching on paper with more tooth (and the sketchbook’s paper is more like bristol board than sketch paper). I’ll update on that later, but my home computer is an expensive paperweight right now because it crashed and my d:/ doesn’t work so I can’t reload windows.

Anyway, this isn’t about art today, this is about my newest obsession that is taking up most of my free time and mental capacity- CrossFit.

For more info on what CrossFit is, check here: http://www.crossfit.com/

Anyway, I’ve been doing CrossFit for two weeks now and it has been ROUGH. Every day is something different, and you don’t find out what the workout of the day (WOD, for future reference) is until the morning of the workout. It’s popular with a lot of MMA guys… So you can guess how tough each workout is.

Anyway, I’m going to start trying to keep track of my progress with it. The goal isn’t to lose wieght really, (although it’s an impatiently anticipated fringe benefit, I’ll admit) it’s more about being physically strong and having the healthiest body I can have.

I have a few minor, silly goals..

1) This is potentially flameworthy, but I sincerely want to go au naturale one day when I’m having my baby. I know there are a lot of women who are clutching their pearls in horror at the thought of unmedicated childbirth, but I have terrible reactions to pain killers and I want to be there mentally. I know it’s silly for women who have never worked out a day in their life and have 0 pain tolerance to wait until they find out they’re pregnant to decide that they want to deliver naturally, but since I’m not even TTC right now I feel like that is a goal I can actively work on.

So to meet this goal, I am focusing on…

- Strengthening my core

- Building up my pain tolerance

- Building up my endurance

2) I want to be able to keep up with my husband physically. He was a life long athlete (soccer) up until college, so while he is just a little out of shape he still has a lot of strength, hand-eye coordination, and agility that I’ve never had. I’ve lived in my head for my entire life, so it’s huge deal that I’m trying to ‘come out of my head’ and focus on my physical issues instead.

Overall, the biggest thing I’m trying to get past is this mental block I have towards anything physically related. My whole life I was the skinny kid and the weakling. When I got older and started getting my period, I was one of the unlucky few who became anemic. Puberty was hard on me, for the longest time I was all arms and legs and embarrassingly clumsy when I did attempt to do athletic things.  I got made fun of a lot and never really lived down some of my more embarrassing moments, so it’s hard for me to be confident and try things that I feel like I’m going to fail. Being the smart kid was definitely easier than being the gawky, accident prone kid.

I don’t know how to properly run… or use a jump rope… or dribble a basketball… or catch a baseball in a mitt… or toss a football. Maybe some of these things will begin to change =(

Stats…

Weight: 147 – (WHY THE F AM I GAINING WEIGHT?!)

Days worked out this week: I’m at 3 counting today. I have tomorrow and then Sunday is an off day. My goal is to get up to working out 5 times a week. I’m at 4 right now.

Recent milestones…

We’ve been scaling my weights and rounds with each workout to give my body the chance to catch up and get used to working out so often… The typical number of rounds per workout is 5, but I had been doing 3 with a lighter weight. I’m still scaling back on the weight #, but I did 4 rounds for the first time last night. My lungs burned and tears were pouring down my face, but I did it. I was so proud of myself.