Dragonvash wrote:
bigquig wrote:
I just ran across this, wish I had earlier, and have to throw in my two cents and a brief “my experience with crossfit” story.
It seems like you are doing a lot of things throughout a given week. Can you give me an example of a week and how you arrange it all? Thanks.
Well, it’s brutal overtraining. I usually go in cycles where I’ll work out 5 times a day, then I’ll take a day and only go once or twice, or just do a run and a swim, it works out well.
I try to listen to my body, so if I’m spitting blood, or if my piss is really dark no matter what, or if I’m shaking when I try to sleep or waking up all the time, I take some time off and go easy.
But here’s a day’s layout. (I go to a senior military college and have mandatory as well as voluntary physical training sessions.) I’m trying to become a Navy SEAL, and my idea with training is that I need to make everything suck as much as possible, and that there is no coddling during their training, nor is overtraining considered a word.
I’m a full time college student, it’s my last semester and academics have taken a backseat to physical training for this time.
Monday:
5:45-6:30AM: Pullup, pushups, situp routine, often totals over 100 pullups, 200 pushups, etc. Sometimes the whole session will be spent in the “up” position for pushups, or doing pullup sets to failure
2:00-3:30PM: Run, 4-11 miles.
4:00-6:00PM: PT, pullups, pushups, situps, 8-count body builders, tire flips, log PT pays to be a winner races, fireman carries, low crawling, obstacle course, run in boots and pants, usually something that ends up sucking lots.
7:00-8:00PM: Swim training, combat sidestroke primarily. Sometimes submerged swims, hypoxic drills.
8:15-9:15PM: Olympic Lifting or a circuit.
My days look like that usually, I try to O lift 4-5 days a week. I squat and deadlift usually during that time slot, but because I put on muscle so easily, I tend to concentrate on Olympic Lifts in order to stay down around the 85kg weight class. I also generally do heavy singles for the oly lifting simply to retain my lighter weight.
Saturday and Sunday will sometimes be longer runs, up to 8 hours though I’m hitting 14 this Saturday night-Sunday morning. I like doing complexes sometimes for my lifts, or throwing tabata’s in until I can’t move. If I’m feeling extra frisky, I’ll wear pants, a sweatshirt, and a wool hat to make it harder for me (and to lower alcohol tolerance).
I work full body virtually every day, but I think I have some good genes because it seems to work well. I do roughly 100 pullups outside of my workouts on a pipe in my hallway, so sometimes I’ll hit over 300 a day. Sundays I fight on occasion, Jiu Jitsu or whatever anybody wants to do, that’s an hour or so of hard going, then I might lift, run, swim, or play water polo. The running occurs 5-7 days per week.
I don’t supplement besides a multivitamin, B-complex, fish oil, and occasionally, Osteo bi-flex. If you want more info, let me know, I’d be glad to help.
