High Intensity Kicks ASS!
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!!
