Open Gym

Every Saturday morning, my CrossFit box holds "open gym".  On these days, there is no structured class.  Instead, members show up at their leisure to either work on specific skills, do a WOD they missed earlier that week, or even just hang out.  I wasn't sure I'd like this, but I was pleasantly surprised.  There are 2-3 instructors there who are available to coach you if you ask for their help.  It's pretty neat to get fairly personalized attention for almost whatever workout you feel like doing.

I arrived at the gym thinking I'd just goof off.  I wanted to work on pull-ups and practice my handstands.  The instructor, however, determined that the reason that my pull-ups were bad were because I haven't built up my endurance.  "Are you going to to do a workout?  You should do a workout," she says.  Uh oh.

Just like that, she starts getting me set up for last Tuesday's WOD, which I had missed.

My WOD:

4 RFT:

2x100m Sandbag Sprint (35 lb sandbag, run backwards for 2nd leg)

10 Burpees over Bar

10 Power Cleans (75 lbs)

16:18

This workout might have been as bad as Fran, and that's saying something.  By the third round, I could barely breathe and I was practically walking the sprints.  For whatever reason, I'm still astounded by how hard burpees are after a while.  I still had labored breathing a good 30 minutes after I finished the workout.  Ridiculous.