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Snatches and HSPU

Well, it’s Thursday and I have only gotten one workout in this week so far. I was busy Monday, I got one in on Tuesday, and yesterday (Wednesday), I felt like I was going to fall asleep around 4:30pm.

Tuesday, 4/19/2011

7x

  • 12 snatches @ 95#
  • 6 hand stand push ups

Time: 23:08. This didn’t look so awful written on the board, but man, 7 rounds of this was nasty. 5 was a struggle. I have no idea how I gutted out 2 more rounds.  I quit several times during the WOD only to get right back to it to keep plugging along. I know that we always say that CrossFit makes you a better person. This is exactly why. It’s an allegory for life. When things get hard, do you quit? Even if you do “quit”, do you come back to it anyway? This is why I want my kids to do this. It will make them mentally strong.

I went the whole time without scaling, which I am proud of. I will say though, that if this were competition, none of my HSPU would have counted. I still need depth and ROM there.

If this were competition… those word make me think of something I saw recently. Web Smith (of SICFIT fame) recently posted a link to an article where a CrossFitter was quoting Blair Morrison. You can read the article for yourself, but boiled down, here are the main take home points:

  1. This dude is already burnt out on the CrossFit Open.
  2. It seems like some competitors are too.

In the quote from Blair Morrison, he says “Well… I am officially “Opened” out.”. He goes on to talk about why, but I have to say, somewhat reluctantly, that I agree with him.

I really don’t want to come off like I am complaining here. There is a really bright side to all of this in that I have been forced to work on some skills over the past weeks that I would likely otherwise brush off or leave for “another time” like heavy cleans, 24″ box jumps, etc.

It seemed like a great idea and something that would be lots of fun at first, but for me, it has been anything but. It’s been a pain in the ass to find times to get to the gym to do these workouts since they are not part of the regularly scheduled programming. It’s been stressful to think about how I am going to get my normal programming FOR HEALTH in so that I am not sore for and able to even attempt these WODs. I sort of miss the days when I could go to the gym, feel competitive if I wanted to, and really just have fun.

A few weeks ago, the term “Leader boarding” came out… where you check the leaderboard constantly to see where people are ranked. I can’t say that I suffer from this. In fact, I barely remember to submit my scores. If I am over this whole thing already, I can’t imagine what someone who has to check the scores every 5 minutes must feel like.

It’s almost over and then we can go back to our regularly scheduled programming. The worst part of all of this is that I actually feel bad for wishing that this were over with already so I could go back to “just working out” and having fun.

By the way, I realize that the second half of this post completely contradicts the first part. Mostly, I am feeling just burnt out on it and ranting…

Knocked Down A Notch

I was sort of riding high after doing so well at CFCP on Friday night. I performed way better than I thought I could and tried to carry that through Saturday (which I did) and wanted to just kill our WOD last night. Unfortunately, that didn’t really happy. I was dead tired by the time I got there and last night was a doozy.

Warm Up

  • 3 minutes on the C2, damper 3, pull your body weight in watts
  • 3 minutes on the C2, damper 3, pull your body weight in watts, but only 20 strokes/minute
  • stretches
  • 50 GHD sit ups and 50 GHD back extensions superset with 3-5 snatches – got up to snatching 145#

WOD

3x

  • 30 Overhead Squat using 75#
  • 400m run
  • 21 pull ups

My time was 21:51 which I was really not happy with. My runs were terrible. I tried to push it on the first one, but the subsequent two were back to that shitty jog crap stuff. I have found that 400m runs at the 609 box are WAY harder than 400m runs at the clinic. Not complaining, just stating a fact.

On the bright side, I somehow managed to get in 5 pull ups using the butterfly kip (no idea why it’s called that, but whatever). I will have to work on figuring that one out again.