Ragnar Trail

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Today is the Ragnar Trail and I am laid up with some sort of funk apparently caught between here and the Bahamas.  I have never had to back out of a race, event or challenge due to sickness.  I have had injuries that prevented me from competing but never sickness. 

I had to leave my team without runners and I feel really bad about it.  However, I feel worse about the congestion in my chest and intense coughing spells.

I hope that my team will rally and have a great time.  I am sorry that I could not be there.

Run/ Nancy

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Yesterday we did an old favorite and one of the most effective CrossFit benchmark workouts of all time: Nancy

Run 400 m

15 OHS @ 95 pounds

x 5 rounds

I finished within 3 seconds of my PR which was in 2010 on flat ground.  We now run on a big hill.  I found this to be very inspiring for my progress.

12:41 Rx yesterday

Today, we ran 5k and did a max set of pull ups any style.

Our 5k is a little longer than an actual 5k.  I think it comes in at 3.31 miles rather than 3.1

24:11

then max set of deadhangs

15

 

Spring Break

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I traveled down to the Bahamas last week with the family so I could show them what is cool about flyfishing for bonefish, conch diving and lobster diving.

They saw it pretty clearly

And I managed to catch a tailing Mutton Snapper which was a very cool catch for me since we dont have them in Key West on the flats anymore.

Most of the workouts were wading after these fish, but I did manage to hit up a couple of my favorite travel/beach workouts

#1 Deck of Cards

#2 50 yard suicide sprints with 10 burpees on one side, 10 pushups on the other x 10 rounds

#3 1000 pushups

Then, when I returned last night, I saw this on the board

Morrison

50-40-30-20-10

Wall Balls

Box Jumps

KB Swings @ 53

for time

So I grabbed this guy in the middle

And hit it alone this morning.  It was a wonderful way to get back into the swing (no pun intended) of things and get my body moving heavy stuff again.

I finished in 24:05 but felt as though I might have gone a little faster had I been with friends...those who are in shape and can push me.

Glad to be back...now it is time to hit the turkey hunting!

3 sprint workouts

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Today we put together 3 sprint workouts.  These are designed to go full out for a short time.  No pacing, no rest, just 100% effort all the way through.

When creating these workouts, sometimes it takes trial and error to find the perfect blend of load and duration to get the sweet spot of performance.  These three have been done many times and some alterations have been made.  The sled workout has been 3 rounds and also 5 rounds.  5 proved to be too much and people started pacing it.  3 rounds, while a sprint, left people with some gas in the tank. 4 rounds is perfect.

Today

RRL Warmup

1. Sled push down and back 315 pounds/ 5 burpees

x 4 rounds for time. 

Trevor set a new record on this in 2:30.  Most of the rest of us finished in 2:50-3:30

 

2. Max burpees in 3 minutes

3. Max Thrusters @ 95 lbs in 2 minutes

We did between 28-35 Thrusters in 2 minutes.  This is a real eye opener seeing that the standard Fran time for an elite athlete is right around 2:00-:2:30.  Fran is 21-15-9 of thrusters @ 95 lbs AND pullups.  They are doing 45 thrusters AND 45 pullups in the same 2 minutes it took us to do 35 thrusters.  Wow! 

That concludes my week.  I am headed to the Bahamas with my family and will be doing bonefish squats and long walks in ankle deep water for a week. 

I think I am ready


15.4/Indian Run/KB Swing

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Trevor and I did 15.4 yesterday with some disappointing results.  We both felt as thought this workout played to our strengths, but the new standard combined with an already sore neck from wrestling with my son who just finished 4th in the State of TN did not help my score on 15.4.  I know...excuses, excuses.  I shouldnt make excuses, just do well on it.  I dont really feel like I am making excuses as much as just realizing that I didnt do very well with a score of 56 and even with a healthy neck, I probably wouldnt have done a whole lot better. 

