 Alright guys, what is going on? Welcome to another video, welcome to another episode of Making Games and this morning I got nothing else to say but my body, my body is broken man I'm fucking sore. My, my lats, the amount of pull ups I've done in the last few days is just ridiculous. Yesterday we had the Alice Springs CrossFit Games which was a hell of a lot of fun. I briefly mentioned it in the last video but what it was, it was six events over two and a half hours at the Alice Springs CrossFit box and there's probably about 15 or 20 people that came down and like yeah every 20 minutes or so we did another event, there was a barbecue at the end, everyone had lunch, everyone got along real well, like it was a fucking awesome day. It reminded me of school sports day and honestly school sports day was like my favorite day of the year back in the day so I had a lot of fun, my competitive nature came out, I didn't win any events but I would call my performance over the weekend consistent so I was really happy. The six events that we actually did, I will tell you, I'll grab my phone hang on actually no my phone's flat, let me try and remember so the first event was as many pull-ups as you can do in five minutes, the second event was as many burpees as you can do in 10 minutes, can you imagine that? Maximum burpees in 10 minutes, the third event was a sled push which was a 25 meter sled push with the heaviest amount of weight as possible, the fourth event was a sledgehammer hit onto a massive tire so you had to do as many hits with a certain weight of sledgehammer in five minutes so there was a lot of like max reps in a certain time cap this this day, I said the next time they do this is probably going to be a lot more lifting like you know max deadlifts and bench press and fucking cleans and things like that but this time it was more so just reps of like probably easier things to be honest, things that everyone could do so the fourth event with the sledgehammer, the fifth event was a thousand meter row and the sixth event to finish it off was a thousand meter run in obviously the quickest time possible so I think there was only three people left doing the run at the end, I was one of them so I was one of probably only two people that did every single event but you know I was like fuck it why not we had a good enough break but honestly those those 10 minutes of burpees took me probably a good half an hour to recover so when we went into the sled push I was still recovering but I actually did quite well on that and I don't know if that's because I played rugby or what I've never ever pushed a sled in my life but I actually did really well so um that was good but anyways what what that's meant is that my body is is really sore and um today today's Sunday uh I wasn't going to go into the gym but Achilles just messaged me before and said he coming down to the box I said man and you didn't come to the CrossFit Games yesterday you don't know what it's like my body's sore and he said and actually he reminded me of a pretty good point and that is that you don't have to lift weights every time you go to the gym you can just do mobility you can do conditioning a bit of cardio so that's exactly what I'm gonna do I'm gonna go down to the gym now and do some mobility um my back like my lats are so fucking sore like just oh my god it's long here but in other news I am getting a little bit leaner slowly um but yeah my fucking lats are so sore so many pull-ups my chest is sore and my freaking shoulders man there's a lot of shoulder work in CrossFit um so this morning we're going to go down there I'm going to use the foam roller and I'm also going to use a skipping rope and do some conditioning and cardio just to burn some calories I'm fasted at the moment I've got a scuba oxy shred in here which I'm going to sip on on the way and um obviously the the skipping will be uh you know a bit of cardio it's going to get my heart rate up I'm in a fasted state I'm definitely going to really like get down down on the foam roller right underneath here it's going to be sore but it's something I really need to do and also the other place that I really need to do foam rolling is right at the top I don't know if you can see here right at the top like in here and also just the top of my quad it gets so fucking sore and the IT bands of course glutes bloody everything man everything I'm not I'm not the most flexible at the best of times but honestly like I have probably been doing the most stretching and the most mobility work I've ever done since joining CrossFit so it's it's all good stuff I'll see you guys down at the gym who knows what else is going to happen today probably not much I am feeling I'm feeling pretty wrecked so I'll see you down there all right guys what is going on it's Jacob here I'm just chilling on the couch editing this video up and I thought I would speed up uh the stuff that I did down at the box today which is just some foam rolling basically and in the background I just talked to you generally about CrossFit and about how things are going and what I want to work on for the future so as far as you know mobility and conditioning and things like that stretching flexibility I always knew that if I want longevity in this thing if I want to if I want to lift weights until I'm 50 I'm going to have to make that a priority it's going to have to be just as important as lifting the weights is maintaining my body and so I would say that you know CrossFit has definitely been a catalyst for that it's it's it's hard to to go down there and not want