We’re doing a one month Paleo Challenge at Survival Fitness. Everyone has to keep a food journal to work on a point system. You get 5 points to start the day. Bad things like a cheat meal or alcohol are negative points, but you can ears extra points by doing a WOD at the gym, getting 8 hours of sleep, or drinking 1/2 your body weight in ounces of water. Everyone has their body fat taken at the beginning and does a benchmark WOD. We’re going to randomly be put on teams. Scoring is 50% body fat change, 25% WOD improvement, and 25% food journal points.
It was only $25 to join and I need something to get me on track to those abs I want, so I figured being part of a team will hold me more accountable. So I get to class, weigh myself, and have my body fat measured with the handheld device. It read 12.3%! Yeah right! If I was that low you’d already be seeing my abs. The Withings scale puts me consistently at 16-17% which is more realistic. With such a low starting number, I won’t be winning the body fat portion of the competition so I’ll have to make up for it in the other parts I guess.
Warm-up
- 30 Air Squats holding PVC vertical in front
- 20 PVC Pass-thrus
- 30 PVC OHS
- 4 partner rounds (alternate each round)
- 50 Jumping Jacks
- 50 Butt Kicks
- 50 High Knees
- 50 Lateral Hops
- 50 Mountain Climbers
WOD
For the Paleo Challenge benchmark, we did 5 different AMRAPs and totaled up our reps. We partnered up so that we could count each other and get a bit of rest.
5:00 AMRAP
- Burpees
4:00 AMRAP
- Wall Balls
3:00 AMRAP
- Air Squats
2:00 AMRAP
- KBS (Russian)
1:00 AMRAP
- AbMat Sit-ups
I did 82 burpees, 77 wall balls (20# MB), 101 air squats, 76 KBS (53# KB), and 67 sit-ups for a total of 403 reps. Doing the air squats right after wall balls was the worst and my score showed compared to others in the class. I pushed pretty hard, so it’s going to be interesting to see how my numbers come out a month from now.
Update: After all classes finished for the day, I had the 4th best score.
