Not every day at the Fort makes people excited. There are some days that people come in the door, look at the white board and groan. Or curse.

Yesterday the strength work made people do both: Thrusters 3-3-3+. Now really guys...what could the problem be with heavy thrusters? Are you guys sore from Fran? Tee hee.

After we got some work with our thrusters, here was our little metcon:

3 rounds of

500m row
10 hang power cleans (50/35kg)
15 pull-ups

To see this workout on the board, one cannot even begin to comprehend the agony they are about to experience. Round one is a piece of cake. No big deal right? Well hop on that rower at the beginning of round 2, and you'll know you're in trouble. By the 3rd round, I actually considered duct taping my hands to the handle of the rower because I RAN OUT OF GRIP.

Congrats to you guys for gutting it out and making it through this workout!

I've heard a bunch of feedback from my Better Body Challenge II participants. The feedback is that you all feel like a bunch of sleepy heads. Know what that tells me? That you're doing it right! Giving up grains and refined sugars puts your body into a little bit of an adjustment phase. From this point forward, I'm going to call it the "Sleepy Peasant Uprising" phase. This is the part of making the switch to Paleo that will leave you opening and closing cabinets randomly, staring longingly into the refrigerator, banging your heads against vending machines and not knowing what to eat.

Switching to Paleo is essentially re-learning to eat, and it's HARD. I've never sugar coated it, and I'm certainly not going to start now. It's frigging HARD to undo 20, 30 or sometimes 40 years of bad eating habits. There's a world full of sugar, grains, drive thrus and processed foods that are all waiting to sabotage your progress. Make it past these first two weeks, and I promise your life will be changed for the better.

I have already heard from a few participants that they have shed anywhere from 5-13 pounds in the last week! Hmm....do you think grains make you bloated? Great job you guys! Keep it up!

Carpool for Fogo De Chao should "meat" at the Fort tomorrow at 4:30PM! If you're driving on your own, don't worry about meeting up - we'll see you at Fogo!