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18 Long Months

drink-coffee-work-outEarly to bed again. Just so tired with the time difference here. Went to the 8:30am class at CrossFit Intersect again.

Warm-up

5 Rounds

  • 1:00 DU
  • 1:00 7-10 T2B

I was doing 3 sets of 20 double unders every minute, unless I missed twice in a set, which only happened once. So I totaled 289 dubs. I did 10 unbroken toes to bars every round.

Strength

Strict Press

As a guide they suggested 5-5-3-3-3-2-2-1RM.

  • 5×45#
  • 5×95#
  • 3×115#
  • 3×125#
  • 3×135#
  • 2×150#
  • 2×160#
  • 1×170# (PR)
  • 1×175# (PR)

Finally! After a year and a half I get a 10# PR. So happy!!

Conditioning

5 – 1:00 Rounds

  • 150m Row
  • Max Burpees

I’m not sure if we were supposed to keep a cumulative count of the rowing meters or get 150m every round. I did the latter and ended up with 816m on my erg. Didn’t bother strapping in after the initial round since it would waste too much time for such a short distance. Did 36 burpees.

5:00 Rest

5 – 1:00 Rounds

  • 100m Run
  • Max American KBS (53#)

Had to deal with a little traffic a few times. Managed 56 swings.

Really fun workout from top to bottom. The metcons were really interesting because they were working a lot different muscles and you could still push on each piece.

In the afternoon I knocked out a max set of push-ups while sitting around. Got 54 which is a 2 rep PR. Talk about an arm pump after that! Did another set of 40 maybe 20 minutes later.

The LBC

Made it to Long Beach last night. Spending 9 nights out here to visit my brother. Went to CrossFit Intersect this morning for the 8:30am class. Love this weather! My brother is less than a mile away so it was nice to walk there.

crossfit-intersect

Warm-up

  • 800m Run
  • 2:00 Rest
  • 800m Run
  • Burgener Warm-up (45#)
  • 2x 2 Hang Cleans + 1 Push Jerk (95#)
  • 2x 2 Hang Cleans + 1 Push Jerk (135#)
  • 2 Hang Cleans + 1 Push Jerk (165#)

Haven’t run in over a month. The route is between 700-750m according to gmap-pedometer.com, but felt good to get the legs moving under me.

Weightlifting

8:00 EMOM

  • 2 Hang Cleans + 1 Push Jerk (185#)

Felt really good!

Conditioning

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1

  • Deadlifts (225#)
  • C2B Pull-ups

All deadlifts unbroken and set of 10 pull-ups unbroken. Every other set of pull-ups broken into 2 sets until the set of 3. I had to switch to kipping in the round of 5 or 4. Finished in 7:32.

Really good box. Probably the neatest one I’ve visited as far as the split of CrossFit, lounge, weightlifting, locker, and conditioning areas. Not charging me a drop-in either, which is awesome! All I have to do is leave some reviews online. 🙂

Feelin’ OK

Legs are still sore, with some added soreness in my ass. Overall feeling pretty good this morning. Super Sunday at 11am. I really missed programming for this when I was gone for a week. Took things easy today due to all the work some of us did in the GLBRT yesterday.

Warm-up

4 Rounds NFT

  • 250m Row
  • 3/3 Turkish Get-ups (26#)

Focus on getting the body moving. Nothing crazy.

Couldn’t skip tabata thrusters!

Thruster Attack (Week #7)

3 Rounds

  • 2:00 Tabata Thrusters
    • 20s Thrusters (65#)
    • 10s Rest
  • 1:00 Rest

Went with 8 reps every 20 seconds again and pushed for 10 reps in the final round. So 98 total thrusters.

Conditioning

30:00 AMRAP
* Keep moving. Shouldn’t get anywhere near red lining.

  • 400m Run
  • 50 Jump Ropes
  • 20 Russian Kettlebell Swing (44#)
  • 10 V-ups
  • 5 Broad Jumps

I honestly didn’t even keep track of my rounds because it was all about keeping moving with a low intensity. I think I was just short of 6 or 7 rounds, with just the broad jumps left to do.

Did a bunch of rolling after.

No Hike

I kept staying in bed this morning and then finally around 7:30 got moving. Decided I should get out for a hike. Got downstairs and saw it was raining, so I hit the fitness center instead.

Warm-up

400m speed walk on treadmill

Gymnastics / Midline

5 Rounds NFT

  • 7 Strict Pull-ups
  • 7 Strict Bar Dips
  • 1:00 Plank

On the ghetto stand again, almost tipping over, but it worked. I pulled my hands in to a normal grip today.

Thruster Attack (Week 6)

4 Rounds

  • 4 Rounds
    • 20s Thrusters (25# DBs)
    • 10s Rest
  • 1:00 Rest

I stuck to 8 reps all the way again and seemed to have a lot more time left in the 20s when I got done with them. Did 11 reps in the final interval. I think I’ve adjusted pretty well to the altitude.

Conditioning

Ran 1.5 miles on the treadmill in 14:40 and then walked about 200m.

CrossFit Park City

I’m out in Park City, Utah for the week. It’s our once-a-year Grand Meetup for Automattic. Got up bright and early and headed over to Chris Spealler’s gym with Simon for open gym from 6:30a-7:30. This gym is massive!

crossfit-park-city

Thruster Attack

Every 1:30 for 6 sets

  • 10×135#

Brutal at over 6,000 feet above sea level. I had to split the last set into 6+4 with a very short breather.

