Training Log: Entry 3286

AM WORKOUT (0410 wake up via alarm)

75 KB swings w/57.5lb bell

2.75 mile walk w/80lb vest at 2.9mph

100x230lb reverse hyper

50 band pull aparts

BREAKFAST

Shorter walk w/dog

Notes:

* Ambient heat from yesterday was still quite present/suffocating this morning.  Glad today was a walk day vs training in the garage.  Just hitting those swings beforehand had me sweating.

* Walk itself was restorative, but I was moving slow from the heat.  Getting that 100 reps on the reverse hyper was great, as now I can up the weight again.  

* Had a more serious carb up meal yesterday, first one in quite a while.  Valkyrie made “Farmer’s Casserole”, which is egg noodle based (we found a great company that is just drum wheat pasta and water), bison, local sweet corn, grassfed cheddar slices and some canned soups (there’s your Midwest casserole/hot dish at work).  I had some generous portions of that alongside 2 sunny side up pasture raised eggs, a slice of homemade sourdough with some grassfed butter, and 3 of my wife’s amazing peanutbutter oatmeal cookies with some raw local cinnamon honey for dessert.  Once again, it’s a night and day difference when I load up on this stuff compared to when I’d use this as an excuse to binge on fast food or pizza or something like that.  I still feel restored, but I don’t get hit with the carb bomb, break out in sweats, or feel myself “degreasing” during the next day’s workout.  My guts handle this much better as well.  

* Night 1 of 3 in Tang Soo Do is tonight.  Mrs and I are trying to earn our final stripe, so we can test in August for our next belt.  Same with the kiddo.  If that happens, we’ll get to move on to the advanced class as a family, which will be fantastic for a variety of reasons.  Our schedules will be a little less crazy, since the class is later in the evening, and we’ll all get taught to the level we need to, as right now Mrs and I are technically slumming it in a lower level class so we can stay with our kiddo.

* Got crowned the Dojang Sparring Champion for the month in class tonight.