Having the Self Control to Take a Rest Day (aka Scheduling Two Appointments After Work)

After 6 days of hitting the gym, I finally took a rest day.  Probably not the schedule I want to keep going forward, but I'm stubborn, and there were so many good WODs this week!  Luckily, Cindy isn't one of my favorite WODs, and more importantly, I had obligations that took the decision to go to the gym out of my hands in advance.

I will need to do Cindy soon though, as it is one of the WODs we're testing at the gym over the course of the year.  Since pull-ups are part of the workout, I imagine my score today would have been pretty low.  Maybe with a lot of practice I'll be a Cindy fan come late-2015.

I didn't really have too much of a plan as far as posting on rest days was concerned, so this post will be shorter than the volumes I've been posting each night.  It did seem like a good place for an update though, so here are the highlights for week 1 of 2015:

Weight - dropped from 213.8 to 213.0
First 10,000M Row - finished in 45:32
Two PRs - back squat improved from 270 to 275, clean and jerk improved from 205 to 215

And while this blog might be focused on my workouts, I thought this post would be a good place to highlight other PRs in the gym this week:

Back Squat:
Sue K - 135
Marci - 135
Cline - 220

Clean and Jerk:
Keith - 300
Justin - 235
Liza - 110
Chris B - 195
Rebecca - 88
Ly - 88
#whoisjohnmchugh - 170
Jill (no initial) - 145
Luke - 195
Shane - 185 (cleaned 195)
Jill C - 115
Steph C - 100
Sue D - cleaned 75

Back to work tomorrow!  And a rowing clinic on Sunday.  Very much looking forward to that.