Going to play a bit with my format here. Today, chronological order! Get excited.
Sleep last night was roughly 6 hours. Not ideal, but that Natural Calm works like a charm. I woke up before my 4:00 alarm feeling relatively rested.
Breakfast 4:15
5 eggs over easy in coconut oil
1 grapefruit
1 avocado
6:00
16 oz black coffee (feeling that 3:45 wake-up time)
9:00
3ish oz pasture-raised ham (Thistles & Clover) with a nice 1/2" rind of fat - little bit crispy on the outside, gooey against the ham... so tasty
noonish
My work schedule on Monday is a little scattered, so I can't get to the gym outside of class times for competition prep. Luckily, this morning's workout was easily done in the fitness center at work.
400m run
20 burpees
15 bent over DB rows (35#)
3 rds = 14:57
This was meant to be 5 rounds, but my lunch break is only so long and I still had to actually eat lunch, so I stopped at 3. I can't say I was too disappointed to stop. :) The runs were okay - slower than I would have liked, but not terrible. (At least it was inside and flat...) Burpees were awful. Slow and painful. Just didn't have any fire after the first 10. Rows went well - sets of 10/5 throughout. I wanted at least one round to be unbroken, but form started to deteriorate around #9 or 10.
PWO
11 oz coconut water
1 pm
2 chicken thighs (.75ish pounds) with salsa verde, onions, tomatoes (recipe)
4:30
30 box jumps 24"
30 power cleans 126#
30 box jumps 24"
5:37
My goal here was sub-6:00... mostly because on the board, I knew I couldn't beat Libby's 5:02, but the noon guys got just over 6:00. Have to try to beat someone! My box jumps were not good right out of the gate, which is unusual for me. And they just went downhill from there. Power cleans were slow and steady - dropped and waited for it to settle, then right back at it. I rested a breath or two too long here and there, but overall a decent sustainable pace. On a good box jump day, I think I could get closer to that 5:02. Heavy power cleans and box jumps are two of my bigger strengths - this should have been a bit better.
PWO
11 oz coconut water
12 oz chocolate milk w/2 scoops Progenex tropical vanilla
I'm not sure I'm noticing a benefit from the Progenex... this flavor especially is tasty as hell, but I'm not sure it's worth the sketchy ingredient list and the slight tummy discomfort. I'll give it another week or so and reevaluate. In the meantime, it's delicious...
Monday, January 24, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Last hurrah
Well, I said I'd start food logging today, and even though it was far from spectacular, here it is.
Brunch @ Granite City (we had no eggs at home, no extra money, and a $30 gift certificate to GC. might as well go out with a bang)
12 strips bacon
3 links sausage
gobs of Reggiano hashbrowns
decent amount of some sort of slaw with bacon, chicken and banana peppers - whatever it is, I love it
several grapes
Snacks at parents' house
a few cups black coffee
bowl of popcorn w/salt (popped in olive oil, I imagine)
1 apple
Dinner at parents' house
1 apple gouda chicken sausage
salad w/oil and vinegar dressing, apples, oranges, toasted almonds, feta crumbles
fingerling potatoes sauteed w/olive oil, rosemary, onions and mushrooms
Far from perfect, but not totally off the deep end. A couple starchy vegetables, some popcorn, and some extra dairy. Also, the protein-less snacks are atypical for me. But, free food is better than no food this week, so I'm not terribly disappointed.
Looking to get to bed by 9ish tonight, after I make up a big batch of this: http://everydaypaleo.com/2011/01/09/a-meal-in-minutes/ Also, figuring how I'm going to manage to get my workout shoes from the gym and still make it to work by 5:15 tomorrow morning.
Brunch @ Granite City (we had no eggs at home, no extra money, and a $30 gift certificate to GC. might as well go out with a bang)
12 strips bacon
3 links sausage
gobs of Reggiano hashbrowns
decent amount of some sort of slaw with bacon, chicken and banana peppers - whatever it is, I love it
several grapes
Snacks at parents' house
a few cups black coffee
bowl of popcorn w/salt (popped in olive oil, I imagine)
1 apple
Dinner at parents' house
1 apple gouda chicken sausage
salad w/oil and vinegar dressing, apples, oranges, toasted almonds, feta crumbles
fingerling potatoes sauteed w/olive oil, rosemary, onions and mushrooms
Far from perfect, but not totally off the deep end. A couple starchy vegetables, some popcorn, and some extra dairy. Also, the protein-less snacks are atypical for me. But, free food is better than no food this week, so I'm not terribly disappointed.
Looking to get to bed by 9ish tonight, after I make up a big batch of this: http://everydaypaleo.com/2011/01/09/a-meal-in-minutes/ Also, figuring how I'm going to manage to get my workout shoes from the gym and still make it to work by 5:15 tomorrow morning.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Back in the saddle
Sectionals are coming right up, and it's time to get a bit more serious. Training is going well, but nutrition could use a bit of a clean-up. I'm mostly keeping it clean, and always gluten-free, but have definitely been giving myself a little more give than I should. (cheese! ice cream! chinese buffet! pudding! hashbrowns! marquis torte with caramel sauce!)
Which brings me back here. It's time for food logging. (Starting tomorrow. Because I don't want to write down my peppermint patties... oops...) And a return to training-logging.
Training volume bumps up starting Monday, and it's going to be tricky to fit it all in. 2-a-days on Mondays and Fridays, and 3-a-days on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Because of the way my work schedule lines up with class times, I think I'll have to try to do Monday mornings (and possibly Tuesday mornings) in the gym at work, which I imagine will require massive modifications most days, as all of the barbell collars are welded in place and the "track" is littered with shuffling octogenarians.
Nutrition will be paleo + a little dairy (specifically, a PWO near-pristine grass-fed corn syrup-free chocolate milk with decidedly un-pristine sugar-laden protein powder made from sketchily-sourced whey... but the price is right. and it tastes like chocolate ice cream, so I've got that going for me.). I've never done a PWO shake before last week, so I'm still trying to figure out how to balance it out with my meals - I'm significantly less hungry than I should be the rest of the day. Work in progress. For my regular meals, these next couple weeks are going to be a bit dodgy, because I'm broke as a joke. January is lean times in the restaurant world, and it's killing me.
Which brings me back here. It's time for food logging. (Starting tomorrow. Because I don't want to write down my peppermint patties... oops...) And a return to training-logging.
Training volume bumps up starting Monday, and it's going to be tricky to fit it all in. 2-a-days on Mondays and Fridays, and 3-a-days on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Because of the way my work schedule lines up with class times, I think I'll have to try to do Monday mornings (and possibly Tuesday mornings) in the gym at work, which I imagine will require massive modifications most days, as all of the barbell collars are welded in place and the "track" is littered with shuffling octogenarians.
Nutrition will be paleo + a little dairy (specifically, a PWO near-pristine grass-fed corn syrup-free chocolate milk with decidedly un-pristine sugar-laden protein powder made from sketchily-sourced whey... but the price is right. and it tastes like chocolate ice cream, so I've got that going for me.). I've never done a PWO shake before last week, so I'm still trying to figure out how to balance it out with my meals - I'm significantly less hungry than I should be the rest of the day. Work in progress. For my regular meals, these next couple weeks are going to be a bit dodgy, because I'm broke as a joke. January is lean times in the restaurant world, and it's killing me.
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