My CrossFit Journal (week 16)

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Week 16 Day 1.

20 Lateral Jumps Over Bar
30 Burpees
40 Ground to Overhead (95/65) (anyway you want to lift your weight from the ground to above your head. I did 55lb deadlift/pushpress)
50 Toes to Bar
60 OH Lunges (45/25)
400m Run

I rarely post warm ups, mainly because I never remember what we do. I remember this one, it was a “short one”. The warmup consisted of a 400m run then three rounds of sitting up with your legs in the air a bit with a medicine ball rotating from side-to-side with it. Do twenty of those. Then do 10 v-sit situps and then hold a minute plank. Remember, do that three times over! Wowzah. Sweat fest.

For the WOD we had 25 minutes to complete it. I was doing awesome for time up until I had to do the 50 T2B. It slowed me down. A lot of others were doing it on the ground, which obviously made things faster for them. I think the T2B will eventually help me get unassisted kips (fancy swinging pull ups without an elastic helping me pull my weight). I ended up completing the 50 toes to bar, and was on #21 of the overhead luges with a 25lb weight, when the timer went off. I suppose I could have finished it off – but I was absolutely dead by that point. I absolutely love hard workouts like this!

 

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Week 16 Day 2.

8×2 (two reps, add weight each time til you’ve done it 8x)
Thrusters

Thruster (source)

Our WOD was awesome. I felt so strong! I started off with a 35lb bar and added two 2.5lbs to each side. Then worked my way up slowly five pounds of weight til I ended up doing a thruster at 75lbs! I may possibly could have done 80lbs if we didn’t run out of time. Isn’t that insane? I can lift your child teenager above my head!

While I was taking a 2 minute break between each 2 thrusters I practiced my kips on the last elastic and tried to do 4 or 5 each minute. I’m addicted to kips.

The warmup was SICK you guys. Sick. We started off with 2 laps around the building for a 400m run. Then we did five rounds of this:

1 wall climb with 30 second hold at the top (I’ll only show a photo of this because the other images are hard to find lol)
20 pass throughs (a pushup on the bars, and then swing your legs through and do tricep dips)
15 second L-sit hold
5 thrusters with a PVC bar

By the end of the warmup my tank top was soaked. AH!

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Week 16 Day 3.

AMRAP 20

5 Split Jerk; 185/135lbs
10 Box Jumps; 24/20″
15sec L-Sit
100m Sprint

The split jerk I ended up just doing45lbs, even though yesterday I did the same type of movement with much heavier weight. Meh!

This type of workout was one that made me feel sick by the end of it. I think it was the movements. We had twenty minutes on the clock and had to push out as many rounds as possible. I was finishing my 7th round on the 100m sprint I heard him count down from 10, and I wasn’t back inside after the timer went off. But I’ll call it 7 rounds!

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Week 16 Day 4.

AMRAP 15

5 Strict Pull-ups
10 Ring dips
20 Wall balls; 20/16lb

Strict pull ups are just the ones you see regularly. Slowly pull yourself up without “kipping” so to speak. I love kips, they’re easier for me to do. The wall balls are probably the thing that I dislike the most about CrossFit, lol.

I ended up completing 5 rounds in 15 minutes.

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My CrossFit Journal (week 15)

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Week 15 Day 1.

Push Press
5-5-5-5-5

The last time I did a push press was a while ago and I thought I did 65lbs but for that WOD I ended up doing 55lbs. This day I went up, and went back down in weights. I tried doing 60 and 65lbs, but couldn’t push out 5 in a row, so I stuck with 55lbs.

Push Press source

The warmup for this workout was a 2km run. I ended up rowing instead, since I hyper extended my knee at Soccer the day before. I kicked someone in between the legs (by accident) and my knee went the other way. So I babied it for a few days. I found an awesome photo site for some great CrossFit images, so I’ll be linking those into my journal entries coming up. Here’s what the rowing machine looks like in case you didn’t know, lol.

Rowing for 2k was pretty difficult. I was covered in sweat and probably would’ve been less out of breath on the 2k run. Whooo wee! Rough stuff.


Rowing source

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Week 15 Day 2.

For time:
50 Pull-ups
10 Burpees
40 Pull-ups
20 Burpees
30 Pull-ups
30 Burpees
20 Pull-ups
40 Burpees
10 Pull-ups
50 Burpees

It was 32ºC this day, and my skin glistened like this by the time the WOD was done.


Pullups source / Burpees source

Only a handful of people completed this entire workout the whole day. I’m not sure anyone in my class completed it. But I got down to the 20 pull ups. I ended up doing 19 out of 20 in the 30 minute time limit we were given. My hands ripped and now band-aids are on protecting them. Ouch. There’s even a callus waiting to come off on my other hand, a big bubble. Too much of a visual for you? Sorry.

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Week 15 Day 3.

AMRAP 10
10 Med Ball Cleans
50 Yard Sprint

 

Med Ball source / Yard sprint source

I wasn’t sure I’d make it to this class since I rarely go to the later one in the evening. I got my hair cut and bolted it to class. I wanted to go a lot this week!

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Week 15 Day 4.

7 Rounds:
8 Snatch (95/65)
10 SDLHP (95/65)

The first round in itself was very difficult. I ended up doing the workout using 55lbs in total. We had a twenty minute time limit and I finished 6 rounds with no seconds to spare. I could barely stand up straight after, I felt like I wanted to fall forward. Definitely worked the lower back. Definitely ready for a rest.

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My CrossFit Journal (week 14)

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Week 14 Day 1.

5 rounds

15 SDLHP (95/65) – 50 for me
10 Supines
200m Run

Finished in 16:38

I haven’t kept track of what weights I used during SDLHP’s (Looking back from the older entries, I did them in week 7 and week 2). So I had to try and remember what I was capable of lifting for them. I ended up using 50lbs in total. I thought I was doing them correctly but I was dropping my shoulders and just pulling up the weight that way. Needed to remember to pinch my shoulder blades, it was a difficult move and I’m not sure how to piece it together just yet.

I also got the biggest compliment from my trainer that day. He saw me running on my 5 rounds of 200m runs and he said I have a really great stride and my core looked tight and I should honestly take up running. It’s all mental for me, everything is — my breathing gets out of control and I can’t stop it.So I “panic” when I get to 5 or 7k and I feel like I can’t go any further, and when I do my breathing goes wild.

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Week 14 Day 2.

1 Rep Max
Backsquat

What teh backsquat look slike:

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Week 14 Day 3.

21-15-9 reps for time of:

Deadlift; 315/205lb
Box jump; 30/24″

What the WOD looks like:

Deadlift:

24″ Box jumps:

My time: 9:48

For the deadlifts we had to lift 75% of our max. I thought my max was 115bs so he put me at 105. At the end of the workout I told him I could’ve easily lifted more. I think my max rep definitely went much higher! Getting stronger!!

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