Countdown Day 52 – Ribeye Tonight!

Tuesday 8/25/2009 5:30AM

Woke up ontime, got my stuff packed easily and off to the Fort, it helped a lot that my wife was already up doing her coupons and I could make as much noise as I wanted. It also helped me all morning that she told me we were grilling our super good GrassFed Ribeye’s tonight -mmmmmmm, can’t wait! I’ve gone a little MIA in my CF workouts for the past few weeks, I’m averaging about 3 a week for the past 3 weeks, which just doesn’t feel like enough. Of course I have good excuses – but in order to keep losing weight and gaining strength, I have to keep up the routine. Hopefully soon I will be able to rejoin Team Saturday, I miss it a lot!
Enough babble. Feeling weak this morning, prolly a lot in my head from lack of Fort time. My last visit was Friday morning.
Tough Warmup
2:00 Double under practice
2 Sets of:
10 Air Squats
Driveway Sprint – There and Back
10 Pullups
Driveway Sprint – There and Back
10 Ring Dips
Driveway Sprint – There and Back

WOD: AMRAP in 20:00
5 Thrusters @ 25K
7 Hanging Power Cleans @ 25K
10 Sumo Deadlift High Pull @ 25K

10 Rounds

Want Mohr: Sprints – 60

Thoughts: RX was 40K- RX for the ladies was 30K, I generally do the ladies RX, but Wild Bill set the Rounds goal at 15 and I knew I wouldn’t get there at 30K. I’ve also been having some right elbow issues, so the SDHP scared me a bit. This was a really tough workout, I wanted to lay down at round 7, I had Pete in my sights and was gunning for him, but he was just too fast for me, as soon as I got on the same round, he busted out and cranked out a half round while I was sucking air! The other guys didn’t have near the amount of rest that I did, but I’m happy to report that I looked just as gassed as they did. I didn’t leave anything behind today, and was happy about that! Then (for some reason I thought it was a good idea) I did the sprints and am now absolutely gassed, am trying to rehydrate like crazy!

++Good effort today, great scaling to be able to keep moving
—Point that car toward the Fort and get there every chance – 52 days left!

CrossForter of the day: I’ve been saving this one for a bit, b/c he has been so stinking remarkable, but Brice is strong as a stinkin OX, he’s only been coming for like 2 or 3 weeks. And its not like he was a gym rat before starting, hes just that strong – He’s already doing more weight than me in the WODs and strength work with good form. Today he did the 30K and nearly beat me. Great job Brice, I’m excited to see where you will end up!

CFF Day 82 – Got to keep on movin’

Friday July 10, 2009 6:00 pm

No Thurs morn class and couldn’t make it to the 6PM or 7PM class on Thurs night, cuz I had a previous appointment @ 6:30, so I had the day off. Came into the gym ready to rock and roll on this one. Obviously I’ve been concentrating on pullups lately, so I was happy to see that there was a lot of pull up work today.

Strength: 5,5,5,3,3,3 Weighted Pull ups – All Blue Band

WOD:
AMRAP in 10:00 of:
7 Hang Power Cleans (20K)
7 Knees 2 Elbows (Laying on Ground)

18 Full Rounds

Thoughts:
Pull ups:
Since we’re still working with the band, I kept there, but used the blue band the whole way. It made them hard, but doable. Very excited that I’m on the blue band now. At the end, Zach had us try to do an unassisted dead hang pull up, which I did, and a above the bar hang. I was really happy with my time on this, no one kept track, but I was up there a fairly long time comparatively.
WOD:
Zach had said he wanted 15 rounds, so scale so you know you can get there. I feel like maybe I scaled a bit too much, but I consulted with Zach before we started and he thought it was a good weight. I flew! It was awesome. The bar was so light that I was able to rep them out very quickly. A fun thing happened about midway through. The bar was getting heavier, but still very managable, and my form just fell right into place, I could feel the shrug on every one, and my explosion up was very noticable. I’m excited to try cleans again after this WOD with my new found form. I didn’t really feel like I was working as hard as in a normal metcon, but when everything was said and done, I was dripping with sweat and panting…perhaps I’m actually starting to get in shape?