Training Log: Entry 3301

Another great weekend day.  My Valkyrie slept until 0900, and I lay dutifully beside her, since I simply can't sleep that long.  I actually woke her once we got to 0900, just because I knew she wouldn't want to sleep the entire day away, but it was about 12 hours of sleep, which she needed to help recover from her recent allergic response, so I was delighted.  I got in my push ups and squats and we went out to breakfast at "First Watch": her favorite spot, I got a great omelet, some sunny side up eggs and some pork sausage.

I had to fight all my meathead instincts and take weight OUT of my sandbag, because it was a 250+lb beast, which was fitting when I was a 200lb athlete, but now I need it a little lighter for my current weight class, so I took 50-ish pounds out and took it for a test

You can see how much I'm sweating: It was over 100 degrees with our heat index, and just being outside had me pouring.  I imagine some of that played into how awful this felt, but I'm also just out of practice.  Couldn't get the bearhug off the floor, so I went with a cross carry off the floor and bearhug from a platform.  Also tried some throws with the bag.  The goodnews is, I'm so bad at throwing that I don't have to worry about accidentally throwing it into the street, so I can practice this at home for now.

Got in a 45 minute walk after this, and cooked up a wonderful steak dinner for the family.  Piedmontese filet mignon for my Valkryie, piedmontese center cut ribeye for myself and piedmontese grassfed sirloin bavette for the kiddo.  All well received.

This was a decent pilot week for the program, but I did a poor job prioritizing my grip training.  I need to make a point of bringing that in.  Simply hanging from a bar will go far.