Starting to get hungry, but not for lack of eating and it’s generally an hour post workout. However daily energy is better than usual re. Better than it was when I was eating meat and also when I made the switch, however I believe this is due to the larger amounts of fresh fruit and vegetables I’m eating right now. I think I’ll add in a green shake and possibly a bigger afternoon snack like oats, Chia and coconut yoghurt with fruit to up some calories but I’ll play it by ear. I’m crushing workouts that I’ve previously been hesitant to tackle so that’s good. Also blew through 5*5 front squats with 115 which is a volume PR.
Yeah Patrick is a beast with godly facial hair. I’m a little less enhanced than he is haha but he is still incredibly impressive.
There’s some pretty impressive vegan calisthenics dudes
But my personal favourite vego athlete is Jake shields. If a vegetarian can beat up Dan Henderson before he got old, it’s an okay diet
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Nice, I wasn’t aware that he was vegan. I just might ACTUALLY have to try this 1-day/week vegetarian w/eggs (ovovegetarian?). I know it’s unlikely to see any of the potential benefits from just 1 day per week, but it can’t hurt! Your typical diet as well as his that I found HERE, look both delicious and simple (which is necessary for me as I’m a very basic chef).
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Nah he’s just vegetarian I think
Yeah man if anything stands out and you want a recipe just ask bro
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Training today was fucking awesome
- Snatch 60kg*30
Finished in 3:54 and I was chuffed with that - 5km on assault bike 250m sprint/250m cruise
Sucked ass and tore the soul from me haha - Did some incline bench and dumbbell curls for shits and giggles because tomorrow is a rest day
Food
- Overnight oats as usual
- Strawberries, blueberries, pepitas and sunflower seeds as well as a green shake (will detail lower)
- Mexican bowl
- Protein shake and a PB sandwich
- Veggie burger with kimchi
Okay so this green shake I got from Joe Rogan
It’s a big handful of Kale, a whole apple, a big stick of celery, a chunk of ginger and one clove of garlic with a splash of water blitzed. No shit this thing tastes fucked awful but like as soon as I finished it either the ginger of the garlic gave me this coffee like buzz, if was pretty nuts and I could legitimately feel my digestive system going bananas. I think I’ll start drinking this upon waking up every day or two… Hopefullt I get used to it haha
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Day off training today so I did 45 mins of yoga instead, was awesome
Food was all over the shop in terms of timing
- Breakfast as usual, overnight oats
- Snack of two bananas and an apple plus some seeds and nuts
- Small salad roll while I was at work (sports trainer for a soccer club)
No arvo snack and I was starving by dinner so I had my lunch as well as dinner and an arvo snack haha - Creamy hummus pasta w sundries tomato and spinach, vegetable coconut curry with quinoa, four pieces of wholemeal toast with almond butter and chia seeds plus a punnet of strawberries.
Such an awesome type of full though
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Yoga this morning
Needed badly but felt my hips release so well.
Training
- Emomx6
3 power clean, 3 front squat, 3 power jerk 60kg - Conditioning 4 rounds, 3 minute amrap, 3 minute rest. Rd1 21cal row, 21 burpee, 35kg thrusters for remainder. RD2. 18,18, 42.5KG. Rd3. 15,15, 52.5kg. Rd4 12,12, 60kg.
- 3RFT 300m run with 10kg sandbag, 15 ghd sit ups
Meals were
- Overnight oats as usual
- Toast with almond butter, Chia and green Smoothie
- Rice bean and Kale burritos
- Oats, coconut yoghurt, Chia seeds and berries
- Kimchi spaghetti
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Morning breathing and yoga
Training was great today
- Power cleans 70%55
- Power jerk 70%55
- Push press 70%55
- Conditioning for time
15-10-5
Kb swing 24kg
Toe to bar
800m assault bike
5-10-15
Kb swing 24kg
Toe to bar
Simple. Effective. Brutal.
Food for today
- Choc overnight oats w blueberry
- Green Smoothie, toast w Peanut and almond butter and a banana
- Crispy roast chickpea, sweet potato and beetroot w tossed spinach and Moroccan spices
- Oats w coconut yoghurt, blueberries and mandarin
- Kimchi spaghetti (again because it’s fucking delicious)
Couple more observations, I’m really leaning out across my back, love handle area always the last to go, but my night weight is up, as is my emptied weight. I’m about 78 fully empty and my lowest about mid week 1 was 76.9 and my average night time weight is around 81.5
Anecdotally I am bigger and leaner on a plant based whole food diet. Easy peasy.
I wholeheartedly put this down not to the absence of meat, but the abundance of wholesome fruits ans veggies I eat in conjunction with beans, grains and seeds. This is an easy practice anyone eat meat can adopt to supplement their diet and physique.
There has also been a carry over in my dietary discipline to my training discipline.
Eating consistently well, whilst also being great for you, has had the effect of making me feel like an athlete. I eat like an athlete, I feel like an athlete, therefore I train like an athlete.
I would encourage anyone who reads any of my logs to try devoting one day a week to planning at least five days worth of meals, decide on some cuisines, look up recipes, write a shopping list and don’t buy anything else. You’ll be surprised how great you feel fueling up on the right stuff and if the shit isn’t there to eat, there’s no actual temptation.
Peace love and power cleans mother lickers
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Also, people seem to give too much power to ‘want’ and not devote enough attention to ‘need’ when it comes to training and diet alike… Probably life too I guess. Start now, not tomorrow. You are not more important than your health xx
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I see what you did there.
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Yoga and breathing as usual.
Training was fun
Did some chest and back supersets and practice double under skipping between each exercise
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58 football bar bench w chains
Ssb with 515 seated cable row
10-20 double unders every change -
Giant set
55 weighted chins
512 cable fly
5*12 lateral db raise -
Brf biceps and Triceps
Fun ass day to just get a pump
Food
- Usual oats
- Four pieces of toast w natural Peanut butter, an apple, a banana and a mandarin
- Felafel bowl (quinoa, broccoli, beans and home made tzatziki)
- Oats w coconut yoghurt and berries
- Coconut curry (broccoli, cauliflower and lentil on quinoa)
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Note to self. Recipe for curry said yep teaspoons of dried chili flakes… Not two table spoon… Fuck
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Soft!
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Training.
- Clean and jerks. Some doubles and a top single of 210lb
- Clean pulls 4*2 at 265lb
- Front squat 5*4 at 265lb volume PR
- Conditioning three rounds for time
500m row (sumo deadlift high pull sub)
12 burpee
21 box jump
Fun training, sweat flying everywhere, leg trap and abs pump. Love that shit.
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Fyi. Crispy salt and pepper chickpeas are lit fam
Training today
One of those days where what was on paper seemed ‘too hard’ but I surprised myself in a couple of fuck yeah moments
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Barbell conditioning, for time.
Thrusters
10@115
8@135
6@155
4@185
2@205 (big PR. Never did one, let alone two)
All done in under 10 minutes, including changing plates myself -
More conditioning. Fuck.
0:00-10:00 run 1 mile then Max clean and jerk with 135 in remainder
10:00-13:00 rest
13:00-20:00 run 1/2 mile then Max power snatch with 115 in remainder
20:00-23:00 rest
23:00-27:00 run 1/4 mile then Max thrusters with 95 in remainder
Loved it. Pushed myself hard. First mile was 6.25 which was a fast but somewhat conservative effort in terms of wanting to finish the rest of the workout haha
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