Day 16

Breakfast - Making up for the breakfast I skipped yesterday I made sauteed spinach topped with smoked salmon, poached eggs, and hollandaise sauce. My first batch of sauce curdled, so I attempted a new method. I put all the ingredients (egg yolk, lemon juice, mustard) in a blender and slowly added ghee (clarified butter). Came out perfectly.


Lunch - Leftover mussels and sweet potato fries

Dinner - Beef stew with carrots and kale. Side of baked sweet potatoes



Snacks - Naked juice, blueberries, pistachios

WOD
Rest/recovery

Day 15

Breakfast - Skipped breakfast today. Big NO NO! I headed to the gym on an empty stomach and really felt like I was sucking wind. Never doing that again!

Lunch - Leftover stuffed acorn squash

Dinner - Mussels (broth made of sausage, tomatoes, chicken stock, shallots, and garlic) with oven baked sweet potato fries




Snacks - Almonds, blueberries, pistachios, Naked Juice

WOD
Foundations Session 4
Topics: Snatch (three pulls, burgener warm-up, snatch balance, snatch high pull, snatch deadlift, power snatch, hang snatch, hang squat snatch)/ Towing (damper settings, drive, recovery, catch)
Workout : 5:00 AMRAP - 200m Row/ 10 pvc snatches

My results: 2 full rounds


(Check out the intensity! Hahaha. Even though it's just a stinkin pvc pipe, my legs were burning. My trainer, Shane, had me squat in this position for-ev-er!)
Picture via Colorado Springs Crossfit FB page

Day 14

Breakfast - bacon, spinach, tomato, and onion scramble with salsa


Lunch - Stuffed acorn squash (loved it so much the first time, I had to make it again)

(Acorn squash baking before stuffing)

Dinner - Brick Chicken marinaded with garlic, thyme, lemon, and ghee. Side of zucchini, squash, and tomatoes

(Marinading)


(Didn't have any bricks so I weighted it down with another pan, a can of soup, and mortar and pestle)


(Finished in the oven)

Snack - Pistachios, grapes, apple, Naked juice

WOD
Rest/Recovery

Day 13

Breakfast - Fried eggs with homemade sausage

Lunch- No one said this would be easy! I was running errands with the family did not not plan on being out of the house during lunch, so I had to make a quick stop to the grocery store to get some eats. I came out with salad fixings: some romaine lettuce, smoked salmon, cherry tomatoes, pearl onions, and a lemon and olive oil to dress the whole thing. I had a hard boiled egg packed in my snack bag (at least I had the foresight to do that) that I added to the mix.

Snacks - Pistachios (my addiction right now), Naked juice, grapes, almonds

Dinner - Kalua pork with cabbage


WOD
Rest/Recovery

Day 12

I decided to upgrade my iPhone pictures and put my dSLR to use. Makes my food look a lot more appetizing.

Breakfast - Spinach, mushroom scramble with smoked salmon

Lunch - Seared scallop and arugula salad with roasted red peppers dressed with lemon and olive oil


Snack - Left over turkey meatloaf, pistachios, almonds, apples, Naked juice, nori

Dinner - Baked salmon with asparagus



WOD

Foundations Session 3
Focus : Foam Rolling. Stretching. Core Tortures/ Deadlift/ Sumo Deadlift High Pull/ Medicine Ball Clean. Muscle up Skills (false grip, transition, active shoulder)
Workout: 5:00 AMRAP - 4 Muscle up Transitions/ 6 Medicine Ball Cleans/ 8 Sumo Deadlift High Pulls/ 10 Deadlifts

My total- 1 Full Round +4 Muscle up Transitions + 6 Medicine Ball Cleans + 8 Sumo Deadlift High Pulls

Day 11

Breakfast - Scrambled egg with spinach, mushrooms, and smoked salmon

Lunch - Left over chicken tacos

Dinner - Individual turkey meatloaf wrapped in bacon. Side of roasted sweet potato and brussel sprouts



WOD
Rest/Recovery and boy did my body need it. I couldn't sit without cringing. It hurts so good!

Day 10

Breakfast - Hard boiled egg in leftover adobo sauce and cauliflower rice


Lunch - Leftover adobo with cauliflower rice and roasted broccoli

Dinner - Pork chops with roasted sweet potatoes and broccoli


Snacks - Pistachios, Naked juice, apple,

WOD
Foundation Session 2
Topics: POSE Running. Air Squat/ Front Squat/ Overhead Squat/ Press/ Push Press/ Push Jerk. Kettlebell skills (swing, snatch, clean, press), GHD (Glut ham developer) & hip/back extensions
Workout: 5:00 AMRAP 20 Front Squats/ 20 Push Jerks

My total - 1 RD + 17 FS

Pic of the Colorado Springs Crossfit Gym (CSCF)