Tough Mudder in Central Florida completed on November 2nd, 2013. I ran this Tough Mudder with a co-worker and we decided to be in wave #1 so we left the gate at 8am. The course was roughly 12 miles long with about 23 obstacles we finished around 10:15am.
Below are the pictures that were taken along the way.
I spent the majority of last week in Buffalo and Rochester, NY with my team which meant I was eating three meals a day “out”. I managed to keep my meals pretty standard and the patience was worth the wait. I managed to drop 3 pounds and drop by body fat by 1.5% as well, I’m not at 192.5 pounds and 19% body fat.
When I’m on the road my breakfast consists of Oatmeal & eggwhites from The Bistro, I try to stay at Courtyards because they are consistent.
Lunch consisted of Grilled Chicken Breasts with a steamed vegetable. If the restaurant doesn’t have grilled chicken on the menu I’ll request it, Salmon or Steak is my fallback.
Dinner
Much like lunch my dinner consisted of either Chicken or Steak, side salad with no croutons, cheese or bacon, ranch on the side and a steamed vegetable.
I eat Rise Bars either Honey Almond or Carob Chocolate.
In addition to keeping my food under control and maintaining around 2000-2100 calories a day I ran out of my GNC Multi-vitamin and decided to take a different route for the next 45 days. I’ll post on that change soon..
I recently completed a round of p90X and here are the results.. The picture on the right, my nipples were chafed from running. Hence the bandaids. 🙂
90 days of p90X
June 2013 – September 2013
I’ve talked in the past about doing Les Mills Pump and I finally got around to posting a before and after picture.
Les Mills Combat – HIIT
I decided to switch things up a little this morning for my cardio workout. Since my wife is out of town I couldn’t leave my 3 year to go run so I decided to take Les Mills Combat: Power HIIT 1 for a spin.
I’ve done a few of the Combat workouts in the past, mostly the Core Attack ab workout. I actually substituted the Core Attack ab routine while doing my last round of P90X. One thing I appreciate about the Les Mills programs is they do a good job explaining the routines and workouts.
Anyways, I’m glad I decided to tryout this workout. It had great mixture of cardio and strength. I’ll certainly be adding this into my weekly rotation.
Chicken, Spinach, Quinoa, Asparagus dinner
I eat a lot of chicken when I’m at home. I generally prefer my chicken grilled, but today I decided to take a different approach since its cold and windy outside. I stopped at the grocery store and picked up some organic thin sliced chicken breasts, organic spinach, organic tomato, organic asparagus and a packet of 90 second quinoa.
There was around 1 pound of chicken breast filets in the package.
Preparation took around 5 minutes and cook time was around 15 minutes in total, below are the cooking directions.
I’ve been drinking Shakeology for around 6 months now and I’ve tried a few different recipes. However, today I found a pretty good combination and the peanut butter made it.
Chocolate Shakeology, Coconut, Banana Shake
I’m about ready to kick off my second Tough Mudder and this one looks more bad ass than the Pittsburgh one I did in August.
November 2nd, 2013!!!, here are the obstacles – http://toughmudder.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Tough-Mudder-Tampa-2013-Spectator-Map.pdf
This week has been a whirl wind in regards to travel and eating on the road. I flew into Boston, MA on Monday night and few out Wednesday night. However, I was able to maintain my workout schedule this week but the travel did play a role in workouts that I felt were not optimal.
Monday, October 21 – Abs, Pure Cardio and Chest/Triceps – I felt really good after this workout Monday morning, total time spent working out was around 1.5 hours. However, I think I pushed myself a little to hard and that combined with travel put a toll on my body.
Tuesday, October 22 – Typically this is a running/cardio day. I wasn’t really feeling it but I was able to get a 2 mile treadmill run in at the hotel.
Wednesday, October 23 – Abs, Back & Biceps. I hit the hotel gym at 5:30am and was able to get my back/biceps workout in. However, much like Tuesday I was dragging and I felt like it wasn’t an optimal workout.
Thursday, October 24 – I took the day off.
During the course of the travel week I maintained my weight at 195.8lbs and stuck with eating Egg Whites, Oatmeal, Grilled chicken, Salmon, vegetables, and Rise Bars. The hotel actually had a pretty decent restaurant that I ate Salmon at twice, I always ask for a custom meal without additional sauces etc. The biggest challenge I found was eating at the Washington DC National Airport, the terminal I was in had lack luster options so I settled on a Chicken sandwich from Fuddruckers for dinner.
I went for a great run today it was sunny and brisk.
