Test #2 for the Magic Bullet – Clean Eating Magazine’s Raw “beanless”
Zucchini Hummus (with some seed crackers). Tried to scale the recipe
to fit in the Magic Bullet… it is a bit on the strong side, but
still good!
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So I decided to buy a Magic Bullet today, having never got a good
smoothie out of the personal blender I got from Target a while ago.
Several folks I know swear by it and have to agree… My first attempt
was great: Peach Mango & Berry Smoothie… Yummy!
Confession time… So this past week/weekend I’ve been on-call, and as I’ve done in the past I’ve let it be an excuse to to make it to the gym :-( And to make maters worse, I’ve been eating bad as well.
I did go over to the bookstore yesterday and buy a new “diet” book… The Eat-Clean Diet for Men. I’ve got the Eat-Clean Diet Cookbook and have read the magazine a few times as well. Its been called out in several of the bodybuilding forums and articles I read in the past. Its basically about eating clean in general v.s. following a specific regiment. I’ll give it read and see how it goes. I still need to also meet up with the gym from the gym to see what he can offer.
Speaking of the gym… it will be good to get back tomorrow afternoon once I’m done with my on-call week.
The photo that made me want to go back to CrossFit…
Finally got around to scanning it… I found this in the May/June issue of Maximum Fitness. Its a photo of a rock climber from Denmark doing a one-arm pull-up off a IronMind Rolling Thunder Deadlift handle.. The idea of being able to do something like this blows my mind I would love to be able to do crazy things like this… And its something that I couldn’t see SGX getting me to but CrossFit could.
No CrossFit workouts for the past few days… as I was getting ready for and camping up in Tahoe National Forest! Both days we spent about 5 hours hiking… Saturday was a 10mi hike on part of the Pioneer Trail and Sunday was part of the Crooked Lake trail starting at Carr Lake taking us out past Island Lake (pictured).
It was beautiful, checkout the full photo set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ironick/sets/72157618805479738/
I ordered pizza for dinner. I really need to stop doing this.
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10 PU + 10 Front squat 165# + 10 burpees x3
11:59 115#
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STOP being a pansy and push thru the fuckin workout!!!
And STOP ordering pizza!
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So on the spur of the moment I decided to switch back to CrossFit yesterday during the day, emailed Jason, showed up at the 5:30pm class, and did the WOD (as you can see by previous post).
I have to say for not having ever really been able to do front squats, I was pretty happy with myself. I started out hella light working with the group of folks who were new to front squats since I figured I wasn’t really going to be able to do them very well. However, while my flexibility and wrists are still and issue… I was able to get the form working and make it up over 200 lbs! I was also apparently going a little too deep in my squats ;-) I feel like my legs could have gone heavier, as I really didn’t struggle until the last set at 205 lbs, but between amount of time/sets I had already done and my wrist I decided to stop there to join in on the post-workout workout.
One of the biggest obstacles I need over come is not focusing on losing weight, but rather improving performance. This was one of the issues the last time around lead to me taking a break. However, after seeing a photo a fitness magazine (which I will scan and post) of a guy doing a one arm pullup off a deadlift handle…. I realized that I want to be able to do stuff like that which is why I decided to come back to CF.
That being said there, there is hope for the weight loss… after the workout some of us where talking and I found out that one of the guys at the gym, Gary, use to be pretty heavy (like 275) before CF. However, I can’t imagine him that way since he is one of the fittest guys at the gym. He said that his diet is basicaly: 2 fists veggies, 1 fist protein, 1/2 complex carbs, and a bit of nuts or other fats. So I’m attempting his zone-isk diet plan for now until I can get some more acturate stuff and will try the full on Zone at some point.
On another note, I felt absolutly great after yesterday’s workout! And actually felt like being productive and stuff in the evening which has not happened with the SGX stuff recently. I ended up going to Costco with Ashley and wouldn’t you know it ran into somebody from CrossFit there.
Ok, that’s all for now… can’t wait until the workout today even though it something I suck at: pull-ups!