to look after your body properly it really isn't I mean nutrition wise mobility wise everything really it's it's a it's a combination of everything good in the fitness industry in one I'm telling you the only thing you're missing is a fucking arms day and a chest day that's seriously all you're missing um so you know I've I've talked to quite a few people in the gym and I've said you know my major thing is oh I'm doing CrossFit now you know that's what I say that's what I tell them and you know I get a few funny looks I get people who question what I'm doing but then I got I the only thing I need to say to them is um okay well you're standing here in little old anytime fitness you want to head across the road and go check out these facilities mate you won't be leaving I'm telling you so I am a huge advocate for it right now I'm honestly addicted if I find something that I really enjoy something like this um especially with my competitive nature you know I'm gonna go full force I'm gonna go hard and that's exactly what we're doing so today it was you know like I said my back and my my legs was sore my whole fucking body so you use so much shoulders legs and back in CrossFit um so the only workouts I'm really doing in the gym is uh chest arms and possibly like a heavy leg day if I if I fell up to it but honestly the guys like you know I've got a friend who used to do a lot of high intensity cardio and conditioning and she used to say oh my legs are sore like every day and I said fuck off there's no way your legs can be sore every day and it's not it's not that my legs are actually sore every day it's that they've just got this heavy feeling and I think that's a combination of all the the work I'm doing at CrossFit combined with obviously being in a caloric deficit um I am feeling you know quite sort of sore like I said this morning I mean just yeah I guess I'm just beating up my body so tomorrow I've actually got a a physio appointment booked I've had I had one a couple of weeks ago I had some issues with my lower back some of you may know some of you might not I unfortunately have one leg that is two and a half centimeters or 25 mils shorter than the other so I've had the x-ray done um I've my hips uh what you know one hip is two and a half centimeters higher than the other when my feet are flat on the ground so what that means is that in everyday life yeah it's not going to affect me too much but you know if I am doing a lot of exercise and things eventually it's gonna create imbalances in my hips and that is something that I've sort of dealt with for the last couple years um it it affects my lower back um as you can imagine and so recently I've been starting to go to the physio I went to an appointment two weeks ago and had you know a little bit of um I guess just a initial consultation he sort of got in there a little bit pressed pressed in a few places and honestly it it did improve so he knows where the trigger point is he knows what's wrong well I guess so and so this next time that I go there I'm gonna try some dry needling which I've never tried before so that'll be interesting um but yeah once again it's all about just maintaining my body man at this point um especially if I want to try and hit this crossfit hard like I do like I know I want to so yeah uh what else can I say crossfit's going great you can see Achilles in the background he's practicing his Olympic lifts which is something that I want to practice although unfortunately I have two ripped calluses on my hands right now from the pull-ups that we did at the fucking Alice Springs crossfit games that I talked about before so uh little did I know but after the five minutes of as many pull-ups as possible I'd ripped two calluses off my hands and I didn't even feel it but it was pretty like it was pretty bad I mean pretty bloody and fucking if you saw my snapchat you would have seen it but right now I'm just obviously recovering from that I've I don't know when I'll be able to sort of rip some deadlifts or do some Olympic lifting again it's probably going to be at least a week off I've never ripped a callus off my hand before but it's fucking sore and um you know it's it's pretty deep so I'll be nursing that but obviously in the meantime I will do whatever I can it's probably yeah just basically just no heavy sort of bar work because it just presses on the calluses too much but you know light work I'll be fine and obviously training legs I'll be fine and any Metcon at CrossFit I'm sure I'll be fine too but uh with that said I'm going to leave you guys now that was just a bit of a quick talk on what's going on down at the CrossFit box me and Achilles are killing it I've got another couple of workmates that go down with me as well and obviously yeah meeting new people every session um you do you do find out who the regulars are just like at the gym it's quite funny you do see the same people down there over and over but there are new ones that come along here and there and with the money that you're paying for CrossFit per week you'd want to use it honestly it's it's pretty expensive that's probably the one thing that puts people off and you know when I tell people I'm doing CrossFit in the gym I love talking about it but then when they ask how much it is I sort of don't like telling them because it's about 40 dollars a week and so you can imagine like with some gym memberships they're like 15 dollars a week so you're paying for it but as you guys know you know I love this stuff um it's no cost to me you know going to the gym and working out every day is is