The last time I PRed my Bench Press, was years ago, and it was around 150lbs. I asked my friend Nick to come to the gym with me me tonight, he hasn’t been to CFTC in years. He came, we benched together, and I ended up PRing at 175. It was unexpected, I didn’t count the plates, I just kept lifting. That seems to be a strategy that works for me.
Just like it sounds, we had a 3 Rep Max Power Clean, and I PRed it! I went back and tried to find more info on the last time I did Touch and Go cleans, 3 in a row, at this weight and I don’t know that I’ve done it before. So. PR for me! 155lbs.
The rest of the WOD was awful… double unders. But. I can do them, but I’m terrible at them. And the more tired I am, the harder they are for me.
This time though, you couldn’t just sissy out and do double singles, or even triple singles. Nope. You had to do burpees.. and you had to do a certain amount of burpees based on how long you had been doing CF. Me, being a seasoned veteran, had this ridiculously high amount of burpees to do, so I tried so hard to do my DUs.. I tried, and failed. Kept trying. I’m pretty sure I did some damage to my feet, but I kept going.
There’s absolutely no way I did the RX amount of DUs, but I tried. And that’s definitely one way to get us to do more of them! Nobody wants to do burpees…
As many rounds and reps as possible in 14 minutes of:
5/10/15/20/25/30/35/40… Hang Power Clean (115#/75#)
30 Double Unders
I finished 6 + 6.
Even though it was a great power clean complex, the WOD really set me off and furthered my little downward spiral that you’ll read about next. Might I also add… that I had absolutely wrecked my traps from these last couple days.. Traps, neck, shoulders. This was kind of the beginning of the mess I was going through in my head. A defeating WOD, (double unders or burpees? Neither..) It just chipped away at my self esteem, and it was awful.
so sore.. I was so sore that I couldn’t even flex for this picture. Seriously sore.
After Murph, I felt like I had been hit with several semi trucks, consecutively. I am not sure it was really worth the recovery and down time, but at least I can officially say I completed a whole Murph. Not sure I want to do that again.
My first day back after Murph was a Squat Clean ladder, which is totally my thing. I finally reached my old PR weight of 185, and I did it pretty nicely too. It wasn’t an ugly squat clean, just a really heavy one!
The WOD:
1 rep every minute for 10 minutes
Then
1 rep every 2 minutes for 10 minutes
*increase weight as possible*
Then
5 minute AMRAP
Front squats at 80% bodyweight
No racks allowed
The front squats at the end were killer. I had put so much into the heavy squat cleans, that front squatting heavy weight was just ridiculous. Oh well! My final score was 18 reps. Works for me.
Yeah so it’s been about 2 months now. I’m just going to throw in the towel on trying to play catch up and just note a couple of my PRs I’ve hit and exciting events since then. 🙂
2 months in review:
Back squat PR: 295 ~12/19/15
Front Squat PR: 245 2/3/16
Running 400m and then another 400m 2/9/16 FIRST TIME since I broke my foot!
I started going to 6a CF 2/2/16 with my friend Lisa. Because accountability works. I’ve been so busy lately at the office with two of our former employees now gone, that it’s been complete insanity trying to manage both of their roles mostly on my own. Thank god for my other two guys who have totally stepped it up and jumped right in to help. They are a godsend. The 3 of us together totally get it all done, and it’s really awesome, but it’s ass-busting work. By the time I’m done in the late afternoon/evening, the last thing I want to do is work out. So, if I go at 6a, there are no excuses.
I began stringing kipping pull ups together. 1/30/16 Did a set of 4, and then 3 or 4 more sets of 5.
Mom came with me! 1/30/16
My 4 year CrossFit anniversary 1/24/16
Birthday cosmo was delicious.
In a total moment of sheer stubbornness, and Dave was out of town, I moved my old king sized bed from upstairs to downstairs at our old house, in an attempt to ‘stage’ the house for buyers. Then the guy who was interested made an offer, so now we’re under contract. Fingers crossed closing moves forward without any issues! Supposed to close within the next month or so.
Enjoy the pictures. 🙂
I love my coaches! Nate is awesome.
Just promised to do 6a workouts. What? Why?!
My I turned 35 today raspberry rosemary cosmo. Mmmm
