Sticking to it - Atlanta

I don't know why but when you travel for work it seems as though you are expected to work much longer hours than when you are home!  Bleh! I would LOVE to go see the city, they have 2 'downtown' areas and I haven't been to either.  HOWEVER, I did make it to Crossfit Atlanta last night and plan on going again tonight.  Trying to explain to my co-workers what Crossfit is was challenging.  Trying to convince them that it was okay to drop me off at this so called gym in an industrial, rough looking area of town, across the street from a Pepsi bottling plant was another challenge.  I won though!

I was very impressed by the gym, not because it's fancy, but because of the people there (coaches and athletes).  I was motivated and pushed to work as hard as I could, coached through proper snatch and clean technique (even though I'm not sure I made any improvements) and had the coach for the evening WOD help me gain confidence in doing a handstand and using bands to help modify my handstand pushups.  While this isn't something I don't get at my gym, what was impressive is that I was new to the gym, from out of town and no one really needed to invest any time in me as I'll be gone come Thursday.  However they all took time to bring me in to the group which was awesome!

CFATL Dogs, both were there last night!

This guy weighs 150lbs and likes to get right up in your business, loved it!

I also got to work out along side Leah Polaski who took first place in the GA Sectionals last year, man was that motivating to watch her!  Her DL is 286 (my goal is 285) and her stats and ability's are pretty impressive.  I'm always looking for people to look up to and push me and she was one of them!  Additionally, CF Atlanta had 3 girls qualify for regionals, pretty BA in my opinion!

As I had stated in an earlier post, traveling makes it difficult to stay on track diet wise.  I think I've made some really good choices while I've been here and packed tons of snacks so I wouldn't have an excuse for straying away from my diet!

All the snacks I brought with me, and yes I even brought a dark chocolate bar (something I need to start giving up here soon!).  You'll notice I brought protein, my after workout recovery mix, dried pears (great snack, no added sugar, just fruit!) some turkey sticks, almond butter etc. 



I definitely got some weird looks but was proud of myself for planning ahead and sticking to a reasonably good diet!