CrossFit WOD (Page 20)

Ultra WODs?  For real or am I being gullible.  I've got a 1/2 on October 12th and I'm seriously thinking of doing the Boston Marathon.  12 miles Saturday on the docket...

Yup, whole new pain threshold.

Could you really prepare yourself for 100 miles of running,  now matter how you trained? I mean, body aside, I don't think your mind can really comprehend exactly how far that is running until you've done it haha I know mine couldn't. 

Thanks, I see them buried within the WODs now.  SC, LC, and U.

100 miles.  Just amazing that anybody can do that...

5x5 Jerk Presses

Set1: 115 lbs

Set2: 135 lbs

Set3: 145 lbs

Set4: 155 lbs

Set5: 175 lbs

Probably started to low... 175 was the first set that really put a strain on me. Not being able to drop the weight in my globo gym and having to clean the weight into position to start with makes it a bit harder too.

yeah squat racks are always empty, I just have a personal aversion to the squat racks they use at my local gym (the 4 point ones, I grew up on the two towers that ONLY hold the bar, no extra stuff like a chin up bar.) I just feel closed in all the time

I feel you on the benching Mike, I used to be a bench fanatic, now I dread benching even on the rare occasions that crossfit WOD's ask for it.

This morning, 5x5 Squats (Bill Starr would be so proud of me!)

Set1: 255lbs

Set2: 275lbs

Set3: 285lbs

Set4: 305lbs

Set5: 225lbs A2G

First 4 Sets were Parallel, last set was A$$2Grass... need to get back in the habit of going deep. Also got to try out my FiveFingers today in the gym, Way more comfy than my usual lifting kicks (Chucks)

Tonight Swim Lessons start!

Try this one out.  It's like a mini Murph you can really crank out.  Almost met pukie. 

1 mile run (6:25)

5 rounds of:

5 pull ups, 10 push ups, 15 squats (5:32)

run 400 meters (1:46)

5 rounds of:

5 pull ups, 10 push ups, 15 squats (7:03)

1 mile run (8:46)

For time.

All told 2.25 miles, 50 pull ups, 100 push ups, and 150 squats in 29:33.

"Nate" today.

Max round in 20 minutes of:
6 pullups
6 dips
4 handstand pushups
8 70lb dumbbell swings (kettlebell style)

Got 7 rounds and 6 pullups done. (Handstands are what killed me)

Then 25 burpees for good measure.

Brought a friend, he came real close to seeing his breakfast...

Skipped endurance this morning, legs were on fire after yesterday

Nate today... icky

11 Rounds completed.  I don't know what happened, got through round 6 in under 7 minutes, then just hit a wall. Everything past was a battle. Swinging a damn 70lb dumbell is murder, I've gotta order a 2pood. On the plus side, Muscle ups and HSPU's were strong. I'm ALMOST to where I can free stand on hspu's without being near a wall. (I got 2-3 every set freestanding this time before my balance gave out.)

That workout looks like fun rcberto... I mean, in a crossfit kind of way.

Completed yesterday's WOD, but forgot to post here:

Squats 5-5-5-5-5 

5 @ 135
5 @ 185
5 @ 195
5 @ 205
5 @ 205

205 was a good weight for me at the 5x5 series.  Should have performed 5 at this weight and used the 135 as another warmup set.    Next time this rolls around will try to be at 225 for the sets. 

Todd

Dude, that is nasty!  11 rounds!  Free standing HSPUs!  I think I may have been able to get close if I could do the HSPUs!  Those took me forever.  The 70lb db sucked too as you say.  Oh, and I scaled muscle ups with push and pull ups.  So, nevermind I wasn't close at all!

Can you do a bar muscle up?  Which are harder rings or bar?  I have no rings and am forced to look like a crazy man at my globogym!

My gym doesn't have ring's, so only if i visit one of my bro's gym's (that actually has a crossfit specific area...sigh, when my contract runs out...) do i get to use them. So I have to do bar muscle ups, which IMHO are ALOT harder. The key is you either have to be tall enough to "hook" your hands across the top of a pull up bar, or stand on top of something (not like a box or anything too tall, I stand on 2 45lb plates stacked on top of each other.) trying to do a bar muscle up with a pull-up grip is (again, in my opinion) impossible... you really have to have your palm resting on top of the bar.  

Not that I'm saying rings are easy by any means.  Just a more natural motion.

As for the HSPU's... I used to breakdance for fun... practice doing a headstand to build balance, after you can hold a headstand indefinate (well, till the blood makes you dizzy hehe) start working on a handstand... then work your way up to the HSPU.