Two Weeks In and Still Going!

Cloie and I are now a little over two weeks in.  The workouts themselves have been challenging but more so the schedule is the most challenging part.  We are lifting 6 days a week, walking 4 and doing 2 days of interval training.  I was pretty sure my body was not going to make it through the first week, but I have settle into a routine and am getting used to the levels of exercise.

We are getting food prep down.  Cloie abandoned me for a wedding last weekend so I had to do my own food prep on Sunday.  It took me about 4 1/2 hours including the clean up.  That did NOT include running the dishwasher 3 times!  I find I am going through an astounding number of dishes.

With my background the workout design has been pretty intuitive but the meal design and food prep have been tough.  I created a spreadsheet in which we can enter our food to balance macro nutrients within 5% per meal, calories with in 100 per day  and plan menus.  I have been experimenting a little in the kitchen.  My mashed sweet potatoes are great!  The Quinoa pizza bites, not so much.  I am learning to make tasty meals with logical food combinations:

Shrimp Salad w/ spinach, avocado and rice

Chicken stir-fry.

But is it worth it?  I weighed in this week and I am down 9 pounds!  My clothes fit better and I have more energy.  Thank goodness because I am using a whole lot of it.

More updates to come!

This weeks food is cooked!

We have spent the afternoon cooking our food for the week.  We have two dozen eggs in the fridge and oatmeal in the cupboard we still make fresh each day we eat it.

First week in the books

Well everyone, here is to the start of something new.  I am extremely excited to see where this unique form of training (for Canyon, of course) takes Tom and I.  As he stated earlier, I am at a standstill on my volleyball career, so I went to Tom in search of something exotic and here it is.


Within these next 12 weeks, we will go through stressful workouts, routines, and the biggest challenge of all, a very strict diet.  As of today, we have finished a week of workouts, and basic meal plans.  It has not been as difficult as I had thought within the means of cravings, but it is extremely time consuming.  And not to mention, I have never been this sore in my LIFE.


Meal prep takes an excruciating amount of time.  We will be preparing for 5 meals a day, 7 days a week. This is why Tom and I have decided to meet every Sunday to cook up these meals to save in the fridge that are an easy Grab-n-Go access.  On top of all this, we will have structured workouts 6 days a week that are to say the least, nothing short of grueling.

With all of this being said,  I am ecstatic to see our results each week,  in order to reach our goals and to make some movement within my first competition!

Stay tuned my friends!

Cloie Cox

Getting Started -- Let the Challenge Begin

I was a student athlete and have been training young athletes for over 15 years.  During that time I have studied the human body and how it works and learned the processes by which a young person increases strength, speed, agility and power.  I have developed effective programs for everything from football to soccer, girls basketball to cross country, wrestling to kayaking.  I have helped dozens of athletes fulfill their dreams of becoming NCAA athletes or just make the squad.

Last week one of my former athletes asked me to take on a new challenge.  She and I trained for 3 years together while she was in high school and she went on to play NCAA volleyball in Kansas.  With her volleyball career on hold, she decided to train for a Figure Competition.  We discussed it came to the understanding this is way out of either of our wheelhouses and we would learn to do it together.

I contacted a colleague of mine, Tasha Phillips, in Des Moines, Iowa for some guidance.  The more I learned from Tasha, the more I realized I did not know.  I have always been a believer I should never ask an athlete to do something I would not do, and the best way to learn is to do.  So I decided to truly help my client, her name is Cloie, I need to do what she is doing and understand the challenges she will go through.  For the next 12 weeks I am going to stick to the meal plan (plus a couple hundred calories) and do the workouts each day with Cloie.

We are a couple days in to it and when we tell people what we are doing they tell us how cool it is and they want to follow our progress.  Each week both Cloie and I will post blogs about our challenges, successes and overall progress,  We will also post pictures and meal plans as we go.  Follow me on Twitter @tdueber for regular updates.

Wish us luck!