Bench WOD

11 Aug 12 (Sat)

WOD

     4 Rounds

     10 Bench Press  (90lb, 90, 90, 70)

     250m Row

  Computer hard drive crashed yesterday. If I can't enter blog for a while, I'll put in workouts after the fact. Having to do this in Explorer.    >:|





Squat Triples

9 Aug 12 (Thu)

Strength

    To Max

    3 Box Squats  (95lb, 115, 135, 155, 165, 185)

    ***  PR

Endurance

    1000m Row

  Good to see a PR. Was going to do 5 rounds, but kept going. Should've done another max before now, I suppose; last PR triple (175lb) was in mid-June. As always, probably could've gotten some more, but Gold's frowns on dropping bars... even for safety. The staff is certainly polite enough, but man, you can hardly call it a gym.

  I realise that I can barely call this crossfit at this point, but I'll get back to the normal, WOD-type workouts soon enough. Truth be told, though, any workout can be considered crossfit. It's more of the overall variety and intensity that creates a crossfit program over time. To put it another way, any workout could be done as a part of a crossfit program, but there are many, many crossfit workouts that would be done by no other discipline.

  Picture above is a Special Forces soldier in Afghanistan being a bad-ass. Also a Crossfitter. Elite units were some of the first adopters of Crossfit back in the day. Why? Because it god-damn works.   =D   Even as physical therapy.

Cleans Quintuples

6 Aug 12 (Mon)

Strength

    5 Rounds

    5 Muscle Cleans  (95lb, 105, 115, 125, 135)

Endurance

    3 Rounds

    500m Row

    2min  Rest

  Good cleans. Fair rowing: was going to be 5-6 rounds, but pussed out. Knees better than they have been recently.

Deadlift Triples

5 Aug 12 (Sun)

Strength

    To Max

    3 Deadlifts  (up to 265lb)

Endurance

    500m Row

  Knees have been so painful after work recently, that I haven't been able to get to the gym, let alone work out. Like, it's too-hard-to-walk-out-to-the-truck painful.Somewhat better now. I will lower the intensity of workouts, so that I can focus on getting to the gym and picking movements that don't exacerbate the knee-swelling too much.

  Having said that, deadlifts today.   :P   Went okay...stopped short of max, but still up to a decent weight.