Rest Day

Thursdays and Sundays are my rest days now. I've now done seven workouts with the Competitors class at Crossfit Cedar Park, aka the MAD Athletes program. Doing the MAD workouts is definitely what I needed to keep pushing me to the next level and to help me improve my skills. But I'm definitely still adjusting to the significant increase in volume. A regular Crossfit workout usually has a skill, a strength set, and a WOD. But the MAD workouts seem to have a skill, 2-3 strength sets, and either 2 WODs or one longer WOD.

In addition to the increased volume, I've been trying new things with my food, and I'm working out at a new time of day. I haven't yet figured out the right amount to eat throughout the morning, since I keep getting hungry just as I'm heading to the gym at 10:15. I don't entirely feel like myself during the workouts, I've definitely been fatigued and not performing as well as I should be.

To make matters even worse, I haven't been getting enough sleep. A few nights this week I've been up in the middle of the night with a crying baby and up for the day at 5:30 or 6am. My happy place for sleep is 8.5 hours, and 5-7 hours of broken sleep just doesn't cut it. Last night I got close with about 7.5 hours. So in summary, I'm beat.

When I read what I've just written, it almost sounds whiny. But the reason I'm writing these things out is to reflect on what is keeping me from being my best right now. It's more or less my fault that my eating has been less than good, and although I can't control whether my kids will prevent me from getting enough sleep, I should be making more of an effort to go to bed early the night after my sleep is disrupted. So that's what I'm going to work on.