Ended up coming in on Sunday, and doing a WOD with Tom and Amanda. We did 4, 6, 8 deadlifts, push ups and squats.

They did clean and jerks, I did deadlifts. (wrist..)

Week 2 back squat Periodization
Back Squat 8@ 60%,8@65%,8@70%,8@75%

I worked off my new 1RM of 250lbs. WHEW..

AMRAP 12 minutes:
10 toes 2 Bar
10 Ball Slams -30/20
20 Double Unders 10 attempts. I DID 10 ATTEMPTS! haha

Finished 5 rounds + 3.

Again, that evening, I came back and ran another mile. Right now I’m averaging a speed of 8km/hr (I do it in kilometers so I can track 4 x 400m more easily.)

This was a GOOD ONE!! My Mommy was even here for this one..

Buy in:
30 Lunges (15perleg) with one 55/35KB and one 40/20 Sand Bag
RX plus= 70/55 kb and 60/40 sand bag
200m Farmers Carry *After lunges *with sand bag and KB

4 Rounds
7 HSPU
1 Rope Climb/ RX PLUS is legless

Buy Out
30 Lunges (15perleg) with 55/35KB and 40/20 Sand Bag
RX plus= 70/55 and 60/40

200m Farmers Carry with sand bag and KB

I finished in 14:11. Sucky time. Oh well.  Weighted lunges were the hardest part, I think.

10Min emom 3 Front Squats @ 70% Clean And Jerk max and one jerk at the end
*Bar must be cleaned from floor, power clean or squat clean.

I opted to do 5 back squats per minute for my EMOM. With my wrist really hurting in the front rack position, it was excruciating to put it into the front rack, even with just the plain bar. So yeah.. back squats it was!

I did 10 sets of 5 at 165lbs. Felt GOOD!!! I need to do more of these..

So then… Fast Forward about.. 8-9 hours… I came back to the gym and ran a mile.. without stopping!!  Something I’ve never done before. Ever.. I did it in under 12 min too, which was my goal. 11:40. I want to make a better effort at doing stuff like this. Doing things I don’t like and getting better at them. I still feel so inadequate and behind when it comes to my strength over longer periods and my endurance..

Push Press 5×5
I managed 135 lbs 5 times.

10-1 Kb swings 70/55
1-10 C2B
*every even minute perform 3 Shuttle Runs

1 Shuttle Run = 10yards Forward/10 yards backward

I finished in 13:21 with banded C2B.

These are gonna be short and sweet cause I have 9 days’ worth of posts to make!!

6 min AMRAP
4 single leg burpees
4 wall balls.

I smacked myself in the face for this one.. Tom totally saw it. I laughed. It was great. 😀

I Overhead squatted 95lbs, which is the most I’ve ever OHS, because I typically don’t work on those. My wrist was really bugging me too. 🙁  I finished 9 rounds for the WOD.

How do Crossfit Chicks keep their thigh skin so beautiful?? and by beautiful I mean razor burn free, no ingrown hairs, and what? Do they shave every day? If they did, wouldn’t they have crazy razor burn on their inner thighs? If they wax, wouldn’t they have ingrowns? WTF. All these crossfit girls have such amazing thighs when they wear their cutie Lululemon shorts.. meanwhile, I’m like, omg I have to shave my bikini area RIGHT NOW if I want to be hair free and razor burn free for the gym tonight in these shorts..!

Of course, when I wear my shorts, we have to do shit like bear crawls, mountain climbers and runners lunges. AWKWARD.

I stick to my Lululemon Gather and Crow crops 99% of the time, but ya know, I have nice quads! I want to show them off sometimes! But seriously… do they shave? Wax? go through laser hair removal? Electrolysis? I need to know!! It’s been bugging me for a YEAR.

Here are some photos for reference.

Kipping Pull Ups

Muscle Ups

Kettlebell Handstand

Snatch

Seriously.. I want to know this beautiful Crossfit chicks’ inner thigh and bikini area secret… Anyone?

Went back to Max Effort for one last WOD in Vegas. I figured it would be a typical Saturday WOD, where you got partnered up with a buddy, and I was right! I was dreading it, because a lot of times they pair you up and then you share the workload, dividing up shit like burpees, wall balls, sled pushes, etc.  Instead we had a partner carry, broad jumps, bear crawls and push ups… I made a deal with my partner.. as I didn’t really want some other chick carrying me around on her back, that I’d do all the partner carrying if she did all the bear crawls. DONE! Excellent negotiation skills, I might add.. and I weighed 40lbs more than she did.. didn’t want her hauling me around, struggling with me on her back. I’m not exactly light.

All in all it was good though. Thanks Max Effort!!! Had a great time in Vegas with you guys!

Josh opted to come to Crossfit with me for a second time. Again we went to Crossfit Max Effort, for some more beat downs!

This WOD was great.. totally my style. KB swings, box jumps and wall balls. ALL OVER IT. I even PRed a set of Push Jerks at 155. We were doing an increasing weight EMOM, and you had to do 2 reps per min.

Josh was winded, but he’s more endurance-based (the running WOD was easier for him) whereas this one was ALL ME. I love these kinds of WODs!

Good times. 🙂

Let me start by saying that I love what Dave and I do… we’ve built something really awesome, but our success depends largely on google, search results, people’s spending habits etc.. All things that we cannot control. Very scary to think about..

Crossfit on the other hand.. has kept me sane. The more I put into it, the more I get out of it. I fear the day that it’s taken from me, for whatever reason. Like some day I’ll wake up from my dream and go on with the hohum, mundane path of life.  I feel for those who don’t have something this awesome and monumental in their lives. What I do for myself at Crossfit makes my life that much more worthwhile and meaningful. I can control my fate there. How awful to not have something this meaningful and amazing to live for and work towards.

The person I was before this was waiting for something this amazing to happen, I just didn’t know I’d find it in Crossfit.  I am so grateful for it. I don’t ever want to lose this family, this great group of people, and this awesome sense of self-worth that I have gained.  The thought of it alone brings me to tears.