Two Tickets To The Gun Show....

 

Showing off the 'Guns'

 

(this doesn't have anything to do with my blog but....)

Props to brother Rod, look at that stance...VEGAS BABY!

 

& Thank you to everyone that has been making sure Kaika is taking better pictures because as you can see....you can actually see me....amazing!

Ok so the topic of this blog is....The 'Guns'..aka: arms.  Ever since high school my genetics have been  going against me.   When I was younger everyone called me a 'bean pole' because I was really skinny, zero form, just straight limbs...thats it (obviously my filipino blood was going strong back then). But when high school hit I started getting MONSTER ARMS...among other things (like THUNDER THIGHS....but that's a blog for another day).  Unfortunately from my gene pool my grandma contributed 2 things....a love for food that borders on obsession and the notorious MONSTER ARMS.  If I was a guy...it wouldn't be so bad.  But my mom had 3 girls.  All of which have grams arms. 

Imagine substituting your bicep and tricep for a KFC fried chicken drumstick (but more like human life size)....what I'm trying to get you to picture is basically the fat bulb of the drum as my arm and then my forearm being just the bone part (cuz my forearms are very narrow and skinny plus i have small hands)....and that's how I picture my arms....disgusting right?  Anyway, that is one of the issues I have in my self image.  I look in the mirror and see the MONSTER DRUMSTICK! ew! (and mind you they are big for no good reason. totally useless mass...lame)

So being at CrossFit of course one of my goals is to get rid of the terrible arms that I unfortunately inherited from my elders.   So WODs that have pull ups, dips, push ups, push press...basically anything that can shrink my arms into a more slimmer feminine form I am all for it.  Well I got what I wanted this week so far.  on top of squats to 'tame the junk in the trunk' I also got lots of arm workouts. 

Example of this is tonights workout....5 rounds: 10 Dips, 5 pull ups, and 20 lunges.   I think I was pushing a little to hard for the negative pull ups prior to the WOD because by the time the WOD came my arms were already dead.  I also tried to do harder dips because I felt like doing them the way I have been was a little to easy.  So I did it with my legs elevated and I used 2 parallete bars instead of the bench.  Yeah I felt the burn...o my! Then came the pull ups...dead hang....o gosh.  I was using the blue band and I could barely get my chin above the bar.  by the 3rd round my arms didn't want to go anywhere.  So my sweet husband tells me....ok use the green band instead of the blue.  So I do and then I get through the 3rd and 4th round doing that.  But by the 5th round even the green band was not getting my body up from a dead hang.  so Kaika (genius that he is) puts the blue band and the green band together and tells me to try that.  ok ok, I don't weigh that much so what do you think happened....that thing sprang me up so fast my pink shoes went right over my head...(I think kaika got confused some how and thought we were doing toes to bar or something)  Good thing I was holding on because that would of been a disaster.  So of course Kaika, Lori, and Kats were all witnesses to this 'hilarious' moment.  and I was trying to get my legs out of the thing laughing so hard...my time suffered for that.  (good thing speed isn't something I shoot for).

anyway I my arms are super sore and I think I did a good job pushing my arms to the limit.  and aside from the little mishap with the bands...I think I did ok.  The motto for me and my sister Randi that we will have to repeat for the rest of our lives is......

"NO GRAMA ARMS! NO GRAMA ARMS!" 

which I will probably have to revise to "NO MONSTER DRUMSTICKS!" 

anyway that's my story...Peace!

ps: im kinda writing this in a rush because i need to get up at 5am and I still haven't showered yet....so if i am all over the place. sorry :) but enjoy!