NIraq2TransForm’s BodyBlog

Anyone ever walk down the street rubbing their belly like its a lil Bhudda because they feel it shrinking/tightening? If so, me too, we are not alone, haha.  I caught a woman looking at me as I was apssing her on the street and her facial expression deffitiely was wondering why a grown man was rubbing his tummy while walking hehe

Nevertheless, THIS is why: Yesterday’s killah workout had me gasping for oxygen like no one’s biz. It felt like God himself was sucking the air from the Earth and depriving me of much needed oxygen.  Additionaly, at lunch there was a rather fine female runnign behind me on another treadmill, and thus I could not make my workout seem whimpy.  Plus a colleague wanted to see this CrossFit workout for himself (he ran on a nearby treadmill and watch me suffer):

3 rounds of:

400 meter sprint

21 air squats

21 push ups

400 meter sprint

15 air squats

15 push ups

400 meter sprint

9 air squats

9 push ups

7 mins and 34 seconds.  My heart rate did not return to normal for nearly 15 minutes after this workout. Oxygen never felt so good.  

Ok, so today was another Deadlift workout coupled with some other lifts in a fast circuit.  Here is it:

7 rounds of the following exercises with no rest in between (well, haardly any rest):

30 jomp ropes

7 X 135lb Deadlift

7 X 27 inch box jump

5 X ring dip - no asisst @ bodyweight

7 X jumping pull ups

7 rounds, time of: 15:07 minutes

Ugghhhh, that workout sucked!! I immediately collapsed to the floor for about two minutes of deep panting…Nonetheless, I got up and all the "bodybuilders" looking at me, hahaha.. Damn, it so sucked but within 5-10 minutes afterwards its THE best feeling because I know in my heart of hearts I just pushed my limits and physical athletic capability to the max.  Functional fitness workouts are more and more appeling to me after each one I complete.  The idea of "practical application of force" has so hit home to me now.  The way my body is changing is just a byproduct of becoming fit, and the real goal is overall fitness, not about physical appearance.  Why physically look good is that "llok" cna not be productively applied???

I’m literally dragging my ass as I walk today. Yesterday’s workout took every nan-effort I had to complete with as much as possible intensitry as I could muster.  As Coach Glassman says, gaining an increased work capacity over broad times and modal domains is the point of functional fitness, and CrossFit. 

While the gym on the base is top notch, it is not well set up for CrossFit workouts.  Back extension/glut-ham developer- is tucked away in a far off corner, no pull up bars in the baseketbal court, etc.  Thus, I create a great deal of my own WODs, all modeled after a similar CF workout.  Yesterdays killah:

400m sprint

20 bodyweight squats

20 dumb bell swings @ 45lbs.

Repeated for 5 rounds = 14 min 49 seconds of NEAR DEATH!! 

As I walked back to my room some co-workers passed me by and later told me I looked like a Zombie, haha.  LITERALLY, every ounce I could muster went into that workout.  Since there were other persons on treadmills and ellipticals, I could not give CrossFit a bad name and look like a wussy.  Its funny how some people are sooo curious about what I’m doing yet are afraid to ask.  A couple people have inquired, but apprently these workouts have not hit the Air Force as much as the other services.

As I’m doing these, I committed myself to 21 days straight of clean eating, at apprx 2,000 calories a day, with a good mix of protein, carbs, and fiber.  Getting used to a whole wheat sandwhich with turkey, tomatoes, pickles, and lettuce is not as tough as I believed it would be.  However, these CF workouts JACK my metablosim so dang high that my stomach is asking to be fed ALL the time, haha.  So I feed it just a lil every 2-3 hours. 

When I visit home in late August I wanna be shredded!!

Needless to say, this CrossFit stuff kicks my ass and leaves me smoked.  Luckily, I have a workout partner (until Tuesday and she re-deploys) who pushes me.  My ability to increase the number of reps in the below workout has increased significantly.  After a 10 minute slow run, I did the following workout:

5 mins continous max reps of:

wall ball shots - 20 lb ball

sumo dead lift high pull - 60 lb

push press 60 lb

box jumps - 24in height

Sprints on basebetball court

1 min rest - REPEAT ABOVE

1 min rest- REPEAT ABOVE

I was smooooked!! Each day and week after these CF workouts I feel my ability to functionally move increasing significantly.  However, the byproduct of this workout is there is definitely tightening and toning in my legs going on AND my shoulders are for sure firming up as well. 

Since I’m eating approx 2000 calories a day - trying for fat loss- AND doing CrossFit which si so dman intense, it makes me wonder how I’ll be feeling over the course of the next few months.  At the end of a day I’m literally exhausted, but it feels GREAT! 

Per normal routine, I’m constantly varying my weightlifting efforts in combo with high intensity work to make it cardiovascular as well, aka CrossFit.  Todays workout was the following, 7 :

135lb deadlift X 7 reps

5  X gymnastic rings dips

5 X assisted weighted pull ups

Repeated above sequence 7 times (7 rounds)

Time = 11 minutes 8 seconds

Needless to say my arms, chest, and tris are fried wiht the ring dips.  Its still amazing the stares I receive from unconventional workouts like CrossFit.  Tonight, five co-workers are meeting me at the gym to try ring dips, I’m going to laugh my ass off when a couple of these "fit" guys can’t even do 1 ring dip.  Functional fitness Baby!!