4th in a row

Today was my 4th day on and although I am sore, I feel pretty good about it. I may even go in tomorrow and hit 5 in a row, who knows.

Wednesday 091007
Thrusters
1-1-1-1-1-1-1
155-160-165-170(pr)-175(pr)-180(pr)-185(pr)-190(pr)-195(fx3)

I haven't done 1rm thrusters since the end of January so I pr'd pretty hard. It was awesome. I just couldn't explode when I was going for 195. Next time.

Thursday
WOD
AMRAP in 20
250m row
21 SDHP 95lbs
15 pull-ups

5 rounds

I think I started out a little too slowly, but this one was tough. I was shooting for 5 and hoping for 6, so I'm glad I was able to hit 5 but as always need to keep pushing to get to that next level.

Mainsite 091004

Today I did Sunday's mainstie WOD.

WOD
21-18-15-12-9-6-3
95lb Power Cleans
Sit-ups
Back Extensions

9:50

This wod felt great. All sets unbroken. I just took my frustrations from yesterday and went to it. I wasn't going to stop unless my arms fell off, and it was great. There were some faster posts on the mainsite, and I don't mean to discredit them, but all of my movements were full rom, so I'm happy with that.

I was looking for info on paleo diets and whatnot today and came across the Paleo Brands site. There is some good info on there, but I learned that a lot of the food I eat is not on their 'paleo' menu. This included bacon, sausage, and eggs (at least the amount I'm eating). I figure since their basing their lives around correct paleo info, I'm going to try and switch up what I eat so that it fits in with their parameters (list under paleo do's and don'ts). Now all I need to do is find some easy cheap recipes that I can make in bulk and eat day after day. Hopefully success will follow.

Muscle up? More like muscle down!

I haven't done muscle-ups since the last time we did muscle-ups in Omaha, so 5 months give or take. As I recall, the last time I did 30, I felt like I should have gone faster. This time around I feel doubly so. For some reason I just couldn't pull off muscle ups like I'm used to. I spent the time between struggling on the rings and knocking some bar muscle ups out. As a matter of fact most of the muscle ups this time were done on a bar. Aggravating to say the least. The tough part of it was that I know it was a mental thing, not a physical one.

WOD
30 muscle-ups for time (and a little sip from the humble cup)
~15 minute

On a lighter note, I was able to string together 82 double-unders before the workout so that was cool.

I'm still waiting to hear back on some jobs and I'm dying for at least a little structure in my life. It may sound weird, but I think I function better when I'm busy. Right now, my diet is treating me oddly, so I'm going to have to tweak it. Having other crossfitters to workout with has been awesome, but I'm finding it hard to mentally get into workouts. I guess I'm just at a weird place in time. I'm sure it will all workout in time, but for now it's kind of funky and not in the cool 70's way.

The first of the tenth

Howdy, today will probably wrap up my workouts for the week. That is unless I get some motivation tomorrow before Harpoon's Octoberfest. We shall see.

On Tuesday the mainsite called for snatch 1rm. As you may or may not know the snatch does terrible things to my shoulder. However, I am determined to find a way of making it work. While talking with the Medford crew about my dilemma, Danielle dropped some knowledge from the Burgener cert she went to the weekend prior by sharing proper shoulder positioning for the catch. I have seen many videos of people straining to keep the weight overhead while having their arms really far back. Every time I see that I cringe because that is where my shoulder is weakest. However, the tip she gave me was not to try and catch the weight that far back (fair enough, I try to do that anyway), but the fact of the matter is that further up the shoulder is actually held in joint by the scapula and the surrounding muscles. Your shoulder position should be similar to when you lift your arms overhead with palms raised vertically, like when you do the Y in YMCA. I worked on catching like that and sure enough it felt a lot better. With that in mind I went forth the tackle the mental barrier I had put in place to protect my shoulder.

Tuesday WOD

Snatch 1-1-1-1-1-1-1

Got to 140 and failed at 145 4 times. That's a pr for me but in the end, I was simply not comfortable catching that much weight overhead. The mental block remains, however smaller than before.

Thursday WOD

Do each exercise unbroken
30 DB thrusters at 35lbs
30 sit-ups
30 goblet squats at 50lbs
30 push-ups
30 DB swings at 50lbs

6:07

This one was kind of fun. I liked the idea of trying to make 30 reps of each in an unbroken set (I was inspired by a workout posted on the CFB page which was inspired by OPT). The thrusters were tough, but the push-ups were by far the hardest. I didn't get out of the push-up position until I hit 30 but I did rest a bit. Even though it's not a lot of reps, I felt this workout after finishing.

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