(written at 12:30pm today)
When I started the Whole30 the plan was to share my food and training with a daily blog post. I have been tracking both my food (w/ evernote) and training (w/ google spreadsheets) but I haven’t posted anything up for the last 4 days. I’ve captured all the info – I just haven’t shared it and because I said I would (but haven’t) I feel terrible 🙁
I think I may have thought about it a little too much and the concept of ‘letting [un important] things get on top of you’ has reduced me to a somewhat paralysed state and I feel a little lethargic and overwhelmed. I think about all the articles I have to write for the Adapt website/newsletter, all the bills that have to be paid, the fact that I haven’t posted [on my own blog] for the last 4 days and the fact that there are no pre-prepared Whole30 meals in the fridge and I’m fast running out of almond butter…
I’ve ditched training today in an effort to review all my training and food logs from the last 4 days, assemble them and finally output something for my blog. While I’m not exactly buzzing (and this too could be related to dropping my caffeine intake) I’m pretty confident that things will start to look up after I complete this task.
If I’ve learnt anything from tracking my data while on the Whole30, it’s good to look at the positive things you [have] done over the last few days and be thankful for how blessed (regardless of how busy) I am.
- Saturday – I did Fran (and got a PR)
- Sunday – I had some close friends over for dinner (that I’ve been meaning to catch up with for ages)
- Monday – Made a podcast with Ryan Hinz PMM (and got something off my chest)
- Tuesday – Made a podcast with Nick Hind C3 Church Belconnen (supporting my church)
- Wednesday (today) – Took a break and caught up on stuff (completed some tasks)
Food and Training
4:30am – wake – I had a pretty poor sleep last night – my shoulders ached all night long. Didn’t have any nurofen so had to suck it up and make the most of it. Tossed and turn and stirred at 4am – stayed in bed until 4:15, called it and got up before my alarm went off.
4:45am – pre breakfast – 4 egg scramble + almond butter (half a jar)
5:30am – run double AM session (5:30/6:30am) – coffee – espresso
6:30am – coffee – espresso
7:30am – PT session with Jase
9:30am – breakfast – bacon, mushies, broccoli, capsicum fry up +
12:15pm – While it is a training day I skipped the 12pm session Primarily because I feel beat up and my head’s all over the shop… No one else showed up so it worked out well.
3pm – almond butter – lots of it – at least 2 thirds of a jar
3:20pm – walked to the shops with Madelyn to get some more eggs and mince. Came home and did a little cook up – made some tomato and garlic mince with sweet potato cubes – it was delicious.
Written @ 8:45pm
Taking a break from training @ 12pm allowed me to get back on top of my blog. I may not be completely satisfied with what I posted but at least I ‘shipped’ I did what I said I would do and posted my daily food and training log along with some hopefully helpful content – or at least something that would allow people to get a glimpse of what I’ve been up to – with that done, let’s get back into it…
4pm – dropped Isabelle at Gymnastics and headed into the gym. Wasn’t going to train but caught Annie warming up (for Outlaw) and jumped in under the premise that I’d be taking it easier:
Outlaw 140723
BBG
1) Clean from blocks (just above knee): 5X2@100kg
2) BTN Jerk from blocks (drop every rep): 5X2@100kg
Strength/Skill
1a) 3X3 Bench Press @ 80kg
1b) 4X5 Tempo Strict TTB
Conditioning
3 rounds of:
25 GHD Sit-ups (sub: regular sit ups)
50′ HS Walk
— there was 50′ OH Walking Lunges 155/115# but I left them out (taking it easier)
#oldschool conditioning
5 rounds:
10 tire flips w/ jump in and outs
3 14′ rope climb; then
100 sledgehammer strikes (6kg hammer)
then
heard Sean count the guys in next door “3-2-1…”
and jumped in and did the 21-15-9:
bumper burpees; and
sit-ups
— result: 4:17
After training I felt a tonne better. Not only that came home and Madelyn had made baked eggs out of the leftover mince and sweet potato so I now have breakfast all good to go for tomorrow.
7:30pm – dinner – broccoli, sweet potato cubes and beef meatballs + a bit of chicken breast (that I was prepping for tomorrow)
Tomorrow is a scheduled rest day so I’m definitely not going to do any training. I do however have a pretty busy morning running both the early AM session followed by a PT session @ 8:30am. As soon as that’s done though I’ll be out the door and walking around the lake or something like it to clear my head and prep myself for the epic weekend that we’ve got planned (gym and social)
bedtime: 9pm
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