eyes dotted, T’s crossed, and the little promises

This is a photo of me having sushi ... kinda like my birthday sushi fun fest on Friday ... talk about junk food hangover the next day!
Suz’s comment the other day highlighted it best, “it’s funny, those little promises you make to yourself”. She’s spot on. I’ve noticed that Crossfitters have their little unspoken “code” of badassness.
Going lighter? Then must go unbroken. Going RX? Only if they are good reps. Going to break? Then only for 5 seconds.

... the things we rationalise in our heads to let ourselves be human
So I thought, “yeah, your digestive tract played hard, so make it up to yourself ... old school!”. Do a 2-a-day this week!

SURE. Just try it, how bad can it be if you rest at least 4 hours in between?! Just eat more ... you’re in pretty good shape, right?! how bad can it be?!

um. really bad. really really really really bad. Oh boy, I think I’m gonna be sore on Thursday... I can tell and I totally see the foolishness of my ways. BCAA’s and yoga, don’t fail me now! Bad ego! Bad! Bad!

Made up Monday’s workout:

filthy 50 @ 29:34

• 50 box jump
• 50 pullups
• 50 lunges
• 50 TTB
• 50 push press @ 45#
• 50 back extensions
• 50 wall balls @14#
• 50 burpees
• 50 double-unders

OMG, I love chippers… my first filthy 50 and it was delightfully awful.

Idid this @ home: subbed KTE with TTB… pretty broken up but v-short breaks … had to go 45# bar and 14# ball because that’s all we’ve got @ home.
goal was sub 30:00 … 29:34 … YEAH BABY!!!

Saturday’s workout:

150 kb swings (10 min cap)

Every break = 5x 2-for-1 wall balls
LOVE LOVE LOVE KBS ... HATE HATE HATE WB ... 6:02

i hate WB so much that i REFUSED to let that thing go... nothing lighter than 1 pood at home, so
if broken means putting the KB on the ground, then i went unbroken.
um. no post or pre-wod ... not a chance.

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Notes: eating enough solid food throughout the day made the difference ... 4 solid meals of at least 25g protein and several snack sessions got me through today... that and hearing matt tell me that he didn’t want to climb with me if I was going to whine and make excuses.

I know myself well enough that I don’t come out of the gates with guns blazing or always have eyes dotted and T’s crossed ... in fact, I usually need a red hot poker shoved up to get me going ... but once I do, I can keep going ... and going ... so we’ll see how I feel. I’ll just try to work out tomorrow and see how it goes...

Sun 5/22: WOD

15 min AMRAP @ Home: 10 rounds + 2 TTB
5 Toes-to-Bar
10 Push Press (95/65 or 40% of 1RM jerk)
15 Jumping Lunges

Took my junk food angst out on the bar @ 55# (maybe too light because I really didn’t feel the “hurting” during the last few rounds?). The bar did a great job shredding my hands during the push presses - could be that my lax grip wasn’t helping.

Also, I wasn’t particularly “fast”, but I found a pace and stuck to it. The jumping squats were hard on my knees so I might be doing something wrong. Met my goal of no breaks and less than a 5 count in between.

Felt tired, but good today.

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ranking from 1-10 today…
sleep: 9
diet: 8
health: 8
stress: 6
recovery: 7
mental energy: 8
physical energy: 7 (maybe not enough protein?)

2009 10 03 AMRAP

Wow! My first "real" AMRAP!

15 minutes as many rounds as possible:
- 5 Handstand Push ups (24" box)
- 10 Power cleans @ 63#
- 20 Lunges

I completed exactly 7 rounds with 3 seconds left ...

metcon wasn't impossible, but i really need to work on speed & strength - had to redo several reps to finish properly. coach put me on bands to do a more free, albeit assisted, handstand. it helped with stability and definitely allowed me to feel the weight of my HSPU. good stuff - loved it, but not sure how i'll feel tomorrow

2009 08 21 WOD .... plus 1

CF HQ WOD: 21-18-15-12-9-6 reps for each round of

Walking lunge 100 ft.

Pull-ups

Sit-ups

Tery’s Scaled Version (Puppy + 1): 18-15-12-9-6

Walking lunge 100 ft.

Pull-ups

Sit-ups