Friday Night (7/16/2010)

Dave and Robin were in Cali for the 2010 Games, so no heavy metal night… In light of that, we got to do the following.

5 rounds:

• 4 burpee dead lifts
• 3 burpee cleans
• 2 burpee squat cleans
• 1 burpee squat clean & jerk

Rx was 185#, but I used 135# because 185# is insane. I got this one done in 9:37.

What went well?

That first round felt great! The rest was just hell but fun too. Does that make any sense?

What needs work?

The last 3 reps of each round were tough. The squat cleans were very challenging but not impossible. I took a lot of breaks.

Overall feel.

I had good sustained energy throughout this WOD. Although it was really challenging I was able to keep on pushing.

 

Saturday Morning (7/17/2010)

Jason ran a fantastic open gym at our new box. He talked for a while about how your negative thoughts, as well as other people’s negative tendencies can get to you during WODs. We went in two heats as there were SO many people. The new box is awesome. I love it already!

5 rounds:

• 7 cleans (135# RX)
• 17 med ball slams (20# ball)
• 10 box jumps (small box to actually jump)

I got this one done in 14:20ish (I think, if I’m wrong, it’s somewhere between 14 and 15 min)

What went well?

The cleans and medicine ball slams went pretty well.

What needs work?

Conditioning, conditioning, conditioning. Man, I was sucking wind by the 3rd round of this thing. I need to get better at working in this state. When I get to the point where all my lights are flashing red, I tend to need to back away for a few seconds.

Overall feel.

Pretty good. I had a pretty sustained energy level throughout. I did start to get some soreness in my lower back, but I think that’s because I was still sore from heavy dead lifts on Monday.

 

Monday Morning (7/18/2010)

Since I am trying to get more WODs into my schedule in general, I decided to do this one at home to not burn one of my days at CFCP. I thought it would be fun and a good opportunity to work on my double unders, but man, was I wrong.

50 – 40 – 30 – 20 – 10

• Double under
• Push up

I got this one done in an awful and embarrassing 26:05.

What went well?

Nothing.

What needs work?

DOUBLE UNDERS!!! ARGH! The most I was able to string together was 2 or sometimes 3 if I was lucky. After about 30 push ups, I was battling muscle failure. I would get some sets of 5, but mostly it was anywhere between 2 and 3.

Overall feel.

Awful. Just terrible. Nothing about this WOD felt good and I was super pissed off when I was done. There was a lot of swearing and rope throwing. Time to start doing double unders as a skill.

 

I have been trying to incorporate more long walks into my weeks. I think that in addition to all of the high intensity stuff, some low intensity sustained work is good. Last night we went for a 45 minute walk with the new 20# vest that I bought. It was really cool and made me all sweaty like.