Swim and ruck run

Fin 100m or warm up

25m sprints on the :30x8

50m brick swim in the 1:00x4

3 rds on the 2:00 of;

5 pool dips, head under water on each

25m swim

5 burpees

25m sprint w/dive

Ran home, ~1.5 miles.

Late WOD

Row, 50 UB double unders & mobility.

3 rds, 1:00 rest after each.

3x135# power snatch

5 strict pull ups

7 30# ball slams

Ten or so minutes later

"Diane"

21,15,9

225 deadlift

Hand stand push ups (regionals strict)

PR of 7:09

Combat Fitness Test

It too early for this old man.

800m run in boots: 2:46

2:00 ammo can push presses: 103

maneuver under fire: 2:41

296/300

Don't miss the grenade. Word.

At 1330, went to the pool for two swim WODs.

1. 3rds of 25m swim, 3 touch n' go, 25m swim, 3 dips, 3 hand release push ups

2. Sprint 25m every :30 x5, then 4x 25m Brick swim every 1:00

Wallballs and such

Five minutes on the air dyne bike to warm up.

Worked up to a heavy set of 1 Clean + 3 Split Jerks: 195

Then 3 sets of 3 squat cleans, touch and go @160.

50-40-30-20-10 sets of unbroken wallballs @8ft target w/20lb ball in 6:23

5:00 row to cool down, 1104 @2:10 pace.

Brick loves lamp (& burpees)

Bike to the pool for a warm up.

Some swim practice: skulling drills and brick carrying technique.

Then AMRAP10:

25m swim

15 burpees

7rds. Carrying the brick, 2,3, & 7

Boots 'n Birthday

Ran in boots for a warm up, got to get ready for the CFT.

1x500m w/35lb vest

1k without

Five rounds with a team

10x95lb push press

High handle prowler push @255, down and back

10 pull ups

1:00 air dyne active rest

Birthday burpees-raced a two man team, they each did 19, I did 38, they only beat me by 1.

Forget to blog? I'm forgetting whole days.

Can't remember if I even worked out Wednesday, but I know I didn't on Thursday or Friday.

Today:

1k row

3 rds of 20 lunges, 15 dips, 10 pull ups, 5 dumbbell burpee/clean/thruster combos w/30lb DBs

8 rds

Dive, 25m swim, 5 HR push ups, 5 squats

Then,

3 rds

50m brick swim, 5 poolside dips, 10 OHS 5 w/brick in each hand

Brick swimming

Tuesday

Dry Land portion:

Bike to aquatic center, 2rds 10 pull ups, dips, air squats

3 UB rds, not for time @135lbs;

7 deadlifts, 7 hang power cleans, 7front squats, 7 push press

Failed after 1pp of rd 3

Water portion:

20 min skills and drills

9min AMRAP

25m brick swim

21 brick squats 

25m brick swim

7 HR push ups

3 full rds

Frogman Challenge

I recently bought off in a great idea: take part in a real life competitive event. Only one problem--it's a day full of wods that all involve a swim, known as the Frogman Challenge.

I've been training for it. Really, I have. But I took a long lapse from blogging about training. My excuses are legendary, bards will sing of my ability to procrastinate and my petty injuries for all ages. But I need to get back on task and record my training, if for no other reason than to--gasp--improve my methods.

Saturday:

12 minute AMRAP

Dive-25m-wall turn-25m-down/up-5 wall up&outs-10 air squats.

5+ rds, googles popping off, not fluid, need work all over, improving.

Monday:

21-15-9

Back squats (155-no rack)

Burpee Out-n-In (dry land simulated)

9:58

This shit should be automated

I swear I should use Dragon Dictate or some other voice software to blog--that way I wouldn't neglect to record so many wods. Not that I'm missing anything, or anyone else is, but I prefer to have the records.

Last two days was week three of a Wendler cycle of dead lift, back squat and press.

Monday:

Dead lift

5@75% 255

3@85% 290

Amrap@95% 315 (5)

AMRAP10

20 cal AD

10 wallballs

5 toes to bar

250m row

10 power Cleans @95

5 burpees

Got two full rds and 10m into third row.

