When you track your food intake and training, it’s easy to see patterns start to develop. I’ve been watching my coffee intake steadily rise over the last couple of weeks and it’s pretty clear that I’m mighty dependent on Almond butter too. The almond butter probably isn’t such a problem as my body’s burning fat faster than I can consume it (I’m really starting to lean out).
The increased coffee intake, on the other hand – probably isn’t that good for me and it really hit home this morning. I woke up @ 7:15am and I lazed around in bed until about 7:30am. After getting up, I had a shower I had and then some breakfast at 8:30am. Now I’ve usually had at least 2 coffees by then but because I was hanging out at home with Isabelle (Becca had gone into the gym) and there was no coffee at home – I didn’t.
By about 9am I had a full blown headache. I don’t think I was dehydrated although I probably could have drunk more water with breakfast. By 9:30 I thought my head was going to explode and I had a sneaking suspicion that it was coffee related so I went to the gym, made myself some black gold (double shot espresso) and within 10 mins the pain had subsided. I poured another, grabbed some coffee beans and headed back home to watch the NPGL.
If you look back at my food log for the last 17 days it’s pretty clear that I love coffee but more than that, I may have too much. I also love almond butter and (like I said earlier) while I don’t think it’s an issue I did start to wonder what would happen if I didn’t have any today? So I decided to experiment. For the next week I’m going to dial things in a bit and see if:
- I can operate on no more than 2 coffees a day; and
- can I reduce my almond butter consumption to 1 jar every couple of days (as opposed to 1 per day) – and get fat from other sources like avocado & meat.
Food and Training
7:15am – wake – good to sleep in again
8.30am – 4 scrambled eggs + grilled Chicken + half an avocado + pumpkin banana bread (slice)
10am – coffee – 2x double shot espresso
12pm – train Outlaw 140718
BBG
Snatch from blocks (above knee): 2rm – 2×2@90% – @ 50,60,70,80,90(f),90,92.5(f) // 2×2 @ 80kg – got the first rep and then failed all the others. Sucked it up (got a little angry) and did a 6 min EMOM: 2 sn @ 80kg / failed 1 rep in the first minute (got a little angrier) and nailed every double for the next 5 mins.
Strength
1a) Back Squat: 5X2@90% of Tuesday’s 3rm @ 80(5),80(5),100(5),120(3),130(2), then 5×2 @ 135kg – squatted every 90 secs (with Karl)
1b) Pendlay Row: 5X5 –skipped these today
Conditioning
4 rounds of:
40′ HS Walk
20 C2B Pull-ups
Row 40 Calories
*Rest 1:00 after each round.
— result
R1: 0-4:56 (C2B pull-ups as 10,5,5)
R2: 5:56-11:30 (5:34)
R3: 12:30-18:01 (5:29)
R4:19:01-25:06 (6:05)
total time: 25:06
2:30pm – post train refuel – massive bowl of chilli beef mince and sweet potato wedges + half avocado + slice of pumpkin banana bread
3pm – Gonna try another 16 hour fast tonight. Go to bed earlier and have breakfast after 8am tomorrow. Will see how that goes…
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