A new direction

Ok I’m going to try something a little different to keep me on track. I’ll be taking pics of all the food I eat and recording it here.
So here is a listing of them all:
Taco meat with green salsa avocado and tomatoes in it, very yummy
3 eggs with organic bfast sausage
Julie’s wonderful chili, lots of mushrooms, tomatoes, ground beef and other paleo friendly things!
Eye of round and sweet potatoes!
Would like to get ur opinions on the next one, yougart, milk and (20) blueberry smoothie, have a feeling it’s on the naughty list but maybe not by too much…
Also, here was team Saturday, lots of rowing!!
I personally rowed for about 7 minutes at about a 1:45 /500 pace. Not too shabby. (broken up in 1:00 increments)
That’s all for this update, let me know what u think.

Diet, Diet, Diet, Diet!!!!

So, I’ve been talking all about me. And well, thats okay I guess b/c it’s my blog. But I want to talk a little about two of my training partners.
Super Dave and Garth. They are great examples of what it means to be a CrossFit athlete. They work their butt off, are coachable, nice, approachable, and when they finish ahead of you, they are cheering for you until you are done! That is awesome. At the time that the before pictures were taken, they both had been doing CrossFit for a year+.

Super Dave:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Now, most of you know, I’m not really into half naked men. Not really my bag baby. But in the parlance of our times, I mean, holy shit! Do you believe the changes. These are guys that were in UBER good shape before they started eating Paleo, and trimmed off whatever fat they had remaining in only 60 days by just following this simple rule:

Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar.

Are you kidding me???? The dieting industry is like a $600 Billion juggernaut and these two guys have reduced it to 14 words? Holy crap! I was there when they took the before pictures, I was really in disbelief that they should be taking “before” pictures at all…but the proof is in the pictures. This is what they look like right now….That just happenened.

I’m following the same diet, that’s how I’ve lost the majority of my weight. Someday, I’ll be to their before pictures, and then, hopefully a few months later, I’ll be to their after pictures!

CFF – Day 66 – Deadlifts

I got in my car last night, still undecided on what I was going to do, go home or go to the gym. I never really made the concious decision, my car just ended up at the gym. I guess I’m working out. My throat felt fine and I was anxious to get back in the swing.

Warm up:
- 300FT Backward Sprint
- 300FT Backward Sprint

2 Rounds of
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15 Squats
15 Push-ups
15 Jumping Jacks
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- 300FT Backward Sprint
- 300FT Backward Sprint

Strength Work: Deadlifts: 3-3-3-1-1-1
70k-80k-90k-100k-110k(pr)-120k(pr)

WOD
5 Rounds of:
7 Deadlifts @ 60K
21 double unders

Cutoff: 6:00

Finished 3 full rounds+7DL before DNF

Thoughts on Strength – going for PR’s today, since this is a move I haven’t done a lot of and my old PR (105) was set on a set of 3, I felt like I would be able to crush it. I like the deadlift movement, esp since I’m now able to keep my back much straighter than before. Tommy Mo’s advice on the alternated grip (one hand forward, one hand back) makes it much easier. I think I’ll be able to go up to 130-140 the next time we do this.

Thoughts on WOD – I didn’t test the 60K on the DL until it was 3-2-1 go, I nearly hit myself in the face with the weight. After having 120k on there, its like going into a 25mph zone after getting off the highway! I was able to keep good form all throughtout the WOD on my DL, even the last 7 which I had about 8 seconds to do! And then, there were the double unders. UGGGGHHHH, Double unders suck. Wait scratch that, I suck at double unders. I can’t get a single rep, nope, not one. So, I have to attempt – which translates into doing a single under and then jumping a little higher and spinning my wrists faster and then, if I don’t make it, or at least land on the rope, I hit myself in the junk with the sides of the rope. (I’m a backwards jumproper). Then I have to reset and do it all over again for the next rep. Somewhere in the 2nd set though, I started to figure out how to land on the rope – once I even landed on it with my toes…which makes me think with some more practice, I’ll be able to get one. That is exciting. I don’t feel bad about the DNF b/c I know it wasn’t from lack of effort or strength. Just lack of technique, which I can overcome with some practice.

++Good deadlifts
–Doubleunders – keep practicing.

Also learned that Watermelon isn’t nearly as bad for you as I thought, I had been going with the: if it tastes that good it must be loaded with sugar theory, but Wild Bill says it’s A-OK, that it’s mostly water and like 9g of sugar per 130g, so it is not something to avoid. Yea! I love that stuff!

Weight:
208.6 – No change from the other day. That is EXTREMELY GOOD, considering I had about a 2L of soda and 3 Gatorades on monday alone. Also, I weighed myself at night, so I might be a touch lighter, so that is cool.