TD 12

i want to take this opportunity to give a 30th birthday shout-out to Natalie Portman... haha, if you're reading this Natalie, i want you to know that you've been my favorite actress ever since i saw you in the professional when i was in 8th grade way back when and i hope you've enjoyed your day thus far.  best of luck with your future child this summer....  haha, let me stop.

motivation

now that i got that out of the way, this morning HD and i felt pretty spent at the beginning of the workout.  like i posted yesterday, our focus was on back and tri's today.  my lat felt a little better, but after the 3rd set of the tri-set, i definitely aggravated it again.  here is what we did this morning:

HD and i developed an appreciation for the deadlift, as we set new aspirations to get up to the CrossFit standard of eventually repping 315lbs.  the WOD for may 28th was mind boggling because deadlifting 4 reps at 275lbs made us want to pass out.  we genuinely admire the elite CrossFit athletes, especially the women because they are truly beasts!

moving along, as you can see in the following video, i was grimacing a bit on the 3rd set of the tri-set.  i was able to complete the plyometric pullup portion despite the pain:

here is HD demonstrating the ab superset:

and that's basically it.  tomorrow is friday and we're planning to focus solely on cardio, mixing up treadmill work and putting some pool time in.  we need to get the blood flowing in order to aide recovery for next week's lifts/cardio intervals.  hopefully next week we'll see some leaps and bounds in strength and aerobic capacity.

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cheers,

-DV _ level ^ fitness