Boom goes the dynamite

Friday Am training
A squad relay (8 People) with two people working at a time, however the next set of two cannot start until BOTH of the first set people have completed their given reps for the exercise.  Entire squad must complete each exercise before moving on to the next.

5 Rounds of
45# overhead lunges 10 each leg
10 HSPU (handstand push ups)
15 pull ups
10 tire flips


Last Thursday I wasn't able to do my PM training due to a night range at work.  So I did Thursdays PM training (30 muscle ups for time, then Clean, and Clean & Jerk improvement)  I used the 30 muscle ups (for quality instead of for time) as warm up.
Then I conducted Fridays workout-
30x power snatches (starting with moderate weight, ending with hard but doable)
started with 115#, worked up to 135# by rep 15, then up to 145# to finish it out
30x Clean and jerks (starting with moderate weight, ending with hard but doable)
started with 135#, worked up steady to 185#
3x5 Overhead Sqt @ 155#

5 minutes rest

10x Power Snatch@ starting weight from previous snatch ladder (115#)
10x Clean and Jerk @ starting weight from previous ladder (135#)
then
10x Clean and Jerk@ ending load from previous ladder (185#)
10x Power Snatch  @ ending load from previous ladder (145#)
then cool down and stretch.
I felt pretty good coming out of this one.

Monday AM training-
Trail run for target heart rate of approx. 65-70% on "the hills"
12 minutes out and 12 minutes back, attempting to set such a pace that in keeping both pace and heart rate one will finish the 12 minutes back at the same point in which they started.
*This one was tricky, I must say.  Keeping steady pace and heart rate on soft sandy hills was a PAIN IN THE ASS!! but fun none the less.

Monday PM- Today is a smoker!!!
3 rounds of-
10x ground to over head @ 95#
200M sprint by way of 50M (so 50m down and back twice each round)

3 minutes rest

Heavy Loaded sled push,  Load the sled so that you CAN move it, yet it is heavy to the point that your pushing pace is a slow "Creep".  It should be all you can do to push this sled at this creeping pace the full 50m without a rest. When doing this with a partner, your work time is their rest time, as soon as they complete the push. You begin yours.
We loaded the sled at 270# PLUS the sled weight.
This was definitely a smoker, and some technique definitely helps when making a long, slow, heavy push.

I"m also trying a higher daily caloric intake, I believe that I was leaving myself in deficit or at least barely breaking even as far as calories and carbs. Output vs Intake.  So we will give this a few weeks and see how it goes.  Like I've said before this is a never ending experiment to find what works the best for my body. 

Question of the day:
How "warm" do you get when you warm up?  What are your results when you over do it on the warm up? or when you don't warm up enough? 
*My feelings...  If you arent sweating, you arent "warm".  Breaking a light sweat doing a variety of exercises that are usually body weight movements including the entire body.  Burpees, GHD sit ups, Toes 2 Bar, Pull ups, Burgener Warm up ( with no more than 45#) and double unders are a few of my "Go To" warm up movements.   Let me know what you think. 

"Marty is a Caveman"

So to keep get this rolling, the first "actual" entry.  First I'll cover my diet in the last 24 hours.

24Jul2012 - Breakfast - 4 Eggs, 5 strips of bacon, two watermelon wedges.
                    Lunch- Chicken breast and beans
                    Dinner- Lean ground beef, broccoli

AM workout: took an APFT ( Army PT test)  these are a horrible way to judge someones physical condition. Max push-ups in 2 minutes, Max sit-ups in 2 minutes, two mile run for time.  For everyone that's taken this before, you know its weak and stupid.  Check the block and move on.
76-push ups, 71 sit-ups and 13:10 two mile run.   according to the army I am as physically fit as one my age can be...  the thing is, some people become really good at doing push ups, sit ups and running no more than two miles at a time and appear (according to this test) to be in excellent shape.  I hope that everyone reading this can easily see that this is often untrue.  most of these same people can not perform functional task at heavy weight OR at high intensity (or a combination of the two).

PM workout:  The Crossfit.com WOD (Push press 2-2-2-2-2-2-2)  The results after a short warm up of "the Burgener Warm up",  3x5 95# push press, 2x 95# barbell complex.  
then the actual work - 135x2,135x2,145x2,145x2,155x2,165x2,175x2
Then - the extras
3x5 Snatch - 115,125,135
3x5 Overhead Squat - 115,135,155
3x5 Clean - 135,155,165

Felt great at the end of the day closing this session in the gym, even with my sore legs from all the pistols doing "Mary" WOD the day before.  Got reasonably good rest and hope to get more just like it tonight!!! I feel like I need it. 

25 July 2012- 
AM workout: stretch/warm up,
then 3 rounds of
45# Overhead walking lunges 10 each leg
15 pull ups
10 Handstand Push-ups
10 tire/log flips
followed by a cool down run

Breakfast- 5 eggs, 5 strips of bacon, melon, grapes, small scoop of potatoes
lunch- lean ground beef,  green peas, sliced carrots, a banana

And just so everyone is on the same page, typically my AM workout is conducted with my platoon at work.  My PM workout is conducted at the Gym.  I start "Pre-workout" with a serving of lots of pulp orange juice and/or a banana or some piece of fresh fruit with a high glycemic index.  "post workout" with Nitrean + Protein matrix and a 5-10 grams of pure creatine. I also take Pro-Anox Genesis 2 times a day (excellent product).

Quote of the day:"Can Marty eat like a real caveman? why yes he can, Sam I am. and he sure does love Green Eggs and Ham. "

No PM workout today, going out to a night range with the guys, so here's the question of the day...
If you skip a gym session for whatever reason, do you do that work the next day in addition to your planned WOD?  or do you leave it in the past and move on to your regularly scheduled program?
Does this put you in danger of overworking?  Could this rest be an unexpected "gift"? 
we shall see tomorrow...    your thoughts?

-Spank This Pig-

Here goes nothin'

So here goes, My name is Clay.

Im starting this blog for a few reasons. 
One: In hopes that my experiences, success's and failures, can be of some benifit to anyone who may stumble accross it find themselves reading.
Two: To act as a record of my progress, my activities, changes in life and programming.

This is a Blog about my journey into a never ending fitness experiment, Crossfit and Crossfit style programming, Trial and error with different paleo diet varriants.  What I'm doing, how I feel about it, if it works, and about the people I meet along the way.

I've been on this journey for a few years now, I'll try from time to time to "Flashback" and bring the past to the table.  I'll also try my best to keep this Blog up to date with current post every day or so.

I'm in the military, and striving for a "Fit" life style with a strict diet can at times be very difficult to maintain, and even more difficult to just simply figure out.  Its a fact, we cant eat on a regular schedule ALL the time, and damn sure cant always eat what we want to, in order to stay within the box of our diet.  We even find ourselves going out and doing things for weeks or months at a time with little time or opportunity for fitness programming and even less opportunity for quality food intake. For example, a training event with a long duration, high work output, and MRE's are the only option for food/fuel intake.  How does one prepare for that?  Well, im trying to figure that out, and hopefully somewhere amongst all these rambles of what goes on in my day to day chase for progress, it will help those in similar situations.

I enjoy pushing myself past these so called "limits" that people so easily place upon themselves, I hope anyone reading this feels the same.  If you want it, you can get it, all it takes is work... Hard work.  I'd rather suck in the gym, than suck at life.

Lets "Spank This Pig"