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I am sitting at Lindsey and my “home” for the time being; and, along with making about 10 pounds of Courage Bars (they are settling in the fridge as we speak!), I have been bearing down on the focus that begins tomorrow for me.  There has been so much going on over the past couple months: gym space search, house hunting, shifting of programming in the gym, bringing on tons of new clients, two of my best friends moving away, prepping for the “Into The Wild” adventure, and that is just skimming the surface.  All of this stuff I’ve decided to take on has taken away from the focus I decided I needed towards training for next years CrossFit Games.  So, while enjoying the wedding of my good ol” host sister from my baseball playing days, I have hit that point where it is time to re-focus my attention.  This blog has been a really good recourse for me in terms of getting my thoughts out there, and it’s time to make myself accountable as publicly as I know how.

Food.  As most of my readers probably know, I have been delving a little deeper as of late into nutrition.  But, over the past couple weeks, my own ability to follow all of my incredibly intriguing findings has slipped away like crazy!  I need to get back on track!  So, tomorrow it happens.  I am back on my eating every 3 hours kick that had such a great effect on my body fat, mood and energy.  I am back on eating 100% clean.  To make sense of this, if you’ve ever heard of Whole9, it’s basically like that.  I am eating chicken, turkey, fish, eggs, nuts, seeds and TONS of veggies.  I will be consuming ZERO sugar (in any form at all), dairy, and oil and I will be having a bowl of oatmeal almost every day which will be the only grains I’ll consume.  Eating like this did so much for me and I want to find that again.

Sleep.  I have been having a harder and harder time getting to sleep at a reasonable hour and I am re-committing to getting into bed by 11pm every night.  If I fall asleep then or not, doesn’t matter, I want to form the habit of getting in there and letting my body begin to relax at an earlier hour than the 1am or worse I have been using.

Training.  Here is where it gets fun!  My training has actually been really good, but with the crap nutrition and lack of sleep, my gains have been slipping a bit.  Also, I feel as through the program I’ve been on has been so open to modifications by myself, that I end up taking advantage of that situation.  What I mean by this is that it feels like each day I’m sort of just winging the whole thing.  I need more structure if I want to get to where I want to get.  So, I did what I would suggest to anyone who wants to get their training in order, I hired up a coach.  Rudy Nielson is the owner and head coach out of Outlaw CorssFit in Alexandria, VA.  I met him a couple years back and he has proven himself over and over again as a coach who produces top level CrossFitters.  All of his athletes are such beasts, so, I figured I’d get in touch with him and see what he could put together for me.  Now, this is going to be an interesting process as I am a bit of a programming geek.  Let’s put it this way, Rudy can expect my open and honest critic on this process along the way!  I expect nothing but great things from this, and I am so excited to have a program put together for me for pretty much the first time in my life!  It’s time to see what happens!

I’m not done with my program though.  All last week I was realizing how sporadic my actual training is.  I would workout in the mornings sometimes, sometimes later on in the day.  Sometimes I would go ahead and do 3 workouts in a day, just kind of depended on how I felt and the time I had.  I have always known that for me, to get really, really good at something, I need to get on a schedule and stick to it.  So, I put together a plan where my workouts are added into this schedule as well.  I am not going to hold myself to it like crazy, as I think that leads to a sort of obsessive behavior.  I just want to have more structure.  So again, starting tomorrow I will be weight training on Rudy’s program, 3 days on, 1 off, 2 on, 1 off.  I will be getting 2 times per week of ashtanga yoga at Ashtanga Yoga Center DC and swimming at Wilson Aquatic Center.  I will also most likely be getting back into my old Jiu-Jitsu training twice per week at Ultimate Heights MMA (I will be writing about this a bit later…).  All of this is set in a schedule in terms of what days and times as my sleep and fueling schedule will work with it all. 

Whew!  I am so damn excited to get started!  This whole scheduling concept is also going to be set a little towards my blog/article writing as well.  So expect to see some new patterns in posts.  This one, the update on my training with some insight into why and so on, can be expecting early each and every week.  You’ll see what’s to come the rest of the week!

Never Stop, GET FIT.

Josh Courage
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