FRIDAY 081031

FRIDAY 081031

Maybe two or three of the worst days of my life between these two posts (TUE - FRI). Got some stomach virus bug (I think from the little boy who had projectile vomit and poo last weekend now that I think about it) and it had me upside-down. Chocolate Yoohoo coming out of my bum for 16 hours, some Maalox and a disturbing 1-lb Lord's Kitchen burger to jam me up with some killer heartburn that woke me up in the middle of the night making me think I was going to die, or at least poo and throw up all at the same time. Crazy week.

Luckily, Friday's workout was kettlebells so I got to take it kinda easy (low-impact anyway). Did a big warm up with my kids with every Kb exercise I could remember (just threw away my 3x5s when I cleaned out the car last month). Then we went through a new workout I found somewhere... Breathing Ladders.

Kb Swing Breathing Ladder (1-20)

1 Kb swing
rest 1 breath
2 Kb swings
rest 2 breaths...up to
19 Kb swings
rest 19 breaths
20 Kb swings

took about 10:34 so we stopped there, going back down from 20 to 1 in under 20 minutes would be interesting. Using an actually heavy Kb would be good too (used 12kg -- thank goodness).

Update: going with the junk food all morning, chips to "coat the stomach" only gave me more heartburn but the sprites caused "good" bubbles making me belch and fart all morning which was at least fun if not "helpful". How's that for a prescription, burp and fart til you feel better... LOL. Started to feel like total ass by the time lunch came around so I wasn't going to eat but I couldn't pass up the Toll House Pie and ice cream from Josephines... mmmmm... That made me feel like a million bucks til we went out for Halloween and my one jumbo Crown & Coke kicked in the heartburn (again). Not to worry, the chips and hummus and bacon wrapped shrimp and jalapeno slices must have done the trick because I feel back to "normal" this morning and think I'll take the fam out for some pancake breakfast before our workouts just to make sure I'm all better... hee-hee.

Glad to be back (I hope). Looking forward to getting after the training next week and recommitting to the diet, the steak and broccoli was getting a little tiresome so I just picked up the recipe book from Performance Menu. Should be good. Wanna keep momma and me headed in the right direction on the scale (wink).

Read a great article in the November Performance Menu from Josh Everett about training and recovery for old farts (he's about 35) which is cool because he is the only one to place in the top three in the last two CF Games. He's obviously in killer shape but he doesn't follow the CF WODS and focuses on sprinting and Oly lifts with two rest days per week for three weeks then he takes a week off (easier?) every month. I have definitely been overtraining... hope getting smarter and training less actually helps my performance. Still want to focus on all of my weakness everyday as skill work to see if that helps too (think double unders, pull ups, push ups, handstand push ups, POSE techniques, etc...)

All-in-all, looking forward to think "hard reset" that has been the last few weeks as I struggled to figure out what my body was telling me...