JVA 5K, Pressing, and Swimming

Today was a pretty busy day for this guy. Started out this morning doing a 5K run for MSG Jared Van Aalst. He was a Ranger who died 2 years ago while he was deployed. The money goes towards scholarships in his name so it's a good cause. As I mentioned yesterday, my goal was to run in under 20 minutes. Unfortunately I didn't quite make it. I ended up coming in at 20:53 which isn't too bad but a little over my goal. Luckily I have another chance to reach that goal in about a month.

After that nice morning run I moved to the gym in the afternoon for our heavy pressing day...

~Warm-up
~DB Military Press 3x5 then 3x3 increasing weight
~DB Flat Bench  3x5 then 3x3 increasing weight
~Single Arm DB Flat bench 3x12
~WOD - "Gracen" - 15:59
10 rounds of:
3 x Clean and Jerk @ 135#
15 x Wall Ball Shots @ 20#

~100 Sit Ups

Felt good in the gym today, everything seemed to feel lighter than normal. Set a PR on the flat bench with the dumbbells so that kept the motivation going today. We threw in some single arm bench at the end to work the core a little differently than usual. The WOD for the day was a combination of Karen  (150 Wall Balls) and Grace (30 Clean and Jerks) hence the name "Gracen". It was a good combo and took anything I had left in my legs out of me. We finished the day with 100 sit ups before we could leave the gym.

Lastly, we decided to go to the pool since it was 90+ degrees out today. It was good to get outside and get some sun, had to get some UV rays on my pasty white skin.

Pretty busy day compared to a normal Saturday but I got a lot of quality work in and raised money for a fellow Ranger so I call that a success. To take a step up on that dreaded soap box for a moment, I was reminded today of the great feeling you get from helping and being involved with good causes. Just doing something as simple as paying $25 and running on a Saturday morning for a fallen brother. The point is to get out there and join a cause, contribute to society, and help someone out. The satisfaction you get is worth it and you may just be able to workout in the process which never hurts!

MSG Jared Van Aalst

Run Run Run......Run...Rest

Well hey there, I missed you yesterday. Don't worry though, you didn't miss out on anything too exciting. Quick recap from yesterday - in the morning our section at work went on a 4 mile run to the old football stadium, ran about 20 sets of stairs, and then took a more direct route back which ended up being twice as fast. So a nice 6 mile run with some stairs in there to get the day started off right. Then after work our gym session got cut short but we were able to get in our main work for the day which was 5x5 of strict Overhead Press followed by 5x5 of Push Press and finished with 6x3 of Push Jerk. Heavy pressing which was supposed to be followed by some pulling to even things out but unforeseen events got in the way.

But that was yesterday! Today on the other hand was a rest day so no picking things up and putting them down today. I did get the chance to go out and play soccer this morning though which was a damn good time. Hopefully I will be a little better tomorrow when I actually have some spikes on. For those who haven't tried playing soccer on wet grass with running shoes on, it doesn't work out too well and you come home with lots of grass up your shorts and a sore ass from all the falling.

Short day today, but in other news we will be changing some things up a bit at J2Fit so don't be scared if things look a bit different the next time you stop by. It's still the same old crew here just changing a few things up to continually improve and get better for our sake and yours, the loyal readers. Let us know what you think next time you stop in and if there is something else you want to see, hear, or read about. Or hell, just say hi!

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar