Todays Workout

10-1 Sandbag Thrusters, Chin Ups, Sandbag Power Cleans

Complete 10 repetitions of each exercise, then 9, then 8 etc.

Record your time.

Train hard!

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Better Late than Never

A minor delay on the Monday post and in Annie world today technically still counts as Wednesday because it's not Thursday until I'm walking around looking like Snookie because I was too tired to open my eyes when I put on my bronzer in the morning so needless to say I'm going to consider myself relatively on track with my goals. A management test and a paper got in the way of blogging. I tried to get my teachers to change my test and paper dates but apparently blogging isn't a legitimate enough reason... I know, I was shocked too!

My fabulous 5-0 celebration continued onto Sunday with a trip to Cost Co! I know that it's super weird but I absolutely love Cost Co. At home a trip to Cost Co meant fighting over parking spots and having to spend an extended amount of time around Canadians because they seem to pilgrimage to Washington Cost Cos in numbers even greater than the Wailing Wall receives (no offense Canadian bloggies ya'll are much cooler than those NW Cost Co Canadians). Regardless of the bad driving and 'ehs' I still enjoyed my trips to the bulk gods and was saddened at the thought of going a whole 9 months without multiple bags of, well, everything! My fears were quieted when my suite-mate Lauren said that we could go together. Was it ever glorious! Texas Cost Co rocks - no long lines(no Canadians), tons of samples (no Canadians), and they actually had Greek yogurt in bulk (and no Canadians).

My loot!

• Special K Red Berries (can you say yum?!)
• 4 lbs. of grapes
• Clif Z Bars in Graham Cracker, Chocolate Chip, and Brownie
• Chobani!!!! Peach (my fav!) Strawberry (also my fav!) and Blueberry (meh. Blueberry is the CSPAN of fruits - boring)
• Pretzels

While shopping I must have forgotten that I live in a cubicle so I putting everything away was a bit of a challenge, where's Martha Stewart when you need her?

Thankfully the only thing in there before was a jar of pickles, salsa, and milk - I like to live life on the edge.

The pretzels are hiding on my makeshift night stand (a storage container) halfway under my bed.

I'm still planning on taking pictures of my dorm room for your viewing pleasure but I've only been here for what? almost two months... So needless to say it's self explanatory why I don't have everything set up two months isn't nearly enough time to organize a cubicle with a bed in it.

Sunday was spent basking in the glow of my newly stalked fridge and paper writing (a wonderful combination by the way). Monday went by in a blur due to the massive amounts of studying that occurred. I needed to start Tuesday or Testday morning out right with some of my Chobani!

Seeing this picture on my blog is making me question why I took such a wide shot of a little container of yogurt... Regardless it was delicious! The test went well, Tuesday was crazy busy like it always is and I didn't take many pictures. On the plus side my teacher is letting me turn in my paper tomorrow (er today) so that I could have more time revising it.

Today was great! I was the first time I celebrated Indian food Wednesday! I first hear of this concept from Gina over at The Fitnessista. Basically every Wednesday it's a reason to eat Indian food. After my roommates and I decided to get Indian food they looked at me like a nut when I jumped around shouting "It's Indian food Wednesday!!!" apparently that only exists in the blog world. My excitement was due to 1) I haven't had Indian food in years and 2)obviously if I haven't eaten Indian food in years then I haven't had the chance to actually celebrate Indian food Wednesday.

Lemme tell you IT WAS FABULOUS. We went to India Palace (it sounds a little shady but if the shoe fits...). Despite the high creep factor our rumbling tummies and the smell of saffron rice kept us on track. Commence ridiculous sequence of pictures of Indian food (not for the faint of heart or stomach)

• Mango juice for my vegan gal pal (I don't actually refer to people that way blogging just brings out the crazy in me or it could be because it's 2:30 am, who knows)

• Vegetarian samosas - my first time with the little nuggets of goodness

• Mango lassi for the non-vegan and I

• Neyaz's plate - pretty much anything spicy she could get her hands on

• Lauren's plate full of vegan friendly delicacies

• My plate - saffron rice (amazing), plain Basmati rice (I couldn't bring myself to cheat on the saffron rice to eat it), naan, delicious orange chicken stuff with a name I can't remember, ditto on the yellow chicken and red chicken

I didn't realize that going to an Indian buffet meant you had to go back for seconds so basically we all suffered from food comas upon arriving home. The food was a little pricey, it probably would have been more worth the price if I had eaten more because for a buffet I'm sure it was more than fair. We came, we saw, we devoured. It was a great hump day topped off with some final revisions on my paper which will be turned in tomorrow. Another plus my first class got cancelled tomorrow so I get to sleep in!

Have a great night bloggies and thanks for reading!

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Todays Workout

21 Sandbag Thrusters, 42 Box Jumps - 5 rounds for time.

Target: 24 " Box, 25kg sandbag

Record your time.

Train hard!

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A Momentous Occasion

Dun dun dun da! 50th blog post! Comparatively number 50 isn't that impressive but I'm proud of it. To celebrate the big 5-0 My roommate and I made dinner together and enjoyed a fun night

Our fabulous spread! Bleu cheese burgers, crinkle fries, salad, and a nice sauvignon blanc. An interesting combination, yes, but an inexpensive delicious one.

Tess and her beau Bryan, my wonderful hosts. Tessie and I spent the day relaxing after a stressful week. We shopping, got our eyebrows threaded, and ran errands.

My wonderful date, Boris. He is only the sweetest, cutest, most awesome husky that I have ever met!

I'm going to be hitting up Cost Co tomorrow for some foodie essentials. My friend suite mate is going to be bringing her magic bullet from home so I'll finally be able to make smoothies again! I'm thinking about going back to the South Beach diet because it's really effective. My biggest problem with South Beach is breakfast. I find it hard enough to make carb free breakfasts at home let alone in a dorm room. I might do the Master Cleanse before cutting out carbs. I looked into it quite a bit this summer - read books and watched vlogs chronicling people's experiences with it. It's a big commitment but I feel that college does not always inspire the healthiest life styles so a cleanse isn't necessarily a bad idea.

More thoughts on that later! For now goodnight!

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Todays Workout

100 Ground to Overhead with the Sandbag.

Record your time.

Train hard!



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On Track

It's Wednesday and..... (drum roll please) I'm posting a blog! This is the most consecutive posting I've made in a while. I decided that it would be good to take a little break from studying and do a little blogging. :)

Here are a few pics of the blog worthy things that I ate.

A delicious sammy with all the fixin's and a side of ice tea

A super yummy Ceasar salad (with a little too much dressing...) and don't be afraid my hand really isn't really that giant, it just prefers to be photographed from the left

A turkey burger also snuck in there some where as well as some cereal. I really need to go grocery shopping and pick up some staple items like Chobani, fruit, oats, and peanut butter.

In other news I also worked out Monday night (and almost missed my 3 hour long marketing class...). I only had time for a short workout - so I did 15 min. on the elliptical and 15 min. running on the treadmill. I would have liked to put in more time but class was calling my name.

I want to go work out again tonight but I woke up yesterday morning with a terrible cold! I've been sniffly the last couple days but I blamed it on allergies. Yesterday, on the other hand, was the full monty - my body hurt, my nose was stuffed, sore throat. I was miserable. These things always happen at the worst timing. You have a 5 page paper to write and 2 tests to study for? Perfect timing to get sick! Thanks body. So currently I am two seconds away from giving my self an Emergen-C IV while I cloister my self in my dorm room trying to study.

Have a great Hump day bloggies! (and try not to get sick)

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Goals, Goals, Goals

I would say that my most important non school related goal right now would be to blog more regularly. This summer I was really great about blogging once, sometimes twice a day but then again the only thing I had on my plate was work. I don't know how you bloggers with work, kids, and families do it! Major kudos to ya'll! My new mindset is going to be that if someone with a life twice more hectic than mine can keep up with blogging then so can I.

Not too much has transpired since the last time I blogged excepts a few more workout were incorporated into my schedule. This makes me super happy because I had been completely cutting out exercise from my life, not intentionally of course. I would just make excuses like 'I'm tired today' or 'I have to much to do' and the always popular 'I'll go tomorrow and just work out twice as hard.'

Since I don't start class until 1:30 on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I figure that I should be able to post at least those three days as well as on Saturdays. No one is ever to busy to be healthy or blog! So no more excuses and let the blogging commence!

How do you keep up with regular posts despite the chaos that is life?

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Todays Workout

10 Heavy Sandbag Power Cleans, 15 Sandbag Front Squats, 20 Press Ups. 5 rounds.

Record your time.

Train hard!

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Todays Workout

Run 200m with a Sandbag, 10 Ground to Overhead with the Sandbag.

Repeat for five rounds.

Record your time.

Train hard!

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Todays Workout

10-1 Sandbag Thrusters, Chin Ups, Sandbag Power Cleans

Complete 10 repetitions of each exercise, then 9, then 8 etc.

Record your time.

Train hard!

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By tomorrow I really meant now

Before I begin my spiel on this past weeks ventures I will recap today's fabulous happenings...

Today I experience a wonderful dose of torrential rain. I'm talking about rain so crazy that you can barely open your eyes while your walking.

It goes without saying that I rocked it and totally looked like this (hotty included):

Yeah right! I looked more like this adorable sopping Yorkshire, minus the adorable. It was more like drowned rat chic but without the chic. Basically I looked like a drowned rat.

It totally sucked walking into my classes so soaked that I could literally wring out my jacket that I had attempted to use as a shield from the crazy rain (just an fyi cotton doesn't repel water, why don't they teach you THAT in college). My hair was dripping all over the desk of the poor guy who sat behind me. He did get a nice view though considering my shirt looked like it was painted on my it was so wet. Then again I was wearing navy so the Miami beach wet t-shirt contest look was not in effect. The upside to today's rain: my boss gave me the day off (she was probably scared I would start to mold if I was in the office too long) and no one could tell that I hadn't showered for um... two days... (yes I do in fact believe in hygiene, but there wasn't any hot water in my dorm). The downside to a rain shower is that when I finally dried off I decided to go with the hobo look because I didn't want to venture out of my room. Unfortunately for anyone with eyes on my campus - I did. My cheerio supply was running low and I was in desperate need for some liquid crack aka Diet Coke. I spruced up a little bit and repped the Britney Spears a la 2007 look (pre shaved head of course).

Add uggs, minus the paparazzi, and the only thing missing (much to my displeasure) was a Starbucks beverage. It was the whole package, big booty and all (hey I got a donk give me a break). I think I might have heard someone say 'it's Britney, bitch!' when I walked into the dinning hall (if only...)

Just to put your mind at ease concerning my hygiene (and sanity) I do, in fact, dress and act like a proper human some of the time. On Thursday night I went to a sorority mixer (oh the joy of a 1:30 class on Fridays) which was Jersey Shore themed.

My roommate, Tessie and I rocking some glambition.

Saturday night included a three and a half hour football game (waaaay too long in my opinion) and a frat party with some of the peeps.

Can I get a brewskie for my broskie please?!

Minus the intense amount of homework and sucker punches from life it was a great weekend. Before I get back to studying and singing along to my Glee soundtrack I want to include another segment of 'the people crazy enough to live with me.' Last time I wrote about one of my suite mates, Lauren. For today's bio we have, drum role please, Tess!

(Don't worry this was for a 70s theme sorority bash - she doesn't really dress like this everyday regardless of how smokin' she looks in gogo boots and a minidress)

Tess, or Tessie as I like to call her is one of my best friends and dearly beloved pledge sister. She braved pledging a sorority with me as well as living with me. She is a neuroscience major and a total brainiac! Tess has a wonderful boyfriend, Bryan, who is gladly the third wheel whenever the three of us go out. Her positive energy and exuberance for life is apparent within just meeting her. Tess is an incredibly loyal friend that never fails to disappoint in putting a smile on the faces of all who surround her. Her great family never complains when I tag along to dinners and shopping. Tess and I just recently spent the whole day sailing and after braving the open seas (or lake) with her I would gladly say that there is no better way to avoid homework than spending time with one of your best friends. I forgot to mention she (and my other roomie who you'll meet later) check my blog everyday, regardless of the fact that she is with me everyday. It's always great to have a friend remind right before you dig into a salad 'don't forget to take a picture for your blog Annie." It's great to know that even if nobody else reads my blog there is always someone who will. Love you Tessie!

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uh... life can you please say excuse me next time you get in the way

Excuse my French (I actually hate it when people use that phrase) but life can be such a little SOB sometimes. It totally gets in the way of everything like blogging and fun (and blogging) and homework (and blogging) - you get the picture. Life and I have been playing an intense game of dodge ball except all the balls are on the other side of the line. I happen to have the coordination of a newly born baby calf (minus the placenta) so the best I can do is duck but unfortunately life has aim comparable only to Kobe shooting 3s. Needless to say my desk is covered with sticky notes and lists helping organize (and compartmentalize) basically um... life. C'est la vie! (this time excuse my cheesy use of French)

If I had been blogging regularly these past couple of days (or week, whatever, who's counting?) this is pretty much all you would be seeing

Cheerios: my feeble attempt at making up for all the stress and caffeine I pump into my heart

You must be thinking, 'Really Annie did you need to include a picture of your yarf from last night's frat party?' To be perfectly honest you wouldn't be far from the truth Cup O' Noodles is totally sketchy. To help minimize the sketch factor I prefer to put mine into a bowl so I don't feel like a total crack head slurping my MSG from a styrofoam cup. I think that this method adds a little class, no?

Last but not least... MICROECONOMICS! The Green Machine is another feeble attempt at receiving good karma in the form of an A in micro for being nice to my body - and for some reason I feel like the gods of econ will not care about my daily kale intake...

Needless to say reading a post with a picture of cheerios, death-in-a-cup and a healthy side of bitching about homework everyday would not have been very interesting.

Another post to come very soon (hopefully by tomorrow night) about all the good things that did happen during my hiatus.

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Todays Workout

800m run, 5 rounds of 20 Sandbag Thruster Burpees, 40 Squats, 800m run.

Record your time.

Train hard!

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Todays Workout

Box Jumps, Sandbag Power Cleans, Heavy Sandbag Front Squats, Sit Ups, Sandbag Push Jerks.

Perform each exercise for 1 minute, giving a total round of 5 minutes. Record the number of repetitions performed within each minute for each exercise. There is a 1 minute rest period between each set of 5 exercises but a running clock during each round. Repeat for 3 rounds in total.

Record your total repetitions for the whole sequence.

Train hard!

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Todays Workout

Run 400m, 21 Sit Ups, 21 Sandbag Power Clean and Press. 5 rounds.

Record your time.

Train hard!

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New Information in Workouts

New workouts have been posted along with some recommendations for target sandbag weights.

Click here

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Todays Workout

5 Handstand Press Ups, 10 Knees to Elbows, 15 Sandbag Power Cleans.

5 rounds.

Record your time.

Train hard!

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New Video - Squats, Cleans and Lunges

More instructional videos coming soon.

Train hard!

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Todays Workout

Press Ups, Box Jumps, Sandbag Cleans, Sit Ups, Sandbag Push Press.

1 minute on each exercise, no rest between exercises, 1 minute rest between each round of 5 exercises. Three rounds.

Record your time.

Train hard!

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Todays Workout

400m run, 20 Press Ups, 30 Sit Ups, 40 Squats. 5 rounds.

Record your time.

Train hard!

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