Buns of Steel

Well, sort of buns of steel.

Actually right now it’s more like buns of Jell-O.

Barbell Hip Thrusts = Serious Buns of Jell-O

After all of you wonderful people reassured me that I was seriously overthinking this whole extra lifting thing and should just go for it, I woke up the next morning ready to get to work. Making this fit into my schedule is taking a little bit of finagling–there are evening Open Gym times on Wed-Fri but Monday and Tuesday only have Open Gym from 7:30-8:30AM, and I need to leave for work by 8:15. Luckily I can show up to work with my post-CrossFit hair with no problem, but that still only leaves me 45 minutes to get a full day’s lifting in, and I have to leave for work directly from the gym.

This requires a little extra prep at night to make sure that all of my food for the day, including my post-workout Progenex and my breakfast, are ready to go the night before, which has been a bit of a shift, but I love a good excuse to prep a crap-ton of food, AND we just got a really fancy new set of tupperware from our wedding registry (you know you’re an obsessive meal planner when you get excited about new tupperware). It also means that I have to get to the gym about 15 minutes before the Open Gym technically starts so that I can start warming up early, because in order to make this work I have to actually be starting to lift at 7:30, not starting to warm-up. This routine has been been pretty successful, and I’ve only had to cut one workout short so far, and only by one set, so I’ll take it.

The program I’m following is a 6-week Back Squat Prep Cycle from Catalyst Athletics. You lift on Monday through Thursday, rest day Friday, lift heavy on Saturday, then rest day Sunday, and each day has 3-4 different lifts with all different kinds of rep structures. The program also has short metcons included on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but I am viewing those as optional because I am still planning on doing the normally programmed WODs with the rest of the gym on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

This week was a little special (and a little extra difficult) because I actually skipped Monday morning in favor of an extra hour of sleep after a big weekend of camping in Moab for our engagement pics. We’ve only seen two of the photos so far and they are AMAZING, but on Saturday night we were kept up most of the night by a very loud windstorm, and then on Sunday night we drove home through one of the scarier blizzards I’ve ever been in, sooo a little bit of extra sleep on Monday was required. However, this meant that I started with Monday’s programming on Tuesday morning, then on Wednesday I took advantage of the two Open Gym slots and did Tuesday’s programming on Wednesday morning, then Wednesday’s programming on Wednesday night.

However, I decided to do the WOD before Wednesday night Open Gym, which started with lots of push presses and then went into 50 DUs, 40 pistols (WTF), 30 sit-ups, 20 box jumps, 10 burpee box jumps, 20 V-ups (surprisingly the hardest part of the WOD, wasn’t ready for that), 30 kb swings, 40 butt blasters (aka speed skaters), 50 DUs. And then I went back this morning and did today’s programming to catch up. I’ll be missing Saturday’s programming because I’m headed to San Luis Obispo for my bachelorette party (WOO!) but I’m just going to have to live with that one unless I can sneak into a CrossFit gym while my bridesmaids aren’t looking.

And let’s just say that squeezing 5 days of programming into 3 days and including not only lots of squats, but also lots of pistols and butt blasters = one seriously sore booty. I have high hopes for the fate of my CrossFit Booty after this cycle, and so far it is not disappointing.