nothing tastes better than slim |
i love food. but i love fitting into my skinny jeans even more. this blog is about trying to keep things straight in my head, which isn't easy. |
Food
B: 1/2 Lara Bar
S: 1/2 Lara bar
L: Chicken breast, Broccoli, Asparagus
S: Apple & almonds
D: Veggies, Chicken breast
Exercise
Crossfit!
Took ~17 minutes.
Food
B: 1/2 Lara Bar
S: Pear, Pecans
L: boo caf food: 1/4 Chicken, 1/2 cup chickpea curry (not paleo!)
S: Apple & Almond butter
D: Veggies, Chicken breast
S: Some dark chocolate, a little bit of halva, 1/2 c of dried cherries = a lot more than i should have eaten.
Exercise
Crossfit!
Push Press: 3 @ 80#, 3 @ 85#, 3 @ 90# <— NEW MAX!
WOD: 3 Rounds for time of 10 Dumbbell Push press (25#), 10 Burpees
Cash out: 4X12 Romanian Dead lifts @ 65#
Tuesday 02/09
Food
B: 1/2 Lara Bar
S: Apple, Walnuts
L: Paleo Chilli
S: Apple & Pecans
S2: Salad, dressing, a bit of cheese
D: Salad, dressing, chicken skewer
Exercise
Crossfit!
WOD: Erin: 5 Rounds for time of (15 DB Split Jerks [20#] + 21 Pullups) —> 21:40
Cashout: 3X12 reps of shoulder push press with empty (35#) bar
Food
B: Pineapple
S: Apple, Walnuts
L: Carrot, Ginger, Cooconut soup & Paleo Chicken fingers
S: TBD
D: TBD
Exercise
Crossfit!
Shoulder Press 3-3-3-3-3 reps (35#, 55#, 60#, 65#, 70#) —> I couldn’t get it up three times with 70#. Hello Max!
rest 5 minutes
Row 1000m using as many intervals of 40 sec. on / 20 sec. off
We had a cap of 6 minutes, and L2 was 750m. BUT I HIT THE 1000m AS RXed EVEN THOUGH I AM SHORT! WAHOO!
Food
B: Walnuts
S: Banana, Almonds, Clemetine
L: Paleo Pizza (ground lean chicken crust, tomato sauce & spinach/asparagus/sundried tomatoes on top), Salad, Celementine
S: apple sauce, walnuts
D: chicken, steamed veg, pineapple, grapes, 6Xdried apricots
Exercise
Crossfit!
Back squat 3-3-3-3-3 reps (65#, 75#, 85#, 95#, 105#)
rest 5 minutes
For time:
Time = 8:03
I was the fastest. Time to increase weights.
Buy In
4 rounds of burgler snatch warm up with each of: no weight, 15, 20, 25
WOD
Annie
Complete 50-40-30-20-10 reps for time of:
9:19 — I did it as Rxed - i.e. level 3, not modified at all!
AND I WAS FAST
felt good :)
Cash Out
2 rounds of static holds - 1 min each of 3 different poses. AND I DID IT ALL.
Food
B: Lara ball
S: Pear, 5 walnuts
L: Tuna, Salad, Avocado, Olives, Clementine
S: clementine, 4 egg whites
D: tbd
Exercise
Crossfit!
Back squat 5-5-5 reps (95#)
rest 5 minutes
Complete AMRAYC in 7 minutes (5):
Complete AMRAYC in 7 minutes (4):
Time = 10:51
Food
B: 2 mini cave muffins
S: Apple, 5 pistachios
L: Fajita-less fajitas (chicken, pepper, 1/4 avocado)
S: TBD
D: TBD
Exercise
Crossfit!
Deadlift 5-5-3-3 reps (95#, 115#, 135#, 155#)
rest 5 minutes
Complete 5 rounds for time of:
Time = 10:51
Food
B: 2 mini cavemuffins
S: 8 eggwhites
L: Chicken Salad (with Avocado and Coconut milk) over spinach, Fudge Baby [F]
S: Clementines, Walnuts [Fr, F]
D: Chicken, Steamed veggies, Berries and Clementine and Grapes (too much fruit!)
S: Cave binge - 2 cave cookies, 2 cave muffins. BAD. BUT at least I didn’t let myself get into the chocolate (not that I didn’t consider it)
Exercise
REST
Please discuss.
It is my understanding that women don’t bulk up due to our lack of testosterone and that using heavier weights can help us lean out to.
I am interested in getting people’s opinions/knowledge.
Crossfit has me doing heavy weights with less reps. I’ve been told not to worry about bulking up - that with the number of reps we do it’s not an issue.
Lots of our lifting is 3 sets of 3 at max weight (first you do a few sets to work up to max weight), or 5 sets of 5 with increasing weights (i.e. the last set is at your max weight)
I haven’t spent time reading the science behind this, so let me know what you find!
