So far so good, the numbers are where they should be. Quads are a little sore as are my lats. Monday’s food was a salad of roast pork, celery and spinach with chilli sauce, then in the evening I grilled a load of fish – hake, cod and trout, and served them with a hollandaise sauce, leeks and curly kale. Lovely!
More later.
It felt very strange doing my first pressups of 3000, but I fired out two sets of fifty on my morning walk with Flo the Paleo Dog, and followed those up with one hundred squats. Fifty “standard” and fifty “close” as per convict conditioning, which I have to say is a Must Read. More on CC to follow as I will be adjusting my training to be more in line with that protocol.
Put in six sets of eight chinups over the weekend which gets them off to a good start.
Foodwise, Saturday morning I fasted, and had a large steak and salad in the evening. Also had four pints of Guinness which is not really part of the plan, but stuff happens. Sunday morning I had scrambled egg with five eggs, a good blob of creme fraiche, and smoked salmon. Had this in bed with my wife after I had been out for my walk. It was marvellous. Didn’t eat again the rest of the day until evening, I had cod, which was delicious. Washed it down with a bottle of cider but back on the straight and narrow tomorrow.
The idea for this blog has been fermenting in my mind for a while, but what gave it the big shove that it needed in order to go from daydream to reality was this thread on www.MarksDailyApple.com.
There was talk of doing ten thousand kettlebell swings in a month, or suchlike, but I have worn myself out before with training in true Chronic Cardio style, and so I wanted something that was challenging, but wouldn’t cause me to blow up or neglect other areas of my life.
I wanted a rest day every other day. A wise man once said that your training is only as good as your rest, and he was wise indeed. I know how hard it is to NOT train when you’re just buzzing, but as I have surfed the peaks of intense training only to lose it in the troughs of injury and fatigue, I have learned to chill out and just take a walk some days.
So my plan for September 2012 is to do the following:
3000 Pressups (Pushups)
3000 Squats
3:00 Hours in plank position
300 Chinups
300 Hanging leg raises.
100 miles of walking (I’d love to do 300 miles of walking, but right now I don’t have the time)
Why those? I chose them because they’re simple to do anywhere and they are compound exercises. I am sure I could have selected exercises that would give a more even workout perhaps, but who cares… the perfect is the enemy of the good. Lets see if I can do this, and then consider what could be improved.
My nutrition will be my usual diet which I could describe as Pretty Much Paleo; plenty of meat, eggs, fish, vegetables, the odd piece of fruit, maybe a splash of full fat milk in my morning coffee, and maybe a few slices of mozzarella on my Caprese salad. I’ll be taking my usual antioxidants plus BCAA’s for the month. I am highly fat adapted and practise intermittent fasting once or twice a week, but I will be listening to my body, and fuelling accordingly.
This all starts on Saturday, 1st September.
