WOD in at Crossfit Vibe

Strength:

Back Squat 3-3-3-3-3 reps with 2 mins rest between each set. 

100-100-100-100-100

My third rep of each set was difficult. 100#s is 75% of my 1RM of 135.

For Time:
100 Kettlebell Swings, 1.5 pood, 5 pull ups at the top of every minute

My time: 10:48 @ .75 Pood

By minute 9/10 I was just doing pull ups, so I tapped out and just finished the 18 KB swings I had left.

This really fucked me. My lungs were just not getting enough oxygen to my body. I was spitting out phlegm every time I came off the bar. I did do 27 KB swings in my first minute, which pleased me. 

It was grip/forearms that were screaming the whole time. 

On empty

“Santora”
Three rounds for reps of:
155/115 pound Squat cleans, 1 minute
20′ Shuttle sprints (20′ forward + 20′ backwards = 1 rep), 1 minute
245/195 pound Deadlifts, 1 minute
Burpees, 1 minute
155/115 pound Jerks, 1 minute

Just wanted to try my hand at Snatch Balance. I haven't done this movement since my the early summer, prior to my back injury. It was a good warm up to Santora. 

OMG, what an ass kicker. It's like Fight Gone Bad but way fuckin' worse. I'm happy with my score. I'm glad that I did 55# vs. 65#. There was no way I would could have done 65# cleans into the seconde round, my legs were just killed... After 400m walking lunge then the Front Squat workout on Tuesday... my legs are still fried and on the mend. During the shuttle sprints my legs felt so heavy; running backwards felt good, it was the running forward that was difficult. 

The burpees were actually not bad. You just kept moving and pushed up and that's it. I did well each round, it kind of felt like rest. 

The worst worst worst was the Jerks. At that point of the round you are just sooooo gassed the idea od cleaning the bar and putting overhead is sickening. I would only do like 2 at a time and would have to dump the bar. Of course, before the start of the WOD the strategy was to rest the bar at the rack position and not drop the bar so you wouldn't have to clean it again, well all strategy gets thrown out the door when you're just trying to survive. 

Here's how the work broke down each round. 

Friday, October 14, 2011

4 Rounds:

Run 400m
50 Squats

It sucked. Thanks, CR!

I'm running out of titles

Tabata Double-under

The Tabata interval is 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest for 8 intervals.  Tabata score is the least number of reps performed in any of the eight intervals.

Rest 3 minutes, then perform

2k Row for time

So my ROW time was 10:47. Not too shabby. 

This sucked. I'm super dissapointed in my tabata score. I think I got too much in my head and couldn't relax my shoulders. 

Reflection

Five rounds for time of:

35 Double-unders

Run 200 meters

I came in dreading this WOD but afterwards I realized I loved/hated it. At 3-2-1 Go! I had this knot in my tummy anticipating that this was going to suck. The 10 minutes went by pretty fast. I don't really remember rounds 2 or 3. I do remember coming back from my 4th run and saw Martina on the ground resting. She gave me this look like, Finish this shit up, and I shot her my index finger saying I only had 1 more round left. 

My last set of DUs were spotty. I messed up 4 times to rep 8, until I finally got in a rhythm and finished out the remaining 27 reps in one fell swoop. Started on my run and was going as fast as I could, which wasn't fast. I just knew that I was almost done (and the finish line sounded like paradise) so I kept a nice steady pace; shit, it was fastest sprint I could muster with what gas I had left in the tank.

I collapsed on the concrete and felt my tummy convulsing, making me burp continuously. Dry heaving, a good sign that I pushed myself. 

This WOD was the cherry on top to a fun and grueling week of WODs. 

I feel what I feel and I don't judge it.

"Crossfit Games Masters Chipper"

For time:

10 Handstand push-ups (on a box)

20 Wall ball shots, 20 8 pound ball to 10' target

30 Toes-to-bar

40 Hang Power cleans, 135  55 pounds

50 Burpees

60 Sumo deadlift high-pull, 75 12KG KB

As you can see above, I heavily scaled back on this WOD. Knowing that my hip/back is still not fully on point I didn't want to get ahead of myself and set back my healing. 

During the toes to bar, I started feeling a bit twitchy in my hip, so at rep 22 I just did Knees to Elbow strict, no kip. The kipping was definitely straining my hip. 

The power cleans killed me. My elbows felt fast. The burpees had to be the worst; I felt all dizzy and kept burping. That's when I started feeling the 2 pints of beer I had earlier in the afternoon. 

My intention was to do SDHP at 12Kg, but my hip didn't feel right, so I just did deadlifts. Probably saved myself anymore aggravation in my hip. 

I felt wrecked after calling time, definitely gassed. 

Morrison

"Morrison"

50-40-30-20 and 10 rep rounds of:

Wall ball shots, 20 pound ball 6 pound ball 

Box jump, 24 inch box  20" Box

Kettlebell swings, 1.5 pood .75 pood

Long. All 3 movements are very taxing. 150 reps of each. The box jumps just killed me. I felt so slow. I would jump up and step down. My ankles were killing me. 

My 50 round and 40 round took me the same amount of time, about 11 mins. I was already soooo gassed. 

I knew I wanted to do this WOD as a detoxifier to the weekend. I ate freely and without guilt. Back on the wagon... I missed Crossfit. As I laid on the ground after I did my last KB swing, all the blood pulsing quickly in all my biggest muscles groups, and the heat coming off of my body, drenched in sweat... I almost giggled just cause I loved that brink of death feeling. 

Must sleep now. 

I'm going to stop asking

21-15-9 reps for time:

Dumbbell Thrusters (50/35#) 15# for me

Burpee Pull-ups

Lung burner. Pukie. Good god. This is like Fran on 'roids. Thrusters obviously suck balls, but then you add the Dumbbell element where you need soooo much core strength to stabilize and control the dumbbells. My left side is definitely my weaker side.

So WOD recap: Started out by doing 11 Thrusters then threw my DBs on the ground. The last 10 were wretched. The 21 burpee pull ups, while the plus side of them are that you can pace them slow, they completely zapped my energy. I had to kip so hard to get a legit pull up. Set 15 was the WORST! It was at this point I started to feel the burn in my stomach and chest up to my throat... I felt soooooo slow on the thrusters. I had to break up the 15 reps into sets of 5. Zeb had to remind me to breath; ya, I was pretty much holding my breath the entire I was thrusting, probably not a good idea. I realize I have to learn how to stabilize my core and not hold my breath while doing so. The 15 burpee PUs were kind of a blur. 

I was soooooo gassed at the start at the 9 set that it got me angry enough and motivated to just end this shit. Took 4 big ass breaths and just fuckin' hammered out the 9 thrusters with my eyes closed. 

The last 9 burpee PUs were fuckin' brutal. I had Zeb and Coach Zen countin' me down and cheerin' me on. I really wanted to take a break, but I kept moving, albeit slowly, but I was moving. I did 4. Then 2. Then the last 3 Zeb announced to the box I was on my last 3 and all I could hear was a cacophony of "Assassin this!" and "Assassin that!" and all I wanted to do was to puke. I made sure that the last 3 pull ups perfect, with chin well above the bar. Again I had to kip sooo violently since my arms were just fuckin' dead. 

I collapsed on the floor and did not move for about 15 mins. I was completely wrecked and useless. My body was a big throbbing heart beat. I had that post wod euphoria for about an hour and thirty minutes. 

I love that feeling. 

PS- I tore on my right hand.