The journey of the beginner

Another update

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:43:33 +0200

So a lot has happened since my last update.

I have been slacking a lot on my posting, which I’m really regretting. I actually enjoyed writing the posts - alot! I might get back to posting on a daily basis, when I get a little more time on my hands. Right now i’m pretty busy with a project that takes up all my spare time. But its exciting, and it might be something you can use! Yes, you - the reader! I’ll write more on this, when I get closer to being done with it.

Meanwhile, i have still been crossfitting on a daily basis. I have become fairly confident with my handstand up against a wall and I had tried handstand pushups a couple of times, but I dont really feel that confident when it comes to trusting my body to have all its weight on my head. But i’m getting there! I have also developed a lot of strength in my arms - a lot. I am now doing KB swings with a 28kg kettlebell without any problems, and might soon be taking the leap to be using the 32kg one. I have also been working a lot on my technique for rope climbs and yesterday was the biggest success. I successfully managed to climb up to the 4m mark on the rope! I have never ever been that high up before.

My technique on the various olympic lifts has improved a little aswell - i feel more confident in a deep squat with weight on, and i’ll be working a lot on my squat clean the next couple of weeks. Hopefully i’ll be able to absolutely destroy my previous pr with the squat clean.

Update to the blog

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:44:36 +0200

I have updated my progress page with a lot of recent results (i’m still missing some).

They can be seen at the progress page.

Moving on - am I genuinely addicted to good food?

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:46:58 +0200

I am currently on my second day after the paleo challenge and me looking back at what I ate yesterday makes me want to hurt myself. It was really really unhealthy and I have made an effort today, not to let it be the same as yesterday. Just because I’m officially off the paleo challenge, doesn’t mean that I wont be eating healthy. The challenge itself has made me think alot about how different the kind of food i eat affects my entire day.

The biggest change I have felt so far, is the fact that my lunch is so much better now. Boiled veggies are awesome - no doubt about it, but I have had a problem getting enough of it for the entire challenge. I just never felt I got quite enough of it. But me having these 4 pieces of ryebread is more than enough - i can feel the fibres working in my body, and I’m actually really enjoying this feeling. The feeling of feeling full, just full enough to be able to keep a high level of concentration and motivation.

I have ideas in my head that I want to accomplish and a heck of a lot of stuff I want to achieve. Just look at my 2012 goals page. Theres some pretty hard stuff in there, but i’m pretty darn confident that I will be able to accomplish many, if not all of them before we get into 2013.

I know my core strength has improved a lot, and I can feel how my upper body is improving aswell. Yesterday I was pretty close to doing a strict pullup, without any band or anything. I have never been able to do that - not even coming in close, but I almost did it yesterday! I only missed a couple of centimeters - so a week or so more, and I will be able to do that too!

But the best thing about right now - I genuinely feel that I need to eat right, to be able to give my most at the box. Yesterdays breakfast was really horrible and I could feel that yesterday. I had lots of energy to begin with, but due to poor eating, I quickly burned out and had to do the last half of the workout just by pushing myself harder than ever.

The title also says “moving on”, and that is exactly what is about to happen. I will be working a lot on restructuring this tumblr-blog, to convert it into a full fledged website. I am pretty limited, due to the tumblr-platform, but I think I will be able to accomplish a lot within these boundaries. Mainly this means I will be writing more content, and perhaps even a couple of articles about my view on nutrition and more details about my journey and how it has been. But also about paleo! I like paleo a lot, so I might be writing a guide to how I would recommend others to ease into paleo. It is tough, but not so tough that anyone can do it!

I’m excited to be moving on - are you?

The day after the paleo challenge - good habits, stop hiding!

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:36:25 +0200

I wrote yesterday, that I would be writing a post-mortem style post about my paleo challenge, but I did not get time to write it. I was busy doing other things, that will benefit me otherwise, but heres the regular post! :)

Today was a pretty great day, and also a pretty darn different day. I woke up pretty early and packed up my lunch. Two pieces of ryebread with some cheese between them. Simple, but also something I have been missing a lot. I also brought some fruit to eat, just as I have been doing the last month. Thats not something I want to let go of!

I got through the day pretty great, but I have to admit I had minor concentration issues, but I’m quite sure its not because of what I eat, but just a general plain old bad day, like most people have once in a while.