Tuesday

Shoulder press

5@75% 100

3@85% 115

Amrap@95% 125 (6)

Then 

21,15, 9

SDLHP@75

Push Jerk@75 (3:32)

3:00 rest (6:32) then

21,15,9

L hand kb snatch @44lb

R hand KBS@44

Pull ups

14:02

 Been cooling down and warming up well. No issues lately.

Memorial Day 2013

"Murph"

Wearing a weight vest (used 24lbs)

Run 1 mile 

100 pull ups

200 push ups

300 squats

Run 1 mile

For time, completing calisthenics in any fashion.

Split the work up in 20 rds of 5/10/15, paced 1st run pretty easy, went hard on 2nd.

PR of over 8:30, 42:31.

It's been awhile again

I think I posted something almost a month ago.

At least I have been consistently working out at systematic crossfit all this time. 

Today I ran out the door and took off down the coastal trail heading north. As I went over the hill I felt that wonderful glide of effortless pose running. Gravity and posture gracefully combined to make me feel like I was falling uphill. 

I came home feeling hooked. I used to be a decent runner. It was my thing-I was fast for a crossfitter. I used to say that three miles was a sprint. I haven't said that in a long time.

Hard to explain but but--as the song says--I want my swagger back. 

Whoa Bundy !

Team workout, whoa Bundy!
PS No body under 35 knows that reference...

Heavy 3 rep cleans: touch-n-go worked to 185, did a single at 195.

Follow the leader
3rds, team of four
150m row
10 push ups
10 ball slams
Hold 45lb plate over head until next person is done their ball slams.
14:55 w/ 4 peeps

F&$k you Jobu

I do it my self.

10minute air dyne test: 139 calories

Weighted 1rep max pull up in 10minutes: 88lbs

Then 10-8-6-4-2 rep rounds of;
1xProwler +4x45lbs down/back high handles
Wallball
Pull ups
Push ups
250m row
1:30 rest after each round
36lbs vest after first round
22:12

Back in the saddle again...

I'm back.

As the Aerosmith song goes, I've once again resumed my training. Last week saw a barbell bear, a 45 minute beach run, cleans, snatches, over the bar burpees, pull ups, tabatas and the resumption of my pedal powered school commute.

Not taking the time to document, but I am following the main programming at the new affiliate.

WWW.systematiccrossfit.COM

On why injury sucks (or doesn't).

I never know how to take a rest.

This is a simple fact. If given the chance to go somewhere, do something, try new things or learn I always take it. This has led to many wonderful things.

It has also led me down some bad paths.

You see I just don't know how to say no. Since something seems good, more always appears to be better. So I just keep on piling it on. It continues to be my undoing.

This post finds me injured again. I have been out of training for about three weeks and will probably be out for two or three more.

Maybe this time it was not self-induced. But it is making me look at priorities and evaluate time commitments more seriously than I have before. There are things more important than gym workouts--since this was never even a question I find myself wondering why I ever acted like it wasn't so clear.

Fitness enables us, but should not define us.

I will get back to training, but I will do so in due time after allowing myself to fully heal. Because being whole--in body, in mind, and in spirit--is why I labor so hard to begin with.

CF games open WOD 13.1

17 minute cap:
40 burpees
30 snatches at 75
30 burpees
30 snatches at 135
20 burpees
30 snatches at 165
Etc

I made it to 2 @ 165.

Wednesday

Work to 3RM deadlift, went to 325

Death by pull ups w/15min cut off.
Complete.

Zeus

Today Tiffany, Mandy and I did Zeus, a CrossFit Hero WOD.

TUESDAY 130226

"Zeus"

Three rounds for time of:
30 Wall ball shots, 20 pound ball
75 pound Sumo deadlift high-pull, 30 reps
30 Box jump, 20" box
75 pound Push press, 30 reps
Row 30 calories
30 Push-ups
Body weight Back squat, 10 reps

Names for "U.S. Army Specialist David E. Hickman, 23, of Greensboro, North Carolina, assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, died on November 14, 2011, in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds suffered when insurgents detonated an improvised explosive device near his vehicle. He is survived by his wife Calli, parents David and Veronica, and brother Devon."

38:24 RIP

Sine catching up

Past two days were very low energy. We are finishing the induction phase of the ultra low carb, and my glycogen stores are GONE.

Thursday:
Push press 5x5
135-145-155-160-165FL on third