I have gone downhill since Tuesday, health-wise. I keep trying to convince myself it's just allergies, but the swollen glands, sore throat, and aches beg to differ. Despite all this, I was at the office til about 8:30 last night and will probably be working all day from home today. Maybe I'll be able to get a light workout in or just work on some skills this afternoon.
12/30/09
Diet
Due to feeling lousy, it was a battle to eat anything. I tried to keep stuff relatively clean, though.
Breakfast
1 cup blueberries
1 cup mango slices
1 bottle gingerberry kombucha
Lunch
1 peanut butter gnu bar
Afternoon Snack - apparently I have not lost my appetite for chocolate
Coffee with some hot cocoa mix poured in and 1 ounce of 2% milk
3 pieces of Christmas chocolates (those little foil wrapped things in the shape of Santa, a present, etc.)
Evening Snack
8 smallish shrimp with a bit of cocktail sauce
1 small Fuji apple
Dinner - Courtesy of the fiance's improvisational skills. He makes all kinds of dishes he tastefully refers to as "slop" that are basically just fantastic things thrown together into a skillet. They are magnificent, although my sea bass the night before still wins.
4 oz top round beef slices spiced with garlic and cayenne pepper
~2 eggs (maybe more like 2.5) scrambled
1 cup yellow and red peppers
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Here goes nothing...
Rudy, my trainer at CrossFit Chicago, has decided I need to start a training and nutrition blog to gear up for the 2010 Sectionals. Although I resisted at first, I figure I will try to give this a shot and post whenever I can to help keep myself accountable in my training and nutrition.
By way of introduction, I am a lawyer who is trying desperately to stay in the kind of shape I was in as a college soccer player. It's not easy. Long hours and a lot of travel for work take a toll. I have been CrossFitting at the CrossFit Chicago affiliate since October 2008, and I adore the workouts and community. I participated in the 2009 Affiliate Cup and loved every minute of it. I had planned to compete in the 2009 Regionals in Colorado, but a friend's wedding was that weekend, and I had to back out. We'll see what happens this year. My primary focus is to do as well as I can in Sectionals.
I'm also getting married in less than 8 months, so my fiance and I are challenging ourselves to get in ridiculous shape so we look hot at the wedding. We've decided to go with the primal/paleo style of diet, so right now I'm trying to do at least 2 meals a day paleo to sort of ease into it. As of January 2, I will be going as close to full paleo as I can. I'll at least try to clean up the diet as much as possible. I will be heading across the pond for 2 weeks in January for business, so that will be a massive test of my adaptation abilities.
I'll be using this blog to document my training, diet, and general progress.
Workout
Power Cleans 5-5-5+
82 - 95 - 108(16)
When Alex told me that 12-16 was a range to shoot for on the last round, I was determined to get at least 16. Pulled the 17th rep high enough, but I was all crooked at the platform and couldn't flip my right wrist under the bar. Oh well.
3 x 20 back extensions
30-20-10
DL (150#)
Wall Ball (14#)
7:24
I had been planning to go lighter on the wall ball to account for how lousy I was feeling by the end of the day yesterday, but I ended up going heavier on both DL because I didn't want to deal with the little weights and on wall ball because I heard pretty much all the other women went with 14. This was a tough workout for the legs and back. First 30 deadlifts and last 10 wall balls were unbroken, but everything else was split up one way or another. Rudy, sorry for almost running into you heading back for my last round of DL. I wasn't intending to get so lightheaded. Yikes.
Diet
Breakfast (already cringing as I am typing this....yes, it's a shitty carb festival courtesy of a breakfast meeting)
sesame bagel w/ veggie cream cheese
1 slice of cantaloupe
1 slice of pineapple
1 slice of honey dew melon
2 strawberries
Lunch
cup of crab & corn chowder
sirloin steak salad (incl. mixed greens, avocado, tomato, black beans, tortilla strips--but I picked those out--and chipotle ranch dressing)
Pre-Workout Snack
grapefruit juice (the 100% juice stuff, but still not great)
9 almonds
Post-Workout Snack
couple pieces of broccoli while shopping at Whole Foods
1 bottle of Kombucha
Dinner
small Fuji apple
4 oz Chilean sea bass w/ mango salsa
6 oz coconut water
By way of introduction, I am a lawyer who is trying desperately to stay in the kind of shape I was in as a college soccer player. It's not easy. Long hours and a lot of travel for work take a toll. I have been CrossFitting at the CrossFit Chicago affiliate since October 2008, and I adore the workouts and community. I participated in the 2009 Affiliate Cup and loved every minute of it. I had planned to compete in the 2009 Regionals in Colorado, but a friend's wedding was that weekend, and I had to back out. We'll see what happens this year. My primary focus is to do as well as I can in Sectionals.
I'm also getting married in less than 8 months, so my fiance and I are challenging ourselves to get in ridiculous shape so we look hot at the wedding. We've decided to go with the primal/paleo style of diet, so right now I'm trying to do at least 2 meals a day paleo to sort of ease into it. As of January 2, I will be going as close to full paleo as I can. I'll at least try to clean up the diet as much as possible. I will be heading across the pond for 2 weeks in January for business, so that will be a massive test of my adaptation abilities.
I'll be using this blog to document my training, diet, and general progress.
12/29/09
Workout
Power Cleans 5-5-5+
82 - 95 - 108(16)
When Alex told me that 12-16 was a range to shoot for on the last round, I was determined to get at least 16. Pulled the 17th rep high enough, but I was all crooked at the platform and couldn't flip my right wrist under the bar. Oh well.
3 x 20 back extensions
30-20-10
DL (150#)
Wall Ball (14#)
7:24
I had been planning to go lighter on the wall ball to account for how lousy I was feeling by the end of the day yesterday, but I ended up going heavier on both DL because I didn't want to deal with the little weights and on wall ball because I heard pretty much all the other women went with 14. This was a tough workout for the legs and back. First 30 deadlifts and last 10 wall balls were unbroken, but everything else was split up one way or another. Rudy, sorry for almost running into you heading back for my last round of DL. I wasn't intending to get so lightheaded. Yikes.
Diet
Breakfast (already cringing as I am typing this....yes, it's a shitty carb festival courtesy of a breakfast meeting)
sesame bagel w/ veggie cream cheese
1 slice of cantaloupe
1 slice of pineapple
1 slice of honey dew melon
2 strawberries
Lunch
cup of crab & corn chowder
sirloin steak salad (incl. mixed greens, avocado, tomato, black beans, tortilla strips--but I picked those out--and chipotle ranch dressing)
Pre-Workout Snack
grapefruit juice (the 100% juice stuff, but still not great)
9 almonds
Post-Workout Snack
couple pieces of broccoli while shopping at Whole Foods
1 bottle of Kombucha
Dinner
small Fuji apple
4 oz Chilean sea bass w/ mango salsa
6 oz coconut water
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