Operation Iceberg: Day 1

– April 22, 2010Posted in: recovery

As eluded to in my last post, I’m starting a phase of cold water immersion. My TCM therapist has suggested a two week (yep 14 days) protocol. The aim is to kick my metabolism into overdrive and tell my hypothalamus to get going.

Day 1

Weather: sunny, max of 31ºC
Beach: Maslins (a little close to the nude end for my liking)
Surf: small to moderate
Time: 7.50-8.10am
Observations: never got really frozen like last time. Got yelled at by a fisherman for scaring the fish. The surf aggrevared my wrist-go figure.
Felt warm again: within 5 minutes. Except the frozen boob thing.

Might try a different beach tomorrow. Must invetsigate whether the  gym has a plunge pool.

From today on I will try and track my Resting Heart Rate (RHR) and temperature in the morning. I only thought of this while I was standing around in the water. So I missed this morning.

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Michelle is passionate about showing people how easy it is to prepare food that is healthy and packed full of flavour. She has just completed her first recipe book, Healthy Helpings: fast food for fit physiques. She began sharing her love of food in 2007, when she produced two series of the online cooking show ‘Healthy Helpings TV’, making fast food healthy and healthy food fast. In 2008 she competed in bodybuilding as a novice figure shaping competitor and she remains passionate about physique sports. She was a 2009 Australian Masterchef semi-finalist, and contributes articles to Oxygen Magazine Australia. Michelle lives with her husband on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia, where she loves to search out new ingredients and food ideas from local farmers markets, health food shops and ethnic grocers, and take her two dogs on long rambles through the vineyards.