The Chiquita Chronicles through Fitness and Nutrition

Holy crap! Week 4 already! Awesome!

Day 1 Swings> 12min swings using 36:30. Plus 2 sets for each side of high-pulls. My left side is still very weak. I think it’s my wrist that’s not locking out. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Day 2 TGUs> Went to the gym and got in some sprints on the treadmill. Then did my TGUs. I used 3lb weights but I could have gone heavier (will try 5 or 8s next time) . I don’t know if it’s because I used weights, or because I did them on the hard floor (as opposed to the carpet in my office) but I felt MUCH stronger. Or maybe I was thinking about the “Girl TGUs” that are the requirement for the HKC. Dunno, but either way, I was happy.

Day 3- Rest day. Thankfully today was a rest day. By some act of god all disasters seem to fall on rest days. I needed it.

Day 4- Swings 20min of 36:30 protocol, mixing it up with 2H swings, 1H swings, high-pulls on each side, around the world. Yup, it was good. I needed to sweat.

Day 5 - TGU practice

This was a really really tough week for me. Unfortunately I’m in for a rough couple… weeks? months? I don’t know. However long it takes to fix it. Point is… I still finished my week. Life isn’t always going to be easy, I made a choice to make this a priority and not let my hard work go to waste. Making me a better me is the key to everything, making me a better OH, friend, daughter, sister etc. If you don’t work on you first… what’ve you got? My family and friends are my rocks and I thank my lucky stars that I don’t have to do this alone.

This was one of those weeks where I wondered what I did before blogging and tweeting. Just reading your posts, tweets helped ALOT. HUGE thanks to those that reached out (you know who you are). I am always amazed by the kindness of almost strangers (I hope I am as good a blogger/ twitter friend to you) and comforted that someone is actually reading what I type. Warm fuzzies for all of you!!!

My new motto “Just keep swinging! Just keep swinging, swinging, swinging!” If you haven’t seen Finding Nemo… you really need to! )