This morning was the first bring a friend day at ITF Downtown, and I brought a good friend of mine. I would say she is my BFF at this point, but we have not mutually confirmed this....anyway
She did awesome! Soooo much better than I would have done if the situations had been reversed!
We had to do a partner WOD that consisted of a 12 minute amrap of 20 box jumps, 200m run carrying a med ball overhead, 20 pushups, and 2 passes of lunges carrying the med ball overhead as well. We could split it up any way we wanted to as long as we completed each part before moving on to the next. We did 3 and 3/4 rounds Rx, which was at the top of the line for the all girl teams! She totally kicked ass! I told her that we need to compete in some CrossFit competitions......Why not? We are a great team!
I have decided that I HATE running while carrying objects overhead, or otherwise! There was much cursing on my part!!!! But it was great.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
More Snatch
As it is the season for the beginning of the qualifying for the CrossFit open games, Fridays we do whatever is required in that arena. This week it was a series of 3 rounds of 30 snatches and whatever time you had left over you were supposed to do as many as you could with a crazy amount of weight!
Since this is a relatively new, and complex movement, I exercised caution to nail form and confidence before anything else. My partner and I did 25#, followed by 30, then 35. It was tough doing 90 reps total, but it was a good learning experience. With some things I am still establishing a frame of reference as to how I need to proceed. This WOD showed me that I know I could have done more weight, but like I have said, I want to be good and sure I am doing it correctly, before I start piling in the weight, I don't want to get hurt.
That being said, I do feel more confident with it now. I understand it, and feel like I can do more.
Since this is a relatively new, and complex movement, I exercised caution to nail form and confidence before anything else. My partner and I did 25#, followed by 30, then 35. It was tough doing 90 reps total, but it was a good learning experience. With some things I am still establishing a frame of reference as to how I need to proceed. This WOD showed me that I know I could have done more weight, but like I have said, I want to be good and sure I am doing it correctly, before I start piling in the weight, I don't want to get hurt.
That being said, I do feel more confident with it now. I understand it, and feel like I can do more.
SOTS is a four letter word
Sots press??? Who the hell has heard of that?
Not me, until I looked at ITF's WOD.
It is an awful fucked up thing.
You have a barbell resting on your back, you come down to the full deep squat position, then you press that barbell overhead. For the WOD, the Rx for women was 35#, and I'm thinking...ok, I can do that.....
So first we had to find our 5Rm.
Mine was 26#. And all the while I know I made a face worthy of the AWODS "best wod face!" Not a good thing.....
So for the WOD we had to do three rounds of 15 sots presses, and 25 squats with the same bar we were using.
Man, my quads were dead. Then we find out we had to do three rounds of 200m sprint and 20 tuck jumps! Ouch! At least I was able to hang with the guys on that one, and not feel like a total whimp!
Not me, until I looked at ITF's WOD.
It is an awful fucked up thing.
You have a barbell resting on your back, you come down to the full deep squat position, then you press that barbell overhead. For the WOD, the Rx for women was 35#, and I'm thinking...ok, I can do that.....
So first we had to find our 5Rm.
Mine was 26#. And all the while I know I made a face worthy of the AWODS "best wod face!" Not a good thing.....
So for the WOD we had to do three rounds of 15 sots presses, and 25 squats with the same bar we were using.
Man, my quads were dead. Then we find out we had to do three rounds of 200m sprint and 20 tuck jumps! Ouch! At least I was able to hang with the guys on that one, and not feel like a total whimp!
Bam!
I am sure that people everywhere encounter this at some point. People that seem...cliquish...? Yeah. There is a group of ladies that seem this way at my gym. Maybe I am totally wrong, but that is just the vibe that I get. Good at what they are there to do, and totally unwelcoming to those of us that are new.
Ok then.
I realize that I may give off he wrong impression when people first encounter me, but I have been trying not to. For me, being quiet and insecure comes across as stuck up. But I have been making an effort to try to reach out to people here and there. For the most part, it has not been well-recieved. Keep trying, I guess...
The other night we had to find our 1RM max for thrusters. To do that, you have to get in groups at a rack and take turns with the weight. Yeah, that can get akward when you feel like you are being excluded in general. I wound up getting 90# for my thruster, which I was pretty pumped about! Next we had to do a WOD: three rounds of 10 squat clean thrusters, 150 ft one legged bear crawl, and 200 m run.
For the amrap, the rx for women was 65# on the thrusters. I finished rx in 11:36. And I beat a lot of those stuck up people. BAM! Small personal victory for me, I guess. I don't want to feel like that about people, but if I was in their position, I would have welcomed and encouraged a new person, because I know what it is like. When you come in there out of 101 it is intimidating, scary, and you're not sure what to do in some cases. See, unlike them, I genuinely enjoy watching people grow and evolve with their skills.
Ok then.
I realize that I may give off he wrong impression when people first encounter me, but I have been trying not to. For me, being quiet and insecure comes across as stuck up. But I have been making an effort to try to reach out to people here and there. For the most part, it has not been well-recieved. Keep trying, I guess...
The other night we had to find our 1RM max for thrusters. To do that, you have to get in groups at a rack and take turns with the weight. Yeah, that can get akward when you feel like you are being excluded in general. I wound up getting 90# for my thruster, which I was pretty pumped about! Next we had to do a WOD: three rounds of 10 squat clean thrusters, 150 ft one legged bear crawl, and 200 m run.
For the amrap, the rx for women was 65# on the thrusters. I finished rx in 11:36. And I beat a lot of those stuck up people. BAM! Small personal victory for me, I guess. I don't want to feel like that about people, but if I was in their position, I would have welcomed and encouraged a new person, because I know what it is like. When you come in there out of 101 it is intimidating, scary, and you're not sure what to do in some cases. See, unlike them, I genuinely enjoy watching people grow and evolve with their skills.
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