Next Simon and I did kind of a relay workout where one person would do GHD Sit-ups while the other would flip a tire once, jump in the middle, jump out, run to the opposite wall, and run back to switch. The tire was mid-size. We flipped it a length of about 36 feet and then back. The sprint distance was about 56 feet and I’m guessing the tire was maybe 150-200 pounds, give or take.

Then we did a little gasser.

  • 10-20-30-40-50-40-30-20-10 DU
  • 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1 Burpees

Need more oxygen!! I finished in 6:49.

Pounding

Woke up with a headache, but hit the pavement around 8am. Went for a 30 minute active recovery run, covering 3.14 miles. Then I walked about a half mile to get home.

Switching up from strict pull-ups on this rest day to some different sets of push-ups. Did one big set for each type of push-up, stopping a few reps shy of failure. Undefined rest between sets as I did them during breaks from working. Was done over the course of a few hours.

  • 20 Clapping Push-ups
  • 30 Wide Push-ups
  • 25 Diamond Push-ups
  • 20 Ring Push-ups
  • 30 Push-ups

Can you tell I like pretty numbers? I cut the ring push-ups pretty short because I didn’t want to get strap burns on my arms. Next time I’d be sure to put on my shin skins.

Thruster Thursday

Getting back to my early wake-ups after managing to sleep in later for a couple of weeks. So had enough time to go through my morning routine and get to CFi early to get in heavy thrusters before the 9am class.

Warm-up

  • Crossover Symmetry Activation
  • Thrusters
    • 5×45#
    • 5×95#

Thruster Attack

Every 1:30 for 9:00 (6 sets)

  • 8×135#

Not too bad. Got me breathing pretty hard. Maybe too much rest. Will make adjustments to the plan for upcoming weeks.

Warm-up #2

  • 2 Rounds
    • 4 Inch Worms
    • 10 Good Mornings (45#)
  • Deadlifts
    • 5×155#
    • 5×245#
    • 3×315#

Strength

EMOM 8:00

  • 2 Deadlifts (365#)

Gymnastics

4 Rounds NFT

  • 4 MU
  • 5 Strict Ring Dips (right after MU)

Nice burn and got me out of breath. Have started to get the hang of pushing away from the rings at the top after finishing the muscle-up, instead of lowing back to the bottom of the dip and then falling. It’s definitely a different cycling into the next rep.

Conditioning

15:00 AMRAP

  • 10 Deadlifts (185#)
  • 10 Burpees
  • 250m Run

I got through 5 full rounds plus 10 deadlifts and 10 burpees at 14:44 on the clock. No sense starting a run. All deadlifts and burpees were unbroken.

Walked 200m to cool down a little.

Afternoon intervals on the SkiErg! Warmed up with an easy 500m in 2:23.6. I think this interval workout may have come from Athlete Cell, but I don’t remember where I saved it from.

6 Rounds

  • 20s @ 100%
  • 40s @ 50%

Rest 3:00

4 Rounds

  • 30s @ 100%
  • 1:00 @ 50%

Rest 3min

2 Rounds

  • 45s @ 100%
  • 1:30 @ 50%

I went about 1,285m, 1,280m, and 950m in each of the blocks. Was able to get down in the low 1:30s during some of the short ones. Stayed under 1:40 almost the entire time when going 100%. Went at about a 3:00/500m pace for my 50% efforts.

Shoulder Pump

My hammies are feeling tight from squatting the last couple of days I think. In for the 9am class at CFi.

Warm-up

  • Bar Hangs
  • 3 Rounds of “Cindy”
    • 5 Pull-ups (strict)
    • 10 Push-ups
    • 15 Air Squats
  • Deadlifts
    • 4×155#
    • 4×245#
    • 4×315#

XWOD

7 Rounds

  • 4 Deadlifts (345#)
  • 1 Broad Jump

Bumped up the weight 10# from last week which was 8×3. No issues with the back.

Strength/Skill

8:00 EMOM

  • 6 Thrusters (135#)

The thruster attack plan is working pretty well. Wasn’t easy but not terrible either.

Conditioning

“Helen”
3 Rounds

  • 400m Run
  • 21 American KBS (53#)
  • 12 Pull-ups

First run was about 2 minutes! Yuck. Need to be faster than that. All swings were unbroken and pull-ups were 12, 7-5, and 8-4. Finished in 10:04. I think thrusters destroyed my shoulders a bit. I couldn’t even touch my shoulders after the workout that’s how pumped up they were. Not even close to my PR time of 9:30, the only other time I did “Helen” over 2 years ago. Don’t remember what we did for the runs then, but maybe it was really short (or at least I’ll tell myself that to feel better). The bottom line is I need to push myself more when running in a metcon.

Afternoon garage time just before 4pm. Warmed up with an easy 3 minutes on the Air Dyne for 1.24km.

5 Rounds

  • 1:20
    • 15 C2D Push-ups
    • Air Dyne
  • 1:00 Rest

Was able to do the push-ups unbroken every round and couldn’t believe it. Gave me pretty much exactly 1 minute on the Air Dyne each round by the time I got on it. Distances were 0.7, 0.75, 0.74, 0.74, and 0.74 km.

Walked a half mile to cool down.