Sooo like I said.. I needed to just suck it up and go yesterday, and I did! And guess what? It was awesome, I felt great, and I was really glad I went.

Our WOD was Nasty Girls.. a benchmark WOD that I first did back in August.. AND… how’s this for improvement??? Check it..

I LOVE THIS.

This time, I did Nasty Girls with the RX weight of 95lbs for the hang cleans.  I also did buckets for the first time in my life. (to help practice for muscle up movements with your hands/arms.)

“Nasty Girls” is
3RFT
50 Squats
7 Muscle Ups (or 7 buckets, or 21 ring rows AND 21 ring dips)
10 hang cleans 135/95

This time I finished in 11:05. I RXed the weight, and I did buckets (green band).

The LAST time I did this WOD, on August 24th, I finished in 13:13, I did it with 85 lbs, and I only did the 21 ring rows (and apparently not the ring dips).

 This is why I blog and keep track of my crossfit progress… one of the big reasons, anyway! This just made my day, really. To see that kind of improvement in a matter of months is just awesome. Time, weight, and skill. YES.

Was up at 7a this morning.. skipped 6a alarm clock and said no to early morning CrossFit, which normally I love. I was dragging because I knew I had a dentist appointment at 11 am, and while my teeth are always fine, and I never have any issues, my gums are always so sore afterwards. No matter what I do, where I go, this gum soreness still happens. 🙁 And it goes beyond my gums, I can’t even eat hard or chewy food for a day or so. I tried snacking on some raisins earlier, and even those hurt.

So… I can’t really eat much right now and all I’ve had to eat were some raisins, lots of fried eggs, some bacon, some chicken sausage and a little salad. I keep telling myself I need some carbs, so I want to eat a Clif Bar, but that will hurt so badly! It won’t be worth it.. then I’m like, okay make a protein shake! But my initial reaction is mehhhh… I don’t feel like a protein shake! I’ve been dragging ass all morning, and I ended up drinking some of my BCAAs, my trusty Scivation Xtend, with the hopes that it’ll perk me up a bit.

I finally went and laid outside on the patio for a bit with the puppies. I’m sure staring at the computer trying to get some work done this afternoon didn’t help too much.

I know if I DON’T go work out tonight that I’ll be restless and crappy feeling for the rest of the evening, and then I won’t sleep well. Basically I need to suck it up and go to the gym.

Holy shmoly. After deadlift day, this was a killer but it was also one that I knew I’d be awesome at!!

I practiced it initially at 75lbs, and was like, mmm.. no… not strict pressing 75lbs 10 times! I dropped it to 65lbs and that made me a happy camper.. it was doable, it only hurt my wrist a little (okay, a lot, but it was manageable hurt with my wrist wraps!) and yeah. Awesome.

115/75 pound Shoulder press, 10 reps
115/75 pound Overhead squat, 15 reps
115/75 pound Push press, 20 reps
115/75 pound Front squat, 25 reps
115/75 pound Push jerk, 30 reps
115/75 pound Back squat, 35 reps

This was for time.. I finished in 11:28. 2nd one out of 6 to finish. Wee!! Looking at the board, only the boys did it faster, for the most part, and none of the girls, except Gina of course, RXed the weight. HA. Next time I will do it at 75lbs! 🙂

Deadlift day, awesommmmeee. I didn’t get up to my PR of 335, but I got kinda close at 315! I of course had to lift with the boys, which is always fun.

To top it all off, I wore my Jacked and Classy shirt for good measure.

Jacked and Classy. LBEB!

Our WOD was deadlifts and burpee pull ups. Since my hand is still an open, festering wound from ripping during my 2nd attempt of 13.5, I tried a few pull ups (now that I can do them and all!) but they hurt my palm too badly. I settled for burpees instead.

4 RFT
5 Deadlifts (245/170) I RXed this..
10 burpee pull ups (burpees for me)

I finished in 6:14.

This day.. Monday, was also a HUUUGE class.. there ended up being 94 people total that showed up, not counting Fundamentals. Pretty amazing turn out. Everywhere I turned, there were groups of people; talking, stretching, lifting. It was amazing. 🙂

I knew I had the thrusters down for 13.5 but I’ve never gotten kipping pull ups, let alone chest to bar! While I was practicing my C2B, my mom goes.. “Oh honey, you’re so close!! Your chin is over the bar!!” And of course I did a little dance and was like “I KNOW!!! I’VE NEVER DONE THAT BEFORE!!! hahaha”

So… while I didn’t get the chest to bar pullups as required for the WOD, I DID finally get my pull ups. It wasn’t as.. mind blowing as I expected it to be, it was more of like a quiet little victory, like STFU finallyyy!!! I ended up doing 4 or 5, maybe.

