Fitness - Dead Lifts & WOD w/ vest - 3/30

Had a little mis-hap this morning and locked my keys in my car. I had to hit up the 8 am class instead of the 7 am (also put me an hour late to work, shhh).

This later class had a pretty interesting affect on me, but we'll get to that later.

Focus: Dead lift, 5x5 cross sets w/ chains
2x5 - 160 Kg (352.7#)
3x5 - 175 Kg (385.8#)

Felt pretty good here. this is a continuation of training to improve my dead lift max without maxing out each time this lift comes up. So today i went on the heavy-ish side. I added the chains so it gets heavier as you pull it off the ground.

WOD w/ 12# vest:
21 thrusters - 61 Kg (135#)
21 knees to elbows
20' rope climb
15 thrusters - 60 Kg (135#)
15 knees to elbows
20' rope climb
9 thrusters - 60 Kg (135#)
9 knees to elbows
20' rope climb

Score/Time: 8:15
Calories burned (including focus & WOD): 673

Ok, so remember when i said the later class had a weird effect on me? Here's why.

Usually I wake up and workout on an empty stomach, I'm just not that hungry first thing when I wake up. Today i was really hungry so I had a spoon full of almond butter and a few dried apricots. just a few hundred calories to get me going.

My metabolism must have been in overdrive because this only made me 10 times more hungry than I was. My body flew threw that little bit of nourishment and wanted more. I figured I could wait an hour or so until after my workout, then eat right away.

The only problem was that I locked my effing keys in the car so I didn't workout for another 2 hours because i had to wait for AAA to rescue me. By then I was downright starving, my stomach hurt because I was so hungry. i thought I could get away with just drinking a lot of water to trick my stomach into thinking it was full, but not so. I had absolutely no gas in the tank, and it hurt.

When i was finished, i had an insane headache and felt dizzy, severe cotton mouth and it felt like I was going to throw up. Literally, the first thing I did when I finished was hover over the garbage can for a minute or so.

I mean, this was a brutal WOD. 135# was heavy for thrusters and wearing the vest was pissing me off. It's just so uncomfortable to breathe in. It also made the rope ascents really hard, my grip was spent. And contracting my abs during the knees to elbows only made the stomach discomfort (and grip) worse.

Anyway, I've learned my lesson and from now on I'm getting up and making sure i eat something more substantial before every workout.