One step up and two steps back

Having been away for a few days, there was a danger that I was going to be missing workouts. Fortunately, I got them all in and worked them pretty good too. I was back in the gym today, and had a very strong UBWO, even though I was lacking in motivation today.

I made some progress getting through Starting Strength. It is a technical read, so it does take some time. I want to finish the instruction postion of the book before moving on to programming. Once I start, I'll be (hopefully) moving weight up rapidly, and I want my form to be impeccable.

Once again, my eating was all over the map. I seemed to start evey day not eating anything for hours, then having a decent meal, and then the roof caved in. I ended each day looking at the effects of the past month and a half around my waist, and then start the same thing the next day. I'm really sick of it.

I have allowed situation and poor planning to derail me, and I've been making excuses for myself. It needs to stop. Now.

Yesterday was the first time

since last weeks LBWO that I wasn't still suffering from lower body muscle pain. Those weighted walking lunger are murder. I briefly toyed with not doing them today, but quickly came to me senses. I did them with squats and some calve raises. I'll add some deadlifts again next week. Good workout.

At the end, I decided to do a Tabata workout using only burpees. Burpees really are a killer. My lungs were burning with lactic acid by the time I was finished. I don't often get that anymore. Running doesn't do it to me...or at least not very much. Tabata burpees seem to bring it out very nicely, thank you. I lost count of my reps, but since I'm writing, I clearly did a few less than what would have killed me....but not by a lot.

My food has been back under control today. I forced myself to make a good luncg choice that I didn't want to make. I'd really like to get back to that being an easy choice instead of a hard one.

Case in point

I had a very good UBWO today. I was planning to do a tabata interval at the end of my workout, but hadn't planned what it would be. My upper body was spent, and I have lower body tomorrow. I thought about doing some snatches or thrusters. I ended up running out of time and doing nothing.

This is exactly why i need to assemble a program. I need to know what I'm doing before walking into the gym.

Good workout anyway, but not as good as it could have been.

Im sick of writing the same things

and then doing something else.

My eating has been lousy. Yes...it could be worse, but that isn't any consolation. I'm eating the wrong foods too often, too much too often, not frequently enough too often. The weekends are the biggest culprit, but I'm getting some slippage during the week too.

I've got to get back on track immediately. There is no good reason for this little party I've been having. To make it worse, I missed yesterday's workout. I don't like missing workout to begin with, but missing one and eating like crap just adds insult to injury.

My goals right now?

1. By the end of next week, I want to finish reading Starting Strength and develop a workout program that will have specific strength goals. The program will encompass CF style met-con workouts in addition to running. Workout hard every time out.

2. Get my eating back to a clean BFL style eating plan.


3. Within a month, finish reading The Zone and plan a new meal plan that skews a bit towards a paleo lifestyle. Implement the plan, making sure to cook enouogh food for my family to eat as well.

I'll be back later.

Kick butt UBWO

Short on time. I worked it hard today, and I'm proud. Of course, the four slices of pizza I had for dinner last night was not on the meal plan. That was not good. Back to work now!

Going backwards

I seem to be losing ground on my running lately. I don't know if it's the extra weight from vacation, or if it's doing sprints instead of 5k runs. I seem to be having some trouble maintaining speed on my longer runs. I'm doing fine on the 400 and 800m sprints, but when I try to run 2.5 miles and up, I struggle to keep going. Maybe I need to do the sprints in addition to the 5k runs, not instead of. Maybe I need to rid my body of about ten pounds of fat. Maybe I should stop making excuses and just push the hell out of myself. I have to admit I'm a bit concerned about moving to CF and not regularly running a 5k.

Anyway, I pushed through it, but I'm not pleased.

Rubber legs

Good squat day today. I didn't do any deadlifts, since my back is still reminding me that it's a bit tender. My favorite new leg exercise is weighted walking lunges. Holy mackerel! Those things are deadly! I was very pleased with my LBWO today. So much so that I decided to do a four minute Tabata interval using air squats at the end of my workout. I totalled 93 squats, and had a lot of difficulty walking afterwords. Tabata squats after a LBWO = Hobble. Torture = Fun. My only complaint is that my legs were so spent, I was only barely gasping for breath during the four minutes. I'm used to being nearly unable to breathe when doing these. Perhaps squats on leg day weren't the best choice, huh?