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My CrossFit Journal (week 11)
It may be easier for me to find videos of the workouts. What do you prefer, photos or videos?
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Week 11 Day 1.
21-15-9
Overhead Squats (35lbs)
Burpees
That means 21 overhead squats, 21 burpees, 15 overhead squats, 15 burpees, and so on. I ended up not being able to lift the 35lb bar at first, overhead as I was wobbly. I practiced a bunch of times with the 15lb bar until the trainer said go back to the 35lb bar. It was doable! I finished my WOD (workout of the day) in 9:50! The OH squats killed your wrists though.
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Week 11 Day 2.
5 Rounds
5 Over Bar Burpees
5 Clean and Squat
5 Ring Dip
5 Thrusters
5 Dive Bomber Push ups
By the third round I thought the workout would never end. I ended up doing 50lbs for the Clean & Squat, and Thrusters. It was more than enough weight (for now)! Gotta say dive bombers are harder than they look. I face planted the first time, even while my trainer was holding my hips and shoulders up to help me, lol.
I got the Thrusters move, and the PushPress move mixed up. I have it all figured out now with this little mind-trick. You thrust your hips, lol… so you go down into a full squat and thrust your way up. PushPress is just a little dip then you power your weight up. Ah, good to know.
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Week 11 Day 3.
21-15-9
Box Jumps (20″)
Power Snatch (35lbs)
C2B (Chest To Bar) pullups
Box Jumps:
Power snatch:
Chest to Bar pull ups my favorite:
I did alright in this workout, it immediately worked up a sweat. At the start of the second round of box jumps I almost fell on my face. I raced over from the pull ups to do the jumps. Take your time foo’!!
Every time I’m driving home after CrossFit, I feel like going out and running a marathon. Okay, never really that far.
But I felt like running today and I decided to go. I ended up doing a 1.7k out and back, so a total of 3.4km’s, which took me 22 minutes (pace of 10:24, very slow for me but again it’s one of my first runs since last October when I “quit” lol)
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I really disliked this week since I didn’t have much time for anything. I went to CrossFit on Tuesday, Wednesday and today (BIRTHDAY!!!) Next week will be better.
OOTWW
I went to work with wet hair on Tuesday and Wednesday. Mainly because I want to give my hair a much needed break from the process of dying it so often in the last two weeks. Three dye jobs! I thought my hair looked normal, just a bit wavy with it air-dryed. But one of my co-workers asked me what was wrong with my hair and did my stylist screw up (lol)… um no, I just air dryed it! Big Fat Fail. Which is why it was back to normal, blow dryed on Thursday.
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My CrossFit Journal (week 6)
I don’t know when I’ll be switching over my weeks into months. How would I word that? Month 2 Week 2 … Month 4.2? Maybe it’s just easier for my little math-fail brain to just keep going on with weeks. Deep voice: Week 78. I was also too lazy to go Wednesday, Thursday or Friday morning since I had stuff going on in the evenings. So I didn’t do much this week… read on!
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Week 6 Day 1, Monday.
WOD 20 minute allowed time:
75 Squats
50 Pull-ups
20 Ring dips
50 Squats
35 Pull-ups
15 Ring dips
25 Squats
20 Pull-ups
10 Ring dips
Third image shown isn’t accurate of what I was doing. My feet were on the floor.
There was about 10 of us in the class this day and I think I was the second person to finish. My time was around 19 minutes 38 seconds. I really really wanted to finish this workout because our trainer said a lot of people didn’t end up finishing. I also hate knowing I’m so close and not finishing. That’s my inner-self-competitiveness coming out right there. I was making all sorts of grunting noises at the end and my hair was a sweaty mop. So disgusting. I also have to add that I added a third band for the pull-ups (making it easier) and for the ring dips I was in the “easiest” position, therefor I guess I could pump out my reps in time. The squats were absolutely ridiculous, and by the end of the entire workout my forarms were pumped like I was climbing a 5.11 (lol) and I couldn’t even open my water bottle. SO AWESOME.
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Week 6 Day 2, Tuesday.
*5*10*15*10*5
Thrusters (95/65)
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9 Toes 2 Bars
6 Box Jumps (30/24)
3 Wall Climbs
We had a 25 minute time limit. I was paired up with my friend who introduced me to CrossFit. She’s much stronger than I am so we each had different weights for the Thrusters. Each time there is a * star, you do the bottom workout. So do 5 thrusters, then 9 toes to bars, 6 box jumps, 3 wall climbs, then 10 thrusters… etc. I could barely do the Toes To Bars, so I was given the task to do knees to elbows. It was still difficult in the core. We ended up doing the 5 * 10 * 15 and didn’t end up doing another * star workout. I think I enjoyed Wall Climbs. So balancy, and a lot of core strength needed. Lovin’ it!
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Week 6 Day 3, Saturday.
5 rounds
400meter run
5 Back Squats (I used 55lbs)
Here’s what the back squats looked like. But instead of starting from the ground each time. I kept the bar on my back and just did the 5 squats, and dropped the weight behind my back as soon as I was done, and went off for the run again. I felt as though I haven’t been to CrossFit in ages. The run had my breathing all messed up again, and I’m SO ANGRY with it. I pych myself out on runs that are 5k, and now I’m starting to psych myself out on a measly 400m run.