Cindy!

Today was my first full Cindy aka 20 minutes of hell. For those of you that don't know what cindy is, it is:

20 minutes AMRAP
5 pull ups
10 push ups
15 squats

So I did Cindy today with a green band, which is the 2 inch band for pull ups. They were easy, for low rep pull up workouts I'm going to drop down to a 1 inch band. My back strength is getting much better, I think that for workouts that include high rep pull ups I will still use the 2 inch band, but that decision will be made in the future. Pushups were what really killed me today. The muscle endurance in my chest and triceps is still low and so after about round 5 I couldn't really do more than 5 in a row to start off push ups and no more than 2-3 in a row in the middle of a set. Squats were easy. Squats with no weight is just an exercise in will power and your ability to push through them. In the end, I was able to do 14 rounds in the 20 minutes which I was pretty happy with.

Ultimate Frisbee: Game 2
Today was game 2 for It is? ultimate. We lost to a team that was much older and slower than us, a team that we should have beaten. Throughout the first half we basically traded scores and let them win half 8-7. Our zone D was looking much better than last week however our Offense was turning the disk over a lot, especially in the red zone. After half, we gave up 4 quick scores to go down 12 - 7 before scoring a couple of quick points to bring the game back to 12-10. They scored to make it 13-10 and then we scored  to bring the game to 13-11. On the next point Drew had an awesome D at the end line, but had a foul called against him. The call obviously was a bad call however it allowed them to score again making it 14-11. After the pull, It Is? ultimate moved the disc down field very well before Trevor rushed a pass to Jen who despite getting her hand on the disc dropped it in the end zone. Capitalizing on our turn they marched down the field and scored on a wide open man in the deep corner of the end zone.

Over all the game was better played by It Is? we just need to focus on preventing turns in the red zone, and instead scoring. Also we need to work at better capitalizing on other teams errors to allow us to score more on less effort.