Up & Down Day? ABSolutely!

So I woke up this morning and was able to sit up in bed and walk around with any problems. I wasn't necessarily expecting that after Ferino's Fab Abs last night!

I have felt pretty hungry today, from pretty early on and to the point of distraction at times. It started with that hollow feeling in the stomach that just feels like it needs to be filled, getting worse through the day until it almost felt like more of a pain than a pang... Oh... Hang on... That'll be Ferino's Fab Abs!!

Eggs on the run...

Poor quantity of sleep again last night. 6 hours. That's 17 hours in the last 3 nights and 3 black marks. Hopefully I'll get some catch up this weekend.

8:30am, breakfast: Espresso. 3 eggs, scrambled with 1tsp coconut oil and a third of a sweet potato.


I was a little behind schedule this morning, so threw this in a lunchbox and ate it when I got to work. The egg was still warm! The sweet potato was cooked last night. I forgot my supplements as I was rushing around.

10:30am, snack: A large (organic) carrot. 

1:30pm, lunch: Homemade Broccoli soup and a tin of Brunswick sardines.

3:00pm, snack: A well rounded teaspoon of cashew butter!

5:00pm, snack: 1/4 of a cantaloupe melon. Espresso.

I stopped in Chapel A on the way home to pick up some fruit & veg from the young bloke who has a stall on a Friday. Good local stuff at decent prices. I picked up some bacon from the Neil the butcher, too, but I'll pop back tomorrow for the rest of my meat, once I've had time to think and plan ahead a bit.

Tiredness today was fucking with my decision making centre, particularly regarding training. I wanted to go and do some heavy deadlifts. But they are heavy. And I'm a bit tired. I definitely wanted to do the Pure Strength session.... In the  end I managed to decide to go for the 7pm class and stay for the strength session, but by the struggle made me 10 mins late. I hate being late for a CrossFit class.

6:45pm, pre-training snack: 1/2 baked sweet potato, 1/2 baked (normal) potato. Coconut water (I have Tropical Sun CW - it comes in a can, but is 100% natural, no added anything and is not from concentrate). 

So, deads 2x5 and 1 AMRAP at 70%, or if you managed 10+ reps last time, add a bit to that.
I used 120kg last time and got 13 good reps on the AMRAP, so this time used 125kg and hit 15 good reps. Happy with that.

Could've killed and eaten a mammoth today

WOD: 7 min AMRAP 
7 Goblet squats
7 Burpees
25 DU's
Couldn't string my DU's together tonight and refused to do singles, so 3 rnds + 12 DU's. Pretty bad.

Strength session: Started with pull ups 3 x 5-10 reps. I still use the thick blue/purple band for these.
Then guess what? The focus of the strength session was on the core!! Joy!! Thought I was probably going to die, but in the end it was ok. Weighted plank holds super-setted with face pulls, then a Dmitry Klokov inspired combo.

I felt great afterwards - best I've felt all day, in fact!! 

Protein shake in the car on the way home, then smashed straight into the slow-cooked beef from yesterday with half a baked potato. Well, I think I'd earned it!!

Will remember to have night time supplements straight after posting this. Then sleeeeeeep!!!