Today was a very busy day. However, I’m beginning to like the discipline of writing out my workout and nutritional intake for the day. I’m thinking about offering another week of this, but will make the decision based upon feedback I receive. So, please let me know if you would like for me to continue for another week or not.
Today was an upper body, pulling, and strength endurance workout. When I was injured — luckily I am now recovered — I was able put in a lot of time on my pulling movements. As a result of not rushing my recovery and using my injury as an opportunity to strengthen weaknesses, I am happy with how easy the volume is now. I feel stronger than I did before.
Many of you have commented on how in the past 11 days, you have been surprised that I load up on carbs. However, if you note my workouts and nutrition, they are carefully planned to complement each other. I will load up on the carbs, so that they will carry me through an intense, future workout. I am burning through the carbs and not letting them turn to fat. As I wrote yesterday, my intention with my current workouts is to gain mass, gain strength, and power for functional fitness. Carbs will help me accomplish my goals.
Here is my nutrition and workout for Day 12 of 14:
Breakfast:
3 egg and cheese omelet
Protein smoothie
Black coffee
Fish oil
Multi vitamin
Snack 1:
Full fat yogurt
Snack 2:
Apple and almond butter
Workout 1:
150 pull-ups on the rings
Then
5x rope pulls
6 blocks
1:1 rest with Roza
Then
10x bw row
5x pull-ups
10x
Then
5min OH slosh pipe hold
Lunch:
Container from the Willy Street Co-op (sweet potatoes, cottage cheese, roasted beets and onions, 4 hard boiled eggs, 3 sausages, beans, spinach, cucumbers)
Chocolate milk
Workout 2:
Intervals on the bike
Snack 3:
Beef jerky, orange
Dinner:
Cheese
Brussel sprouts
Mozzarella salad
Garden salad
Sausage
A big pork chop
Recovery: Natural Calm before my 9 hours of sleep. Boy, did I need it.
