Salad Workout

You know how sometimes you're hungry, and you know you should eat some vegetables, so you throw a bunch of random stuff in a bowl and hope for the best? Sometimes it's meh and sometimes it's, like, WOW.

I have two wows to share: this morning's workout and my current snack du jour.

Workout
4 rounds, for time:
8 dumbbell shoulder press, 25# DBs
12 deadlift, 70% of max = 125#
6 burpees

This salad workout is made of three ingredients I like but wouldn't necessarily have put together, and it packed way more of a wallop than I expected. My time was 12-something which I see in my head as this: 12:0? Chardonnay finished in 7:something, using the same weight I did. Yeah, she's pretty amazing.

My deadlifts start to fall apart when I get fatigued. My core goes all slackadoodle, and I can muscle the weight up, but my form is pretty sad. Mission: work deadlifts with slightly lighter weight at the craptastic gym and nail my form.

Salad
1 large cucumber, diced
10 large black olives, quartered
1/2 tablespoon olive oil
a few banana pepper rings, chopped

I've been trying to cut down on my almond consumption and replace the nuts with more olives, olive oil, and avocados. Between my post-workout egg+sweet potato meal and lunch, I need a veggie- and fat-packed snack. The other day, our fridge was looking sad. Sad! The above ingredients were all I could find, so I dumped 'em into a container and hoped it be good tasty enough to not make me feel too sorry for myself while eye-balling the coffee cake on a adjacent desk.

My salad was awesome! And now I'm bringing it to work every day.