I had been looking at the mainsite and was really really looking forward to todays workout. Tomorrow is a rest day, so I just had to go all in for the workout, and I sure did. The workout was:

For time:

500m row
50x wallball shots, 10kg
400m row
40x wallball shots, 10kg
300m row
30x wallball shots, 10kg
200m row
20x wallball shots, 10kg
100m row
10x wallball shots, 10kg

So looking at it, its just a “Karen” workout, split up with some easy rowing in the middle. Thing is that I dislike wallball shots a lot. I can do them, but I’m not a fan (yet). I need to work a lot on just keeping on going. I could feel that I had no problems doing it in sets of 10, but I kept on doing sets of 5 for some reason. It annoys me a lot, when I’m thinking about it right now.

I got through the workout in a brisk pace and had no problems with the rowing at all - it was the wallballs that was killing me. Funny thing is that it wasn’t the legs that were killing me, and it was not my arms. I think it was my core thats kinda exhausted, so the rest day tomorrow is well placed. I finished the workout in a great time. My time ended at 21:47.

After the workout, i got ready to start on my en2zym protein shake. It tastes really great and I’m really excited to see how it will affect my body. Right now, it feels like it already did a lot, as I’m not sore in my body at all. 150 wallballs, and I’m not sore - I dont really understand it.

Finishing strong! - Paleo challenge: day 30/30

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:15:28 +0200

I’m sitting here writing this post in a absolutely fantastic mood. In 30 minutes, my paleo challenge is officially done. I’m really really looking forward to being able to drink a glass of milk - ice cold milk *drool*

I will be writing a post mortem tomorrow some time, but for now, i’ll go through the day as I have been doing for a while now. So my day started out pretty great. I had to decide what I wanted to cook for lunch, as this was my last morning where I would cook lunch. From tomorrow on, i’ll bring rye bread, as that is something I have been missing a lot! I wont be describing in detail what I had, since its not interesting at all - it has just been exact the same as all the other days, boiled veggies fried in bacon fat.

I got to the box feeling absolutely amazing. I was really in a great mood, and thats most likely because I had a little short 20 minute powernap before I went to the box. It sure made a huge difference in how my is - i’ll keep on doing that for sure. I just went around smiling and feeling great the entire day.

The class started out with a tabata sprint, which was something I actually enjoyed. I’m not much of a runner, but this was something I felt really great about. I managed to get through the sprints running at least 80-85m every time, which I’m fine with. I’m not that great a runner! :)

The main workout was a hero workout - the famous workout called “the seven”. It is:

7 rounds for time, 30 minute timecap

7x handstand push-ups
7x thrusters, 60kg
7x knees to elbows
7x deadlift, 110kg
7x burpees
7x KB swing, 2 pood
7x pull-ups

This was a extremely tough workout and i had to keep on going and stop thinking about anything, so because of that, I’m having a hard time remembering exactly what happened, but I remember it felt pretty damn great to get through the workout. I completed 3 full rounds plus 31 reps, which means I got to the burpees when I hit the timecap. A most satisfying result.

Now, i’m off to drink milk!

Paleo challenge day 30!!!!

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:03:51 +0200

Today is the last day of my 30 day challenge! Woooooh! I am sooooo excited for tomorrow! :D

Tech work on the snatch and feeling great - Paleo challenge: day 29/30

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:02:00 +0200

Today started out pretty great. I woke up rather early and got a great solid breakfast at work consisting of the usual stuff. Getting through the day was rather easy, as my body has gotten pretty used to living of the fruit throughout the day.

I arrived at the box, ready to work on my technique on one of the harder things in crossfit - the split snatch. The workout today was a simple 7 by 2 reps of split snatches with alternating feet.

My technique before getting into the workout, was pretty awful, but thanks to the burgener warmup and a lot of focus on technique right there, it helped me a lot to improve how I lift the bar up. Even after the workout, I still have problems getting the bar to travel up in a straight line. For some strange reason, I want to move the bar a little out and in a circular movement up, instead of straight up - if it makes any sense!

But i got into the lifting with increasing weights and I started out with doing 40,45 and 50kg without any major issues with minor flaws in my technique. Afterwards I jumped to 55kg, being able to get it up, but with major flaws in my technique. I attempted 57,5kg and managed to get it up once, but I did not want to try again, due to my extreme faulty technique. I called it a day and was pretty satisfied with 55kg on my split snatch - It’s still more than my power snatch.

And tomorrow is my last day on a strict paleo lifestyle. I’m pretty excited to finally being able to drink a glass of milk. I cant wait! I’m genuinely excited to have a little looser boundaries when it comes to nutrition. I must admit that I have learned quite a lot on how food affects my mood and my day at the box.

