Man, it’s been a LONG day. It started out with Master Joe’s meteor fist class in the morning followed by another hour of kung fu class where we reviewed the 4 spear forms. Then I had a very busy and brain destroying day at work. All the while, with pain and limited mobility in my arms due to soreness from Monday’s workout.

Tonight’s workout was our baseline workout, which I did on August 19th, 2009… just about 2 months ago. The only different was this time, we did it three horrible times. The workout (in case you are too lazy to click the link) was:

3x

• 500m row
• 40 squats
• 30 sit ups
• 20 push ups
• 10 pull ups

My times for each set were 5:00, 6:06, and 6:22.

What’s amazing to me about this workout and, well, crossfit in general is just the sheer amount of work you can make yourself do. As an example here, in 17:28, I was able to do:

• 1500m row
• 120 squats
• 90 sit ups
• 60 push ups
• 30 pull ups

Had you given me the workout in the above listing, I’d look at your and tell you that you are crazy. Breaking it down into manageable, yet still really challenging sets works really well. rec

I am really happy with my progress here. The first time I did the baseline workout, my time for one set was 5:40 and I was doing jumping pull ups. It’s great to see that I am doing something harder (pull ups with a resistance band, not jumping pull ups) and my time went down. It’s beautiful.

What isn’t beautiful is that I still can’t straighten my arms. I don’t think it’ll be better tomorrow.