Day 1

So...Day 1 of the Paleo challenge in the books.

Here's what I ate:

Breakfast- Hardboiled egg
    Coffee with almond milk
Snack-Scrambled egg with peppers, tomatoes, and onion and almonds
Lunch-Salad romaine, kale, with onion, avocado, peppers, sun flower seeds and vinegar dressing.
Snack-Avocado
Dinner-Turkey burger and sweet potato
Snack-Carrots/almonds

I also tried almond milk for the first time today and I love it!

The WOD for the challenge today was (for time) 75 reps of power snatches...Women's Rx was 55#. Totally Rx'd it....OH YEAH.

I'm tired...Goodnight!

Results

Just had to write down this from today's workout....

5 minutes for each workout..AMRAP (as many reps as possible)

40 back squats 95#
62 double unders
42 hand stand push ups

Paleo Preppin'

It's a little over a week before I begin my Paleo Challenge. I've been eating horribly lately. Well, horrible to me. Mainly because I won't get to eat like this for 2 months and also so that I appear to make more progress during the challenge. Is that considered cheating? lol I've gained 5 pounds in 2 weeks, so that's 5 more pounds that I can lose during the challenge. Measurements, benchmarks and before pictures are next week.

I'm off to the store to buy some sweet potatoes and maybe some other things. I'm planning on making sweet potatoes chips to snack on during the Packer game tomorrow! I love sweet potatoes and these chips are paleo friendly!

Labor Day WOD

Hello!

Yesterday CFG had a Labor Day team WOD with a whole bunch of people. It was awesome.

Here are some more pictures:

 

Holding a front rack while my partner rows.

 

That's me in the middle! Holding an overhead press while my partner did burpees.

Blinded by the sun....holding a tricep dip while my partner does thrusters.

And some pictures from previous workouts...:

 

Front rack lunges

 

 

Pistols...ow.

 

Warming up with rows.

 

I PR'd for the benchmark! Last time I did this WOD I didn't do it in under 30...one month later I did it in 28:43!

Paleo Challenge.

Today I officially signed up for the Paleo Challenge through this website. My CrossFit gym had mentioned it and I thought it would be awesome to try. Through the website you get to keep track of your meals, your measurements, benchmarks (through WODs) and overall progress.  You also get to see your fellow CrossFitters and their progress.

I was a little hesitant to try this "diet", mainly because I don't like trends or fads and certainly don't like eating healthy to be considered a "diet".  I'd rather call it the Paleo "lifestyle", or "clean eating", not a diet.  But I figured this way of eating has some serious benefits, physically and beyond.  I have also been noticing how sensitive my stomach is to certain foods, dairy and grains mostly, and figured I might as well give it a shot.

If you're curious as to what the Paleo diet looks like, this is basically it.

 

So...no dairy food (not a problem for me), no cereal grains (oatmeal, breads, pizza, etc) no legumes (beans, peas, peanut butter, no alcohol.)

Ok, so the peantbutter and alcohol thing is going to be extremely hard. However, I can have 6 oz of red wine a night.

This challenge starts Sept 17 and ends November 18th. This will be my next "hobby"!

Bunion.

I have a  bunion on my right foot and it's gotten bigger in the last year or so.

I guess people get surgery to correct bunions, but I don't want to do that in fear of my running/working out days to be over/significantly limited.  But I guess it's just going to get worse....

So I think in order to reach my running/working out goals I'm just going to plan to work super hard this upcoming year, crank out lots of races and PRs......and then get the surgery.

THEN, if a doctor tells me I can't run as much anymore, I will have already achieved my running goals and won't be too heartbroken.

SO, here's some goals for the rest of 2012 and 2013....

1. Run a 10K in under an hour.
2. Run a 15K
3. Increase my 3 lifts (BP, DL, Squat)
4. Do a powerlifting meet
5. Run a half marathon.

Shove it, bunion!

Squats

We did mostly squats at CrossFit today.

My numbers:

Overhead squat-70
Front squat-115
Back squat-130