Tabata Something Else and Challange Day 2

YES THAT IS RIGHT! My alarm went off at 4:40am this morning!!!! On Tuesdays and Thursdays I coach at crossfit classes at the lovely Crossfit Solstice box. I coach the 5:30am class then the 6:45am class. When I used to have to wake up to merely work out at that time (as I love to get it out of the way early in the day) it would be a major struggle waking up. Now I am pretty used to it so it isn’t too bad. Plus I LOVE crossfit therefor I love being at the gym, even when I’m not working out.

PS: I got crossfit L1 certification back in April and CAMILLE was my coach!!!! She is NOT afraid in this picture, I PROMISE. I even got to watch her work out in person =) 

She's NOT scared!

So the workout today was “Tabata Something Else” a crossfit benchmark WOD. I love benchmark WODs because you can keep doing them to see improvements and PRs and they are always crazy hard so I feel SO accomplished when i finish them.

While I am pretty strong and pretty mediocre at most crossfit exercises, gymnastics is my weakness. I am too tall and I weigh too might to throw my body around like the little ones. So I was expecting to do pretty crappy at this WOD. I did fairly well I thought, 304 reps. Instead of just going all out during the WOD, I set a number in my head to try to reach each exercise, and I did that which I was proud of.  I stuck with 7 pullups each round, 8 push ups (I hate you push ups), 10 sit ups and 12-15 squats. I had between 8 and 10 seconds left in the 20 sec intervals so I definitely could have added 1 or 2 reps to each round DEFINITELY. I will redo in a few weeks with a new plan and a PR! It felt good to do a body weight WOD since I do so much lifting now. 

Sorry for posting your score joe! lol

 PPS: I am so excited for my competition on Saturday, especially after doing the WODs last night. Plus I get a cheat meal afterwards =)

Onto CHALLENGE DAY 2: I expected to feel skinnier today and I feel the opposite (NOT SKINNY). This sucks. It is the same food as yesterday with a few variations so not much to write home about. I did eat more on the schedule that was prescribed to me. I was hungry when it was time to eat and I wanted to keep eating when the food was gone (though I wasn’t hungry anymore). I suppose I’m used to eating bigger portions without really being hungry – hence the “freshman 15 at 28.” There are a few meals that are not pictured because they are exactly the same as yesterdays meals. I am still eating 9 small meals a day and am on schedule with all of them HOLLA!

Shown is 5 egg whites with hot sauce and mustard on half an ezekial english muffin, spinach salad with roasted chicken, greek yogurt and sunflower butter, and an awesome combo of ground turkey which i seasoned with homemade sausage seasoning (recipe coming tomorrow!) and mixed with zucchini and spinach. BAM! 

Half eaten egg whites over 1/2 ezekial eng. muffin

Grilled chicken with spinach and balsamic

MY fav! and not allowed in the challenge (shhhh)

Tbsp Sunflower butter for snack!!!!

ground turkey w/sausage seasoning and spinach/zucchini hash  

I did want to share one recipe though, since we can’t be too creative with our meals other than seasoning. I made a dijon salad dressing last night to spice it up. It was “ok” so you may want to experiment more if you're not happy. (PPPS: I’m not a very good cook so good luck if you try it lol).

Makes 1 serving

·         2 tsp. olive oil

·         1 tsp. apple cider vinegar

·         1 tsp. Dijon mustard

·         1 tsp. Ms. Dash seasoning (any type)

·         Salt and pepper

I literally made it up on the spot because I am trying to eat homemade salad dressing instead of store bought, but it may be too acidic for some. You can add 1 tsp. of honey to help cut the acidity as well. You could also add a tad less olive oil if you add honey.

Dijon salad dressing