Catching Up

I almost got lazy with this blog, having not posted several workouts.  Here's the catch-up post.

Friday's WOD (3/9)

For Time

50 pull-ups
15 deadlifts 245 lbs (Rx: 275 lbs)
40 HR push-ups
10 deadlifts
30 HR push-ups
5 deadlifts
20 HR push-ups
50 pull-ups

19:25

This was hard in a totally different way than I had been anticipating.  The sheer volume of lifts had me believing that this would be extremely tough on my lungs, but this WOD turned out to be a really long, tough strength workout.  Moving back and forth between the push-ups and deadlifts was interesting because switching from a relatively light push mode to a very heavy pull mode was a tremendous shock to my body.  I'd noticed that my first one or two deadlifts would be really difficult for me and I'd have awful form, but as I repeated them it'd start to feel easier.  (Shortly after it would start to feel hard again as I fatigued).

Today's WOD (3/12)

For Time

150 single-under jump rope (Rx: 50 DUs)
40 wall ball shots 20 lbs
30 pull-ups
20 burpees
10 wall walks

10:00

I've been hurting since Saturday, which I'll discuss in a moment, so I didn't feel that prepared for today's workout even though it wasn't that hard.  I wore myself out completely on the burpees (thinking I'd gotten decent at them by now) and struggled through the wall walks.  I should have been a couple minutes faster on this, at least.


The CrossFit Games Open WODs

I've been participating in the Open WODs just to establish my 2012 baseline so I'd have a way to compare my performance to my performance one year from now.  Here is a summary:

12.1 WOD
7 min AMRAP burpees
93

12.2 WOD
10 min AMRAP snatches
30 @ 75 lbs
(Could not complete any at 135 lbs)

12.3 WOD
18 min AMRAP
15 box jumps (24")
12 push press 115 lbs
9 toes-to-bar
205 total reps
I figured out how to kip T2Bs but it didn't matter much because 115 push presses are ridiculously tiring after a very short while.  All in all, I'm pretty happy with how I did.  It's been 2 full days and most of the muscles in my body are still exhausted from those push presses.