The WOD today was 5 x 5 heavy bench press. Then 21-15-9 or box jumps, push ups, and kettlebell swings with 24kg kb. After bench press, my blood sugar was 116. I took 2 units of insulin right before the second half of the workout. Clocked 8:07 which was just OK, i kept pausing too much, just mental though not related to high blood sugar. 30 min after the WOD my blood sugar is only 166 which isn’t bad, just means I could have takin more insulin before the workout. There’s a method to this madness somewhere in there, I’m gonna find it.
I’ve been experimenting with my insulin during intense crossfit workouts. I think I’m on to something.
The worst part about crossfit, for me as a diabetic, is intense workouts that incorporate constant intense activity for a period of time lasting longer than about 5 minutes.
At the crossfit regionals a couple of months ago, our WOD was 8 deadlifts with 300 pounds(not too hard for me) followed by running a 400 meter course, 3 rounds for time. Although I hate running, it shouldn’t have been as painfully difficult as it turned out. I was sooooooooooo drained half way through the competion. The end of it took FOREVER. After that pathetic performance I checked my blood sugar, well over 300!! And I had started at around 140.
When my blood sugar gets close to and above the 200 mark, I simply cannot move. Ya, I might be tired, but it’s different. When the blood sugar is high, it’s indicating that my body is smart enough to know I’m in need of energy, so it releases some nrg into my system, but it forgot how to release insulin to help push that nrg to my vital organs. So then I sit, at that point, without insulin, my gas tank is literally on empty and until I can shoot up with some insulin, empty it will stay.
Meet Fran
I experimented this past Friday when we had to take on Fran for the WOD. Right before the workout, my blood sugar was 140. Normally, I take 1 unit of insulin to bring my blood sugar down 45 points. But knowing that Fran will take [me] upwards of 10 minutes, I over shoot my insulin by 2 units for a total of 3 units. I ended up shaving almost 4 minutes off of my Fran time. This was awesome. Post workout, my blood sugar was still 186. This means that I bet I could’ve gone another unit or two and maybe performed even better.
Meet Grace
Of course I keep a bag of jelly beans close by just in case my experiment goes terribly wrong and I get a low(I HATE blood sugar lows). This week we have Grace on wednesday, clean and jerk 135 for 30 reps. Not sure how long this one is going to take, but I’ll experiment again with the insulin and post my results.
I finally got around to tackling the pantry a couple of weeks ago. Cluttered things drive me NUTS. Here’s what it looked like before:
and after many beers on a Friday, here’s what I accomplished:
It’s great, I ended up getting rid of a ton of stuff. One of the big space helpers was for the spices, just keeping them in a container so they can’t escape is super helpful for reducing clutter, they stay out of the way of the bigger items that way.
Last Sunday I went roller blading. It turned out to be a really bad idea. I freaked out while going down a hill and tried to bail out before the hill. I ended up doing a 180 then hitting chest first on the asphalt. SOOPER embarassing, luckily it didn’t appear anyone saw me.
I thought I just got some road rash on my knees. But when we were getting back in the car I bent over to take my roller blades off and a crazy sharp pain in my chest, made me jump back to standing position. It hurt to breathe and was rapidly getting worse.
I ended up going to a crossfit the next day but that was a pretty dumb idrea. It hurt to move at all much less do a crossfit workout so I took the rest of the week off. Unfortunately I hurt about as bad now as I did last sunday, so it might be another week off for me which SUCKS.
Not crossfitting(working out at all for that matter) is hugely depressing. I tried to do pushups yesterday only to realize that apparently I also f’d up my wrist too, so now pushups are out.
I don’t know what exactly got injured, but lemme tell ya, it’s amazing to me how many movements you do throughout the day, use the muscles and support of the ribs. OUCH. Pretty much everything from coughing to getting up outta bed.
Since I had a little extra time while resting this past week and read through some posts on Robb Wolf’s blog. There’s so much good information there on nutrition, definitely worth a read.
I fell off the TV wagon, at least night time TV. So you think you can dance and some world news are too important to not watch
My food intake yesterday:
1. Half of a buffalo burger and 3 whole eggs scrambled and a ton of steamed veggies.
2. apple with 2 tablespoons almond butter
3. apple with 2 tablespoons sunbutter, couple of handfuls of cheezits(damn you cheezits!)
4. buffalo burger and steamed veggies
Yesterday’s meals were really spread out because I had to make a business trip up to Wyoming in the middle of the day. I would have rather had more protein and veggies in the middle of that. Also, since I waited too long to eat from meal #2 and meal #4, i succumbed to a couple of handfuls of cheezit crackers, not cool.
Yesterday’s workout was fun, however my blood sugar got the best of me. I started with a blood sugar reading of 120, by the end of the workout (which was intense exercise over the course of 20 minutes) i was sooooooo tired, unable to push myself. Checked my glucose level and it had shot up to 238. So basically my body tried to give me a boost, but because I didn’t produce any insulin to use it, it was wasted. Timing is everything. I need to guesstimate how much insulin to take based on what exercise and duration of the intensity of the exercise of the workout that’s coming up; that’s hard, I don’t want to overshoot and have a low.
I was very sore yesterday, and had a ton of work todo, seemed like a good day to take off from workouts. Meals were pretty good, went something like this:
1. Buffalo burger + steamed veggies
2. 6 scrambled eggs(3 whole + 3 whites) + one apple w/almond butter
3. Polish sausage(not a great choice but that’s what was for dinner and it was good) + steamed spinach; followed by a couple of sticks of celery with sunbutter.(slight cheat, had about 7 french fries from one of my kids left overs from lunch, oops)
I broke down and watched tv last night too, for about an hour(it was dvr’d). I’m human.
4. Buffalo burger and steamed veggies, post olympic lifting training
I had amazing workouts yesterday. The first began with a personal record in the full squat, 405 pounds. This is without any equipment, including a belt. Back in the day(1997), I could full squat 591 pounds, however that’s with a super tight lifting belt, and one of those crazy tight suits and the knee wraps, and not going as deep as I do now, so the 405 is impressive to me.
In the evening there was an olympic lifting training session. I haven’t gone heavy in the clean and jerk for years, like even prior to my powerlifting days in the late 1990’s. Last night I clean and jerked 204 pounds, which felt pretty good to me, I don’t think that was a max lift either.
The only thing I would change is that the evening class was at 6:30pm, I didn’t eat dinner until almost 8:15pm and went to bed by 11:30. I don’t like eating late, next time i’ll figure out some food to eat before workout.
Welcome to day 1 of my 21 day experiment. I’ve decided that I want to weigh myself everyday too, just for kicks. This weekend was filled with eating out and boozing, so my weight is reflecting that:
