BACK AT IT
We hope you all had an amazing holiday weekend. Hopefully Santa brought all that you asked for and you enjoyed your time with family and friends. If you took some of the advice in the blog, hopefully you relaxed a little and enjoyed some food just because it was delicious food. But now it’s time to get back to work…
I for one took the last 3 days to eat like junk and not care. My mouth was pleased, but my body was not. I’d like to think that after 5 plus years of doing this stuff that I am pretty in tune with how my body reacts to change. I have felt tired, sluggish, heavy and overall lethargic. My skin is not looking so great. Sleep has been in consistent. Overall I have felt like a generally unhealthy person for the last 3 days…and I have been. I don’t feel bad about what I did, I enjoyed eating pizza, cookies, cake, brownies, drinking eggnog, having some wine…it was all great, but not healthy.
Unfortunately for me, it was also a work weekend at the police department. That means little sleep and no opportunity to exercise. All recipes for poor performance and poor health.
So what do I do after a vacation of sorts? Get back at it. I take a hard line and don’t cut any corners. I throw out the leftovers or donate them. I’ll be back to my normal eggs and bacon with fruit and avocado in the morning. Lunch will be meat and veggies. Dinners will be whatever goes on the grill. Snacks will be back to beef jerky and nuts. No more cookies, cake, donuts, not even so much as a chocolate covered almond. I am drawing a line in the sand. For some people taking a black and white approach is hard, for me it seems to be the only way. After that I like the taper approach. I will be extremely strict over the next 7-10 days and then slowly allow myself to get back to 80/20. I’ve learned that if I just cut out the crap it is easy to get back to where you need to be. Food shouldn’t have power over you, it’s simply a form of nutrition. Do you want your nutrition to fuel your athletic endeavors and help you look and feel amazing or do you want simple satisfaction at the expense of your well being? The choice is yours. I know what mine will be.
Here is my challenge to you…do not wait until New Years, start your positive changes today. Take the next 10-14 days to really seriously work on improving your health and fitness. Eat what you know you should, avoid the crap and hit the WODs as hard as possible. Take some before and after pictures of yourself without a shirt on. Try to stay off the scale. Note how you feel today compared to 2 weeks from now. It’s only 2 weeks of your life. I’m not asking for the “Whole 30″ or a 6 week Paleo Challenge, I’m just asking for 2 weeks of no BS. Is that so hard? Let’s see what happens…
-Coach Eric
Strength/Skill
Clean and Jerk
3-3-2-2-1-1-1-1
- Use the 3 and 2 rep sets as warmup sets. The singles should be heavy (85%+). Work to a heavy 1RM for the day.
- Concentrate on quality reps and speed, not just muscling the weight up.
Conditioning
AMRAP in 12 Mins
- 3 Power Clean & Push Jerks (65-70% of 1RM today)
- 6 Lateral Jumps over Barbell (Jump and land on 2 feet)
- 9 Situps
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