This is my ME time

New Deadlift PR!!! 105kg! And I did not even notice - when I lifted it I was still convinced to go for my old PR of 100kg. BAM - new PR and really happy. Hard workout day yesterday. First we ran 3.4km, than we started with a personal weight-session by doing Backsquats (10-8-6-4-2) with a max of 55kg, Deadlifts (PR of 105kg 1 RM) and a combination of power cleans and split jerks (3-3-3-3) with 37.5kg. After that we joined the Crossfit class that had a really really bad WOD to offer:

Warmup Tc 7min 50-40-30-(20-10) Russian twist Sit up Jumping lunges

WOD tc. 25 min 1800m run 9 pull ups 9 thruster (25kg) 800m run 15 pull ups 15 thruster 400m run (21 pull ups 21 thruster)

My breakfast: 

6 spinach leaves - half a banana - some red berries of choice - 1 spoon of coconut flakes - a little bit of curcuma - a little bit of Acai - a little bit of Maca - a little bit of ginger - 1 spoon of oats - 1 spoon of protein whey (vanilla) powder - a little bit of cinnamon - 1 spoon of Chia (soaked in water the night before) - fill up with water.  

I always feel like brewing a witch craft drink but it really is very filling and yummy and gives you energy to start the day.

Todays training is actually not too exciting but before going to Crossfit I ran 4km in 21 minutes. When arriving to the box a couple of guys were about to prepare for a WOD they wanted to do outside the regular classes and asked me and my friend to join. Never did a WOD apart from a crossfit class. I assigned myself to the 7pm class but notified the instructor that I would not participate and instead took part in the little group WOD.

We did a 25min WOD that included 4 exercises. Each done for a minute (as many reps as you could possibly do) and than you get a minute rest. That is repeated for 5 rounds.

T2B (for me it was more a K2E kinda training, but I managed to do the first two of every round in the RX version) - KB high pull (16kg) - Double Under (actually managed to do some *proud*) - OH Lunges (15kg Bar - I just really hate Lunges...)

It really gets to you this WOD. Was sweating like a pig hahaha. When we finished I convinced the guys to go for another run around the lake (1.6km - 1 mile) and was a little surprised when it turned out, that I was obviously more capable of pulling off another round of running than they were. We ran kinda slow and one of the guys even had to stop in between (his ego made him catch up with us again). 

So summary: 4km (20min) running - WOD 25 min tc - 1.6km running

I am really motivated. I really love working out and when I work out in the morning I feel like I could go a second time later in the day. The after-workout-feeling is just incredible and one could definitely say: Crossfit is my drug. I am obsessed. 

But nevertheless it is sometimes hard to stay motivated. Its not the problem that I have trouble getting my ass up the couch to go there... no - not at all. But it is the reflection in the mirror that just does not want to seem to change. Well... looking at the pictures from March compared to what I see now: yeah - something has changed! But for the amount of exercise that I am doing and the amount of weights I am moving combined with the healthy eating I am trying to follow... I expect it to change faster. 

I guess we are all a little blinded by the internet websites that show us fotos of people that apparently have lost xx amount of lbs in 2 weeks just by doing xx thing. It is not that easy. Not at all. It takes a loooong time. It takes patients. I am not nearly there where I want to be but I just keep going. But I think I sometimes only keep going because I love the workout so much and do not only do it for changing my body. Otherwise I probably would have already given up again - like I did it so many times before. Thanks for Crossfit - thanks for being so awesome that I do not want to stop. I probably would not even stop if it made me bigger. I guess I found my perfect sport.

Just don’t listen to the whole social media talk telling you that you can loose a lot in short time and change a lot in a short time. Maybe a year is realistic to really notice a big change. I start to see a little muscle on my arms and I can definitely feel me being strong - I can do so many things I wasn’t able to do before. But without the fat going away that covers the rest of the muscles you won’t really see the big results. 

The hardest part really isn’t going to the gym and workout. The hardest part is how you are able to control your eating and lifestyle habits on the rest of the day. And that is really really hard. 

WARMUP

3min: Person 1 30 Sit ups - Person 2 KB Swing - after Person 1 finishes: change

1min: Plank hold

3min: repeat first Workout

1min: Plank hold with Shoulder touch

STRENGTH

KB Row 10-10-10-10 - max. 16kg

WOD tc 18 (finished in 14)

30-20-10

Hang Power Clean (25kg)

OH Lunges (15kg)

I am not so sure what goals I have.. I think, I just wanna look more fit and I want my fat to leave my body. At least a big part of it. 

I went to measure myself the other day to make sure, I am eating right for the amount of activity that I am doing. I am training 6 times a week (at least I do at the moment... no idea if I can keep up with that when starting to work in an office) and I rest on Sundays. I have a Garmin vivosmart watch that counts my calories burned, my heartrate and the steps that I make during the day. At the same time I am trying to keep track on what I eat using the fitnesstracker App from Under Armour that syncs with my Garmin Connect App. But with all the exercise I am doing, the app kept telling me, that I am not eating enough - even though I never felt like eating little.

So I went to see a specialist to find out more about the “perfect nutrition” for people like me that want to loose a little weight (correction: I soon was to notice, that my idea about weight was far off the reality) and make the muscles show without being unhealthy about it.

First I had to step on a scale that basically measures everything. After seeing my actual body weight my mood dropped drastically. 82 kilos... how could that be? I was always calculating with 76kg and I thought I was already a little pessimistic about it... No. The scale hit me with the truth. 82kg. And that is why I hate scales and haven’t been standing on one for almost two years. You feel great about yourself. You just thought that you start to like your body and that your efforts are paying off. You are in a good mood. And than the scale hits you with a number. Nothing off the previous mentioned facts have changed but this number ruins the whole feeling that you have about yourself. Why? I guess because society taught us to do so. The body definition always is related to weight. And to the freakin’ BMI. According to this new BMI I am slightly overweight. And a minute ago I was just feeling great!... 

The specialist saw my reaction and asked me, what I feel about the number. I told him, that I was considering it quite high and I am a little disappointed. He started smiling. “You have an awesome amount of muscular tissue in your body! 34kg! That is amazing! Your fat index lies by 24% - which I think we can shrink to 20% with the right nutrition.”

24%? Wow... that is great. The last number I had in my head was 28% from a measurement I did two years ago - and since than I never had the body I had know. Hahahaha know I would really like to know the fat index I had in March when going to the Iguazu Waterfalls. I posted a picture earlier. 

He demonstrated me in which parts of the body I have the most fat and where I have to start working the most. And he told me, that I should start drinking less alcohol for my fat levels in my organs being really high and that comes from the alcohol (I am not drinking a lot. But I am probably drinking wine or beer on 5 nights of the week - welcome to Argentina. I am also not so sure if that is exactly what he said: so far my spanish is still in the making - but I definitely got the part right where he said: “less alcohol”!)