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If I recall correctly from our FFA days, Sean is pretty tall and lean. That's great for rowing. He oughta be able to sprint a 1:40 without hardly breathing. I did a 1:39 500m max effort a week or two ago and I'm 300 lbs. Come on, Sean, put some effort in it.

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Having 30" legs pretty much sux for running but I can make up for it in rowing with sheer leg power.

I'll be in. The wife and I started our diet plan before Christmas. Rough, but as she said, it's never a good time to start. We actually came out of the holidays down weight, which is awesome considering we cheated at the family dinners and such.

We are doing the Medi Weightloss program, ketosis based diet. We keep track of protein calories (1100/ day), exclude carbs and sugars, each a couple cups of veggies a day, or 1 fruit/ 1 veggie. It's tough to start out with, and we are learning to be creating with the proteins (turkey taco bowl with crisp lettuce for crunch vs grilled chicken) and it is getting better. So far, losing a few pounds of fat each week, making sure I maintain the muscle.

Initially I weighed in a 299 the first week of December, dropped 4.5 lbs by 12/20, and then the next weigh in I did is the one I entered for the first week of January @ 293

Yeah, without much to compare it to since I row on my own in my basement I'm slowly learning where my advantages/limitations are. Looking online at data it's such a hodge podge of crap. Deats with 30" nubs for legs can probably rip out 30spm, no problem. It's a real struggle for me at 6'4" with a 37" inseam to get north of 28spm. ...but I may be catching more meters at 26spm than he is at 30.

I'm also guessing that if Hoss is just ripping out sub 1:40s one after another there is either a damper difference in his erg and my ModelC, or an inherent benefit to being 3-hundy. Also highly possible that I'm just a puss. That is probably most likely. There also seems to be a real flattening of my diminishing marginal returns below 1:40. For me to go from 2:00 to 1:50? Easy. To go from 1:50 to 1:45? not that bad. To go from 1:45 to 1:40? Tough. To go from 1:40 to 1:38? Real hard. To go from 1:38 to 1:37? Even harder.

My best ever was before I went to CO last year for the trip that shall not be spoken of and it was 1:33 and some change and it sucked. I puked afterwards.

To be fair, I did it ONE time in a single 500m max effort test. Damper was set on 7 because that's where it was when I got on it and I've never really understood what that thing does. And I don't know if this is the exact rowers my gym has, but they look like these...

http://www.roguefitness.com/black-concept-2-model-d-rower-pm5?gclid=CJne9KnivdECFcK6wAodYOECUA

All I know is the tall people seem to do well. A tall skinny dude in my class that can barely squat 200 lbs cranked out 1:25 or something like that on the rower when I did my 1:39. That guy also kills it on the assault bike though, so maybe it's just him.

Cross fit is glorious. Thankfully I'll take hearing about crossfit over someone telling me they are vegan.

God forbid they are a vegan who does CrossFit...

This year, I'm trying to get so fat I can't see my **** anymore. I've got a good start.

Brush Country said:

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This year, I'm trying to get so fat I can't see my **** anymore. I've got a good start.

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Good ol' Dickie Doo syndrome. Where your stomach hangs out farther than your dickie doo

How is the Black Rifle Coffee?

I drink a pot a day. I'd set it up on a drip if my lab tech was a phlebotomist worth half a *****

Tx-Ag2010 said:

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God forbid they are a vegan who does CrossFit...

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So a vegan Texan pilot who does crossfit walks into a bar....

BenderRodriguez said:

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Tx-Ag2010 said:

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God forbid they are a vegan who does CrossFit...

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So a vegan Texan pilot who does crossfit walks into a bar....

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Tells the whole bar he was the inspiration for MFBarnes...

The hardest working vegan in crossfit

Alright

I'm in. I'm starving, man.

Not eating today until pulled pork in South Carolina at Cowpens historic site.

Rowed 10k in 47:28

My goals aren't weight oriented, but since I've started going to the gym, I've started noticing patterns in my weight. In the middle of the week I was down 5 pounds under my "holiday weight", but today I was up three pounds from the middle of the week. I guess I'm gonna have to start watching my eating on the weekend too.

Good luck!

Think about how awesome it'll be to have a "26.2" sticker on your car/truck.

Good luck!

I just spent about 8-9 hours on a chain saw, does that count? Kinda like rowing, maybe?

Starting weight 253.4
Week 1: 245.8
Week 2: 243.8

Pulled off a solid 2 lb loss this week, even after spending most of the week at no further loss. Happy with it. Maybe next week I can hit the 230s. It's a marathon not a sprint, but it's nice to see the numbers go down.

Stayed at 216 this week. Really need to control the diet.

ETA: 3500m recovery row

Flew off the rails eating and drinking my weight in beer hunting this weekend.

Back on the paintrain tomorrow

Starting weight:244
Week one: 240
Week two: 240

Out of town, so don't have access to my logs, and can't add data to spreadsheet on phone.

No weight loss, but I did lift, run, and do my push-ups and sit ups this week.

Not discouraged, last year my weight didn't fluctuate much but I had to tighten my belt by 4 notches to keep my pants up over the course of the year so I think I was doing a lot of replacing fat with muscle.

When I get home I should tape myself so I can measure progress that way as well.

BreNayPop said:

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Sw 262
Gw 200

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Sw= 262
Wk 1 wt= 258
Wk 2 wt= 252.2

Started Saturday with trying to get my diet cleaned up. I decided to go back to the plan they gave me in a 6 week challenge I did back in August when I first started CrossFit. It worked well for me then. Hoping it works well for me now.

7:00 - Post Workout
6 oz lean protein
6 oz carbs (usually rice or sweet potatoes or fruit)
1-2 cups veggies

10:00
6 oz lean protein
1-2 cups veggies

1:00
6 oz lean protein
1-2 cups veggies
1 serving healthy fats (usually 1/2 large avocado or handful of almonds)

4:00
6 oz lean protein
1-2 cups veggies
1 serving healthy fats (see above)

7:00
6 oz lean protein
1-2 cups veggies

Water
150 oz per day

For those counting calories, that's generally going to be in the neighborhood of 2,000 calories (+/- depending on your selections).

When I was doing this for the 6 week challenge I did we were allowed to have one optional cheat meal a week. Whether I took it or not depended on how I felt like I did for the week. If I stuck to the plan and did well I rewarded myself with a reasonable cheat meal. If not I skipped it.

Also, they really wanted us to eat a meal identical to the post workout meal about an hour before a workout, but that would require me to get up and eat at 4:30 in the morning and I just don't want to eat that early.

0515 workout. 24 YO trainer crapped us the heck out. Celebrating surviving with stratch pancakes and bacon with the family. Clean eating.