Dang, less than a month.
Cardio is back with a vengeance and seems to be there whether it's a short or long WOD. Last night was a party with burpees and runs. Felt fast and solid. Same with power Cindy last week. The box jump/PLU one on Monday was good times, too. McGhee, which was longer, felt good the entire time and it ended up being my strength on the heavy deadlifts that got me after 83 of them. That's 16 rounds. I'm okay with that. In terms of my lifts, those are also feeling good. Squats on Monday were lovely at 205lbs and I even saw a 10lb PR on my clean. Shoulder press yesterday felt fine. This kind of surprises me. I think I'm fully adapted to my 50g of carbs. And I'm feeling freaking good. Actually, better than good.
Tonight will be a challenge. Never done 125lb power cleans in a WOD and there's 30 of them tonight. Khalipa in his video didn't even bother to power clean and just did muscle cleans. Beast, he is. It would be kinda weird going through life that dang strong.
General enthusiast of sweaty activities. Cave girl foodie. This is a blog about that. And sometimes cats.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Affiliate team training... we've got this!
Over the last week or two, I've pretty much had the same conversation with four of you. Some of us are feeling a bit down and out. Like we aren't going to be ready or it's too much. Or, that you are the weak link and are going to bring the team down or whatever.
Do not listen to your own line of bull shit.
Each of us are there for a reason - we all have our own strengths and weakenesses and we each bring something to the table. And it's not just whether you're good at long metcons and have a decent snatch. It's also about personalities and the kind of energy you put out. We're a good mix of different types of people and I can really see us complimenting each other and helping each other get through any WOD. We're going to be a great team. And we're going to handle anything and everything OPT throws at us.
Training last night started out gong show and ended up being a great time at the gym. Every so often, heavy squats just feel so freaking good. Last night was one of those nights. We were doing four sets of heavy three's at 85-90 percent of max. 190 was lovely. 195 was even better. The first set of 200 felt a bit awkward but the last set was the exercise equivalent of chocolate cheese cake. And this was all with a busted ass from an awkward split snatch during my warm up.
Overall, I'm feeling really good and training is going well. It's a nice change from leading up to sectionals where I was struggling, tired and down. I am really loving the new nutrition plan. I'm not hungry at all and my strength levels are staying up there. I'm already down a pant size and the new pants are getting roomy. Cardio is a little bit impacted but not too badly. My pet rock felt good (fun times with Kat and Tyler). Last night, the burpees in the metcon after did have me sucking wind and whining like a baby but otherwise it hasn't been as rough as I thought. Going to stick with the original plan of keeping those carbs down until two weeks before and then slowly raising them up with some sweet potatoes post WOD to get me ready for the Affiliate Team comp.
Do not listen to your own line of bull shit.
Each of us are there for a reason - we all have our own strengths and weakenesses and we each bring something to the table. And it's not just whether you're good at long metcons and have a decent snatch. It's also about personalities and the kind of energy you put out. We're a good mix of different types of people and I can really see us complimenting each other and helping each other get through any WOD. We're going to be a great team. And we're going to handle anything and everything OPT throws at us.
Training last night started out gong show and ended up being a great time at the gym. Every so often, heavy squats just feel so freaking good. Last night was one of those nights. We were doing four sets of heavy three's at 85-90 percent of max. 190 was lovely. 195 was even better. The first set of 200 felt a bit awkward but the last set was the exercise equivalent of chocolate cheese cake. And this was all with a busted ass from an awkward split snatch during my warm up.
Overall, I'm feeling really good and training is going well. It's a nice change from leading up to sectionals where I was struggling, tired and down. I am really loving the new nutrition plan. I'm not hungry at all and my strength levels are staying up there. I'm already down a pant size and the new pants are getting roomy. Cardio is a little bit impacted but not too badly. My pet rock felt good (fun times with Kat and Tyler). Last night, the burpees in the metcon after did have me sucking wind and whining like a baby but otherwise it hasn't been as rough as I thought. Going to stick with the original plan of keeping those carbs down until two weeks before and then slowly raising them up with some sweet potatoes post WOD to get me ready for the Affiliate Team comp.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
That was fun!
