Day 31 - Reasonable Progress

So I didn't make as much progress as I had hoped I would, scale wise.  However I am feeling fit and fab which is always more important than the number on the scale.  After 30 days my total weight loss has been 6.2 lbs.  I feel good about this.  I feel even better about the strength I've gained over the past month and am even more excited to see how much strength I can gain over the next month.

I know today is going to be a difficult day at the gym, but mentally I am ready to go in and push myself as hard as I can!  Today I will not look at the board before the workout.  I will push myself just for myself to see what I can do!  The workout is 80 walking lunges (ouch but not horrible), 70 situps (not bad), 60 burpees (this is bad!), 50 squat cleans (this is also bad!), 40 toes to bar (this is a new one and will be  very tough to do), 30 pistols (after completing the above, this will suck big time), 20 handstand pushups and 10 ring dips!  This will be one of those workouts that pushes me to the point where I either mentally suck it up and push through it, or I give myself a few breaks and go easy on myself.  I do not want to go easy on myself, not today!  I have 30 days to lose a little over 6 lbs more in order to reach my goal, that 30 days will go by fast!  Here are some illustrations of today's hellish workout:

Toes to bar

Pistols - 1 leg squats (I can't do them without assistance!)

This is a modified handstand pushup, I have to modify mine right now

This is Josh from CFA working on his handstand pushups!

Alright, so enough about today's workout.  I am also proud of myself for doing 2 workouts yesterday.  Matt and I both went in during the morning for the group WOD and then went in during the evening to work on strength work and our weaknesses.  Ironically enough I worked on ring dips and handstand pushups!  For the new 4 weeks I plan on going in twice a day on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays to work on strength work as well as focus on my weaknesses so I can get better all around. 

On a more personal note, I went in for my first laser hair removal session yesterday.  Um,  OOWWWWEEEE!  I have a few tattoos and I figured it couldn't hurt as bad as that, but I was wrong!  I put them in the same bucket pain wise!  It only lasted 3-5 minutes but holy hell, that hurt!!  Only 5 more sessions to go!

Thats all for today, I have a TON of work to do for work itself, Turtle Ridge Wildlife Center and a class I'm taking...for work!  Have a happy and healthy day!