So no tracking of my diet yesterday, I ate very poorly, and felt awful all day, so nothing more to post about that.

This morning I drove from Boston over to Beverly, Mass to listen to a lecture by Dr. Barry Sears. This was defintely a worth while experience, but I do have some mixed thoughts about it. Dr. Sears presentation on inflammation was great and very informative. Aside from that a lot of the information “preached” was very contradictory to what I feel are the main ideas around CrossFit nutrition. In fact after going to the CrossFit Nutrition certification I found that there were a number of opposing views between the information presented today and the information presented at the certification. While I think it’s great to get these two different sides of information I’m a bit baffled as to why CrossFit would push two views that are so opposite. The biggest opposing view was that Dr. Sears basically says to eat as little saturated fat and cholesterol as possible, while the information/Paleo diet presented at the Nutrition Certification says not to worry about saturated fat and cholesterol and to even eat them in excess of what the governments guidelines are. The other part of the lecture that really bothered me was Dr. Sears essentially pushing his latest product, “molecular baking,” and basically trying to get everyone to make it a part of their everyday diet. So the lecture was definitely a good experience, there was some good and bad in it, and I don’t think that I was the only one in the crowd with those feelings.

Training today was awesome. Not quite as awesome as I first thought, but definitely awesome regardless. Despite the fact that I was pretty cooked from the weekend, and a relatively long day, I went to the gym as I knew I couldn’t take the day off after already having two days off. Workout today was the CF total and I set a PR on all three lifts. I think this means what I’m doing is working. It was especially great to see my squat finally go up. I think the extra strength work I’m adding on select days is really helping. I didn’t do a specific warm-up today, just warmed up with each individual exercise. Next time a straight strength day comes up I’m going to do a full warm-up and see how that helps my lifts.

WOD:
Squat 285
Military Press 140
Deadlift 385

Total 810

So definitely pumped on the lifts. Went for 295 on the squat which I failed at, I think had I gone for 290 I would have made it, but after gassing out on 295 I felt I might have lost the strength needed to put up 290. Either way this was a 10lb PR. For the press I went for 140 and failed, then went for 135 which went up easy so I tried 140 again and got it. I guess my shoulders just needed to get warmed up more, I also made sure not to hold the bar in the rack position as long. Tried 145 in the press and failed. Deadlift was pretty straight forward, I went 315, 345, 375, 385. I was super pumped at first as I spaced on my counting and thought I had pulled 395, but it was actually 385. 385 felt pretty topped out so I decided not go up from that. All in all though it was a great day as I PRed each lift, and my total went up 25lbs.

Great day all around, and looking forward to another one tomorrow.

– Jade