actually essential to my mental health and it's it's worth the money I pay so with that said I'm going to leave you guys and I think at the end of this I do do a little bit of skipping and I get a PB on double unders which is making the skipping rope go under your feet twice before you land on the ground again so have a look at that I'm shaping up I definitely am I'm feeling quite quite good in the uh in the skipping video so let me know what you think and I will talk to you guys afterwards catch you later all right guys we are back from the gym it's time for a post workout or post hmm what would you call it post post mobility and conditioning workout which is going to be as always a shake so these shakes I'm using first thing in the morning as breakfast or post workout you know later in the day if I train it's going to be egg whites it's going to be protein powder almond milk and one banana so first ingredient 250 mils egg whites at the moment I'm using these ones which are in a 950 mil container it's about nine or ten dollars per container one banana milk today I thought it was almond milk but it's coconut milk which is even even lowering calories 250 mils is 43 calories so I'm just going to guess you know me 250 yep that sounds about right of course we've got the protein powder one scoop just like that these shakes are pretty stable for me at the moment one scoop of protein powder a cup of egg whites a cup of almond milk or coconut milk and one scoop of protein what did I say that or one one banana one scoop protein powder one cup of almond milk one cup of egg whites it's high protein low fat moderate carb and it tastes delicious if you want to add quite a bit of volume and just a few more carbs not too many calories add some frozen mixed berries I'm not going to do that today I'm just going to stick to what I've got now a lot of people when I tell them when I tell them that I put egg whites into my shakes they turn their nose up and you know all I gotta say is that you really don't know you don't know what you're missing out on if you're trying to die obviously if you're making a shake for like real taste and you don't care about the macros you're going to be adding fucking all sorts of shit in there but if you're trying to diet and you're trying to go high protein low fat relatively low carb I mean egg whites are a fucking awesome ingredient to include if you blend them up long enough they make it really fluffy they don't taste like anything I mean people turn their nose up because they think they taste like shit they don't taste like anything and it's a really great source of protein I mean I'd rather have both egg whites and protein powder as my sources of protein than just a whey protein powder so with that said I'm going to get this down and I think that's it guys I'm just going to call it here you know I probably spoke to the camera a bit too much this morning anyway you guys might have seen the skipping we probably did I got 50 double unders my best before that was 20 I think I could I honestly think I can keep going forever if I just got the timing absolutely right and it seems like I did today like just it felt good so 50 double unders under the belt and that's about it that's all we've really achieved today I foam rolled you know along my lats especially like I mentioned this morning I foam rolled along the top of my quads um and also you know along I'll show you guys here along the so I foam rolled along the front of the hip the hip flexor um I foam rolled you know down my it band as much as I could handle and also the outside so this is the tear drop this is the outer outer head of the quad um along here and along here wear it if you guys have foam rolled before you'll know like as you come along here it'll get really close to the edge and then it will go on to the other fucking head of the quad and um you know those are some fucking harsh times man those are some harsh times but with that said I'm going to leave you guys here I'll show you guys the weather once again because it's an absolute stunner as per usual have a look so that's it guys this is actually you know coming into the last couple of weeks that I'm even going to be in this place it's um it's I don't know I'm actually sometimes I think about it like the decision was was made so quickly I didn't even have time to think about it and sometimes I think shit do I really want to move out of here because I am quite at home but the reality is is that I bought it as an investment property it was never going to be my home although it has been for 18 months so it's definitely going to be hard to leave but it's it's all part of the major plan and it's exciting and really I'm glad that I didn't have to you know fuck around too much with the real estate agent for too long because it would have just been a headache um so yeah actually you know I'm really pleased with the tenant I've got it's just I've got to leave everything all my furniture my bed everything because I did it furnished so I've got nowhere to put it honestly the only thing I'm trying to find right now is a room to stay in for the last six months this year and then the plan is to fuck off out of Alice Springs at the end of the year so um let's see what happens we've got 60 more days of making games probably like 50 and I'm looking forward to it and I'm going to be in great shape by the end of it I know it and I mean we're getting there we're getting there I'll see you guys in the next one thanks for watching once again much love to all you guys train hard eat well and I'll do the same thing peace