cam maclellan’s BodyBlog

Lately I have not been feeling up to par. This is common for me after getting over a cold, however it is lasting longer than usual. I have not been eating very clean lately and I think that has a lot to do with it. I am determined to get my diet straight in this stretch before my wedding. I want to focus on a paleo diet in combination with the zone block system. This diet is not meant for weight loss, but is great for sustaining muscle growth while burning fat.

It is about time for wakeboarding season and I need to use that to push me past this. Time to get shredded!

Busy week this week which means no time to do Crossfit at the end of the week. So I went yesterday and I will hit it hard again today to get my two days in this week. I will have to throw in some skipping throughout the week to get a bit of cardio in. It only takes about two minutes to burn myself right out with double unders! But I’m getting better at them, which is awesome cause they suck, but in a good way.

Diet wise this week will be extremely difficult as I am in a wedding.. So We have a rehearsal dinner and a wedding dinner to deal with. Also the wedding is out of town so I will be packing my picnic basket I guess.

Next I will be getting a progress pic up soon. At the moment I don’t have a memory card for my camera  somehow I lost it at the stag…

Haha this kinda contradicts my last post but, that will teach me for posting thoughts so fast…
I’ve discovered that I am in worse shape than I thought. Until yesterday I was doing 800 m or 400 m runs in a lot of my crossfit routines. Yesterday however In the warm up we did two rounds of 10 Kettle bell swings, 60 m sprint, 10 air squats. I tell ya it didn’t feel like a warm up…  Now I can gut out a 800m run. But I have a problem with a 60 m sprint and that worries me. So in the coming weeks I am really going to work on cutting down with a lot of running and sprinting. Also I will still be doing my usual crossfit on top of this. Also I am going to work on my skipping double under’s.

It may have been the fact that I have a cold that I had such a hard time sprinting. But never the less I still need some work on my conditioning.

Crossfit has definitely kicked up my endurance to new levels. Today as my warm up I ran a 800m sprint in 4:04 min. Which is a personal best for me. This is my biggest problem, endurance is a hurtle that I am excited to kick over. That is my other problem, jumping, but box jumping has been helping with that. I will keep everyone posted on the progress on this, I hope to break into the 3:oo min 800m.

I have read many great articles on this site however, there seems to be a lack of good information on Chocolate milk. I Just skimmed a few articles and not one mentioned the benefits of Chocolate milk, only the fact at it has lots of calories! This is crap, who cares about the calories if you want to build muscle. Also even if you are worried about the calorie intake. Post workout is the best time to have a high calorie drink to replenish the energy depleted during a workout . If you are working out at high intensity it is not possible to eat within a few hours anyway. Therefore to even be able to retain muscle mass you need to have some kind of meal or drink full of protein and amino acids. Obviously this isn’t for everyone, if you are lazy and bodybuilding to you is not eating, then your right chocolate milk would probably be the enemy. But if you are on this site for the right reasons, to get bigger, stronger, and generally more useful as Rippetoe would say, then Chocolate milk is the answer. Somebody should write an intelligent article on Chocolate milk that is based on facts. As I do more research I would love to write something however at this moment I don’t have a well researched and verified document to put out there. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated, from either side on this.

I have made a bit of progress since my last post so here is the update. I have been doing crossfit for about a month and a half now. I re-did my Baseline workout the other day which is 500m row, 40 squats, 30 sit ups, 20 pushups, 10 pull ups. I went from a 14+min with assisted pull ups to 6:30min unassisted. In a month and a half I made some good headway I figure. Also I did my first rope climb (15′). I increased my dips from 5 regular dips when I started to 11 regular dips and 2 ring dips (gymnastic rings). My pushups have increased from 10 when I started to 23. Thanks for reading, good luck to you in your gains.

"Stronger people aren’t only more usefull in general they are also harder to kill"

In an effort to increase my strength a bit more, I am now working out at work. I just started this week but it seems to be helping. When I am bored at work I go into a quiet area and do a quick set of push ups or air squats. I am planning on putting up a pull up bar some time soon as, when I find a suitable location.

This was an awesome Crossfit workout. Do as many dead lifts as you can in in 20 seconds, rest 10 seconds, repeat for eight rounds. Your score is the total amount of reps. Oh and the dead lift weight is 315 Lbs. This workout can be scaled to 225 lbs or 135 lbs. I did it as required and ended up with 21 (3-3-3-3-3-2-2-2). This was such a great I hope some of my friends try this. If you do try this be very careful to not hurt your self as lifting that much weight in quick succession it is easy to lift wrong. Also just because you have a big dead lift doesn’t mean that this is easy, I had a few people with smaller max DL beat me, simply because I don’t have the endurance, or muscle endurance.