Day 9 done...or whatever day we're on. *sigh*

Day 9 done.

Day 9 done: after today we will be 1/3 done, hang in there.

The most interesting thing to me has been having my eyes opened about just how much stuff has sugar in it: will any of you be changing your habits after the challenge ends, or are we meeting for hot fudge sundaes at 12:01AM on the 5th?

Day 9 done.

I plan on reverting back to my prior regimen after the challenge. I find I'm paradoxically eating a few more carbs these days, as many of my regular high-protein foods are off-limits. It has been instructional, though, in the insidious permeation of sugar.

Day 9 done. We made our own muesli at Whole Foods. We copied the ingredients label of one of the bulk-bin muesli but left out the malted barley sweetener. In addition to tasting better, it came up to half the per lbs price.

From the annals of poor nutrition - as if we needed more reason to support Bloomberg's sugar tax:

http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/01/australians-so.html

"The problem isn't unique to Australia. A high court in Canada recently ruled airlines must offer obese passengers a second seat -- at no cost -- if they cannot comfortably or safely fit into one. Overweight flight attendants have sued airlines for hiring practices they consider discriminatory. The Federal Aviation Administration revised its guidelines for calculating the weight of a plane, bumping up the average passenger weight in the equation it uses to determine takeoff weight and center of gravity limits. And some experts suggest obesity may have had a role in the crash of a US Airways commuter flight that killed 21 people when it crashed in 2003 after failing to gain altitude quickly enough."

I may be one of the few that maintains something approachng no sugar. It's not all that hard for me to figure out what to avoid and the payoffs are huge. The cravings come and go and I don't think it will ever be effortless but I'm sort of a special case with sugar, both hypersensitive and prone to addiction. I hear these often go hand in hand. I'll pass on the Sundae outing.

We have to do left arm 21 reps and then right arm 21 reps, correct? This is not a two kettlebells at once exercise?
In the interest of time saving, I may double up and use the lighter bells (pretty sure I couldn't do strict presses w/ the 1 pood anyway). Hopefully I won't get as badly bruised as I did when Elaine and I did a similar sequence w/ dumbbells at GWPC. Ouch!

If you want to do it as it was written on CF main, just use a 65# barbell.

I don't see it on main site. What is the date?
Or just ditto everything but sub 65# barbell across?

Original main entry:

CF Main WOD

The main site version is somewhat more intense, but not as good for strength development.

I see it. Thanks for the link. Yeah, the one on CF main is far more metcon and less strengthy than the way you did it. I'll mull it over. I could certainly use the strength work.

day 9 done

I would say your workout is more intense than the main site WOD. 2X24kg = 105lbs. I could do the main site workout albeit very slowly (1,1,1 strict press). I cannot press the 1.5pood kettlebell though. Therefore, is it better for me to do the womens weight (2X16kg = 70lb) or the main site WOD?

Gita, you make make the classic distance athlete error of mistaking volume for intensity.

Intensity = work/time

In the national WOD version, even though the overall volume is lower, the force output will be higher, ie more intensity. This is why Fran is more intense than Helen, which is more intense than Murph, which is more intense than a Marathon, which is more intense than a 50 mile run.

Caveat: this is my opinion, I am not a trainer and I don't claim to be one // caveat.

Gita: how quickly do you want to get through this wod and what do you want to get out of it?
If you're working on strength, go heavy and do barbell.
If you want to do metcon, go w/ lighter kb and go fast. However, if you want to work on getting closer to 1.5 pood kb strict press, go w/ a dumbbell set that is heavier than the 1 pood but you can still use for a strict press.

Definitions:

Work(W), Force(F), Distance(d), Power(P), Time(t), Mass(m), Gravitational Acceleration Constant(g)

W=F*d, F=m*g: W=m*g*d
P=W/t: P=m*g*d/t

Gita=weak: m=95#(43kg) barbell or 16kg kettlebell

Shortish Arms say about .5 meters: d=.5

P1=43*9.81*(.5*3*21)/t1
P2=16*9.81*(.5*3*42)/t2

P1/P2 = 1.34(t2/t1)

While an initial glance at the ratio between the two workouts indicates that the national WOD does indeed result in a higher power output (if intensity is defined as the physical term power), an examinatin of the time fraction indicates that P1/P2 can also be less than or equal to 1. Point being one cannot carte blanche say any one workout is more intense than another without accounting for time. In my case it will take me longer to do the national WOD than the womens WOD. This makes the time fraction less than one. Would the disparity be enough to make P1/P2

Ha I got cut off.

Would the disparity be enough to make P1/P2

Or maybe the thread does not like less than signs.

Would the disparity be enough to make P1/P2 less than 1? In my case I am almost certain that this would be the case. Therefore, if the idea is to lower power output in order to maximize strength gains the national WOD likely makes more sense. This is the actual question I was posing. I suppose it is pretty much rhetorical, but any thoughts?

You rock.

Right. My guess is Natl. wod too. Max?

21:34
Press: 8kg
Push & Jerk:12kg

The point is, if you could do both RX, the CFEB version would yield somewhat more strength work and somewhat weaker Metcon.

In order to use less-than signs, you need to use the html code for it (& l t ; without spaces = <), otherwise it thinks you're starting an html tag.

WOD: 31:30
1 pood for the first round, 1.25 thereafter

It's a crappy time, but I'm just pleased I got the grey bell up 84 times. I even did a few with the black bell afterwards. I think I might be getting the hang of the KB push-jerk.

Less talk.
More jock. :)

21:58 Rx

No Sugar today. Should be day 7 without sugar.

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