I blinked and suddenly it was Halloween. And now all the stores are hawking their holiday wares. It’s like they’re not even trying to hide the fact that they’re starting so early anymore. We’ve all become immune or something.
Workouts continue. Some better than others. Here’s a peek, in no particular order:
I do remember finishing this one and actually saying something like, ‘wow, this was pretty good’. On occasion the workouts we do balances out the heavy squatting we’ve been doing during our “skill set” portion of class. This is an example of that.
This was a Friday, our “de-load” day. I didn’t do HS PUs, but instead just held the HS for 30 sec or something. I see we did DUs here which leads me to believe I did not enjoy this one. If you squint to see the times you’ll notice I was the last one done, by like a couple of minutes.
Instead of the 100m sprints in the rain we did 250m sprints on the erg. If anything, I’m consistent.
Core to the max. We called those skater jumps “apolo ohnos”
This was a good one, with decent rest in between each set.
The pull ups were killing me on this one. A lot of resting, a lot of bands. A lot of counting by 3’s
Yep
Halloween WOD. Our fearless leader Jess dressed up as an 80s aerobics instructor. We ended up combining times as two teams. To win it, i think your best bet is to do the front squats for the minute, and do them quickly, to outpace what you would have gotten were you to d squat cleans. At least, that was my strategy. Unless my legs couldn’t handle it any more.
Oh, look. Doubleunders. And look at that low score next to said DUs. Sheesh. Actually being as this was a while ago I have very little memory of it. See how I can just block these out of my head?
So, after 2+ years of crossfit, I finally found myself doing a 2K. And, it wasn’t as dreadful I had feared. Oh, wait. It was. My time, not great, but I’ll take it … especially if I don’t have to do another one for 2 more years.
Well, then.
People don’t realize how difficult jumping squats or split squats are until they have to do them repeatedly. I won’t forget the workouts from The New Rules of Lifting, which incorporated both into their workouts. Ouch, just ouch. I chose the jumping squats.
I used a dumbbell instead of a kb. 25#, maybe? Yep.
Yes, 3 1/2 min more goodness, with the goal of hitting half of your original 7 minute number. I made it, and I also beat my previous record for 7 min. We later found out that some of the classes didn’t do the 3 1/2 minute portion. The risks that come with attending the first class of the day.
Good month of workouts here.