MostlyGeek

This was yesterday’s Crossfit Workout:

• Warm up: 50 DBalls. Essentially, 20lb medicine ball, raise it high above your head slam it down and pick it up. Repeat. Like 50 full body squats.
• Technique: Squat Therapy. You’d think doing a squat would be easy, but it takes a long time to perfect the squat. Here’s a video of a proper squat:
  
• Work Out: Melanie - Max reps of bench press and pull ups in 20 minutes. My results:
  • 170 lb body weight
  • 95lb bench (pretty low) - 50 reps
  • Pull ups - 24 reps

I was pretty happy with my results. I still have a long way to go as most people apparently can do a lot more pull ups than they can bench presses. Of course I was only doing a 95lb bench. :) I should miles ahead of these figures in a year.

On the diet side of things I recently discovered the Shangri-La diet. This isn’t really a diet but an addition to what you are currently eating. In a nutshell you add flavorless calories to your diet. This tricks your brain into thinking food is scarce. You get less hungry, crave less junk food and ultimately eat less. The theory behind it is that when food is plentiful, good tasting stuff triggers our brains to store fat, eat more. When food is scarce, the bland tasting food triggers our brains to use stored body fat, eat less.

There is only one thing to do with this diet. Add a couple of teaspoons of oil to your diet. A lot of people use extra light olive oil (ELOO). What I want to try is Flaxseed oil which has a lot of Omega-3 fats that have been linked to improved brain function.

My goal is not to eat less but eat better. Hopefully it will turn into liquid will power against donuts, hamburgers, hot dogs and other yummy but junky foods. It is a supplement to my move towards a Zone favorable diet.

[tags]crossfit, vancouver, melanie, dballs, shangri-la diet, zone diet[/tags]