Simple Light Chicken Marinade

When you think about eating healthy, boring grilled chicken comes to mind. How much chicken and vegetables can a person eat until he or she goes nuts? Chicken is a great high quality source of protein that is low in fat...as long as you lose the skin. Here is a super quick and easy marinade that jazzed up my chicken tonight.

1/2 cup Lemon Juice
1/4 cup Dijon Mustard
1/4 cup No Sugar Added Apricot Jam
1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
Salt, Pepper, and Garlic Powder to taste

Wisk together all the ingredients until the marinade is smooth. Add 1-2 lbs of chicken to the marinade. Mix it together to cover the chicken. Cover and pop it in the fridge for about an hour.

To save time, I started making some rice, then put the marinade together. Once my rice was done, I did my work out, which gave the chicken time to marinate. When I finished my workout, I cooked the chicken and some veggies.Since I used those small chicken breast tenderloins, I only need ten minutes to finish dinner. The chicken was sweet and tangy! Total prep time for dinner was 20...take that Rachel Ray.

Dan's Chocolate Mousse

This is a recipe I created yesterday that is awesome!The servings are not large, but they are very rich. You really only need that much, believe me. Each serving has about 8 carbs, so it will satisify your chocolate cravings without ruining your diet and training. Dan wanted me to make sure that everyone knows that it was his idea :)

Dan's Chocolate Mousse

4 Eggs

6 Oz. Unsweetened Chocolate

1 Shot Espresso

½ cup milk

¼ cup stevia (I used Truvia)

1. Melt chocolate and espresso in a double boiler.

2. Add the milk and stevia. Stir until smooth. Then remove from the heat.

3. Separate the egg yolks and egg whites.

4. Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form.

5. Beat the eggs yolks.

6. Add a spoonful of the chocolate mixture to the egg yolks and stir well.

7. Add the egg yolks to the chocolate mixture and beat until smooth.

8. Fold the chocolate mixture into the egg whites.

9. Pour into 8 serving dishes and put in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours or until set. 

Wednesday - Light Day

Snatch 6X2 @ 70

Front Squat 3X3 @ 115

25 lb Weighted Pushups 2X5

Assisted Ring Dips 3X5

Friday - Max Effort Day

Squat: Work up to 3RM of 180

Pres: Work up to 3RM of 70

Ring Pull Ups 6X2

Conditioning:

3 95 lb sled drags

2 115 lb sled drags

1 135 lb sled drags