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My CrossFit Journal (Year 1, week 16)

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I’ve decided to incorporate some of my own photos in my CrossFit journal posts. Let me know if you like it this way, with just text, or with diagrams of what the workouts actually consist of (see here for an example).

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year 1, week 16, day one

“CINDY”
I completed 10 rounds (and doing unassisted kips!) + 4 kips in the 20 min time limit. I’m happy! :)

What I looked like after I completed “CINDY”. Swoob. Swass. Sw-everything. White was definitely not a great color to wear. My top got filthy :)  I had to rest when I got home. I still felt light headed from the workout. Crazy!

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year 1, week 16, day two

I skipped CrossFit and ended up going for a 6km run.

I found this neat site called Bane.info (weird name, I know) but it calculates everything for you, your pace in km or mph.

6k run in 37 minutes = 9:55 minute mile. Not my fastest, I took a lot of walking breaks for 1 minute at a time. But I can’t believe I ran SIX KILOMETERS. I haven’t ran in two years. I’ve shocked myself, in a good way. I also need to chill the F out when I run. I did take two puffs of my inhaler before leaving. But I’m also so very self-competitive and it ruins my runs sometimes, as I try to beat my times constantly.

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year 1, week 16, day three

Filthy Fifty for time

50 Box jump; 24/20″
50 Jumping pull-ups
50 Kettlebell swings; 16/12kg
50 Walking Lunge steps
50 Knees to elbows
50 Push press; 45/35lbs
50 Superman Arches
50 Wall ball shots; 20/16lbs
50 Burpees
50 Double unders

We had a 35 minute time limit. I wasn’t expecting to end up making it down to the wall ball shots (I used a 14kg ball). I didn’t count because I only had three minutes left in the WOD to do the rest of the workout. I usually skip CrossFit if we have to do wall balls. lol. I hate them that much. I probably did 10-15.

The workout was great though. I don’t think I did it prescribed though since a lot of my “knees to elbows” weren’t really to my elbows. Oops :)

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Father’s Day was yesterday. Hope everyone called their jolly ol’ daddio and wished them a Happy Fathers Day, or at least saw them. My Dad is a 3 hour plane ride away. Oh, and to all the new Dad’s out there. Hope you got some new dad gifts for Father’s Day. I know this was Kristien’s first Father’s Day with his brand new little guy named Henry. Congratulations again Caitlin, Kristien, Henry… the whole HTPFamily :)

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And here I thought it was a bunch of hoopla

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So I’ve been taking my inhaler 15-30 minutes before my workouts at CrossFit. If you missed my post last week, I talked about getting one for my exercise induced asthma.

I never really thought about needing an inhaler, ever. I just wondered why my breathing was so off compared to everyone else. I thought I was just pushing myself to exertion, or just really hard. Here I thought exercise induced asthma was a bunch of hoopla. Well, clearly I was wrong. It worked a world of wonder for my lung capacity and I feel normal when I work out now.

Sure I do take breaks when doing my WODs (Work out of the day’s) at CrossFit. But it’s not my breathing that is now stopping me, it’s the workout itself. I don’t have to stop or slow down just to get some deep breaths in. I can plow right through it. I feel a million times better. I know my lungs are opening up further than they’ve ever been. Which is a really interesting feeling. This is how it’s supposed to work! Now I get it lol.

I kinda like having this doo-dad around with me before I work out.

I’m interested in hearing how many people actually suffer from exercise induced asthma as well. Do you? Leave a comment down below!

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My CrossFit Journal (Year 1, week 15)

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year 1, week 15, day one

21-15-9 with a 20min time limit

Hang Clean and Squat (135/95)
Hand Stand Push Ups (or dive bombers if you couldn’t do HSPU)

I ended up using 55lb for the first round. I tweaked my knee and went down to 35lbs. Then back up to 45lbs for the last 9. I was so excited to go do this WOD because it was my first day with my asthma inhaler! Oh well.

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year 1, week 15, day two

 

SWOD:
6×3
Behind Neck Press
Strict Muscle Up / Strict Pull Up

I did the behind the neck press with a total of 35lbs at the beginning whcih I found was wobbly til I remembered to keep my chest and abs in, and my butt tight. Thanks to the coaches for reminding me to do so. I then ended up going up just five more pounds to 40lbs behind the neck press and did pretty well. It was still tough. I have weak shoulders.

WOD:
AMRAP 10
30 D/U
15 G2O; 55/75lbs

I did the prescribed workout for this!! I ended up doing the Ground to Overhead with 55lbs. I only completed three full rounds and was on my fourth, but still pretty awesome.

I’m taking a break from CrossFit because on the first day of workouts (shown above) I tweaked my knee. Then on this WOD I feel like my rotator cuff in my shoulder was a bit off and sore to move immediately after. I don’t want to injure it anymore so I’m not going to do any shoulder work until it’s completely healed.

We also practiced doing double unders. So difficult!

Here are the wounds from my attempts. Needless to say I wore long-ish sleeves to work the next day.

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What did everyone get up to this weekend?? It was pouring rain the entire day on Saturday. Which made a perfect day for a deep clean of the entire apartment. Mopping floors, and scrubbing baseboards. Nothing better than a lemon fresh apartment after you spent half the day cleaning ‘er right up.  The boyf helped too, which was nice – he was also easily getting distracted by looking up info on a Honeywell Barcode Scanner. Don’t ask!

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