Wednesday 2.16.11

Wake Up:
5:45 am

Daily Reading:

Devotion:
Streams in the Desert
Although I have afflicted you... I will afflict you no more. (Nahum 1:12)

There is no limit to our affliction. God sends it and then removes it. May we quietyly wait and patiently endure the will of the Lord till He comes. Our Father takes away the rod when His purpose in using it is fully accomplished.

Remember, before much time has passed, we may be just as happy as we are sorrowful now.

It is not difficult for the Lord to turn night into day. He who sends the clouds can just as easily clear the skies. Let us be encouraged, things are better down the road.

His trials are only for a season, and the showers soon pass. Weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.

Even the fact that we face a trial proves there is something very precious to our Lord in us, or else He would not spend so much time and energy on us. Christ would not test us if He did not see the precious metal of faith mingled with the rocky core of our nature, and it is to refine us into purity and beauty that he forces us through the fiery ordeal.

Everything is subject to God's law. Nothing happens that has not been appointed with consummate care and foresight.

Workout: Sealfit WOD: No Excuse

Morning:

• DH Pullups: 9,12,9,9,16

Evening:

Warm Up: 

• 3 rounds for quality
• 10 RDL (2 35lb db's, went slow to really stretch out back and hamstrings)
• 20 pushups (used db's to ensure full ROM)

Work Capacity:

• 21-15-9-15-21 for time: (7:12)
• Push Press (2 35lb db's)
• Goblet squat to thruster (1 35lb db)
• Pushups

Stamina: 

• 100 squats

Durability:

• 100 4 count flutter kicks
• 3 min plank hold (1min each side, 1 min middle)
• 100 Situps
• 1 min plank hold (middle)
• 25 Leg levers

Punishment:

• I decided that because I did not get outside to do the running portion of the workout I would punish myself with a 50 burpee penalty. Worked a long day today but that is no excuse. Burpees suck and outside of Curtis P's and Man-Makers are my least favorite excercise.
• 50 burpees for time: 2:32 (huge PR)

Notes:

• Body: Back is still sore, planks seemed to help. I am going to be adding more of them into the durability portion. 
• Nutrition: good. realized I need some sort of slow burning carbs in the morning otherwise my workouts suffer. Oatmeal with cinnamon and coffee is a typical breakfast. Need to find a solid protein source to add as well that I can eat on a daily basis.