19 or Baseline...

So, I did not go to Cross Fit on Friday night, Saturday or Sunday mornings. I had so much going on with worying about stupid finals that I needed to not worry about anything like working out... Here is what we did on Monday...

First, we started with "Baseline." It is a series of workouts that are timed. The goal is that over the next few weeks, we should be getting better and our time should be going down.

The workouts:
500 meter row on the rowing machine 40 squats
30 sit-ups
20 push-ups
10 pull-ups




And here is where I fall...

8 minutes and 56 seconds.

I was the slowest person (I didn't get a picture of what the other people in our group did). When I was 5 away from being done on my sit-ups, I got some major cramping in my gut and took a break.





But that wasn't it...

We still had to do our workout!

Translation:

20 minutes as many rounds as possible:

5 pull-ups
10 push-ups (either on the floor or using the rings)
15 squats (using the straight bar across our back or without)
20 lateral jumps on each side (total of 40)
25 double unders on the jump rope (I have problems with that so I just did 25 regular jumps)

Well, because of the baseline we did before, my knees were killing me and I was only able to finish 4 rounds before I had to "tap-out'. I hope today is a better day.

18 or Nice girls finish last...

Sweet Jebus.

One of the toughest workouts I have done so far.

Translation:

10 rounds for time:

Suicides (10 yards, 20 yards, 30 yards)
15 ball slams (I used a 16 lb ball)
15 box jumps
15 horizontal rows using the TRX harness/ rings

By round 3, I was getting exhausted. I was hurting on my abs on my right side and my hips were hurting on my left. My suicides were getting slower and because of my knee, my box jumps were more like step-ups by round 5.

Our trainer lost track of time so, I don't know how I really did. I do know this: I did a lot better then the skinny slacker girls who were in class. Long story. And I think P and I did 11 rounds... We lost count. I was concentrating on how much I hate the workout and forgot to keep counting.

P says that we finished around 36 minutes. Sounds like a good number.

17 or The awful truth...

So, while going through some old photos online, I found some full body shots. Maybe this will convince myself that I am in fact actually loosing some weight...

I might have P take updated photos of me sometime soon.

04.15.12...

In San Francisco loving art.

16 or Lunges are the devil...

Translation:

6 rounds of 4 "snatch" weight lifting

As Many Rounds As Possible in 15 minutes:

• 2 times over head weighted lunges (I held a weighted medicine ball over my head and did walking lunges across a parking lot and back)
• 12 box jumps
• Shuffle to the bank across the parking lot and back
• 12 TRX bicept curls

I managed to get through 2 rounds and ended on the lunges. It turned out being the longest part of the work out.

15 or The tire...

 And here is what we did on Friday May 04, 2012...

Translation:

Warm up = 15 minutes


3 rounds total
2 minutes per workout
1 minute rest between stations:

• Tire flip with partner outside
• Box push with weight on top
• Ball slams (20 lbs)
• Wall balls (10 lbs)

 

 And here were the tires that we used... No one could do the huge one. It is about 5 feet tall and weights over 200 lbs.

 Proof that it was as big as me... And I am only about 5'3"ish.

More proof.