What am I training for?
To be happy—I LOVE working out. I have written about it all sorts of ways but here’s one of the best reasons: failing.
To be fit—I LOVE playing sports and having the endurance to play lots of games.
To be competitive—I like to be GOOD at what I do.
To be good-looking—really, I should say to drink wine, eat chocolate, and be flexible with my diet, while maintaining my body OR improving it.
BUT sometimes those quality-of-life reasons are not enough, and concrete goals help on the days when the gym—or the stricter diet, in my case—are tough. So for the next three months (and longer but we’ll re-evaluate then), here are mine:
- Completely healed hammy, stronger than before, with better mobility
- Strict handstandgodforsakenpushups (HSPU)
- Muscle-up (MU) <– this has been on my goal list for, oh, forever. But this is the year muscleups and me shit or get off the pot—I either get one or stop pretending like I want to.
- Snatch 135# (current: 105# but OHS 135#)
- Bench 160# (this is only because Cali is my workout partner …)
- Less evening eating … no joke, this is when I stress eat even though I’m not hungry, and I’d like to stop
- Abzzzzzz. By March 15. Puerto Rico.
The training plan is still in the works, but looks like 3-4 mornings a week of CrossFit, 1-2 yoga sessions a week, 1 day of volleyball lessons, and as much beach football and volleyball as I can play on the weekends!
The diet plan focuses on four areas I need to “rein in”: no drinking alcohol alone (like when I’m cooking), no chocolate chips/nibbles at work or home (as a snack), food prep Sundays, and more protein from natural sources (more meat-cooking, less protein-powdering).