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September 30, 2008

Crossfit Vancouver Workout 2008-09-30 Fran

This is Fran, the grandmother of all Crossfit killer workouts: 

21 95lb Thrusters
21 Pull ups
15 Thrusters
15 Pull ups
9 Thrusters
9 Pull ups

After this work out you can eat a cow. And a chicken. My friend Brad describes Fran adeptly: 

“Fran” is a lot like an after school fight with a tough kid. You don’t really wanna go, but you [...]

September 30, 2008

Zone food log, Oct 30 2008

I spent a couple of hours on Sunday preparing food for a Zone favorable week. Here are the results of day one. 
Breakfast: Ham, egg, cheese omelet. With bell peppers and red onions sauteed in olive oil. I use aged cheddar and it tastes so good with the ham. I weighed out the portions so I [...]

September 29, 2008

Crossfit Vancouver Workout 2008-09-29: Nancy

Tonight’s workout is called Nancy is she’s a nasty one! Five rounds of: 

95lb overhead squat
400m run

Here’s what it looks like.

My time was 16:10. The overhead squats were pretty good but my 400m run definitely needs a lot of work. 

September 28, 2008

Going Freakin’ Nuts!

Following up on today’s post of making healthy foods more convenient I packed up a bunch snacks that equal approximately 5 blocks of fat. It does not take a lot of walnuts, pecans and macadamia nuts to make 5g of fat. So instead I created 10 block bags instead.
Here’s me doing some basic math to [...]

September 28, 2008

How Many Zone Blocks I Need To Eat (part 3)

Third time is the charm the saying goes right? Well the first and second attempt at figuring out how much I need to eat had a few errors in the calculations. Mostly because I didn’t quite understand how to calculate Zone blocks.
Calculating My Zone Block Requirements
From my last body scan I have 137lbs of lean [...]