Day 18
"How to Spring Clean Your Living Area"
WOD 130418
Leg Raises 5x5
then...
4 Rounds For Time:
20 Sit Ups
20 Air Squats
**I'm deciding to step it up a bit with the workout. It looks like a bunch... and it is. The videos are very important to look at if you're going to be doing these movements at a gym unsupervised. The hang snatch high pull could be substituted for a Sumo Deadlift High Pull, but I do recommend trying the snatch grip high pull. The dumbbell clean and press weights for girls should be around 10-20lbs and the guys from 35-50lbs. Leg raises could be done laying down with your hands under your butt, but I prefer from a hanging pull up position to get better activation on your core. The landmine rotations could be substituted with Russian Twists with the weighted med ball. Last but not least, air squats will be done perfectly and with high efficiency**
Let's Review
- Your room should be spotless with how many times I remind you on this blog. Let's move on.
- Mobility. Have you checked out some of the videos? Feeling sore the next day is like turning up the chances to NOT go back to the gym to 96.23% haha. Definitely look back and find some mobility techniques that will help you heal and recover faster.
- Eating clean to train dirty. You are what you eat, so make sure you're feeding your body exactly what it needs for fuel. Hint: look at your macronutrients and see what foods have those!
- Tell a friend... it's time you need someone to workout/eat clean with! Share the experience, the worst thing that could happen is you quit.
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"How to Spring Clean Your Living Area"
This article was taken from one of my favorite websites (and on my Google Chrome Bookmark Bar), Think Catalog. This can give you another writer's advice on what to do if you don't really know 'how' to clean or 'what' to do when you're clean. I know I review it all the time, but I can't stress how important it is to get your own personal belongings organized so you can just worry about getting your body in shape. These 9 tips on what to do is a great start to solidifying Day 1's tasks.
9 Spring Cleaning Hacks To Make Your Apartment Livable Again
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1. Identify — and be honest — what you do and don’t need. Locate the problem areas — a corner table that’s had the same stuff on it for a year, that you keep telling yourself you need, but never actually use? Old books that take up space, that you never lend out, and that you know you’ll never read again? Video games you no longer play anymore? Clothes that just don’t fit right? These are your clutter-problem areas. Accept that you don’t need them anymore, and–
2. Sell off your possessions. Take a look around. Old video games, appliances, books (text books too), computer equipment, and furniture can all take up space, collect dust, and decrease your actual amount of living space. And there are viable markets for all this stuff. Try Amazon marketplace and eBay for your books, video games, and computer equipment. Craigslist is good for furniture and old appliances. And try Etsy or your local vintage shop for selling your clothes. Lifehacker has a great, detailed guide about how to sell all this stuff and maximize the cash you take away.
3. Clean up your computer. Recent studies have shown that keyboards can be as dirty, if not dirtier (i.e. more germs), than your toilet seat. This is because you never clean your keyboard. This is also the case for your mouse. So, right now, go get some disinfectant wipes and compressed air, shake your keyboard out, wipe it down, and air blast all the food crumbs away. Because right now you’re pretty much clutching a tiny toilet rim.
4. Clean out your computer. If your desktop looks kind of like this–
–then it’s time to do a little bit of laptop spring cleaning. Macworld has a great guide to cleaning out your Mac and Microsoft At Home has a decent article about tidying up your PC. A clean PC increases your productivity and decreases your stress. Seriously.
5. Take control of your cutting board. Is your cutting board warped, such that every time you try to cut something, the cutting board wobbles all over the place and pretty much makes chopping up vegetables a hazard to your fingers? Mine is. There are two ways to fix this: keep the cutting board and when using it place it on top of a folded dishtowel — it’ll keep it from sliding around. The second is to buy a new (bamboo/ wood) one and treat it with mineral oil every month or so. It’ll never warp this way.
6. Clean out your fridge. If your apartment has mysterious smells, the fridge is a good place to start. Here’s a checklist of all the places in the fridge to make sure you don’t miss.
7. Repurpose and recycle. During spring cleaning, not everything needs to get thrown out. You can repurpose all sorts of stuff — just take a look at what people have done with Patron bottles on Etsy.
8. Clean your sofa. Your couch can be one of the most problematic areas of your apartment. This is because a) it’s a giant receptacle for crumbs, dust, and pocket lint and b) couches aren’t easy to clean. But through a combination of vacuuming, spot cleaning, and washing with warm water, you can get your old sofa back to new again.
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