Chili & Sweaty

Posted: November 6th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: bike, fitness, food | Tags: bike, raw, strength | No Comments »

Bah. My instructor wasn’t in today and I don’t tend to like the style of the others so I just did my own thing instead.

I’m working on following the plan in The New Rules of Lifting for Women, but only partly since I don’t have it in my schedule to do the full 3x/wk. Here’s what I did:

5 min warm-up on the rower (such an underrated machine)

Squats: 3 x 8 reps @ 95lbs

Seated Row: 3 x 8 reps @ 60lbs (for some reason the last few weeks I’ve gotten progressively weaker at this one)

Step Ups: 3 x 8 reps @ 25lbs per hand

Prone Jackknifes: 3 x 15 reps

Push ups: 3 x 20 reps (on knees – I’m still a push up weakling)

Medicine Ball Obliques: 2 x 20 reps @ 5lbs

21 min Bike Interval workout: 3min WU, 5 x (1min @ 100 RPM, 2min @ 85 RPM), 3 min CD

I love, love, love doing bike intervals. It might make me weird but I think it’s so much fun and my legs were so sore after just 20 minutes today, although that could have been because of my long run yesterday (Oh, I forgot to mention my long run! I ran 19.5km yesterday in 2 hrs flat. Right on pace. There, mentioned).

I swear I sweat more than anyone else at my gym, especially during intervals. I literally make little pools of sweat under the bike. It’s kind of ridiculous and sometimes people stare.

After the gym I came home and made some scrumptious raw chili. I won’t give a recipe since it was based of a recipe in Everyday Raw, but I’ll give an ingredient rundown.

Carrot and soaked almonds, chopped in the food processor. To which I added finely chopped crimini mushrooms, red onion and cabbage. Then doused it all in a lovely, spicy sun-dried tomato sauce.

I thought it would be ironic to use my oven-safe french onion soup bowls for the chili, ’cause it’s raw, get it? But I did end up throwing it in the toaster oven at 150F for about 3 minutes, just to get it a little warm. I served it with Buffalo flavoured Food Should Taste Good chips (good, indeed).

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Can we stop a moment and just talk about how damn good these chips are? We just got them in my local health food store a couple weeks ago and I literally squealed with delight when I saw them (I do this a lot, I think the employees are starting to get scared of me). Anyway, I’ve tried a bunch of flavours and they’ve all been fantastic. I try not to buy processed foods too much but it’s hard when they’re this good and on sale 2 for $5 to boot. So far my favourite flavour has been The Works, but they haven’t had the Lime in stock yet and I’m pretty sure that’ll win in the end. I also haven’t had Chocolate, Cinnamon, or Yellow Corn. I’m sure that will be rectified before too long.

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Back on topic – this chili is also a food that tastes good. A lot like regular chili, but crunchier Raw food make me happy. What can I say? I like to experiment.

Meghann actually posted recently about what it means to be a foodie, and that’s what it’s about for me. The love of food in all its forms and the willingness and desire to seek out new and wonderful ways to appreciate it. I think I’d do a post in more detail soon because this is a topic that’s close to my heart.

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