January 5th

I'll admit, yesterday was a lazy day for me. My boyfriend and I did a few things around town that needed to be done, including both picking up my final check from my previous place of employment and also closing down my Wells Fargo account (spurred by ridiculous amounts of fees that I was finally just sick and tired of). Talk about feeling FREE! I feel like I've shed all the weight of stress that was built up over countless months, and even though I have the niggling worry at the back of my mind that I'm currently jobless, I do have a few job prospects that are coming along, including one I should here back from tomorrow!

In the meantime, we splurged a bit last night for our semi-annual Back to School/Last Hurrah dinner and went to our favorite sushi place (granted, we went during happy hour which saved us a good chunk of money). I filled up on WAY too much sushi and found it IS actually possible to get painfully full off of it. Who knew.

My food today was quite good...I nibbled here and there, which I tend to do when home alone. Breakfast was a piece of toast with peanut butter and a huge mug of tea after my 6am workout, and was followed by a nap. After waking up and wondering if my early morning workout was really just a dream, I went to pick up our CCSA (Cooked Community Supported Agriculture) order from our favorite local, organic food purveyor here in town. The woman is amazing. She took a typical summer occurrence (many farms in the area do summer CSA's and give you a full box of veggies every month or week) but this woman is going above and beyond to help some farms who are struggling with the winter. Our share included a dozen farm-fresh eggs, 4 types of winter greens (resulting in about a pound total), and a selection of homemade foods such as frozen soups (Chipotle Pumpkin, Cream of tomato, and Swiss Chard, Chantarelle, and Asparagus Stew), salsa, pumpkin bread, Apricot Ginger preserves, Curry Stuffed pumpkins, Chinese Stir-fry, and Tomatoes with Spinach. The food is beautiful, clean and looks amazing, and each food is 5-6 ingredients or less. I can't wait to dig in!

Workout wise, I'm still recovering from Day 1 of this workout, but it's on to Day 2 tomorrow! My upper back and shoulder muscles are so tender that I can barely take a deep breath and expand my rib cage, but it's beautiful pain that means progress, not injury!

Pull-Up Workout, Day 2*

2x10 Shoulder Circuits

2x10 Band Pull Aparts

2x10 Plank Push Ups

3x15 Assisted Pull Ups

4x11 Cable Anti-Rotation Press (2 sets per arm)

3x15 Seated Narrow Grip Row

4x11 Low Wood Chop (2 sets per arm)

4x11 Standing One-Arm Cable Chest Press (2 sets per arm)

3x15 Straight Arm Pull-down

*Once again, all information on these exercise can be found via the link to the workout.

If I'm feeling up to it, I think I'll add in some cardio, maybe the elliptical, a treadmill workout, or this machine-free method (courtesy of backonpointe.tumblr.com). It's a Sunday - i'm just gonna go with the flow!

xo
amanda