But.. moving on, I finished my 15 thrusters, and kept trying and trying the ninja kip to get my chest up there, and then of course I ripped the palm of my hand on the very last attempt before time ran out.. Sigh..

Still, pretty awesome. 🙂

Holly and I went at 6a for this one… good LORD that’s early! 7a is a completely different situation than 6a.. getting up at 5 am to work out is a whole new ball game. I plan on just sticking with my 7a classes, thanks. 😀

5min Skill
Double unders/triple Unders (I worked on DUs and got whipped to shit in the process)

Max Unbroken wall balls in one attempt – my score was 21 because I decided to quit. I’m sure I could’ve done more, but I didn’t.

WOD was the following:
Tiffany’s Chipper

25 Double Unders
15 Wall Balls
2 Wall Climb
25 Double Unders
15 Burpee Wall balls
2 Wall Climb
25 Double Unders
15 Wall ball Situps
2 Wall Climb

or 3x singles.

I finished in 10:07. RX except for the DUs. 

My squat clean sucks.. I’d just rather clean it. Even though I PRed last time, that was before I had gotten sick, and my PR was 155, so today, when trying to do squat cleans, and 1RM squat cleans, I quit at 125. I just wanted to CLEAN it instead, hah.

20 Min Emom
2 Squat Cleans @80% or RX Plus is 225/155
even Min Pushups
odd min Pullups

Because of the 2 squat cleans each min requirement, I struggled.. I ended up doing  125lbs for my squat cleans which was HEAVY for me, but was based on my last 1RM of 155 (80%).

I ended up doing a total of 110 push ups and pull ups during the 20 min EMOM.

Today was our awesome Crossfit gym’s 2 year anniversary! Everyone groaned at this one but I thought it would be good.. I was right. 😀

15min AMRAP
100m run
5 one arm kb thruster Right 55/35
5 one arm kb thruster left
5 Box jumps 30/24 Game style
5 Lunges with one arm above head kb L
5 Lunges with one arm above head kb R
5 Box jumps 30/24

I RXed the workout, which is always good. and I got 3 rounds + 11 reps.

Now.. as I type this 4 days later, I want you to know that my butt is STILL sore from those weighted lunges, which only means I need to do more of them. 🙂

Happy Anniversary, CFTC!

I went into Open Gym today knowing I was going to repeat 13.4, knowing I could at least get through my first 3 rounds of Clean and Jerks and T2B.. I knew that if I passed through the sets of 9, that I’d be golden and happy as pie..

I got finished with my 12 clean and jerks, (and wasn’t even keeping track, cause I went to pick up the bar again for another C&J) and they all started yelling at me, NOO!! TOES TO BAR!!! So I ran over to the bar and was able to nail out one final T2B when the clock hit time.

I GOT 49!!!!!! YEAHHH!!!! I got like, 3 no reps on the T2B, just from hurrying through them and barely missing, plus I kept fiddling with the tape on my hands cause it kept slipping. I must’ve had too much chalk on my hands and it got under my tape and made it unsticky, so I have a really nice papercut-ish kinda cut under my middle finger on my right hand, right where your ring would go if you had one there, right on the fucking knuckle crack! Arrghh.. Oh well. Totally worth it! I was all smiles..

Happy Easter. 🙂

On a side note: I need to do more GHD sit ups, damn it. My middle is the most avoided section, and I’m starting to acknowledge this more. 😀

I’ve been paying more attention to music lately, and there are a handful of songs that make me wanna get up and dance whenever I hear them. I either heard these at Ultra, on XM or wherever.. I dont know about you but I love me some dancing during Crossfit.I hope you enjoy!

Jack Beats – War Feat. Diplo & Example

Armin van Buuren & W&W – D#

Deadmau5 – Sometimes Things Get, Whatever

Mord Fustang – Lick the Rainbow

Oliver – Control

and then I heard this one today on my Skrillex Pandora channel and it just has that sick, nitty gritty bass that I LOVE so much. Mmmmm.. song itself is kinda whatevs, but I love the bass.

Liquid Stranger – Pressurize

and okay, last one.

Lana Del Rey – Summertime Sadness

AND let’s not forget this handy youtube to mp3 converter that the internet offers.. if you’d like to ‘save’ these songs for your phone, mp3 player, etc.

http://www.youtube-mp3.org/