CrossFit Journal Year 2 Week 2

Success! I’ve been climbing more frequently now and actually went twice last week. Keepin’er up.

The short:

Monday — CrossFit
Tuesday — Bouldering
Wednesday — Rest
Thursday — Bouldering
Friday — CrossFit

The long:

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year 2, week 2, day one

5 rounds:
In 2 minutes complete:
3 Overhead squats
6 burpee box jumps (24″)
As many kettlebell swings as possible with time remaining (24kg)
* 1 minute rest
What I completed:
For the overhead squats I used 55lbs. The box jumps I used a 24″ box and the KB weight I used 20kg.

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year 2, week 2, day two

Bouldering!!
bouldering

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year 2, week 2, day three

3 rep max Hang Clean
WOD:
150 skips
30 pushups
225 skips
20 pushups
300 skips
10 pushups
What I completed:
My 3 rep max for the hang cleans was 90lbs! I went up to 95lbs but failed once and then time ran out.
As for the WOD, I completed it in 8:38, I kind of impressed myself with that time. Ha!

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year 2, week 2, day four

More bouldering!bouldering 2


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OOTWW & TFF #21

Grr. No one is budging on my boots. I’ve posted it on Facebook, Kijiji and also sent it to my co-workers.  I admit though, it’s not the time to be buying, or selling boots since it is almost spring.

Today flew by at work. Probably because my Boss and I went out for breakfast and had a meeting and showed up a little late. Also, I went out to lunch and came back with car troubles. I swerved right into CAA mechanic’s and ran inside all scared like. Of course my car wouldn’t act up when I was trying to show the dude’s what was going on. FYI: something was screeching (like honestly, ear piercing) on my car. At first I thought it was this obnoxious old car behind me. But the car went away. So I slowed down, turned off my music, and rolled the window down a crack. Still, not thinking it was MY car making that racket. So I pulled into the Michael’s Craft store to do some shopping. Pulled out and it was indeed my car. I put’er in park, called the Boyf with no answer. So I called my boss in a panic.

Then drove to the CAA which you’ve already read… No idea what’s wrong with it, if anything. The mechanic said my “belts are new”. Whatever that means.

Either way. my day flew by and I’m now part of the Social Media team at work, so I’ve gotten the new role of Content Editor. Which means I tweet for my company’s work and IT’S SO FUN TO TWEET. Oh, and I went to CrossFit right after work and did some crazy shiz there. A lot of skipping and push ups. I may “invest” (because they’re SOO expensive) in my own skipping rope soon. I really need to concur those darn tootin’ double-under’s. As long as they come with clamp accessories, I’m all set.

I may do the paleo challenge at the local CrossFit box, you guys. It scares me. I’ll talk about that more next week though.

Onto my OOTWW. It’s 11:11pm and we still haven’t had supper. Oof. Here I am waiting for it to be done in the oven.

ootwwK have a great weekend everyone!

Triple F Friday:
Just the one feature this week since it’s a sad day in Google-Town. They’re getitng rid of RSS reader! I’m so peeved, what the hey am I going to use now to subscribe to blogs? Oh way-hate a minute here. Aleeza has JUST the post to save our souls.

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My CrossFit Journal (Year 2, week 1)

Last week was tremendous at CrossFit!

The short:

Monday — CrossFit
Tuesday — CrossFit
Wednesday — Rest
Thursday — CrossFit
Friday — CrossFit
Saturday — Volunteering at Tour de Bloc boulder competition
Sunday — bouldering at the local climbing gym!

The long:

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year 2, week 1, day one

 CrossFit WOD

DWOD

Front Squat
1 Rep Max.  (95lbs is my max!)

SWOD

Four Rounds: In 2 minutes complete:
3 chinups (strict)
3 pull ups (strict)
8 push ups
burpees with remaining time
1 minute rest

What I completed:
Did the whole set. First round of burpees I did 11, second & third round I did 10, and finished the fourth round with 11)

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year 2, week 1, day two

7 rounds:
30s Handstand Hold (nose/toes to wall)
3 Wall climbs
5 Toes to bar
7 Box jumps; 30/24″

What I completed
5 full rounds and then on my 6th round I did a 20 second handstand hold until the buzzer went off.

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year 2, week 1, day three

We did the WOD from the CrossFit Games Open: 13.1

17 minutes to complete:

40 Burpees
30 Snatch (75/45)
30 Burpees
30 Snatch (135/85)
20 Burpees
30 Snatch (165/110)
10 burpees
As many as possible Snatch (210)

What I completed:
40 burpees
30 snatches at 35lbs
30 burpees
29 snatches at 45lbs

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year 2, week 41, day four

Every 30s for 7min (14 Total Reps)
1 DeadLift @ 315/215lb

What I completed:
Used 115lbs for the deadlifts

Alternating Tabata
KB Swings; 20/12kg
V-Sits
Russian KB Twists; 20/12kg

What I completed:
I Rx’ed this WOD.

 

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Volunteering on Saturday at the climbing gym for Tour de Bloc ten.

I volunteered from 3-9pm and got put with the finalists in isolation. It was pretty funny being in there with the 16 of them. I posted photos on Facebook, but maybe I’ll do a re-cap this week about it.

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Nap time for the 16 finalists.
My duties were to make sure they didn’t peek out at the final boulder problems, and walking them to the bathroom and also not peeking at the routes.

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Bouldering at the climbing gym

IMG_6132This is just a recycled photo from last Tour de Bloc. Thought I’d include it, lol

I spent 2 hours at the climbing gym just bouldering the problems that were in the comp from the day before. I didn’t feel too sore, or too out of the loop, regardless of how many months I’ve been off climbing. Good to be back.

Look at the mess of my pants! Chalk everywhere. bouldering pants

Time to take a stainless steel hose to these pants to get them cleaned up for this weeks CrossFit and climbing sessions, since I activated my free month membership at the climbing gym. Hooyea.

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