I experimented with my selfie-taking this week, hence the pic variability. As you’ll see, some were more successful than others… :)
Lululemon black power y tank
Lululemon milky way wunder under crops
Rainy and COLD day meant I finally got a chance to wear my milky way WUCs. Went on a very exciting trip to the grocery store. By which I mean a 100% average trip to the grocery store.
(Selfie experiment #1: phone on windowsill)
Lululemon blue tropics speed shorts
Sometimes, you just have to wear a t-shirt and not care. Ya know what I’m sayin’?
I was hella grumpy, so I attempted to take my frustration out on the massive volume of deadlifts in the WOD. I would call that mildly successful.
(Selfie experiment #2: ok, I was just lazy)
Splits59 black glory muscle tee
Lululemon spring has sprung speed shorts
Went in for a round of my upper body work, and guess what? Pull-ups were in the WOD, too. Oops. Because of that, and because I was just getting started on the whole extra work situation, I only did that work for 12 minutes instead of 16.
The WOD as prescribed was Frantastic: 6 rounds of 13 thruster (65#) and 14 pull-ups. I scaled the thrusters back to 35# and the reps back to 6 and 7 (still 6 rounds, unassisted pull-ups). I finished in 8:28, which was about HALF the time it should’ve taken me. Major scale fail. I did an extra round of 13 and 14 reps as penance.
(Selfie experiment #3: phone on bookshelf front hallway)
Lululemon black cool racerback
Lululemon milky way speed shorts
I went to all the trouble of wearing my india blue YogaSmoga bra, which matches my milky way speeds, and you couldn’t even see it! Bummer. Also, the strangest thing: there was a girl in my WOD who was wearing a nearly identical outfit. Same speeds, and a similar black tank. So strange considering I virtually never see anyone else at my gym wearing speeds I have, much less on the same day.
My WOD was 30-20-10 power snatches (I scaled to 35# because my snatch is truly unfortunate) and rowing for calories. I finished in just a hair over 13 minutes. Welcome to Slow Town, population: me.
(Back to selfie experiment #1 because it’s the best.)
Banana Republic striped half-sleeve tee
Lululemon love red energy bra
Lululemon black speed shorts
Rest day. We went to a picnic/pool party thing for my boytoy’s work. It wasn’t blazing hot enough for me to be interested in swimming, so I wore this. (It was, however, good weather to eat pizza. It’s always good weather to eat pizza. Sorry not sorry.) Because this tee has a wider neckline and I have pretty narrow shoulders anyway, my bra strap often ends up peeking out. That’s not a look I’m particularly fond of (for normal bras anyway), so I figured I might as well run with it and make it intentional. Problem solved!
Lululemon fresh teal rest day pullover
Lululemon sea check plaid speed shorts
Lululemon paris perfection cool racerback
Lululemon sea check plaid speed shorts
COLOR BOMB. The pink in these speeds is actually raspberry glo, but plaids are forgiving enough that paris perfection works just fine (and probably just about any other bright pink). 10/10 would wear this combo again. Later that evening, I wore my rest day pullover out and about after the sun went down.
At the gym, I worked on my upper body business again (if you’re counting, yes, that’s the 2x/week I promised), this time for the full 16 minutes I planned. Maybe it was just mental, but I already felt a little stronger at both pull-ups and ring dips. After finishing that up, I got a 10 pound back squat PR! I bet I could’ve tried for another 5 (or 10?!?!), but I was out of time and we had to move on to other things. My new PR means I’m only 10 pounds away from my goal of a 1.5x bodyweight back squat, which I’ve been working toward for over a year now. I’ve already made 25 pounds of gains since setting that goal, so another 10 isn’t too far off!
You always have cute OODs! I’m glad you’re fit, intelligent and share a passion for blogging about LLL to all us junkies. The other two out in the internet universe do a great job but they’re both obese and one’s racist (the one living in OC and closeby to me).
I didn’t know she was racist?
Agree that this is a great, fun, smart, friendly lulu blog. Definitely a fav!
