Highlanda01602's Quest for Ultimate Overall Ability
Greetings,
This will be my log, for the most part adressing endurance and overall conditioning. It's tough to say I have a "schedule", as I mix workouts up all the time to keep the stimulus flowing. In this log, I will be training running, swimming, and crossfit inspired workouts.
DIET
My diet fluctuates, with no nailed down protocol, but I maintain a clean diet by cycling through select foods. I can say that I consistantly get ~350-450g carbs/~200g protein/~50g fats.
The foods I cycle are as follows:
Proteins - Chicken, tuna, eggs, cottage cheese, occational lean ground hamburg/turkey, occational fish steaks, and the occasional rib-eye steaks.
Carbohydrates - Pasta, brown rice, oatmeal, kidney beans, low-sugar baked beans (I drain at least 50% of the sodium from the beans).
Fats - Fish oils, low-sodium nuts, rarely an egg yolk.
(Fruits and vegetables as sides to meals, or sometimes used as a boost in between my pre-workout meal and my actual workout)
Vegetables - Asparagus, brocolli, green beans, onions.
Fruits - Apples, bananas.
TRAINING
Workouts are normally crossfit inspired, and sometimes taken directly off the site. I use mainly the Navy Seal crossfit site, but I do check into the main crossfit.com site often.
Again, my training schedule fluctuates, due to how things proceed. One thing I do hold fairly strict to is a Monday/Wednesday/Friday crossfit inspired weight routine.
Monday - Compound PUSH focused workout
Wednesday - Compound PULL focused workout
Friday - Compound full-body workout, lightly incorporating legs
Cardio - I strive to run at least 5 days a week, and I've found myself utilizing a 4 on/1 off protocol. I take the occasional day off if necessary however.
Swimming - I strive to swim at least 3 times a week, with two of those sessions being of decent PT (as in more than 30 mins of swimming). I often swim as a recovery from a crossfit inspired workout, due to the gym having an indoor pool right there.
Although I have been working towards a 300 PFT for the USMC, my main goal is ultimate ability through conditioning. Being able to do 20 pullups/100 crunches in 2 mins/18-minute 3 mile is impressive, but I don't train precisely for that. I train overall conditioning. Rarely, I will do a mock PFT, to see where I'm at on the USMC scale.
At the start of this log, I would say I'm somewhere around a 275 PFT. I have swapped from underhand chinups to overhand pullups, and this switch about a month ago caused me to lose a few reps. I don't do too much ab work, rather compound lifts, but occasionally I will. Run time, I'm not so sure of. Leaving OCS Juniors, I ran a 20:47 3-miler. I have yet since then to test my 3-miler, but rather going for shorter speed runs (1.5-2.5 miles) and longer endurance runs (4 miles, 5 miles). If I could only improve ONE thing in my PFT, it would be my running. I'm training hard to get my 3-mile time down to 18:00.
SUPPLEMENTS
I have an array of supplements, some of which I'm testing out to see how I respond. My main goal is training, so I don't mind spending a good bit of money into supplements. I keep my diet clean, and the supplements are like icing on the cake so to speak. Currently, I'm using:
Multivitamin
BCAA's via Scivation Xtend
Protein powder via Oryx Goat Whey
Anabolic Pump / P-Slin
PowerFULL
Drive / and occasionally RPM
Posidon
Sesamin
And assorted NP bulk powders - Beta-Alanine, Citrulline Malate, and occasionally ALCAR.
It is a lot of supplements, and I plan on possibly dropping the AP/P-Slin combo, Drive, and Sesamin. This is largely in due part to help I've received on this board for different endurance supplements. Currently in shipment, I will be trying:
Albuterol Liquid (cycling this for the first time for endurance)
Mitocarnitine
Uridine
Colostrum
Rhodiola
Cordyceps Liquid
Bulk Glutamine and Taurine for recovery purposes
I'm looking forward to my new endurance stack, and very pumped to get it started. Whenever I make a change in my supplement diet, I will make a note of it.
Currently, I'm 5.11" @ ~175. Havn't weighed myself in a while, as it really doesn't mean anything to me. Results on my run time and in the gym are what madders for me, and that is what I will be tracking in this log!
