2 Week Foundation: Brief Update
September 4, 2010 by OCstrength
Filed under Fitness
Good morning beez in peez, hope everyone is having an awesome holiday weekend! It’s time to hold myself accountable. We need a brief update.
If you are committed, you will do whatever it takes. If you are interested, you will do whatever is convenient.
Well, that sums up the last couple of days for me. I have made excuses and accepted mediocrity. I accept it as my own, and now we must get back on track and change it.
Day 3 was very solid. I did lots of recover work, mobility drills, and stretching. The diet was solid and water was tip top.
Day 4 was a semi cheat day, but the workout was intense. You could probably call it the baby brother of the FGB workout done by Crossfitters. Swings, double kb push press, air dyne, lateral jumps- just a bunch of heart pounding fun! We’ll cover that workout in a near-future WOD files post.
The day would have been a complete success, but I messed up in a few areas:
I don’t have a water filter, so I still purchase it from stores. I ran out.
I also ran out of a few other items, and excused myself into having cheats.
I didn’t pack my food when I had to hit the road. I excused myself into fast food.
Starving during the day, only to binge at night when food was readily available.
I didn’t log anything at all during day 4, and day 5. Both were my worst days by far.
Day 5 was pretty bad. I started off solid and ended up not replenishing the items I needed. Excuses everywhere today. No workout, no recovery work to speak of.
We’ll just chalk day 4 and 5 up as cheat days and a change in the diet to keep things from getting too routine and boring. But really, it’s a poor excuse for plain ol’ messing up. No reason to quit, just pick yourself up and keep moving forward.
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Day 6: Back on track, the plan of attack.
-Wake to water and foam roll recovery work.
-Breakfast: 1 handful of almonds, 1 apple, 1 serving Amazing Grass, coffee
-Snack 1: 1 handful of cashews, 1 iced tea
WOD: for time
* 20 Prowler Sprints @ 200#s for 50′
* 200 clicks on the Air Dyne
Time to hit it hard and get lean.
It’s 8am and time to hit the streets to b-make for a few hours. More updates to come later.
Keep pushing forward!
-Mike.
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I know the feeling, Mike. I am starting my training for Wrestling Nationals in March. I had a good week, until yesterday. Now, I made myself workout hungover or not, and feel better for doing it.
I go back to work on Tuesday – I’ll be getting my lunches for the week together tonight, so that they are ready for the week. Makes it harder to let myself scarf down pizza at an alarming rate. I’ve also got a chin up bar to almost complete my gym in my garage – pics up on FB later.
Keep at it, man! and thanks for letting me rant here!
feel free to rant about anything you want, anytime!
lookin forward to those pics soon. keep us posted on your progress.
And im pretty convinced pizza is the devil, it got me too.
-Mike.
And pizza goes so well with beer….and garlic bread…yep. Definitely the Devil.
Massive amounts of dough, fake cheese, and drowning in oil…usually the cheapest and unhealthiest- it wreaks of problems. Even as a cheat…it’s not a good idea.
-Mike.