Thursday, March 22, 2012

Mountain Biking and Spring Sports

So my goal for this spring is to get back into mountain biking and spring tennis. I went out mountain biking  twice already and frankly I sucked hardcore. I went over to Rayburn, a trail network of single track mountain biking trails. It had changed a lot. There were fallen trails everywhere, and new trail loops all over. I struggled with climbs that i had mastered last summer. The drops and rock bridges that i once went out of my way to go over where now an absolute challenge. Although i had struggled with some stuff i also instinctively could do some of the other features that i mastered in previous seasons. There is this one trail with three or four old fallen trees, and instead of cutting them up and moving them from the trail, people had stacked up logs and rocks to make it able to trek right up and over the massive logs in the middle of the trail. I had fun. My dad i went out for around an hour or so. I'm gonna go out again on Saturday with my friend James.

The Boy's Tennis team at our school started a few days ago, and i still have to sign up, but i am looking forward to getting back into that too. I enjoy the awesome workouts and conditioning that we have to do to build strength up for matches. Im not very good at tennis but i can manage, so i hope to get better this season.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Dead Wrong

Dead Wrong is a true crossfit workout. Dead lifts, running, and burpees is about as crossfit as you can get really. This intense workout starts with a warm-up of one 400m run, 100 jump ropes, and 50 sit-ups, 3 times. Dead wrong is 3 rounds of 25 sit-ups, a 400m run, 10 dead lifts, and 25 burpees for time. It was very very intense. My time was 20:21 min. I feel very good about this time, yet i haven't been working out very much. I think with a little amount of time i can shorten this time down to 16-17 min no problem...I'm looking forward to achieving this goal.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Last day of the Paleo Diet

Today is the last day of my paleo diet. I have had a tough time keeping up with it in the beginning but more recently it has been fun with trying to come up with new ideas of things to eat. All in all i think it went fairly successful. I enjoyed it a lot. The diet was a complete success, i lost around 10lbs just from eating differently and healthier in the month of February alone. I thought it was a neat idea, and i would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a change of diet or wanting to be just simply healthier.