90 Days

Had kind of a shitty weekend…my head just wasn’t in the right place. Yesterday fell apart pretty fast, at least in the healthy eating and productivity departments. I think every one of my meals was bought from a restaurant. FAIL.

And today I almost had an anxiety attack, which hasn’t happened in a really long time. No idea what brought that about, but I thwarted it with a quick run and a mini-WOD at home. Again, my food choices weren’t that spectacular today, but I didn’t eat a whole lot, so I’m pretty sure I stayed below my budget.

Looking forward to a good night’s sleep to reset my mood for what is going to be a very busy week.

RUN: 2 miles (16:30)

• Sit-ups 20-20-15
• Push-ups 12-10-8

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Food Calories consumed: ????

Daily Calorie Budget: 2,012

Over/Under: UNDER

A very well rounded day yesterday, topped off with a nice dinner at Patsy’s near Union Square with my lady.

FYI - It’s not hard to go over budget, even on high calorie days, when pizza is involved.

Cross-fit set the tone for a good, productive day, as per usual. After learning how to properly do overhead squats and front squats, we launched into wall ball and burpees. Yesterday’s WOD was tough, but oh so awesome. 

FOUNDATIONS 6 WOD

3 Rounds

• Run 275 meters
• 10 Burpees
• 10 Wall Ball (14lb)

Time: 10:08

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Food Calories consumed: 2,925

Daily Calorie Budget: 2,874

Over/Under: OVER

Lots of pull-ups and kettle bell swings at Cross-Fit yesterday. I felt like a sorry sap because I couldn’t even do 1 pull-up without a resistance band for support. So I made myself feel better by kicking ass during the WOD.

FOUNDATIONS 5 WOD - “HELEN”

3 Rounds

• Run 400 meters
• 21 Kettle bell Swings (35lb)
• 12 Ring Rows

Time: 11.51

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Food Calories consumed: 1,996

Daily Calorie Budget: 2,007

Over/Under: UNDER

Looooong fucking day yesterday. Up at 5:40a for cross-fit class at 7a, work from 10a-7p, then more work on a different project (feature length documentary that’s about to be finished once and for all) until 11p. By the time I got home, had a late dinner, and wrapped things up for the day it was close to 1am. 

I’m pretty sure I didn’t reach my high calorie budget either. I was about 500 calories under my low calorie budget before my dinner of saag paneer and naan around 8p. I added to my calories with half a bison burger on whole wheat bread around 11p. But I don’t think that those two meals put me over budget…but they probably got me pretty close.

But enough with the boring “I’m so tired and this is what I ate today” shit.

I had a great WOD in the morning, filled mainly with power lifting, and a big breakfast to start my high calorie day off on the right foot.

Our warm-up today included 3 sets of the following:

• 5 dislocates
• 10 push-ups
• 15 overhead squats (with a light PVC tube)
• 20 sit-ups

Yes…that was just the warmup.

After we got the blood flowing, we learned the proper technique for performing the barbell press, push press, and the push jerk. I kept it light, since I wanted to focus on getting my body used to the movements, and didn’t add any weight to my 45lb barbell. We then moved on to a dumbbell variation of thrusters.

After all that, we finally started our WOD

FOUNDATIONS WOD 4

• Row 300 meters
• 15 dumbbell thrusters (15lb)
• Row 200 meters
• 9 dumbbell thrusters
• Row 100 meters
• 6 dumbbell thrusters

Time: 5:28

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Food Calories consumed: ????

Daily Calorie Budget: 2,868

Over/Under: EVEN?

I really enjoyed my cross-fit foundations class today. We spent the warmup period learning proper Concept 2 Rowing and High Bar Back Squat technique and ended the class with a fun AMRAP (As Many Reps As Possible) workout. 

FOUNDATIONS WOD 3

AMRAP - 10min

• 10 Ring Rows
• 10 Box Jumps (20” box)

I completed 8 sets of Ring Rows and 7 sets (+3 reps) of Box Jumps.

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Food Calories consumed: 1,778

Daily Calorie Budget: 1,794

Over/Under: UNDER