To prepare for awesome success stories we took some measurements pre challenge and will compare in (now 8!) weeks. Dave also asked us for before and after shots only to be shared if we were comfortable. Honestly I was planning on sharing them here but when I saw them I asked John if that was in fact what I looked like. He said no but they are pretty hideous so I imagine the afters will be amazing at which point I can share both. But here are my numbers.
Weight: 170
Body fat: 28.2
Bmi: 26.2
Blood pressure: 143/85
So the numbers are indeed high. My blood pressure is not generally that high but I had some road rage on the way to the gym (chapel hill drivers are the worst) I was going to check again but i figured it would make for a good success story.
Wods
Christine 14:34
3 rounds: row 500 m, 12 deadlifts, 21 box jumps
Body weight is the prescribed deadlift weight but as I hurt my back a week prior I just used 95.
CROSSFIT total 455
Squat: 165
Press: 85
Deadlift: 205
This was a terrible performance on my part, my goal was to match my prs for each lift but missed on all accounts. This leaves room for a good amount of improvement.
Goals
500+ CROSSFIT total
Sub 14:34 Christine with my actual bodyweight
As far as weight I don't have a number goal I just want my clothes to fit better.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
Everybody be proud of me!
I have fallen off the blogging wagon. And I have meant to post for the new year, but I was waiting to set new goals as my 2011 goals are just 2010 goals repackaged... Then I decided to set goals one at a time to focus on, but then the first one, climb a rope, happened within a week, so GO ME! So I will update them soon, I have been working on ring dips lately.
We started a nine week nutrition challenge at the gym this week (yup 63 days) today is day 6. And so far, so good. Day one was a challenge as we were on the road and only had fruit and nuts and ate only two big meals, and today was hard because I tried to add so some variety and didn't add enough fat to lunch and ended up famished. I think this challenge is the proper way to kick start proper eating habits, as 63 days is a long time. I have already faced such challenges as a friend eating French fries in my car, yeast rolls at dinner, baking for a friend, and the office (bagels, sweets, cheese balls etc) , but have remained victorious.
Last night I went to the gym for endurance and decided to stay for the regular class as well. I kicked butt in endurance! The wod was a thirty second row sprint, burpee broad jump across the turf, sprint back then row thirty seconds. It was fun, yet sucky in the Fran way as we were challenging anaerobic pathways science etc. Of the five of us in class I started thirty seconds behind and managed to catch up with the first group. I had the advantage of rower placement but I will take that achievement!
We started a nine week nutrition challenge at the gym this week (yup 63 days) today is day 6. And so far, so good. Day one was a challenge as we were on the road and only had fruit and nuts and ate only two big meals, and today was hard because I tried to add so some variety and didn't add enough fat to lunch and ended up famished. I think this challenge is the proper way to kick start proper eating habits, as 63 days is a long time. I have already faced such challenges as a friend eating French fries in my car, yeast rolls at dinner, baking for a friend, and the office (bagels, sweets, cheese balls etc) , but have remained victorious.
Last night I went to the gym for endurance and decided to stay for the regular class as well. I kicked butt in endurance! The wod was a thirty second row sprint, burpee broad jump across the turf, sprint back then row thirty seconds. It was fun, yet sucky in the Fran way as we were challenging anaerobic pathways science etc. Of the five of us in class I started thirty seconds behind and managed to catch up with the first group. I had the advantage of rower placement but I will take that achievement!
Friday, November 25, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving back!
So as Thanksgiving is the gluttonous holiday that encourages to eat ridiculous amounts of food, Crossfit encourages us to do ridiculous workouts before and after to conterbalance the effects. Yesterday's wod involved a lot of bodyweight exercises and a 500 m row. By the end, I could not use my arms, but it felt great. I scaled a bunch, with push ups, ring dips, and scaled back the turkish get ups, but I finished in a respectable amount of time.
Today we did a painstorm wod. We were to lift our bodyweight ground to overhead for as many years as we are old, and double under for 100-age times 10...so for me that is 28 clean and jerks at (really heavy) and 720 double unders. I scaled back to middle school weight, and as we could choose our own strategy, I did my clean and jerks first, and then used the rest of 30 minutes to complete double unders, but as my feet wanted to get in the way of the rope, I struggled with stringing them together. I ended up with only 253 double unders, so my strategy may have been flawed, but still a great workout.