Next challenge?

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:37:25 +0200

I have the last couple of days been thinking about what I should do as my next challenge, and I think I have found my next thing. I will be trying to implement biphasic sleep into my daily routine - mainly because I have heard so many great things about it, and also because I need more time, if I want my personal projects to be realized (not related to working out or anything).

I will be mentioning this in my posts, and how it has been going, aswell as my crossfit adventure - regionals here i come! Or, well - perhaps!

Super heavy WOD time - Paleo challenge: day 28/30

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:07:00 +0200

Today started pretty awesome. I woke up rather early together with my girlfriend and we got straight into cooking an awesome breakfast. We would get visitors this morning, so we thought that making almond-muffins with various ingredients would be a great idea. We made a mixture of broccoli and cauliflower mixed with finely grained almonds and eggs. This mixture was put into a creme-brulee cup and was baked for 15 minutes - they looked amazingly delicious and tasted absolutely fantastic.

After the breakfast I drove to the box feeling absolutely amazing and really ready to work hard. Coach actually asked me if I had been eating mood-lifting pills, but I was just in a great mood.

Today I had made an appointment with my cousin, meeting her to do a WOD with her for the first time and giving her a brief introduction to CrossFit. So we did the standard warmup we usually do, and after that coach found a great little workout we did. It was:

6 min AMRAP of:

8x Tire smash
6x Air squat
4x Burpee

I paced myself to work throughout the entire time - 6 minutes is nothing, so I kept a high tempo and just worked fast and effecient. I completed 7 rounds + 10 reps, where my cousin did 5 rounds + 2 reps. A great result and a amazing warmup! After the warmup we got ready to the main WOD - a combination of really heavy and really light. It was:

15 min AMRAP of:

3x Deadlift, 120kg
6x Toe to bar
9x Wallball shots, 10kg

120kg was extremely heavy and it was too close to my max, as the lift “only” was supposed to be around 70% of 1RM, so i quickly counted that to be a deadlift of 100kg. It was heavy, but not too heavy. I kept a steady pace and aimed to complete 6 full rounds, but it turned out to be a lot harder to get through than I expected. It was not that it was especially exhausting, like other metcons, but it was just really really heavy. It was a great combination of light and heavy and I felt really drained when I was done. I completed the workout having done 6 rounds + 3 reps. Just above my goal.

On a side note, I only have two days left in my paleo challenge, and I cant wait to be done with it. It is not that I’m craving bread or anything containing lots of sugars - I’m actually looking forward to being able to drink a glass of milk. Of all unhealthy things, what I want the most is a ice cold glass of milk. I have also been wanting to use a protein shake for a while, so I asked coach about it, and he recommended me using a product called isolight from in2zym - which is 0g fat/sugar, but gives the body just what it needs. I’m really looking forward to seeing what it can do with my body.

Another of them temptation days - Paleo challenge: day 27/30

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 10:08:10 +0200

When I woke up this morning I was extremely tired - getting very late to bed sure was something I could feel on my body, and not just a little. It was something I felt through out the entire morning and some what in the afternoon aswell.

Today was a pretty busy day aswell, as I had to bake and make dinner at home, before going to the family thing, where they eat roasted eel. I baked up a couple of different muffins (I will be posting the recipe, sometime soon) and made cauliflower-rice and a simple onion-tomato-garlic-coconut sauce, going along with it.

Getting to the thing, we sat ourselves at the table and I took out my dinner. I have to admit, that I was not temptated a single time. My food just looked cleaner and better, and I’m quite sure it tasted a lot better too!

Tomorrow It’s time to absolutely destroy myself at the box! :D

WOD in a hurry - Paleo challenge: day 26/30

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 15:08:31 +0200

Today I had the most amazing breakfast ever. I had leftovers from yesterdays pretty great dinner, and that shot of meat straight from the morning was pretty damn awesome. I had loads of energy and lots of excess energy at that. It felt pretty awesome having such a breakfast, but I still felt hungry around 1’o’clock, which kinda made me think that the breakfast might’ve been a tad too heavy - the usual fruits could probaly have cut it.

I was under a little time pressure today, as I had to go out to my parents to celebrate their anniversary, so I rushed to the box, doing a little fast warmup and got straight into the WOD. The WOD was:

3-3-3-3-3 of Overhead Squat

It has been quite some time since I have done the OH squat, so I was really excited to be doing it. I started out with 40kg, but failed it. So I decided to start over and do a little technique work with a empty barbell and with 30kg, just to straighten out my technique. This also worked, giving me a lot of mobility and confidence to do the OH squat correctly.

