Thursday - Continuous Pull-ups

Well I'm changing up my diet to fall more inline with the paleolithic diet and am training my body to use fat as its primary source of fuel. Its hard though to get your body away from all the refined carbs present in current day pantries, especially when my beautiful wife, Leslie, is such an amazing baker and cook. So this morning I skipped the coffee and ate a breakfast of roast beef (100g), ~1 tbsp of coconut oil, a grapefruit and some nuts. Aside from the taxing load to my gall bladder I felt great all morning. No grogginess, my concentration was good and thoughts were clear. Throughout the day though I did introduce a couple of carb based items just so my body wouldn't enter a complete state of shock. It was a very excellent start.

After a half day of work and taking Indiana to the vet I came home to focus in on the Crossfit WOD. Today was a continuous pull-up ladder where you complete 1 pull-up every minute then add a pull up to the next. So the first minute you do 1 pull-up, the second you do 2, the third you do 3, etc....I was definitely in to mood to break my last record of 20 rounds and 15 extra reps.

Good ole warm-up:

Intense skip 2 min
30 push-ups
Intense skip 2 min
20 pull-ups
Intense skip 2 min
20 dips

Good stretch and another 30 overhead squats.

Hit up Continuous pull-ups:

New personal best of:
23 rounds &15 pull-ups.

Felt super easy up to about round 17 then all I could think about was breaking through the 22 mark. I still was finishing up the rounds with plenty of time and even purposefully breaking up the sets but by the time I came to 21 I new that I could make the 23 mark.

Afterwards I did some handstands, hammer curls, shoulder press, bicep curls and rotator cuff exercises. I know that coupling all of these movements together will make Crossfit and life easier and though some may laugh at the isolated movements. You better walk the walk.