Last week I was able to deadlift 223, which is not quite near my max, but more than I have lifted in a year. That day we did a wod involving box jumps deadlifts and pullups. There were a bunch of us in attendance...like a lot like I had to hunt for a box to jump on. In the middle of the wod, a smaller, newer member yelled to Dave who was coaching, "I am one of the shortest people here, why I am I the one of the few jumping on an Rx box (20 inches)." It took all I had not to comment on the fact that I outweighed her by (at least) 50 pounds yet I was doing pull ups without a band, but Dave politely replied, "because you can". I understand that her comment came out of pride, and doubt that it was meant to be hurtful, but it rubbed me the wrong way. I was not using a 20 inch box because when I got to the boxes, they were all gone... pick your battles. But suggestion to all crossfitters, compare you to you, and leave everyone else out of it...
I leave you with this photo of myself:
sometimes Dave gets some good shots, but this was the worst, first of all I paused so many times at the top for a good shot. and if you were wondering, I see my poor form, my legs are a bit far apart, my back is rounded, and my hips are high, but i still had a commenter, a trainer, not a crossfitter, one I have done training sessions with (that is saying a lot at a globo gym as not everyone is qualified) but still UGH. But check out my arms, and my legs I imagined to be quite fatty are actually kinda diesel... and look at my eyeballs! so large!
Today we did a painstorm wod. We were to lift our bodyweight ground to overhead for as many years as we are old, and double under for 100-age times 10...so for me that is 28 clean and jerks at (really heavy) and 720 double unders. I scaled back to middle school weight, and as we could choose our own strategy, I did my clean and jerks first, and then used the rest of 30 minutes to complete double unders, but as my feet wanted to get in the way of the rope, I struggled with stringing them together. I ended up with only 253 double unders, so my strategy may have been flawed, but still a great workout.
Last week I was able to deadlift 223, which is not quite near my max, but more than I have lifted in a year. That day we did a wod involving box jumps deadlifts and pullups. There were a bunch of us in attendance...like a lot like I had to hunt for a box to jump on. In the middle of the wod, a smaller, newer member yelled to Dave who was coaching, "I am one of the shortest people here, why I am I the one of the few jumping on an Rx box (20 inches)." It took all I had not to comment on the fact that I outweighed her by (at least) 50 pounds yet I was doing pull ups without a band, but Dave politely replied, "because you can". I understand that her comment came out of pride, and doubt that it was meant to be hurtful, but it rubbed me the wrong way. I was not using a 20 inch box because when I got to the boxes, they were all gone... pick your battles. But suggestion to all crossfitters, compare you to you, and leave everyone else out of it...
I leave you with this photo of myself:
sometimes Dave gets some good shots, but this was the worst, first of all I paused so many times at the top for a good shot. and if you were wondering, I see my poor form, my legs are a bit far apart, my back is rounded, and my hips are high, but i still had a commenter, a trainer, not a crossfitter, one I have done training sessions with (that is saying a lot at a globo gym as not everyone is qualified) but still UGH. But check out my arms, and my legs I imagined to be quite fatty are actually kinda diesel... and look at my eyeballs! so large!
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Go me!
I have had a medium amount of success at crossfit the past couple of days. I had another fun weekend where I skipped working out (Sunday was beautiful and I skipped because I thought it would be cold oops!) i planned a two a day for Monday, the regular wod began with deadlifts. I am still reworking form so I stayed light on those and for the wod as well 15-9-6 6-9-15 deadlifts and burpee pullups. I knew this would take me a while as I am slow at everything but I finished in 27:12 just about fifteen minutes behind EVERYONE else. I came back in the evening for the endurance wod which was 500m row repeats. Paul suggested my goal be about ten seconds slower than 2:15, and I did much better than that at 2:19, 2:15, 2:13, 2:12, 2:11, 2:12 and grand finale 2:05... Did you forget about my slow score? Yeah me too.
Today I planned for a morning session but when I slept through that, chances of making the evening session were slim but I made it. Strength work was the push press, I had to ask dave where the pr board was as I have no idea in which of my 4 wod books I would find it. My pr from the board was 105, I worked up to that then did a conservative five pound jump. I hit it. I told rich I would ring the bell later but went up by ten. I hit it. I went up another ten. I hit it. Are you counting? Twenty pounds!!! The wod was another valley style, 21-15-9 800 m run 9-15-21 wall balls and push ups, I finished just five minutes behind most, but I was satisfied!