I started out with 35kg and did it pretty easy, i bumped up the weight with 5 kg, 3 times - still not feeling extremely challenged. At 50kg, my wrists were starting to hurt a lot, but i still managed to do the 3 reps. I decided to bump up my last attempt with 5 more kg, ending up on 55kg. And i completed those 3 squats aswell. A pretty satifying result, i must say.

Rest day deluxe - Paleo challenge: day 25/30

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:18:50 +0200

So today was another rest day. After yesterdays performance, I think it was a pretty good decision. My arms are still pretty sore after going nuts at everything, so I had planned to take good care of myself and to make a great dinner, since I would be home alone.

I went out and looked for some great food, and stumbled upon some great offers, so I ended up with mushrooms, minced meat and some different fresh vegetables, which got cooked into this great mix. The portion was so big, that I had a lot spare for tomorrows breakfast! It will be pretty awesome actually having meat for breakfast for once.

Best thing about this rest is that I have been spending a lot of time on looking for really great paleo recipes for saturday. I’m going to a family thing, where they will be eating roasted eel - a long time tradition on my family. I cant eat anything at this event, because - well, they roast it in butter and more butter. So I have looked into a lot of different things, and I’ll probaly decide on what I will be having tomorrow some time.

crossfitkarla: It’s the truth… The better I look the uglier...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:19:43 +0200

crossfitkarla:

It’s the truth…
The better I look the uglier they get.

Best day of 2012 (so far) - Paleo challenge: day 24/30

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:19:29 +0200

Getting up today was pretty great - I literally felt on top of the world and was ready to tackle anything. I cooked up some garlic roasted veggies, yet again and got that ready for work pretty fast. Breakfast was no different that it usually is, but it did taste somewhat better today. Every morning I have a tendency to get on the weight, just to see where I’m at, and this morning was great. I was on 98.2kg - far below 100 - a place I haven’t been at for many years. I actually can’t remember when I last weighed that little. It means that since my start at CrossFit Herning, i have lost almost 15kg, and a grand total of minus 22kg since new years eve.

I know i have lost weight and I can feel it on my body, but the numbers are absolutely devastating. That is a standard barbell I had flapping around on my body! Looking through my things, i also found some measurements back from April, which revealed something absolute mind-blowing. I have lost 15 centimers around my hips and almost 20 centimers around my belly. I have no words for how crazy that is. “Just” by eating healthy and exercising a lot! I can’t describe how happy that makes me. Really, i just cant!

Getting through the day at work was pretty easy with this stuff floating around in my head and I was absolutely ready to get to the box. Our coach had announced that we would be doing filthy fifty - one of my favorite benchmark workouts! Last time I did it, I completed it in 45:48, a time I was absolutely happy with back then. Since then, I have improved in so many spots, and especially wall balls. They were what killed my time last. I had a clear goal going into the workout - beating my previous time with at least 5 minutes. Sub 40 was the goal! The workout is:

For time:

50x Box Jumps, 60cm
50x Jumping pullups
50x KB swing, 16kg
50x walking lunge steps
50x knee 2 elbow
50x push press, 20kg
50x back extension
50x wall ball shots, 10kg
50x burpees
50x doubleunders

I got into the workout feeling absolutely great and got the box jumps done great and without a break. I took the jumping pullups in sets of 25 and got through them fast. The KB swing were a little tougher, but I managed to get through them in sets of 10. The kettlebell wasn’t that heavy - only 16kg. I caught myself thinking: “man, this is easy”. After that it was time for walking lunges. Those are nasty, right after the swings, but I took them in sets of 10 - slowly but steadily. I took the knee to elbows in sets of 5 and took almost no break between the sets - I had to keep a brisk pace! Halfway done, my time was just around 12 minutes and I was really confident that I would break 40 minutes.

The push press was absolutely devastating. Even though the bar only weighed in at 20kg, it was really really heavy and I had to get through the 50 in sets of 5. Back extensions are easy, and I did them in sets of 25, just to get through them faster.

At this point, i was sweating a lot and I took off my shirt (which is something I have started doing, because its awesome to do a WOD topless!). I got into the wallballs and felt really strong, so I did them in sets of 5. I managed to get every single wallball done without getting a no-rep, which was really great. I also felt that I got that hipdrive through the ball and jumping also helped a little. After the wallballs, 26 minutes had gone by.

