Training Log: Entry 2404

SUNDAY

AFTERNOON WORKOUT (1600)

5 round circuit of

10 chins (various grips)

4 standing ab wheel

10 BW reverse hypers

10 BW dips

30 GHRs

50 band pull aparts

25 pushdowns

Tabata rounds on the BAS

EVENING WORKOUT (2100)

100 six count burpees in 7:39 (1 second PR)

Notes: 3rd night shift down: 2 more to go. May get some lifting in tomorrow, but Mrs has the day off from work and I’d like to spend some time with her, so we’ll see. The short intense sessions are answering the mail. Hit the first 40 burpees without interruption, so things are moving along well there. That circuit for daily work is turning into something pretty slick: I could easily turn that into a real workout sometime.

Shift work is working against my goals. I’m struggling to psychologically shift from weight loss to weight gain. I was crushing the former, and have all sort of cool tricks to employ that I KEEP employing when I should be doing the opposite. I’ve gone out to eat twice in a row and both times haven’t finished my meals, which is just not me. It’s tricky when I’m not even sure what “meal” I’m on. The quickest solution would be to count things, but knowing my obsessive nature I know that’ll cause more harm than good. Having awareness of the issue at least gives me solace that the solution is at hand. I’m making an effort to get in quality nutrition, and have started packing an extra meal to eat on shift. Having a real training plan now has gone a long way.

I’ve at least done a solid job of meeting my 2 “thou shalls” each day: 3 organic cage free eggs w/grass fed butter, and a high fat meal (pretty much always toast and celery with nut butter) each day. I’m seeing the positives of it. Next phase of implementation is to start getting in some grass fed beef on a near daily basis. Ideally, I’m going to make it breakfast. I keep contemplating the “nuts and meat breakfast” approach, but I’d also want to throw in my eggs with that too.