Friday, April 29, 2011

This week

Spotty training again this week.

I did 'Grace' along with Rachel yesterday.  I got 3:50.  It was her first time.  She'll smoke once she gets efficient.  Video attached below.

Tomorrow I'll do the 11.6 WOD.  I gave it a practice run on Wednesday and got 77 reps.  I'd like to be closer to 90.  I went slow and steady but am afraid that if I jump out of the gate quick then I'll blow up.  We'll see.


Grace 04/28/11 from Andy Atkins on Vimeo.

Friday, April 22, 2011

I'm tired

Realized that I haven't posted my score from the 11.4 workout.  I ended up only getting 25 overhead squats.  Those were a lot tougher than I expected after the 60 burpees.

Today I did 11.5 which was AMRAP 20 minutes of:
5 Power Cleans 145#
10 Toes to Bar
15 Wall Ball

I ended with 8 rounds and 4 toes to bar.

I felt like I was moving in quicksand.  I took a lot of breaks.  For me this was a workout that showed my nutrition issue and lack of working out consistently (conditioning).

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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Another Wednesday

On Saturday I did CF Open WOD #3.  165# Squat clean and jerks AMRAP in 5 minutes.  I ended up with a score of 31.  15 rounds plus a clean.  I was not upset by that at all.

This week's is a doozy.  It is AMRAP 10 minutes of 60 burpees over a barbell but facing the barbell, 30 overhead squats at 120# and 10 muscle-ups.  Yikes.  Should be an interesting one.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Hump day of this week

Well we got CF Open Wod #3 announced.  It is AMRAP 5 minutes of 165# squat clean and jerk.  Pretty heavy for a skinny dude like me.  We'll see.  Earlier today I tinkered with 175# sc/jerks.  They were heavy.

Yesterday I went to the box and hit:
10 EMOTM
10 Wall-balls 20#
10 Box Jumps 24"
This was really hard.  I completed 9 rounds and got 3 bxjp into the final minute.  This wod sucked the life out of your legs.

Monday I did:
Run ~900m
30 wall ball (16# at school)
30 pull-ups
Finished around 7:20

Might rest some tomorrow.  Need to get my legs ready for the WOD #3 which I will probably hit on either Saturday morning or Friday evening.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

CF Open Wod #2

On Saturday morning I did the CrossFit Open Wod #2.  I fell just short of 9 rounds and it was becuase of box jumps.  They were very slow.  A serious weakness.  Then about 45 minutes after that I did:
Run 400
21 OHS @ 75#
21 Pull-ups
Run 400
15 OHS
15 Pull-ups
Run 400
9 OHS
9 Pull-ups
Time was 10:21
All OHS were unbroken and last set of pull-ups were unbroken.  Couple of things I either learned (probably already knew). 1) I have trouble pushing hard on runs for fear that I won't have anything left to give when I get back in the gym.  2) When I come off the pull-up bar I won't get very many pull-ups in when I get back on.  For example instead of going 14-7 in the first round it'll be more like 14-4-3.  Put them on the list of things to work on.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Been awhile

Haven't posted in forever.  But really who's reading.

I have been working out, but mainly just some met-cons and only hitting strength stuff when I feel like it.

Need to get strength wods more focused for sure and I have to crank up the intensity in other wods.  I've noticed that recently I've been staying in that comfort zone.

I did hit CF Comp Wod #1 a couple weeks ago.  I suck at double-unders and never train them so I had a bad attitude going into in.  I got 4 rds + 8 du's.  Not very good but the atmosphere was fun at the box. 

This week's wod is AMRAP 15 of 9 DL @ 155, 12 hand release push-ups, 15 box jumps.
Again not playing to my strengths, but really what will?  It'll be fun.  I promise to post when I complete.

Here's a video of the last 2k row I did.  PR'd.  Dave's the chipmunk talking and grunting in the backround.  Just making that clear.