Lazy and FAT !

Ok I have to start by saying :

I suffer a debilitating knee sprain playing fastball a few months ago. Then I played two games before I sprained it AGAIN (right knee Lateral Collateral Ligament sprain grade, or level, II, to be precise). I thought I was done for the summer ! I called it quits with my Fastball season but behold... a fantastic playing opportunity in the World Police and Fire Games (hey this year ha seen more athletes than the Olympics, gimme a break !). So there I was, playing 'slow' pitch softball with my team (there's nothing slow playing at third base in slow pitch, trust me on that one). Oh my knee went fine... endured the rigors of the many stunts and dirt-eating catches and near misses. The only problem was I pulled my left Hamstring running after a stupid foul ball ! The back of my left leg is still purple/black from mid-thigh to mid-calf.

Ok so those were the set-backs. Now the real reason I got FAT was that I slacked off on everything else. Only my legs were injured... I could've worked out my upper body to maintain my metabolism. Even tried a few stunts like handstands, L-sits, V-sits or other parallelettes stuff. 1-arm push ups ? PISTOLS on my healthy leg why not (not too many, to avoid muscle imbalance). My food intake stayed the same (or even increased a little).

Results : Me being FATter than I'm used or even comfortable with. Yesterday I decided to calculate my body fat % to find my protein intake according to the Zone diet. That placed me, according to the same book, in the 'fatter-than-the-average-american-male'. That just blew me away !!! Being a CANADIAN farmer boy who was at 7-8% body fat less than 2 years ago... that was a difficult hit !

Dave Tate stated in his interview that injury was one of the gut-check in sports or athlete motivation... I found a new meaning to it : I really do have a gut now !!!! CRAP !!!

I started my Paleo diet today, with ballpark Zone into the mix (+/- 15 blocks/day of paleo food).

My stats yesterday
29 years old
5'7" (who am I kidding I'm not 5'8" !)
175lbs
around 25-28% body fat.
A GUT !

Workout of the day
Warmup consisted in running around the block in 20lbs vest.
Time : 6'33"
Distance : a little less than 1 mile

Stretching

Crossfit.com WOD (subbed the skipping with 1-hand 16KB swings since I broke my rope last time I skipped)

AMRAP KB swings
AMRAP situps

4 Rounds (2 min, 1'30", 1min, then 30 sec)

My numbers were :
55/50
47/31
35/25
19/20

Total of 156 swings and 126 situps.

Stretching.

Overall a great feeling. I'm off to a good start and hopefully I'll stick to my diet and fit lifestyle from now on !

Run fat boy run !