Author: Jade

I was a bit sore this morning. My hamstrings are feeling it a bit from the good mornings and my lower back has just not recovered from last Thursday, and is still hurting this morning. I remember when I got into strength training I read Arnold’s “Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding” and he said if you really hit your lower back hard it can take up to a week to recover. That is certainly holding true after doing McGhee last week. Probably the wrong thing to do, but given how good my knees have been feeling I started doing sets of 10-15 air squats throughout the day, and put a squatting movement into my workout. Solid clean eating all day except for a spoonful of ice cream before bed, literally right before bed, not sure what that was about. Definitely feeling a little leaner and…

Feeling pretty good today. Still a bit sore, especially my lats, but the rest of my body feels pretty good. Great eating all day today. Not much else to say. Hit up a CrossFit Football WOD today. Felt it was a good one given the situation with my knees. My knees are feeling a ton better, going to continue resting them for another week or so and then slowly starting working some squats back in. On another note when I was making dinner last night I randomly decided to see how my hanstand push-ups were coming. So pumped, got 4 in a row, head to ground and back to full lockout, no kip. Psyched. WOD:CrossFit Football 4/16/2010 Amateur Strength:Power Clean: 185×3, 3, 3, 3, 3 Met-con:Use 60-70% of 3 rep power clean weightUsed 115lb5 rounds – rest 2 minutes between rounds 3 Clean…

Same story as yesterday. Body is still cooked, and my energy levels are low. Not sure exactly what the deal is with my energy. Been eating quite well, probably just getting used to the low carbs again. Spent a lot of time working on writing the on-ramp program for the gym today. I’ll be hitting a WOD tomorrow. Cheers. – Jade

My body was just not feeling a workout today. I was a bit tired, but mainly my entire body was sore. My soreness from Thursday’s WOD is even worse, and my lats are absolutely destroyed from the max pull-up sets I did yesterday. Given the general pain with any movement in my body I felt it was reasonable to take the day off. Hopefully I’ll be good to go tomorrow. Cheers. – Jade

Wow, in some serious pain today. The entire backside of my body is pretty toasted. Hams and glutes are a little sore, lower back and traps are destroyed. Chest is also in rough shape from all of the push-ups, and lats are a bit sore as well. It is a good feeling though. Clean eating all day yesterday and so far all good today. Went easy on the WOD today given how incapacitated I feel. Hopefully I’ll be feeling a little more mobile for a met-con on Saturday. WOD: Strength:Strict Pull-ups Max Reps: 13, 9, 8, 7, 7 Accessory:40 Yard Sled Pull Backwards 165lbs: 1, 1, 1, 140 Yard Sled Pull Forwards 165lbs: 1, 1, 1, 1 I haven’t done pull-ups in like 1.5 months so I was definitely hurting on the pull-up bar. I’m pretty happy with what I got considering how…