Last Friday was a big day for me, aside from the fact that I essentially worked out twice again.
Workout:
Strength:
15 min to establish 1 RM power clean
MetCon:
3 rounds
Run 400m
10 Thrusters
Skill:
10-15 minutes handstand work
I think it was slight irony that caused us to be doing 1 RM power cleans less than a week after the Catalyst Games. I knew 120 pounds was my limit with an axle bar so I was interested to see what it would be with a regular barbell. Well, it ended up being 125 pounds so I wasn't very far off my mark. To be fair, I tried valiantly with 135 pounds, but lost. I kept catching the bar with my ribcage since I couldn't get it up far enough. I might have had a chance if we could have squat cleaned it.
The MetCon was rough...but guess what, I did it Rx'd! The last time I did a thruster I did them with 65 pounds and beasted right through it so this time I started out with 85. Ewa saw me trying 85 and told me to put on 95 because she wanted to see how I did. Well, I could do a couple reps so it was decided I was going Rx'd for this one. I had my terrified face on. We had a 15 minute time cap. Ewa told me if I got through 2 rounds she'd be ecstatic. So that was my goal. Started off running the entire 400m, wasn't too bad. Got through the first round of thrusters without too many issues. I cut the 10 reps into reps of 5 so I could get a quick little breather in. Did the same thing with the second round. Finished the second round in about 10 minutes, so I was going at a fairly good pace although I was behind everyone else. Got started with the running of the third round and couldn't make it the whole way through. I probably ended up walking about half of it. Got back to my barbell with like 45 seconds to go on the clock. Struggled my way through 3 or 4 reps before the time was up. Well, by then I had the entire gym looking at me and cheering me on. Everyone wanted me to keep going. So I kept plugging along, getting 1 or 2 reps at a time until the 10 were done. I finished with a time of 16:28. Let me tell you, it was hard. 95 pounds after running is no easy thing. I almost vagal'd myself multiple times I was straining so hard. But, couldn't have done it without everyone around me.
After that was done, I went home to rest for a little bit before running a couple hours later. I don't know what it was about it, but I ran even faster that day. I think going from running 400m to running a minute and a half was so much of a relief to my legs that they just decided to work a little harder. We went 2.12 miles. The program says I was running at a 6:35 min/mile pace. Now I find that hard to believe. If anything, I would say we were somewhere in the 9 minute range. But who knows.
Now the weekend was what really killed the whole nutrition thing. I'd gone food shopping a couple days before but just didn't have the chance to meal prep as much as I wanted to. I was scheduled to have a true EMS weekend. Training class for two days straight, with an evening shift in between. Well that schedule got entirely FUBAR'd. Went to the training class, ate crappy food, got out early, went to Imagine, ate more crappy snack food. Then signed off my evening shift so I could go to the bar and have crappy bar food. The next morning, had bagels and then crappy Chinese food for dinner. Literally, I spent an entire weekend just eating crap. I've realized that part of it has to do with me not being at the gym. I sat back and thought about it as I was stuffing my face and realized that I'm a much more healthy eater on days that I work out. I'm not perfect, but I'm a lot better than when I have these EMS marathons.
I've become a real Pinterest fanatic as of late. Mostly for the purpose of finding motivational things. I found this one picture that basically says that cheating on a diet sets your goals back by 1 week. I need to print that out and tack it everywhere I have free wall space. I don't know what's going on with myself but damn do I need to get back on that wagon. Why is this so difficult?! It's not like it's something I've never done before in my life! Ugh!
Anywho, I'm finally almost caught up with this thing! Hopefully I can get it back to where I'm posting once a day so I can post recipes and everything while I'm at it.
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