wait what?

WOD 10/27: e-squared wod

• jumping squat 275lbs x 2 reps x 5 sets

oh wow yea. what a way to end the month set. that was some serious "T" making stuff. somehow i feel stronger even thinking about what we did. 275lbs on my back and hopping up and down? what?

this completes the first half of the LE WOD template (well, this upcoming week is cardio week). we may take a long intermission and switch to a different routine. i've discovered that the weak link in my chain is actually my abs. the one muscle group that everyone trains - i'm weak in. of course. so, i may subject myself to some Liz style core workouts. looks like it may be time for the gorilla to eat a slice of humble pie.

PR=Good

WOD 10/21: e-squared wod

• snatch pull 165lbs x 4 reps x 5 sets

WOD 10/23: e-squared wod

• front squats 235lbs x 2 reps x 5 sets

WOD 10/25: e-squared wod

• muscle snatch 115lbs x 1; 125lbs x 1; 135lbs x 1; 135lbs x 1; 140lbs x 1 - PR!!!!!!!!!!!

was good to set a PR.

Holy Oly!

WOD 10/16: e-squared wod

• push jerk 135lbs x 3 reps x 3 sets
• split jerk 135lbs x 3 reps x 2 sets

this week is the start of "olympic week".

WOD 10/18: e-squared wod

• hang power clean 135lbs x 3 reps x 2 sets
• full squat clean 135lbs x 3 reps x 3 sets

another oly wod. when was the last time we did cleans? on 8/7 and then 7/12. who says all the same moves get boring? it's all about the art of shuffling.

so a couple interesting notes from the weekend. for one - liz underwent a "healing crisis". we had recently (a few days ago) decided that she might have hypothyroid. so on that premise, we eliminated as many unsaturated (poly mainly) fats from our diet. the results have been fantastic. however, the healing crisis occurred on saturday night. there must have been a huge toxic dump into the bloodstream - her temp went up and down (from 98 to 100) and felt like her "world was collapsing"! fortunately tho, it is now monday and she is fine. she was completely fine on sunday morning as well. in fact, better than fine - great!

also, i had been eating candy all week long. this is highly unusual - but liz had brought home some candy from class and of course i had to sacrifice myself and eat it. i budgeted 1 small piece of halloween candy each night. this must have gone on for 5 days or so. saturday night i finished it off with two reeses peanut butter cups. god they were good - and after the first one - i absolutely had to eat the second. it was nagging and nagging at me until every last crumb had been guzzled down.

however - sunday morning i woke up with the *worst* toxin related feeling in my stomach. i mean this felt like it was coming from the pit of hell. i then proceeded to act like a complete asshole all morning. it wasn't until after the gym that i felt better. unfortunately "it" started picking up again sunday night and i was acting asshole-ish yet again.

liz then told me that she had been observing this pattern for the entire last week and i wasn't myself the days after i had had the candy. the week before i had been cheery every day. this past week i had no creativity, no positive outlook and was operating at an entirely lower vibe.

granted i'm not always lollipops and whatever - but i've been going through a "cleansing" of sorts for months now and in general my outlook on life has gotten a lot better. the shitty fog had been lifted - until this candy incident. it came back in full force. all i can say is wow - who knew a little innocent candy could fuck a person up this badly. i have this feeling - am i going to become a food addiction specialist?

Can you love a dead lift?

WOD 10/14: e-squared wod

• deadlift 185lbs x 4 reps x 3 sets
• straight-legged deadlift 185lbs x 4 reps x 2 sets

the last of the ease in wods. as we like to say - we *love* the deadlift.

food update: we are still IF'ing - but we're trying to find a good balance for it. i have scaled back some of my fast days to a 12 hour fast, instead of the 16 i had been doing.

we've changed the technique we use to break the fast. we had found that many times, after a long 16+hr fast, we would break the fast using a meal too dense in calories. so now we are breaking it with small pieces of fruit and veggies. we then eat our normal meal 2-3 hours after we initially break it.

i'm wondering if the once a week 24 hour fast and then perhaps two 12-16 hr fast days would be sufficient? or should we continue the 12+ hr fasts everyday?

we have been slowly converting over to eating as much organic foods as we can as well - we're also eating a lot more organic produce lately.

we've been using apple cider vinegar as well. i regularly use it to cook with and lately we've been adding 2-3 tspns per 16oz water. we both love it.

we are also changing the oils we use. we are going to convert over to almost strictly coconut oil. we can also use extra virgin olive oil. coconut oil is used by the body for energy right away. the medium chain fatty acids are easy to digest and speed up metabolism because they are more easily exchanged from one cell to another. it also has a myriad of other benefits. but essentially it is a fuel for the body that does not trigger insulin and does not take lipoproteins and digestive enzymes to process.

we have decided to kick the nuts (no pun intended!) and seeds out of the diet. that is starting today basically. i have a feeling that unsaturated fats (mainly polyunsaturated) are not doing us any favors. in fact they may be hindering progress. so bye bye for now and we will see what happens.

we will be ordering grass-fed organic beef as well. are saturated fats really where its at? obviously certain types (like coconut). but animal proteins as well? somehow i wouldn't doubt it. mainstream western culture might have f'd us again.

Apple Cider Vinegar Energy

WOD 10/9: e-squared wod

• back squat 145lbs x 5 reps x 3 sets
• front squat 105lbs x 5 reps x 2 sets

nice and easy to ease back in. we only got one cardio wod in last week - oops. we're still fine-tuning the cardio recovery week so we'll keep plugging away at it.

WOD 10/11: e-squared wod

• thruster 85lbs x 5 reps x 5 sets

classic ease in thruster 5x5.

Patience is a Virtue

WOD 10/3: walking

today we walked to school and back (~3 miles).
i picked up a copy of adobe cs4! whoo and have been designing the website. it's coming!