Training Log: Entry 3493

AM WORKOUT (0510 wake up via Valkyrie’s alarm: rough night of sleep due to dog)

**12 LABORS: STEALING THREE OF THE GOLDEN APPLES OF HESPERIDES**

*Tactical Barbell Operator* Cycle 2, Week 5, Workout 2

“OXYGEN DEBT 101”

4 rounds of

* 200m sprint-30 seconds rest-200m sprint-30 seconds rest-200m sprint

* 3 min rest

Notes:

* Just continues to be the right call each week.  Really felt like I got my money’s worth on the first set of each round: focused on picking my feet up high and striking midfoot vs heel.  Still hitting this up in my bearfoot shoes, as I feel like it forces proper technique on me.  Was definitely feeling my lungs breaking on this: really finding my ability to push hard.

* Also got in a 3-ish mile walk last night after dinner, and another round on the sandbag carry and throws.  The pick up on the sandbag is getting more and more natural, which has been the goal of the frequent training.  The more touches I get, the more mundane it becomes.  It dawned on me that what I’m doing is very “Easy Strength”, for though I’m exceeding the 10 reps total per day principle, my weekly total reps are about the same by training 3x a week vs 5, and then I’m getting in 1 round of loaded carries each day as well, along with the prioritizing of walking.  It’s funny how we can use so many different names for the same principles.

* Will post the breakfast photo during an end of day recap, but it was almost the exact same thing as yesterday: I just added 1 more egg white, and I forgot to throw my daily liver serving onto the plate as well: I’ll need to make sure I get that in before the end of day.  Tonight’s menu is piedmontese grassfed New York strips and eggs.  I was reflecting on how unique it is that I’m eating egg whites mixed with beef tallow: taking out the fats from the yolks and replacing them with fats from another animal.  It’s honestly just the prohibitively high cost of pastured eggs that limits me from using more whole eggs per meal.  We already bought 7 dozen to get me through this week: the Valkyrie is also an angel for putting up with my shenanigans.

* My gum sobriety streak continues.  This is day 5.  I went without it before my sprint, whereas I typically have it for cardio based workouts.  I didn’t realize how addicted I was to the stuff until I stopped using it.  I find myself really wanting a piece during certain parts of the day.  It’s funny, given how people use gum to give up smoking.

* On a similar note, I had no evening protein feed last night.  I wasn’t hungry, so decided not to do it.  I still did the middle of the night shake, but this Maximum Definition Diet experiment is really getting pretty interesting. My digestion is significantly improved having cut out the very last little bit of extra stuff I was consuming.  I also have meant to update that the pork cracklin was slashed out of my diet once I started doing Operator, and that’s been an easy trend to continue.  I was too reliant on it.  Next gaining phase, I’ll be sure to keep that out.

* Tang Soo Do on the schedule tonight.  It’s basics week, which can often be a good workout.