Again, this was another Monday I woke up with a bad attitude and cloudy head. I just felt a little out of sorts and Adam mentioned it, which made me defensive and the work out was a struggle from there.
I built up to a 175lb overhead squat and while I might have been able to do 185, I stopped because I was shaky and my knee hurt. Adam really lacks the flexibility in his shoulders and hips to perform a heavy overhead squat and to be honest, I wasn't really in the teaching mood. He did a front squat single at 205# and we moved on.
The Jonestown Crawl is 20-10, push presses and burpee pull-ups. In typical fashion, it doesn't look that bad, but I used a pull-up bar that is roughly 8inches away from my max reach and it made all the difference. I finished in 5:00 minutes exactly and it really gassed me.
I gave Adam the choice of doing 3 x tabata kettle bell swings or a 500m row for time. He chose the 500m row, the sadist. I started it 3 times before I committed and came in at 1:32. I don't know what was wrong with me. I just couldn't pull a sub 1:30 pace to save my life this morning. I left the gym frustrated and deflated.
Concerning yesterday's blog, Hali and I have decided to do a Whole 30 challenge, which is a pretty restrictive paleo diet meant to restart good eating habits. This will be the second time I've done something like this and Hali's first ever introduction to a paleo eating style. Day one, so far so good.
My eating today has consisted of:
Breakfast
- 3 scrambled eggs with spinach and hot sauce
- coffee
Mid Morning Snack
- Handful of raw nuts and seeds
Lunch
- 6oz of chicken breast
- Spinach
- 1 whole avocado
- 1 cup of fresh raspberries
Afternoon Snack
- 2 hard boiled eggs
- Handful of raw nuts
- Iced green tea
I haven't had dinner, but it will be...
- Filet mignon
- Broccoli
- Hand cut sweet potato fries
I'm really trying to limit the starchy carbs, but I want to ease into the first week. I may end up tracking portions and calories in the last two weeks, but I really just want to eat when I feel hungry to start out.
Have some interesting stuff planned for tomorrow training wise. Let's see if I have the stomach to really do it.
I built up to a 175lb overhead squat and while I might have been able to do 185, I stopped because I was shaky and my knee hurt. Adam really lacks the flexibility in his shoulders and hips to perform a heavy overhead squat and to be honest, I wasn't really in the teaching mood. He did a front squat single at 205# and we moved on.
The Jonestown Crawl is 20-10, push presses and burpee pull-ups. In typical fashion, it doesn't look that bad, but I used a pull-up bar that is roughly 8inches away from my max reach and it made all the difference. I finished in 5:00 minutes exactly and it really gassed me.
I gave Adam the choice of doing 3 x tabata kettle bell swings or a 500m row for time. He chose the 500m row, the sadist. I started it 3 times before I committed and came in at 1:32. I don't know what was wrong with me. I just couldn't pull a sub 1:30 pace to save my life this morning. I left the gym frustrated and deflated.
Concerning yesterday's blog, Hali and I have decided to do a Whole 30 challenge, which is a pretty restrictive paleo diet meant to restart good eating habits. This will be the second time I've done something like this and Hali's first ever introduction to a paleo eating style. Day one, so far so good.
My eating today has consisted of:
Breakfast
- 3 scrambled eggs with spinach and hot sauce
- coffee
Mid Morning Snack
- Handful of raw nuts and seeds
Lunch
- 6oz of chicken breast
- Spinach
- 1 whole avocado
- 1 cup of fresh raspberries
Afternoon Snack
- 2 hard boiled eggs
- Handful of raw nuts
- Iced green tea
I haven't had dinner, but it will be...
- Filet mignon
- Broccoli
- Hand cut sweet potato fries
I'm really trying to limit the starchy carbs, but I want to ease into the first week. I may end up tracking portions and calories in the last two weeks, but I really just want to eat when I feel hungry to start out.
Have some interesting stuff planned for tomorrow training wise. Let's see if I have the stomach to really do it.
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