decaf morning

remind me never to do another workout without coffee. i fell asleep early last night and forgot to get coffee ready for this morning. its enough that i gave up ibuprofen but i still need my coffee or at least some yerba mate. I actually get more of a buzz from yerba mate then i do from coffee. and yerba mate is mega high in anti oxidants. I read an article a long time ago about how Arnold Schwarenegger used to be really unhappy with his calves. He used to pose for all his photos standing in knee deep water or tall grass to cover his calves. To remedy this, he decided to expose his calves to the world by cutting off the bottoms of all his pants so that his underdeveloped calves were always on display. A year later he had the best calves the world had ever seen. Well, I'm thinking about turning my shirts into crop tops to see if the same strategy works on my midsection. i'd certainly think twice about eating that 9th cupcake or that 3rd burrito if I knew i wouldn't have shirt material to cover my midsection. I searched online and i can't find anyone making any mens crop tops that i like. i may have to make my own.

workout
pvc stuff
inchworm

skill
weighted pushup 10@51lbs/9@51lbs
dips 5X20#/5@bw
Lsit for 30 seconds(only did one set)

WOD 45/15 for 3 rounds
planks
double kb clean (16k)
renegade lunges(45lb)
side to side jumps
xchop to halo (16k)

Diet:
8am Lean Body Shake
11am Lean Body Shake
1pm turkey sandwich with greens
5pm half Amy's og veg pizza
10pm Lean Body shake

good to be back

i felt like it had been months since i had been to the gym. and to make it worse, i feel like i've done nothing but eat too much food. Saturday was the hardest workout of my life. i honestly thought i was going to die during it. I'm certain nobody else felt it was that bad. i'm just not fit in that kind of way yet. Today, my body felt the same way except with today's workout, i could see light at the end of the tunnel of each set. i think i might see if David or Evan will let me tag along on some swims sometime soon. I think it would complement Recfit training nicely.

Workout
kb halo
goblet squat
downward dog to arch thing
spidermen

skill
5 sets of 5 each
kb push press
5 weighted pullups
16k(press)/20k(press)/24k(press)/32k(push,3+2)/32k(push2+1)
pullups all with 25lbs dead hang

wod
1min db thrusters 30lb dumbells
1min 2hand kb swing 24k
1min ball slam @ 20#
rest 3 min
Totals: 72/85/87
went below parallel on all thrusters but first set went butt to hams which led to early redline.

Diet:
8am Lean Body Shake
10am Lean Body Shake
2pm Lean Body Shake
5pm Lean Body Shake
8pm 2 damn good chocolate chip pb cookies
9pm 1 Amy's OG cheese pizza

merry christmas

so the last video game i played was super mario bros way back in the day when a controller was called a joy stick and only had 1 button(maybe 2). Well today my brother presented us with a Playstation 3 and a game called rock band. he said this game changed his life so he's giving them to all his close friends(and me) to change their lives too. he set it up for us and showed us how fun it was. i think i might be hooked. melissa was singing, hannah was playing guitar, and i was playing drums. i suck but hope to get better. i guess this play station 3 is also a blue ray dvd player so thats pretty exciting too. Looks like we're going to have a lot of fun with this new toy. I got my brother a 35lb kettlebell. turns out, he got himself one after his last visit to portland. melissa got me some great gifts too; a super warm coat, skateboarding gloves, and OK GO concert tickets. i'm not usually this materialistic. i just am in that feeling like a lucky little kid at christmas right now. merry christmas friends.

workout:
Shovel snow in my new coat
play rock star drums

diet:
dont ask

oatmeal brulee

so on one of our recent snow days, i was stuck home watching tv shows on hulu. We watched one of those reality shows called biggest loser. Its kind of fun to watch. I read that many of the people on the show gain all or most of their weight back after the show is over. Easy to lose weight living on a campus stocked with sugar free jello and a 250K grand prize for losing the most weight. well anyway, one of the sayings i heard them say on the show was "nothing tastes as good as thin feels". Well today i was reminded that the saying isn't true. i've been thin and i've eaten the Oatmeal Brulee at Gravy on Mississipi Ave. i can honestly say that the oatmeal brulee tastes a lot better than thin feels. i was actually full and just took a bite of hannah's. i could not believe how amazing it was. Ate the whole thing. i think i may have tried to describe it in a previous post but i realized it doesnt do it justice to try and describe how good it is with words. I don't have a big enough vocabulary to describe it. As Trevor knows, i hardly have big enough vocabulary complete whole sentence my blog. :)
Today's workout was my first EVER without coffee. i thought it would be hard but somehow i got through it. i dont like med ball cleans. They hurt my forearms a lot. i have small bones and i think they can't handle the weight. if the balls had handles, i'd be fine. its the fact that you're hands cant get completely under the ball so they have to squeeze the ball as you're pulling up. the pain reminds me of when i used to arm wrestle guys stronger than me.

