Almost there

Today was a rest day, but my diet was pretty good. I had sushi for lunch, but I got the lunch special (it was way cheaper) and it was tempura sushi. Could've been better, but not horrible. But, I weighed in this morning and I weigh 231!!! I'm 19 lbs. down. With about 1 month left before my BGR responsibilities start, it's time to really tighten down. I can't wait to keep going and see what I can do before BGR.

-Corey

It's amazing what happens when you eat breakfast

So, for the last few days (actually about 2 weeks), I haven't really been eating a good breakfast. Either I've been skipping it all together or eating something small like a yogurt. I've also noticed that my energy levels have been down throughout the day. Well today, I forced myself to make enough time to have some eggs in the morning. What a difference it made. I had great energy throughout the day, was pumped and ready to go for my workout, and still had energy to play Capture the Flag with friends at night. I can definitely say that breakfast makes all the difference in the world.

I also had a really good workout. It was supposed to be 3 rounds for time of 45 lb. thrusters x 35 reps and 20 pullups but for the first 2 sets I was actually doing push jerks (I forgot what a thruster was until I looked at the guy next to me doing clean and jerks.) For the 3rd set, I did 35 thrusters and then pushed myself to do 25 more because I goofed ont he first 2 sets. I was so pumped that I pushed myself that hard (because that was the 3rd set after a lot of lifting over my head) that I forgot to do the pullups. Next time, I'll write my workout down when I go to lift - even if it was as simple as it was today.

-Corey

Not too bad

Again today, my eating wasn't horrible but it wasn't great. Hopefully in the next few days, I'll have time to clean my apartment and I'll be able to cook some decent food. The WOD was a 5K run, so I did a 20 min. run instead.

Now, a little sleep and I'll talk to ya in the morning.

-Corey

I'm back

It's been awhile since I last posted. I worked out a few times last week but I didn't post it and towards of the end of the week I struggled a little bit with my diet. We had a few going away parties for office staff and this weekend I was up at a friend's lakehouse - so there was a lot of beer and not a whole lot of healthy food.

But, all excuses are equal.

Today, all healthy eating (but I ran out of time to eat breakfast) and I had a good workout. It was a 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 front squat workout after a good warmup. Here are the weights I did:
-135
-155
-185
-205
-195
-195
-185

After all of the tubing this weekend, I was pretty sore. I was glad that I was able to use that weight for working out for the first time in over a week and being really sore.

In a little bit, I'm about to have some fruit and then go play volleyball.

Have a good one,
Corey

Great New Start

Today was a frustrating day. Stupid stuff going on that's out of my control. So, I took control and had a great workout tonight. After work, I needed to blow off some steam so I went for a 15 min run. Then, I was going to come back and have dinner, but instead I chilled for a few minutes and went to the gym.

I did a quick warmup and then did the following:
18-15-12 w/ 85 lbs.:
-Dead lift
-Hang Cleans
-Front Squat
-Push Jerk

I was supposed to do 18-15-12-9-6 but my wrists were starting to give out and I couldn't hold the bar anymore - I thought it was a good idea to stop.

Eating was good but not great. I didn't eat anything bad, but I'm not back on my 5 meals a day schedule because I haven't had time to go to the grocery store. I was going to go tonight, but I went and played sand volleyball instead.

-Corey

New Start

After a little over a month, things are going pretty well. I'm down about 15 lbs., people are starting to notice that I'm losing weight, I feel better - it's going good. But, I've been traveling every weekend and after this past week of craziness, I got thrown a little off my game. It's really tough to stay motivated, eat healthy, and workout when your exhausted.

I'm ready for a new beginning. I'm going to look at the past few days as like a half time for my plan. I have a little less than 2 months until BGR and I still have a lot to do. The good thing is that I'm pumped and ready to go.

Sometimes, you just need to take a break and recharge.

I'll post tomorrow about my diet and workout.

-Corey

It's been a few days

So...I've been in Maryland since Thursday. I've managed to do a pretty good job of keeping up my diet and working out though while I was here. I got up early on Thursday and worked out before I left to the airport. I also woke up early Friday morning to workout and yesterday, while I didn't have time to go workout I did get some work in at the party (I did a lot of dancing and if you saw my shirt, you'd know what I was talking about).

My diet took a little bit of a hit but for the most part wasn't too bad. It's tough to stay true when you aren't preparing your food. I did the best I could and am looking forward to tightening back up this week.

That's all for now.

-Corey

Sore

Man, I'm more sore than I have ever been doing Crossfit. It's good that I had a day off. My eating wasn't horrible today, but it could've been better. I couldn't find my belt this morning (because I left it at home) and that made me late, so I had to skip breakfast. I had a grilled chicken wrap from Buffalo Wild Wings for lunch and only had a few tortilla chips. I had a few handful of almonds throughout the afternoon (it was a crazy afternoon) and then had another Chicken and Spinich pizza for dinner.

The 2 games I was supposed to ump got cancelled today so I'm gonna go play tennis tonight. I'm umping the makeups tomorrow so I'll have to do a modified workout tomorrow.

-Corey

I kicked my own ass

Wow, I was looking to do a great workout today and I found it. It's a rest day on the Crossfit site so I did some searching and found a great workout. Here's what I did:

3 rounds for time:
-1000m row
-21 thrusters (hold the bar at your chest, squat down, and when you stand up push the weight above your head) w/ 65 lbs.

I forgot to stop my timer so I don't know my time, but I know I need to improve. The rowing was hard, but trying to do all 21 reps of the thrusters in 1 straight shot almost made me puke 3 times. The best I was able to do was 10, 6, and 5.

My diet was really good today as well. I had an egg sandwich for breakfast and I stayed full until lunch time. Then, I had leftovers from last night for lunch. At 1:30 and 3:30 I had a handful of almonds and a can of V8. Then I came home, had a few slices of turkey and another can of V8 and went and worked out. Finally, for dinner I had a mini chicken and spinich pizza. It was phoenominal.

Now, it's time for some errands, preparing for tomorrow's meeting and some sleep.

Later,
Corey

A long time

Well it's been a few days since I last posted. I've been in Chicago celebrating a friend's birthday. I used Thursday night as my cheat meal and then ended up having to cheat on Friday night as well. However, I did get up on Saturday morning and work out and was able to get my eating back on track.

Today was a great day. I got up, ate an egg sandwich and went and worked out. I did 30 assisted pull-ups and 30 dips. My left arm is weaker then my right but it's starting to catch up. Also, it's nowhere near as hard to run as it was before. That's a great sign.

Then I went and did some shopping. It's offcial - I'm down 1 pant size!

For dinner, I had a great dish called Marco Pollo - it's chicken with tomatoes, zuccini, and basil. Really good and really easy to make.

Now, I'm about to go play some tennis.

-Corey

P.S. It's 2 months to BGR! Time to tighten up the workouts and diet.