I got into the burpees extremely motivated by the awesome time and did them in sets of 10. I can just keep on doing burpees. They are all about just keeping on going! I got all 50 done in just about 5 minutes, which leaves the clock at around 31 minutes. After the burpees, I got ready to do the doubleunders and started doing them one doubleunder at a time, making a pattern shifting singleunder and doubleunder. At this point in time my arms were starting to feel like jell-o and doing more than 5 doubleunders was extremely hard. But I managed to get through the doubleunders in a reasonable time. I finished the workout in a absolutely amazing time, just above 33 minutes. I dont have the exact time yet, as the pictures havent been posted, but it is a solid 12 minute improvement, in a single month!

I love how CrossFit workouts make me feel - endorfines *drool*

Happy beyond anything!

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:27:16 +0200

I just have to share this!

I DESTROYED my previous time on filthy fifty! My previous time was 45:48, today I did it around 33:30 - over 12 minutes faster than last, and it was only 1 month ago!!!!

Day of the thruster (again) - Paleo challenge: day 23/30

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:37:43 +0200

Today started out pretty great. Yesterday we made a huge portion of garlic-roasted haricot verts and I brought that for lunch at work today. It was absolute amazing. I just love simple food like that. Breakfast was pretty standard - a couple of bananas and some other fruits. Now I can say for sure that my body has gotten used to this type of breakfast. I got through the day with loads of energy, but the general amount of work I had to do drained me in a mental way, I havent quite tried before.

After work, i checked out mainsite and saw that we had to do 100 thrusters for time. If there is a single exercise I dislike, its thrusters. Its just insanely tough for me, but that was a great opportunity to work on my technique, as I know I have a tendency to push the bar up, just using my arms, instead of getting that well-known hip-drive.

As warmup, we had to do a 5 minute AMRAP team workout, where one had to lie in plank position, and the other guy had to sprint 10 meters, do 5 burpees, sprint 10 meters back, lunge-walk 10 meters, do 5 burpees and lunge-walk 10 meters back. After doing the last lunges, we switched. I had a lot of energy doing this small warmup workout, and I could lie there a lot longer than I did, which surprised me a lot. I have been really bad at doing stuff like that, but now it has suddenly improved! I got into the active part and destroyed it hard. I did the burpees really fast and got into the lunge-walk, which was harder. It felt really rough on my legs and knees, getting into that deep lunge, but I got through it and destroyed the burpees again. We had timed it, so that we each would get two full rounds - a great warmup! :)

After that, it was time for some technique and then the workout. The workout was:

For time:

100x Thrusters, 45kg

I tried doing it with 45kg, but it felt a tad too heavy, so I scaled it down to 40kg, but thinking about it, I should have sticked with 45 - the difference wasn’t that big. After doing the first 20 reps, my wrists started hurting - a lot, so coached asked if I was fine about scaling the amount of reps down to a total of 50. The thruster is a hard movement and you need to work a lot with your wrist-strength, to be able to work through 100 of them - and I haven’t done many thrusters over the last two months, so 50 was more than enough! I got through the last reps taking them in sets of 2 and 3 and just worked through it. They were extremely tough, but it’s for the greater good! I finished the workout in 16:18 - a fine time in my opinion and a clear indicator that I need to work on my strength and my endurance, when it comes to pure strength workouts.

Tomorrow awaits a rest day at mainsite, and it is expected to be awesome - as per usual!

Finally back and feeling on top of the world - Paleo challenge: day 22/30

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:09:00 +0200

I had been looking forward to today for a couple of days now. Just getting up and knowing that I have to absolutely destroy myself in the box. First I had to get through work, and I had cooked up a great lunch with loads of veggies and some meat for a change. I got through the day without any problems and really felt on top the entire day.

Somewhat after lunch coach posted a note on the boxes page, that everyone had to remember shoes fit for running and this scared me somewhat. For the next hours I was expecting a number of different things - some of them being a 5k run or something else like that.

When I got to the box, it turned out that it was a lot simpler. It was “just” a 20 round tabatha with a 100m dash. Pretty simple! But I’m still not quite fit enough to be able to run the 100m within the 20 seconds every single time, so it was a lot less pause for me. I got through them with some side stiches, but worked through the last couple of rounds with that.

