As I was quickly making my way through my 105lb deadlifts yesterday, I was thinking about how far I’ve come in my strength training class (and everyone else in the class). I can hold plank for…ever (yesterday I was doing it with 20lbs of weights on my back), I can actually do pushups reasonably well, I can punch out step ups with the greatest of ease.
But in case you think I’m swaggering around thinking how awesome I am, progressive box jumps reminded me how very very sucky I am at anything related to jumping and/or sprinting.
3 boxes in a line. They get taller. You’re supposed to jump up, then down and immediatly spring back up to the next one… it took me two full crappy sets to finally figure it out and get in one good one; I kept taking a mini-hop in between boxes, which completely defeats the purpose of the exercise. Hmmm this sounds like my cyclocross remount! I was just plain scared I would miss the box and crash horribly; J tried to get me to jump up onto a higher one, which I probably could have done, but I just kept balking. I can’t believe how high some of these guys can jump, it’s like they’re floating. I can barely jump over a friggin pop can.
Apparently I am not a fast twitch-er.
I am also ever so slowly making my way down to my goal weight. I haven’t written much about it lately, mostly because I’m sick of writing about weight and you’re probably sick of reading about it. I’ve been holding pretty strong on the Soy Zone, at least Monday-Friday. I’ve decided the best way to lose weight over the long term without making yourself insane is to follow your plan pretty strickly during the week, then let the shit fly on the weekends (not totally, but if you eat/drink a lot, forgive and forget). Plus I have to eat more on the weekends; I don’t really eat much and no grains at all during the week, but I need more carbs and calories for those long ass weekend team rides.
You may be wondering what the hell I DO eat during the week, if I’m vegetarian AND I’m not eating any grain products.
- Breakfast – more coffee then you can possibly imagine, smoothie (banana, 1 cup frozen fruit, 1 cup low-fat almond milk, 25g protein of soy-protein isolate)
- Mid-morning (if I’m starving) – 1/4 c. soy nuts
- Lunch – big ass salad with low-calorie dressing, 1 cup nonfat cottage cheese
- Mid-afternoon – 1 cup nonfat plain yogurt
- workout (depending) – sometimes clif shot, sometimes 1/2 clif bar
- Dinner – stir-fry or some variation on stir-fry (tons of veggies, and tofu or tofu-product of some kind), and an apple or sugar-free apple sauce
There it is, now you know. I happen to LOVE salad/veggies in general, so that helps 
When I want to splurge on food, I buy expensive produce (my favorite splurge thing to buy is the bulk salad at New Seasons, it ends up always being between $9-11, that’s one pricey salad!–but OH so good).
Wow, you’re way more dedicated to diet than I could ever be….I can’t believe you don’t fall asleep at your desk for lack of calories. What’s your daily total with that? 1000?
Oh and another thing based on this,
“Apparently I am not a fast twitch-er.”
I see an Ironman in your future.
1000!? noooo, more then that. i’m not really sure how much, probably more around 1600-1800.
Ironman ha… unless a miracle occurs, I can’t run more then 3 miles without my IT Band rebelling.