20130612

This shit should be automated

I swear I should use Dragon Dictate or some other voice software to blog--that way I wouldn't neglect to record so many wods. Not that I'm missing anything, or anyone else is, but I prefer to have the records.

Last two days was week three of a Wendler cycle of dead lift, back squat and press.

Monday:
Dead lift
5@75% 255
3@85% 290
Amrap@95% 315 (5)

AMRAP10
20 cal AD
10 wallballs
5 toes to bar
250m row
10 power Cleans @95
5 burpees

Got two full rds and 10m into third row.

Tuesday
Shoulder press
5@75% 100
3@85% 115
Amrap@95% 125 (6)

Then 
21,15, 9
SDLHP@75
Push Jerk@75 (3:32)
3:00 rest (6:32) then
21,15,9
L hand kb snatch @44lb
R hand KBS@44
Pull ups
14:02

 Been cooling down and warming up well. No issues lately.

20130527

Memorial Day 2013

"Murph"
Wearing a weight vest (used 24lbs)
Run 1 mile 
100 pull ups
200 push ups
300 squats
Run 1 mile
For time, completing calisthenics in any fashion.
Split the work up in 20 rds of 5/10/15, paced 1st run pretty easy, went hard on 2nd.
PR of over 8:30, 42:31.

20130519

It's been awhile again

I think I posted something almost a month ago.

At least I have been consistently working out at systematic crossfit all this time. 

Today I ran out the door and took off down the coastal trail heading north. As I went over the hill I felt that wonderful glide of effortless pose running. Gravity and posture gracefully combined to make me feel like I was falling uphill. 

I came home feeling hooked. I used to be a decent runner. It was my thing-I was fast for a crossfitter. I used to say that three miles was a sprint. I haven't said that in a long time.

Hard to explain but but--as the song says--I want my swagger back. 

20130425

Whoa Bundy !

Team workout, whoa Bundy!
PS No body under 35 knows that reference...

Heavy 3 rep cleans: touch-n-go worked to 185, did a single at 195.

Follow the leader
3rds, team of four
150m row
10 push ups
10 ball slams
Hold 45lb plate over head until next person is done their ball slams.
14:55 w/ 4 peeps

F&$k you Jobu

I do it my self.

10minute air dyne test: 139 calories

Weighted 1rep max pull up in 10minutes: 88lbs

Then 10-8-6-4-2 rep rounds of;
1xProwler +4x45lbs down/back high handles
Wallball
Pull ups
Push ups
250m row
1:30 rest after each round
36lbs vest after first round
22:12

20130418

Back in the saddle again...

I'm back.

As the Aerosmith song goes, I've once again resumed my training. Last week saw a barbell bear, a 45 minute beach run, cleans, snatches, over the bar burpees, pull ups, tabatas and the resumption of my pedal powered school commute.

Not taking the time to document, but I am following the main programming at the new affiliate.

WWW.systematiccrossfit.COM


20130405

On why injury sucks (or doesn't).

I never know how to take a rest.

This is a simple fact. If given the chance to go somewhere, do something, try new things or learn I always take it. This has led to many wonderful things.

It has also led me down some bad paths.

You see I just don't know how to say no. Since something seems good, more always appears to be better. So I just keep on piling it on. It continues to be my undoing.

This post finds me injured again. I have been out of training for about three weeks and will probably be out for two or three more.

Maybe this time it was not self-induced. But it is making me look at priorities and evaluate time commitments more seriously than I have before. There are things more important than gym workouts--since this was never even a question I find myself wondering why I ever acted like it wasn't so clear.

Fitness enables us, but should not define us.

I will get back to training, but I will do so in due time after allowing myself to fully heal. Because being whole--in body, in mind, and in spirit--is why I labor so hard to begin with.

20130308

CF games open WOD 13.1

17 minute cap:
40 burpees
30 snatches at 75
30 burpees
30 snatches at 135
20 burpees
30 snatches at 165
Etc

I made it to 2 @ 165.

Wednesday

Work to 3RM deadlift, went to 325

Death by pull ups w/15min cut off.
Complete.

At the old HQ, CrossFit MECCA in 2007