Hacking Me

I may have mentioned that I’m a bit under the weather.

Nothing too serious but I’ve felt icky enough that I missed last Saturday’s CrossFit workout. Today I made it in.

It felt good to get back to working out.
Don’t get me wrong… it was tough.
And not feeling 100% made it tougher.
(and boy did I NOT want to get out of bed at 5:30 this morning)

… but I think my body needed it.
I know my mind did.

Today’s WOD:
3 rounds for total reps of:
90 sec. ME Power Cleans (I used 30lbs Dumbbells)
90 sec. Rest
90 sec. ME Burpees
90 sec. Rest

Today’s Strength work:
Just 10 TGUs (Turkish get ups) (I used 12kg [26lbs] Kettle bells)

Today’s Tough Mudder work:
3 rounds ME strict pull-ups

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May 22, 2012

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30 day Paleo Challenge

This week I started a personal challenge.
A four week paleo meal plan.

Four weeks - No compromises, no eating out, no f’n around.
I have scheduled out all my meals, when I’m preparing them, everything.
I’ve already done my week one shopping, and last night I made two dishes. Ate one for lunch - the other will be dinner.
Tonight after T-Ball with the kiddos I’ll need to prepare another meal to keep things rolling.

I know that in July my CrossFit team will be doing an even more strict challenge called Whole30 but I decided to get this going anyway. Getting started with something healthy is never a bad idea. (right?) Worst case scenario is I get two solid months of healthy eating challenges. Sounds good to me.

Why am I doing this?
So glad you asked!

1) I feel like I’m putting some flab back on.

I KNOW that I’m gaining muscle via my CrossFit workouts, I can see it.
But I also feel like I’m gaining some flab due to my horrid nutrition as of late. I can’t have that. Need to drop body fat and inches. It’s summer time for cryin’ out loud.

2) I’m unable to fend off the cold germs of a toddler

So yeah… I’m sick, not sleeping well, I have a constant headache, sleepy all the f’n time, and I don’t feel as strong as I did 2 weeks ago. All of this seems to coincide with my getting all lackadaisical regarding nutrition. Coincidence? I think not.

3) Being soft is NOT helping - ANYTHING

Will being soft and flabby help me be awesome? No.
Will it help me look and/or feel awesome? No.

Specifically:

Will it help me in the Tough Mudder? No.
Will it help me learn to do a kipping pull-up? No.
Will it help me get consistent double unders? No.
Will it help me lear to do a hand stand? No.
Will it help me … with anything? … seriously besides maybe acquiring diabetes and dying earlier… will it? No.

So… today began a new revitalized effort.

It is interesting though to feel this crappy and start a new effort. It reminds me how daunting it can all feel. I just want to sleep. And I gotta “do” all this stuff?

I’ve gone through it before. I know it’s not that bad. I know it’s more about NOT doing bad things vs. starting to do a bunch of new things… but still - the universe has given me a little reminder of how easy it is to feel overwhelmed.

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May 21, 2012

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Do Life?

Apparently Ben and the Do Life crew will be in Indy June 3rd.

I’m gonna have to find a way to make this happen.

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May 21, 2012

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THIS.HAS.TO.HAPPEN.

My CrossFit coach has started a fun little campaign to get some more likes on the box’s facebook page. Paying for them with Burpees.

The page is currently at 142 and he wants to get it to 200 by Saturday.
So he decided that…

If (by Saturday) it gets to 200 he’ll do 100 Burpees and document it on video.
If (by Saturday) it gets to 250 he’ll do it in costume.
IF (by Saturday) it gets to 300 his clients get to pick the costume!

(-Insert evil laughter here-)
Clearly THIS.HAS.TO.HAPPEN.

If you’re on facebook, like CrossFit, or just want to help force a grown man to do Burpees in a bunny suit… you should ALL like the facebook page here:
http://www.facebook.com/InnerStrengthIndy

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May 16, 2012

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I’m thinking of upping my CrossFit membership so I can go whenever I want.
(right now I’m at 3 times per week)

And I’m really wanting to get better at things.

Pullups (I HATE that I’m still using the bands for anything over 1-2 pullups)
Kipping
Double Unders
etc

And I’ve got this weird desire to be able to do a hand stand?! I know, weird. I can get to decent head stand most of the time, but don’t have the strength or balance for the hand stand. Why does odd feat this call to me?

And I really want to see strength improvements so I can start doing the Olympic lifts with some weight.

Here’s the problem with upping my workout schedule…

The only time I can really do CrossFit is the morning.
I’m not 100% sure I want to get up at 5:10 every morning. I mean EVERY morning?

What to do…?

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May 15, 2012

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Today’s WOD shortly after a half marathon… ouch

Legs just started to feel nearly normal after the half marathon and this morning there was lots of leg work today at CrossFit.

Skill work:

Practice Snatches form with PVC

-then-

4 rounds for total reps of:

3 minute AMRAP of:
- 30 OHS @ 65/45#
- 30 Double-Unders
- Rest 2 minutes after each round.

==Modified as follows==

Did wussy PVC on OHS
Did single-unders on the Jump Rope

==Results==

189 reps:

Breakdown of reps:
Round 1 = 1 round + 24 OHS
Round 2 = 1 round + 30 OHS + 15 Jump Ropes
Round 3 = 1 round + 28 OHS
Round 4 = 1 round + 26 OHS

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May 8, 2012

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I did not do as well as I had hoped in the mini. Not sure what happened - maybe it was the heat or just a bad day… But around mile 8.5 (while on the IMS track) I just died. It was a long long way to the finish. Walked a lot more than I would have liked.

Last week I ran ten and felt AWESOME… But today was not good. (of course last week it was only 46 degrees)

So much for my 2:20 finish. I don’t know what my official time (which will include a restroom break) is but my gps time (which I paused for the restroom break) was 2:56:47

At the moment my right knee is KILLING ME! Got the finish medal though.