Hopefully there’s been some noticeable physical and mental improvements and you’ve been able to learn something about your diet and about yourself over the last thirty days.
I’ve learnt that I don’t do so well on nuts and for some reason I hadn’t figured that out the first few times I did the Whole30?
I’d eat ‘meat & veg, [nuts & seeds], some fruit, little starch, no refined sugar as well as no dairy, no legumes and no alcohol but get frustrated that my guts would descend into all sorts of instability and pain? Sure I’d get leaner but it didn’t seem worth the hassle?
This time round I got onto Chris Kresser’s website to look at his gut healing protocol. It’s strict paleo but I found out that even within the realms of the Whole30, people can still have adverse and inflammatory reactions to different foods including nuts, eggs and nightshades and even more….
Performance in the gym
As far as my performance goes I’ve been dialing everything back to cater for some shoulder issues so I didn’t really notice any dramatic improvements or declines over the 30 days.
Mental Clarity
One thing I certainly noticed was a shift in mental clarity. I haven’t had this much focus and or clarity for quite a while now.
What I missed
There were really only 2 things that I’ve been really missing and that was my post WOD protein shake and a little milk in my espresso. I made myself a picolo on my Bezzera this morning. Was it all that and then some? You bet it was – it was fricken awesome – I mean, I’ve been waiting 30 days for this…
What were you able to find out about yourself? Was it a battle? Was it easy as? Did you discover any new recipes? Will you keep doing it? What foods will you introduce back in? Will you go back to what you ate before?
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Ben
Friday 31.8.12
5 min max double-unders // rest 3 mins
5 mins max snatches @ 90% // rest 3 mins
5 mins max 200m w/ 20/10kg OH (bumper plate)
Post loads, reps and distance travelled to comments.
Double unders – 36. Pathetic. I know. Clearly learnt very little from my attempt at Annie yesterday.
Snatches – hit a new pb (26kg) while we were finding our working weight. Managed 16 reps at 25kg (my 1RM weight from about 2 weeks ago), stoked with this result since my previous attempts at 25kg were very hit or miss. Mostly miss. Getting a lot more comfortable with dropping under the bar. Very happy
OH walk/jog/shuffle – 10kg, 2 full laps plus a little extra.
Pretty impressive to watch mate – nice work!
Thanks Ben!!
What an AWESOME morning!!!
Managed to break skin on double unders but in trying to rid myself of the salmon moves I managed a max of 12 in a row and got to a messy total of 65
Needed some Snatch coaching from Ben this morning, I have been muscling my snatches so need to work on my technique. 25kg with some work to do…
10kg plate and 3 laps – arms were burning but felt so good at the end of it!
Awesome session thanks Rosey!
DUs – 145. Wanted to make 150 to get average of 2sec/DU, next time.
Snatches – hit 40kg (equal to previous 1RM) in the warmup/testing. Then 10 @ 35kg in the 5mins. Need to keep bar close for vertical path, not out and around to overhead. Happy with this, have previously only been doing 30kg for 10min EMOTM.
OH walk – 500m @ 20kg
10am crew: Skrillex on piano – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP4gkAfbAUI
D/Us = 158. Feel like I can do better, can’t seem to get a really decent run on.
Snatch = 30kg but form needs work. Lots.
O/H walk = 20kg for a grand total of 1 lap.
Some days are great, and some are ….. other than!
1. 128 DU’s. Sometimes it works but mostly it doesn’t. Staring a the wall seemed to help clear the mind, got a few good runs in…eventually, then the forearms would give out. New rope is in the mail!
2. 24 snatches at 35kg, failed the 25th in the last 10sec. Found it easier to do a set of 3 quick ones then rest.
Next weight somewhere between here and 40kg. Got 40kg in the warmups but 5 mins of them would be pushing it.
3. 410m ? (2 laps and a bit anyway) -20kg
A.97double unders stringing them together
Seems a challenge
B. 7@30 kg…
C. 550 meter @ 10kg
Fun workout:)
121DU
8@60
3laps@20
Finisher
10xK2E
10xT2B
5x chest to bar Kipps
3x full depth Kipping HSPU