I love CrossFit competitions. They are crazy fun, scary as all hell and it's the people that make them completely awesome. It's just so inspiring to see everyone give it their all. I'm so proud of how everyone from CFR did. I can't really say anything better than Blair or Nolan over on CFR's forum so I'm just going to say "ditto".
Feeling very excited and focused on getting ready for the affiliate team competition at Regionals. I really want to help our gym earn a spot to go down to California. So, I'm really trying to work on my weaknesses over the next, um, 50 days? Dang. It feels like it should be way further away than that.
First off, I need to build more shoulder strength and endurance. The push press were a real challenge and it was my shoulders that gassed out on the 7 minutes of thrusters over my cardio or quads. I've put on some nice lean mass upstairs from the squat madness combined with rampant nut butter consumption so hopefully I'll be able to figure out how to use it between now and then. There's going to be shoulder press and with HSPU practice each once a week. The other part is leaning out some to speed up on the bodyweight stuff.
My most glaringest suck moment during sectionals was WOD 3 and the burpees. They were gross. I was slow. The next most glaringest suck moment was the pull ups in WOD 4. I'll be faster if I can keep my muscle while leaning out a bit. I've really tweaked the snot out of my diet. I'm tracking protein and carbs and not worrying about fat aside from just a general avoidance of all things nut related (dirty bastards... mind out of the gutter) for the time being.
I'm averaging about 135g a day of protein from meat and have been sticking to around 50g of carbs a day from veggies. For supplements, I'm at 20g fish oil, 2000 i.u. vit D and magnesium (forget how much... it's one pill). And my cardio hasn't even been sucking, so that is super cool. I thought for sure it would be in the toilet with so low of carbs but it's good! I'm also not crazy hungry all the time either. Not sure if I should chalk that up to more protein or just it being spring and breaking out of hybernation mode.
As for how I did, I came in 22nd with a tie for points with 21st. My breakdown was 18th (OHS 3x120lbs), 16th (77 thrusters), 34th (12:26), and 18th(17:something?). Here's a link to our sectional wrap up.
It was good times, anyways and I am really enjoying this next phase of training so far.
Feeling very excited and focused on getting ready for the affiliate team competition at Regionals. I really want to help our gym earn a spot to go down to California. So, I'm really trying to work on my weaknesses over the next, um, 50 days? Dang. It feels like it should be way further away than that.
First off, I need to build more shoulder strength and endurance. The push press were a real challenge and it was my shoulders that gassed out on the 7 minutes of thrusters over my cardio or quads. I've put on some nice lean mass upstairs from the squat madness combined with rampant nut butter consumption so hopefully I'll be able to figure out how to use it between now and then. There's going to be shoulder press and with HSPU practice each once a week. The other part is leaning out some to speed up on the bodyweight stuff.
My most glaringest suck moment during sectionals was WOD 3 and the burpees. They were gross. I was slow. The next most glaringest suck moment was the pull ups in WOD 4. I'll be faster if I can keep my muscle while leaning out a bit. I've really tweaked the snot out of my diet. I'm tracking protein and carbs and not worrying about fat aside from just a general avoidance of all things nut related (dirty bastards... mind out of the gutter) for the time being.
I'm averaging about 135g a day of protein from meat and have been sticking to around 50g of carbs a day from veggies. For supplements, I'm at 20g fish oil, 2000 i.u. vit D and magnesium (forget how much... it's one pill). And my cardio hasn't even been sucking, so that is super cool. I thought for sure it would be in the toilet with so low of carbs but it's good! I'm also not crazy hungry all the time either. Not sure if I should chalk that up to more protein or just it being spring and breaking out of hybernation mode.
As for how I did, I came in 22nd with a tie for points with 21st. My breakdown was 18th (OHS 3x120lbs), 16th (77 thrusters), 34th (12:26), and 18th(17:something?). Here's a link to our sectional wrap up.
It was good times, anyways and I am really enjoying this next phase of training so far.
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