Been an interesting week, on both the training side and the food side.
Finally, managed to get myself down to the supermarket on Sunday, to stock up on healthy food supplies for the week.
Rather than, what has became the bad habit of buying meals, when i was hungry and this leading to buying anything.
It amazed me how quickly, I got there, shopped and got back to the house, plus how cheaply, roughly £20, for this wee selection.
My main aim for the first week or so, is basically cut out snacks, dairy, wheat and processed food.
Eating 3 meals a day.
I find by just eating, more vegetables, meats and fish, as natural as they come, with no batter, breadcrumbs, reconstituted etc. One of the best ways for myself, to get rid of bodyfat, gut health issues, get my sleep better, more energy, my joints feel more mobile, the list goes on.
I'm not really sticking to any 'diet plan' but have based my intake around, what is probably best known as the paleo diet, although this ahs somewhat been abused and misrepresented in a lot of places. I found my friends Stephanie's website to be full of useful, healthy information, recipes etc, go check it out
http://stupideasypaleo.com/
I definitely, don't go down the meal replacement route, a lot of these contain unhealthy ingredients, while you may lose some weight to start with, you aren't regaining health, which is what you should be aiming for.
Anyway, the first 4 days have gone really well, I did get a detox headache, from day 2 till this morning, day 4, but that has now passed (hopefully) and I am feeling my energies and body getting better already.
So, that's good incentive to stick with it.
Anyway, back to the training sessions and I got two surprises this week, one good, the other not so good :-)
First the good part, I only had to do two sessions this week, then two days rest, which was just what I needed, especially after feeling a bit crappy, with my headaches in the first few days. Thanks Iain :-)
Now to the reasons I only did two days in a row.
MONDAY 1st JULY
A. 2km Row for time, (one of my least favourite sessions) I knew I was doing this on Sunday night and was determined to break the 8 minute barrier. But on Monday morning, as soon as I started warming up, I could tell it wasn't happening today, for some unknown reason, I was feeling really lethargic, couldn't be the change diet as it had only just started that morning, so not sure what happened ??
My Time was - 8:10, which is ok, for me, but not what I wanted.
B. Added by myself, I may add, was a kettlebell clean and press ladder, using a 24kg kettlebell
You start with 1 clean and (strict) press on each arm, then 2, until you get to 5 reps, each arm, then start again from 1, with as little rest as possible, till you have done 5 rounds.
It's been a while since I have done that, was tough, but enjoyed it, not sure my shoulders did though.
TUESDAY 2nd JULY
A. 100 Thrusters at 42.5kg for time, with 5 burpees, every minute on the minute, starting with the burpees.
That's ok, I thought, that was until I got to the gym and discovered this was a crossfit WOD - Kalsu, well to be honest scaled for me, the guys weight is 60kg, the girls do 42.5kg in competitions.
Then I heard times exceeding 20 minutes to do it !!
Ah well, lest see what I can do. I had a plan, try and get 10 thrusters every round for as long as I could.
Here's how that panned out
Round 1- 5 burpees, 11 Thrusters (1 up my sleeve), Round 2-5 burpees, 8 Thrusters (1 down) after that I went into meltdown, by the time I got to 50, I had missed a round of thrusters altogether and was down to 2's and 3's.
Then stepped in Andy Watson, who shouted and pushed me, to make sure I did 5 thrusters straight after the burpees, no rest until they were done.
This was not what I wanted to hear, but it was what I needed to hear. 60, 65, 70, 75, it seemed never ending, finally I was at the last 6, as Andy no repped one of my last set, 5 burpees and 6 thrusters, done - TIME -22:43
Thanks Andy, I reckon that @abuse' ha ha saved at least 5 minutes off my time.
This was some kind of torture, my body was wrecked, especially my shoulders (who added clean and press yesterday ?)
WEDNESDAY 3rd JULY
I was not sore today (except for the headache) but my body was very tired, just get through this last session I thought, rest day tomorrow.
Down to the Reebok Crossfit Glasgow and face my session, Iain was already there, "whats in store today ?" I asked.
Stretch, Mobilise - rest was the reply - WHOOOO HOOOOO !!
2 days rest, then back on it, tomorrow, which hopefully with the new energy levels and good eating will bring greater rewards
Till then
Craig
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