Pickleball Today

 After 45 minutes of the wind blowing our balls into the neighbors court, much to their delight we called it good. First of ten pickle ball lessons tomorrow, somebody keeps trying to get me better.

That Bored

 It's snowing a lot in Big Bear so I'm just really glad we're not there, but we have rain here in the desert so it's just a little boring.  Adding to the boring is the fact we've been trying to eat more protein so there's no great munchyish food in the cupboard. So.....I decided to find a recipe for protein chocolate chip cookies and venture into the kitchen. 

Now as far as my kitchen skills go I'd rather clean, dead lift, bench press, push up, run a 5K, no wait on that 5K I'll make those cookies.

So here's my first batch of cookies. Recipe here: https://eatwithclarity.com/chocolate-chip-protein-cookies/

I had some monk fruit sugar I substituted for the regular sugar, otherwise followed the recipe as written.

They turned out looking good, and tasted good, slightly cakey, surprising since there is no flour in them. 

These (Round 1) are supposed to have 14g of protein per cookie, not bad!

So I found a bag of Kodiak protein flour in the pantry and decided to go for a Round 2 to see what would taste better.

The second batch looked ok, not pretty, they flattened out a lot in the oven and tasted ok.  I don't know what the protein numbers are, but I don't think it's near what the first batch is.  The first batch used protein powder as a base.  So this all led to the third batch....no protein numbers, just a good ole Mrs. Fields knock off recipe. https://www.averiecooks.com/mrs-fields-chocolate-chip-cookies-copycat/

They actually are a little puffier than they look in the picture, as for the taste....well if you really want the grams of protein definitely use the first recipe, but if you just want to enjoy a great chocolate chip cookie, go for the last one, forget about protein and enjoy, don't even bother with the second recipe.

Respectable

 I lost 9-11, I'll just call it a respectable loss and choose to be happy about it.

Saturday@The Courts

Just when I've resolved I need to find a new sport that better supports my lack of skills...I play really well.  Can I repeat it tomorrow?

 

30 Minutes

Alt EMOM

10 Chest to Bar Pull Ups--banded

12 Dumbbell Walking Lunges

10 Burpee Box Jump Overs

It was a long 30 minutes, after a few rounds the numbers were scaled out of my slowness.  The only time there was a little rest was between the walking lunges and the burpee box jump overs, and that quickly went away with more slowness. In hindsight--great workout!
 

Heavier

 

Stupid number of deadlifts, slightly heavier than I usually do in a WOD, but as always not as heavy as I wish I could do. As always, heavier next time.

Squat Day

 5-5-5-5-5 Front Squats with a lot of snap crackle and pop......

40-45-50-55-60

Not a PR but I"m happy with it and my wrists held up better than usual. Form is getting better too.