11.15.2010

So, this past weekend was quite the busy one. Dr. appointment Saturday morning, followed by Crossfit at noon (still in On Ramp) and then football in Hamilton at 3PM.

So CF this weekend was fun. I trained with the other girl in the On Ramp Class. So we went for a mailbox run first of all and did our stretching out. Funny thing is that stretching somehow includes 20 squats! Then on to stretching out our arms. Funny thing about that is that Saturday was the first day I could fully extend my right arm since Wed's workout just about killed me (pushups).

So we learned the Shoulder Press. I got the hang of this one really fast. The hed movements kind of were instinctive and I just knew I was going to KILL this one.

Knees to elbows. Hang from the pullup bar and lift your knees to your elbows. Sounds easy enough. I can tell you that after our practice 2 or 3 my hands were bright red. They aren't used to that kind of thing so I figured this was going to be the death of me. Also, my knees only got to my waist or so... never to my elbows.

BURPEES! I LOVE BURPEES! Like Up Downs in football, but badass... with a pushup in there. I love em!

We learned the different exercises, their names, proper positioning, etc. and then Justin gave us the WOD.

AMRAP in 7 minutes
6 Shoulder Press (I have no clue how much weight he put on there, but I'm sure it wasn't a lot.. maybe 65 pounds including the bar?)

4 Knees to Elbows

2 burpees


3, 2, 1.... Go

So I started on the shoulder press and immediately bust out 6 of them before the other girl was on 4 and was off to the pullup bar.... I was scared of this part, but my adrenaline got me going and got the 4 done pretty fast. I do need to work on getting my knees higher, but they didn't kill me. Then to the burpees... Check.

In the second round, I was a bit slower on the shoulder press... maybe 3 times as slow. Man, my body just doesn't have the stamina it used to. Ok, so I'm fixing that but it's going to take more than a day.

In the third round, I had to stop after 3 reps of shoulder press and then do 3 more.... but this is when the other chick passed me. DAMMIT.

Justin stood by me with round 4, 5, and 6 of my shoulder press, since every single one of them was a bitch. They took forever, and my entire body was shaking trying to get that damned thing lifted. My upper body strength is for shit, but I've always known that.

I finished 6+ 1 in 7:00 and it's odd. I didn't feel like I was going to die because my legs weren't screaming at me and my abs were ok. But my arms felt like 20 pounds of warmed crap.

I really liked it, but I sure do have a lot of work to do to get better.


Today, ran a 2.5 miler at lunch. I'm trying to do this everyday, eventually building the base for Marathon training in the dead of winter. This way my body is recovered in time for CF inthe evenings.

Have I mentioned I LOVE Crossfit today? Because I do. <3