Friday, August 3, 2012

Destruction!

So, me and my guys were out in the field training Wednesday morning through Thursday afternoon.  We did the normal AM training session Wednesday before leaving for the training area, and I was able to make it to the gym Thursday afternoon, as well as one good AM training session today (Friday) which leads into the weekend rest days. (No PM training today unfortunately.  I had shit to do.)

So It looked like this...

Wednesday AM- "CrossFit DESTRUCTION"
and holy shit  was the name right on the money...
AMRAP (As Many Rounds As Possible) in 45 minutes of:
2x 25ft rope ascent
25 chest to ground push ups
run 800m

You'd think this one wouldn't be quite so bad...   yea right. I started off strong and then it hit me like a freaking brick wall.
8 complete rounds + 2 rope ascents + 25 chest to ground push ups.( there was 5 seconds left at this point and I didn't even make an attempt to start into an 800m run.

Thursday PM training -
Clean and Jerk
3-3-3-3-3 (For 3 rep max)
135#,155#,175#,175#,180#
then
muscle up improvement
5 sets of 5 with minimal rest between sets, just enough rest to maintain unbroken sets

Friday AM Training - "Gumby Legs"
10 rounds of:
10 Overhead squats
then immediately
loaded sled push 25m down and back
(this workout is done with a partner or with two partners, first athlete does one round and second athlete begins overhead squats when first athlete returns with the sled.)
*My freakin legs are DONE!!!  but I like it!

Diet:  I'm going to start talking about diet on a weekly basis as opposed to a daily basis.  I feel that micro managing each individual meal is too much pin pointing and too picky, I think looking at a week as a whole is going to be a much better control measure in maintaining as strict of a paleo performance diet as possible (for my level of nutritional knowledge, which i would say is moderate at most).

So this past week my diet has pretty good, considering the time we spent in the field training, where there is only one option and that option is to eat what is available (MREs, Hot chow that is brought out at meal times) and neither of these provide a paleo friendly menu. However they DO provide one with fuel for high work out put, just not really the type of fuel I (or any athlete or paleo follower) would prefer.  Its high calorie, high card, high sodium chow that isn't made to taste too great but is made to keep you going for the work being done, long, low intensity movements that lead to short, high intensity periods, followed once again by long low intensity movements.
Chili Mac, MREs, corn and Lima beans, chicken cordon-blue, just a few examples of typical field chow.

But other than the field days, I managed to maintain a relatively strict paleo performance diet, with my recently increase calorie intake, slightly increased card intake (not too much though) and consistent protein intake.  I've been feeling pretty good this week.  looking forward to next week.  Hard at it once again!

"How can you expect others to be confident in you, if you aren't confident in yourself?"

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