Today I planned for a morning session but when I slept through that, chances of making the evening session were slim but I made it. Strength work was the push press, I had to ask dave where the pr board was as I have no idea in which of my 4 wod books I would find it. My pr from the board was 105, I worked up to that then did a conservative five pound jump. I hit it. I told rich I would ring the bell later but went up by ten. I hit it. I went up another ten. I hit it. Are you counting? Twenty pounds!!! The wod was another valley style, 21-15-9 800 m run 9-15-21 wall balls and push ups, I finished just five minutes behind most, but I was satisfied!
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Surprise pr!
I have been quite medium lately... this weekend was amazing meaning I are and drank whatever, day drinking turned night drinking on friday, bojangles each morning, and just plain old crap all weekend. So this week getting back on track was quite the challenge. I didn't feel much like working out the beginning of the week, but made myself workout yesterday. it was medium. Today I made myself go again for endurance. The workout was a 2k row. Allison asked what our times were and I couldn't reference but was thinking high nines. She told me to shoot for 915...i went 909 so go me!!!! I went back to my old notebook and my last 2k was 952 in march so hooray for 43 seconds.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
swings and snatches
Today's strength work was the kettlebell snatch. We were to snatch amrap without putting the bell down, I started with a 25# weight and only got to 9 because it was owie on my hands. The next two sets I did 17, better, but not that many, I have a hard time going to that scary place.
The wod was 6 rounds, 20 swings, rest 30 seconds, 15 box jumps. The box jumps reminded me that my legs hurt from the weekend. The swings let me know that my form is terrible. I had been avoiding them the past little bit due to back pain, but today discovered (what Ashley had been telling me all along) that the back pain was a result of poor form when swinging. So I worked on form, with a light kettlebell. It was still hard.
The wod was 6 rounds, 20 swings, rest 30 seconds, 15 box jumps. The box jumps reminded me that my legs hurt from the weekend. The swings let me know that my form is terrible. I had been avoiding them the past little bit due to back pain, but today discovered (what Ashley had been telling me all along) that the back pain was a result of poor form when swinging. So I worked on form, with a light kettlebell. It was still hard.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
mia
I have been mia...as my computers have been at the repair shop (aka my brother in lawss) and i haven't really felt like blogging. I am in a slump. Some things have improved (like my pull ups kinda) and somethings have deteriorated into an abyss (my deadlift) somethings have stayed pretty medium. I have gotten faster at some running and slower at most wods and I just don't know. My diet has been good and sucky, I am thinking I need to do a whole 30 or something, but at this point I can fit it in before thanksgiving, but i know I will cheat next weekend for homecoming, so blah. This is where I am in recent memory:
We did an endurance wod that entailed 10 jumping air squats, and sprinting 200m. We were supposed to do it 10 times. I did 9 as I was slower than most and Paul felt pity on me. I struggled with walking after that.
We did an endurance wod that involved kettlebell swings and sprinting. I stopped in the middle to go to the bathroom.
We did fran. The strength work before was front squats (my favorite) but I was too nervous for fran, and everything felt heavy. Then we did fran, my time was 3:30 slower than my pr. It was embarrassing.
Today I ran a 5K. I was passed by: an old man, people pushing strollers, 3 men wearing weight vests (who also did burpees and squats during the race, a one legged woman, and a skinny fat couple who ran walked the whole thing, also embarrassing.
We did an endurance wod that entailed 10 jumping air squats, and sprinting 200m. We were supposed to do it 10 times. I did 9 as I was slower than most and Paul felt pity on me. I struggled with walking after that.
We did an endurance wod that involved kettlebell swings and sprinting. I stopped in the middle to go to the bathroom.
We did fran. The strength work before was front squats (my favorite) but I was too nervous for fran, and everything felt heavy. Then we did fran, my time was 3:30 slower than my pr. It was embarrassing.
Today I ran a 5K. I was passed by: an old man, people pushing strollers, 3 men wearing weight vests (who also did burpees and squats during the race, a one legged woman, and a skinny fat couple who ran walked the whole thing, also embarrassing.
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