She is. Someone tried to call her out on it a few years back but she kept deleting things and is one of the reasons why she moderates comments. http://lulu-addict.blogspot.ca/2012/04/luluaddict-is-racist.html#comment-form
The Internet remembers all. That was very disappointing to say the least. The Asian women I know are absolutely stunning. Idk why she believes she can pass judgement on anyone’s looks.
Thank you! Glad you’re enjoying the fruits of my labor. :)
Wow, this is such an immature and unkind comment. One of the bloggers is a crossfitter and the other a regular runner. Let’s not body shame others on a fitness blog. I’m actually bummed that the writer of this blog is ok with publishing these types of comments about her fellow female bloggers. Grow up ladies.
I don’t moderate my comments. Unless a comment is blatantly spam, my policy is that commenters have a right to their opinion (even if it’s controversial) and I don’t feel the need to delete just because something isn’t all happiness and roses. We’re all adults here and censorship isn’t necessarily beneficial. (Frankly, if instead she had called me a skin-and-bones bitch and told me to go eat a cheeseburger, I would’ve left that up too.) That doesn’t mean I hold the same opinions or condone what’s said. Comments are a vehicle for reader opinions and discussion, not an extension of my views as a blogger. I’m sorry that leaving the comment up bothers you–there’s no way for me to make everybody happy here.
Love these posts!
I’m a fan of wearing bright tanks with my seacheck plaid speeds! I usually go with either Sizzle or Pinkelicious which usually results in me looking like a highlighter. But on the bright side, if I ever get hit by a car on my runs then there will be no way they can claim they didn’t see me ;)
Also, I just wanted to mention that I really love how you credit the stores that post the pictures. It’s really helpful because I can see/know when my local store has something in without having to go to their FB page.
I really like that too! It’s also refreshing to see how she doesn’t put her watermark on the pictures, unlike other bloggers.
I don’t own, I don’t watermark. ;)
Thank you! I don’t have a problem with looking like a highlighter sometimes. :) I’ve been wanting a sizzle CRB, but sort of wonder how the tone would turn out on my skin, yellows are usually tough for me.
And I’m glad you like seeing the stores credited! It takes an extra couple minutes per post, but I figure it’s helpful to readers for reasons like the one you mentioned, and also just a nice thing to do. :)
I love the blue tropics shorts on you! It’s the exact right shade of blue to me. : ) Now I’m inspired to hunt it down on ebay. May I ask on your sizing for the yogasmoga racerback tank? Does the sizing match LLM’s? Thanks.
Thank you! I am a huge teal fan so I love the shade too! For the YS racerback, I took my lulu size and it fits great–I am a TTS 2 for tops. That said, if you line the 2 tanks up, the YS tank is slightly wider than the lulu. I don’t feel like it’s bigger when worn, but maybe if you are between lulu sizes, you could size down. Probably not worth sizing down an entire size though (I don’t have the option of sizing down, so it’s a moot point for me).
Thanks for the feedback! I’m indeed between LLM’s CRB 4/6. I’m super tempted to try out yogasmoga’s size 4 and I just bought the Ivivva’s tank 14 in Bali Green as the LLM CRB is super long on me.
I love LLM’s Blues and Greens, and still trying to figure the difference between fuel and forrest green. Have a great week ahead!
I’m always admiring your speeds collection and I love the plum plaids ones. :P The power Y looks really good on your body type.
Thanks. :) I just got the plum plaids on a trade a couple weeks ago, I have been loving them! I didn’t like them when they first came out (last summer), but I do now!
Those milky ways look good! Inspired me to wear mine to class tomorrow :)
Thanks! I think they’ll be getting a lot of love in the fall, especially because I noticed all my non-shorts bottoms are neutral, neutrals, and more neutrals… Looks like I’ll need to remedy that. :)
cute- yes, I see you do have a lot of speeds! but they look great on you. If I could wear them all the time I would.
Thanks! I wear them as often as I can, lol. I actually “only” have 11 pairs–I’ve rotated through a few this summer, though, so some that have been in posts before aren’t mine anymore. I’m actually probably gonna need to cycle through a couple more still–have a couple on my wishlist, so I’ll have to find some to let go. :(
I love your speed short collection! I really like how you dressed them up to wear to a party. The bra looks great with that top.
I love it too. ;) And thanks!