As some of you remember from yesterday, I had planned to go through yesterdays hero workout, and that was still the plan. But first I had to get through todays workout. It was:

3 rounds for time of:

15x chest-to-bar pullups
20x burpees
15x sumo deadlift highpull, 45kg

That definitely looked possible and I was absolutely certain that I would be able to attempt the hero wod after that one. I got started with the workout and after doing the pullups, I did the burpees, as if they were nothing. Or, well - after 15 burpees I started to feel a serious pain on the left side of my right kneecap. I worked through the burpees, but getting into the highpulls, I had to call it. The pain was simply something I did not want to tempt or to ignore.

After walking around a little and doing various stretches, the paint went away and I was able to do some skill work on different exercises. After a hour, I decided to try the workout again, but modified a little. So I changed the workout to be:

3 rounds for time of:

15x pullups
20x wallball shots, 10kg
15x power clean, 60kg

I feel more confident doing these exercises than the others, so I started at the same time as the others in the class. When it comes to pullups, i dont have enough strength in my arms to keep them flowing, but I can do them one at a time. This annoys the heck outta me, and I want to improve my strength on that asap.

I worked through the wallballs - noone likes wallballs, but I got through them. After that it was time for the power cleans. It was a lot of them, but I managed to get through them slowly, but just keeping on going. The seconds round was really intense, and the third round was absolute brutal. My arms were really exhausted and I struggled to do each of the wallballs, and I kept on doing no-reps. The last cleans were really really hard, but I got through them by taking one every 20 seconds or so. I finished the workout in 28:08, which is a horrible time - but I got through it, and it feels good to be back!

Inactive rest day number two - Paleo challenge: day 21/30

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:54:47 +0200

So today was not really any different from yesterday. I still was unable to get to the box, but at least I have done a series of pushups, situps, back extensions, squats and doubleunders. Not much, but just enough to keep myself going.

The paleo challenge is still going pretty great. It’s not that I have a craving for anything unhealthy, but I’m at the point where I can see the light at the end. I’m kinda looking forward to being able to apply what i’ve learned over the last three weeks to my every day life. I am however kinda excited to being done, as I will go out with my girlfriend and celebrate me getting through it. It has just been one of those things on my to-do list and one of the those things, that really stands out. Changing your eating habbits for a month straight is not something you just do - determination and planning is key!

As usual, my box follows the programming from mainsite, and today the workout was one of the older hero workouts, the one called “Manion”. I was looking at the entire list yesterday and looking for workouts I might be able to do as they are written. I stumbled across a few I might be able to do, and “Manion” was one of them. So that means that tomorrow, after the WOD class, I will be doing Manion - no matter what the WOD is. When people at the box did it today, they had a time cap of 30 minutes, but I will not be having that tomorrow. My goal is to be done within 60 minutes with a 60kg backsquat. For once, coach has rounded the calculation down - perhaps I should do as they always do and round it up to 62.5kg. I’ll see what happens tomorrow.

Inactive rest day number one - Paleo challenge: day 20/30

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 01:01:00 +0200

Todays post will be extremely short, as this is a pretty great description of what has happened today. I could not get to the box due to me not having the car - it might be a bad excuse, but a couple of rest days straight might be a good idea, just to get ready to push myself extra hard.

I have also been thinking a lot about how i should plan my week - getting my hours at the box to be somewhat more structured, because currently I do a WOD and hang around for a hour or two, doing nothing. I’d like to stay there as long, but actually doing some skill work also. But i’ll probaly write more about that tomorrow.

Active rest day - Paleo challenge: day 19/30

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 10:42:52 +0200

Today was a pretty hectic day, as I woke up pretty late. This meant that I didnt really get to cook up a great breakfast, so I sticked with a couple of bananas and a peach for breakfast, as I have done some other days. Today it just wasn’t quite enough. I felt really drained around 11am and had to work harder to stay motivated for work.

After two hours, I went home from work and cooked a great lunch with a lot of bacon and bell peppers. It has been a great while since I last cooked something with bell pepper, so it was a great revisit.

After getting lunch I went back to work, because today it was time for a company trip to the local beach volley fields. I played beach volley with the guys at work for a couple of hours and it was great - it was working out in a different way, and I could feel how CrossFit made me better at volley. I did not feel exhausted at any point and I could probaly have kept going for the entire evening, even though we played for almost 4 hours.

Unfortunately Im unable to get to the box this weekend, due to my girlfriend having taken the car the entire day to attend a zumba instructor course, so I’m stuck with doing some stuff here at home.