Greetings,
This will be my log, for the most part adressing endurance and overall conditioning. It's tough to say I have a "schedule", as I mix workouts up all the time to keep the stimulus flowing. In this log, I will be training running, swimming, and crossfit inspired workouts.
DIET
My diet fluctuates, with no nailed down protocol, but I maintain a clean diet by cycling through select foods. I can say that I consistantly get ~350-450g carbs/~200g protein/~50g fats.
The foods I cycle are as follows:
Proteins - Chicken, tuna, eggs, cottage cheese, occational lean ground hamburg/turkey, occational fish steaks, and the occasional rib-eye steaks.
Carbohydrates - Pasta, brown rice, oatmeal, kidney beans, low-sugar baked beans (I drain at least 50% of the sodium from the beans).
Fats - Fish oils, low-sodium nuts, rarely an egg yolk.
(Fruits and vegetables as sides to meals, or sometimes used as a boost in between my pre-workout meal and my actual workout)
Vegetables - Asparagus, brocolli, green beans, onions.
Fruits - Apples, bananas.
TRAINING
Workouts are normally crossfit inspired, and sometimes taken directly off the site. I use mainly the Navy Seal crossfit site, but I do check into the main crossfit.com site often.
Again, my training schedule fluctuates, due to how things proceed. One thing I do hold fairly strict to is a Monday/Wednesday/Friday crossfit inspired weight routine.
Monday - Compound PUSH focused workout
Wednesday - Compound PULL focused workout
Friday - Compound full-body workout, lightly incorporating legs
Cardio - I strive to run at least 5 days a week, and I've found myself utilizing a 4 on/1 off protocol. I take the occasional day off if necessary however.
Swimming - I strive to swim at least 3 times a week, with two of those sessions being of decent PT (as in more than 30 mins of swimming). I often swim as a recovery from a crossfit inspired workout, due to the gym having an indoor pool right there.
Although I have been working towards a 300 PFT for the USMC, my main goal is ultimate ability through conditioning. Being able to do 20 pullups/100 crunches in 2 mins/18-minute 3 mile is impressive, but I don't train precisely for that. I train overall conditioning. Rarely, I will do a mock PFT, to see where I'm at on the USMC scale.
At the start of this log, I would say I'm somewhere around a 275 PFT. I have swapped from underhand chinups to overhand pullups, and this switch about a month ago caused me to lose a few reps. I don't do too much ab work, rather compound lifts, but occasionally I will. Run time, I'm not so sure of. Leaving OCS Juniors, I ran a 20:47 3-miler. I have yet since then to test my 3-miler, but rather going for shorter speed runs (1.5-2.5 miles) and longer endurance runs (4 miles, 5 miles). If I could only improve ONE thing in my PFT, it would be my running. I'm training hard to get my 3-mile time down to 18:00.
SUPPLEMENTS
I have an array of supplements, some of which I'm testing out to see how I respond. My main goal is training, so I don't mind spending a good bit of money into supplements. I keep my diet clean, and the supplements are like icing on the cake so to speak. Currently, I'm using:
Multivitamin
BCAA's via Scivation Xtend
Protein powder via Oryx Goat Whey
Anabolic Pump / P-Slin
PowerFULL
Drive / and occasionally RPM
Posidon
Sesamin
And assorted NP bulk powders - Beta-Alanine, Citrulline Malate, and occasionally ALCAR.
It is a lot of supplements, and I plan on possibly dropping the AP/P-Slin combo, Drive, and Sesamin. This is largely in due part to help I've received on this board for different endurance supplements. Currently in shipment, I will be trying:
Albuterol Liquid (cycling this for the first time for endurance)
Mitocarnitine
Uridine
Colostrum
Rhodiola
Cordyceps Liquid
Bulk Glutamine and Taurine for recovery purposes
I'm looking forward to my new endurance stack, and very pumped to get it started. Whenever I make a change in my supplement diet, I will make a note of it.
Currently, I'm 5.11" @ ~175. Havn't weighed myself in a while, as it really doesn't mean anything to me. Results on my run time and in the gym are what madders for me, and that is what I will be tracking in this log!