warmup:
pvc pipe stuff

Skill:
med ball clean and press
50/75/75/75/75

Wod:
Row 500M one time
1:30.3
lay on floor crying holding cramping butt for time: 7min


Diet:
8am Lean Body Shake
10am 2 eggs and half a roast beef hash and hashbrown breakfast.
10:30am: 3/4 oatmeal brulee
2pm: Blue Thunder protein drink
6pm: 4 slices veg pizza
10pm lean body shake

so much for my calorie restriction plan.

its easier to be strict with calories when i'm not locked inside with a freezer. i thought watching the biggest loser on hulu would have inspired me. apparently not. ate ice cream for breakfast. I may have to start next week on my calorie restriction plan. Or whenever the ice cream runs. whichever comes first.

my abs are super sore from those weighted situps. wow. haven't been sore in the abs for years. was sad to miss this mornings workout. Oh well, more time to eat ice cream i guess.

Workout:
none

Diet:
ice cream
cupcakes
pizza
shame
lean body shake
lean body shake

lets try that again

so i said yesterday that i was going to try a calorie/carb restriction diet. then i went out for 2 dinners last night.(didnt even log the second dinner. it was a bowl of carbs). darn. i'd like to blame the weather. when its this cold eating is about all i can think about doing. today, i'm off to a little better of start today. today's workout was good. it was a leg circuit with pushups. it was similar to yesterday's leg/pushup workout but slightly different. The snatch test was pretty cool. glad I made it to the gym and back safely. looks like a mess out there right now.

workout:

kb complex
500m row

wod
5 min kb snatch test 16k 109 reps

4 leg circuits with atomic pushups.

Diet:
8am Muscle Milk cal:360 fat:17,pro:34,carb:15
11am Muscle Milk cal:360 fat:17,pro:34,carb:15
1:30pm: 1/3 Amy's og veg Pizza cal: 310, fat: 12, pro:12, carb:39

Running total for day
cal: 1030
fat: 46g
protein:80g
carbs:69g

winter diet experiment

today was my first day back since Friday and i missed last thursday so it felt like i had been out longer than i had. i also didnt leave the house much over the weekend which made the weekend seem even longer. it was good to be back. it was a good workout for getting back into the swing of things. i havent let up on the eating since the burrito eating contest. i think i'm going to experiment a little with calorie and carb restriction for a while. I have 6 muscle milks left. When they are gone, i'm going to switch back to the lean body shakes. they taste like crap but they have more protein, more fiber, and less carbs. i'm going to try a modified version of the body opus diet. Mostly fat with a little bit of protein during the week. I will make friday night through sunday morning 80% carbs 20% protein "cheat days". we have tons of flax oil peanut butter and coconut butter for fat. I've done this diet many times for 12 weeks out of the year. however, i've never trained like this while doing it. This will also be a good diet for me since Melissa is doing the Zone diet. I wont do that diet but at least i wont be eating cupcakes and burritos in front of her. The body opus and zone at least have some foods that overlap. we'll see how it goes. As John reminded Jonas today, its 6 months until swimsuit season.

Workout
warm up:
pvc pass thrus
pvc squat
inchworms

Skill:
2h kb swing with partner (35lb)
wall squat 10 (no weight)
plate squat 10 (10lb)

plank rows 5 ea size (16k/24k/24k/32k)
weighted push ups x 12 (51lb/51lb/51lb/51lb)
weighted situps x 15(35lb/35lb/35lb/35lb)

Diet:
8am Muscle Milk cal:360 fat:17,pro:34,carb:15
12 Muscle Milk cal:360 fat:17,pro:34,carb:15
3:30pm Muscle Milk cal:360 fat:17,pro:34,carb:15
6pm: Chipotle Steak burrito bowl cal: 835 fat32, pro:55, carb:81


Daily running Total:
Calories 1915
Fat: 83
Protein: 157
Carbs: 126