CrossFit has done a very good job of separating the truly elite from the top 20% and also offered a scaled division for the rest of the regular folks out there.

I sit in 86th place in Masters 45-49.  I had hoped for slightly better, but there is still one workout left and maybe it will play to my strengths.

This morning I steered away from the individual workouts and moved back towards something I really like at our garage...Team workouts or those type of workouts that build team spirit.

As a group:

Indian Run 1 mile

21-15-9

KB Swing

Air Squat

Indian Run 1 mile

21-15-9

Pullup

Pushup

This is a great way to run as it pushes everyone while allowing for all levels to run together.  I love intervals and I love team workouts.  This was both.

 

We had two guys show up today who havent been here in a while.  Welcome back Ben and Matt.

Team Row/Burpee

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Fun one today!

Partner Workout

Partner A.    Row 250 m

Partner B.    10 Burpees

Amrap 20 minutes

Bonus... From minute 15-20, each extra burpee on top of the Rx 10 counts for 10 meters.

I did this with my good buddy Alan Lebovitz and we won!  See us holding the World Championship Row/Burpee belt above.

We managed 5290 m in 20 minutes which included 33 extra burpees.

Have a great weekend

Catch up

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I have been very busy this week. Here is a recap

Sunday 

15.3

Monday

repeat of 15.3

 

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Tuesday

5 single arm swings

5 single arm snatches

5 single arm clean and press

5 front squat

1 Turkish Getup

switch arms without putting kb down  

run 400

repeat complex  

run 200

repeat complex

for time

i used the new 61 lb Werewolf Bell from Onnit that we just got for 2 rounds and then dropped to the 54 lb Orangutan for final round

very tough. 

 

Wednesday  

5 mile hill run

 

thursday

push press 5-5-3-1-1-1

 

5 push press @135lb

10 wall ball

15 boxjump/step ups

run 200 with 45 lb plate

x3 rounds

 

 

 

The Chief

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RRL Warmup then

The Chief

5x 3:00 AMRAP:

3 Power Cleans, 135 lbs

6 Push-ups

9 Air Squats

Resting 1 min in between each AMRAP.

This is a great workout.  It is challenging to match your first round score through all 5 rounds.  I did 6 full rounds on the first one and 5 full rounds on all the rest.  I was able to squeeze in 1 power clean on the final round.

Give this one a try...good one

Back in the garage

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This morning was the first day since Thursday that I have been back in the garage.  As I reported yesterday, a serious bout of the flu had me completely out of commission until Wednesday afternoon and I continued to rally yesterday.

It felt so good to get moving again and to laugh with my friends.

Today:

Push Press

5-3-3-1-1-1

 

Magic 50

5 single arm dumbbell swings/each arm

5 single arm dumbbell snatches/each arm

10 burpees

x 5 rounds

 

I usually do this workout with a 50 pound dumbbell but considering that I have basically not moved in a week, I thought it might be wise to try today with a 25.  It felt like what Rich Froning probably feels like when doing 95 lb thrusters or 75 pound snatches.  Man...that must be awesome.

The 25 lb dumbbell was perfect for me this morning.  Just got my body moving and moved through the workout getting everything working again.

I will do the 15.1 workout on Sunday or Monday as I continue to rally from this down time.

Single Digit Club: Back Squat/Jeremy

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Temperature was 8 degrees this morning when Kim, Steen, Alan, Card, Mike and Matt came through the open door of the garage this morning.  We needed to keep moving so we blew through the workout as water spilled on the floor of the garage quickly turned to ice even indoors.

By the end, I was warm and moving pretty well, however, my toes were starting to get cold.  I only wore an Under Armour Cold gear compression shirt, sweatshirt, hat, and light tights.  I was dressed pretty well as long as I was moving.

More people entered the single digit club today...good work.

RRL Warm up

1. Back Squat 5-5-3-3-1-1-1

2. Jeremy

21-15-9

Overhead Squat @ 95 lbs

burpee