THURSDAY - GETTING TOO LEAN

While trying to lean out with the zone, you might start to notice a decline in your CrossFit WOD performances. It is known that most people will perform better with a little more fat on them than they want aestetically. Finding the balance point might be difficult and will take experimentation. If you are getting lean to the point that you are seeing your abs and are finding that you don't have energy and that your performance is suffering you will need to kick up your fat blocks. Keep everything else the same, but add extra fat blocks. Several high level CrossFitters are eating 2-5x fat blocks to help satisfy their energy needs.

This video is a good explanation of this:

Pat Sherwood on "The Idiot Suit," by CrossFit Again Faster- video [wmv] [mov] (courtesy of www.crossfit.com)

Comments

[Annee Buchele]

week 3, day 4 -

breakfast: zone bar - 2 blocks
lunch: turkey sandwich with cheese and almonds - 2 blocks
snack: swiss cheese, hot chocolate, and almonds - 2 blocks
dinner: turkey sandwich with cheese and almonds - 2 blocks
snack: no-bake cookies - yes, i caved to my monthly craving:(

annee

[Leigh Ann Cannon]

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs, 1 mini bagel (21g carb) with peanut butter
Lunch: 2 oz. chicken breast, 1 apple, 6 almonds
Snack: 2 oz. ham, 1 piece bread with peanut butter
Dinner: pork chops (~4 oz.), broccoli AND peanut butter cookies, mini 3 Muskateers and Skittles (was at Moms and she has all this really good crap around that is about impossible to avoid!) CHEAT MEAL #2 for the week
Snack: 2 cheese sticks and 4 cups popcorn

Annee, save me a no-bake cookie for my cheat meal this weekend!

[Leigh Ann Cannon]

P.S. I think I am struggling with the needing more fat thing. I am definitely wanting to lean out more, but this last week I have been hitting a wall on the WODS big time. I was 3 minutes slower on manmakers, did the same time on Booch's ladder with less weight, and just feel shaky and weak.

So I can't decide if I want to take a hit on my performance for awhile to lean out a little more or just go ahead and double my fat blocks and stay a little fatter than I want to be.

[Sara]

Breakfast: 2 egg whites, 2 whole eggs scrambled; part of Maia's pop-tart, 9 almonds - 3 blocks
Lunch: 3 oz. tuna, 1 c. peas, 9 almonds - 3 blocks
Snack: yogurt, 3 almonds - 1 block
Dinner: 4 oz. ham, 1 c. corn, 9 almonds - 4 blocks

Dinner was late tonight, so I just made it 4 blocks instead of 3!