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Started Crossfit - update - I'm less fat now

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Yeah, I would say it is just getting the technique down so you just need practice. It does feel weird trying to get under the bar as fast as you can into the bottom of the squat. But make sure you practice at lower weights! It is VERY easy to injure your wrist trying to squat clean even if you are experienced. I know someone who just broke her wrist trying to PR a squat clean two weeks ago and she's been oly lifting and crossfitting for years. Typically, you should be able to squat clean more than you can power clean since you don't have to lift the bar as high as you do for a power clean.
 
Glad this is working out for you! Keep it up until you have the body you want. Be careful though, it becomes and addiction. Before long, you'll have body dysmorphic disorder like the rest of the gym rats. You won't think you're fat, just not <defined, big, whatever> enough. >_>
 
Keep doing the good work! I have complicated feelings about crossfit, the idea of pushing your things to the limit is nice, but then again I see a lot of videos of crossfitters doing really stupid stuff like the one where the guy does 100 kipping pull ups to the point where he rips the calluses on his hands and his hands are bleeding. That's just plain effing stupid. Anyway, glad it's working for you, but keep in mind on stupidity like that, do not injure yourself.
 
Just a quick update:

Started CF on October 11 at 250 lbs, 38" (pushing 40") waist

Physical stats of this morning - 222 lbs, 35.5" waist (size 36 pants are loose)

Start/Now Baseline lifts (1RM) and exercises are as follows:

Front Squat - 145 start - 175 now
Back squat - 225 start - 285 now
Overhead squat - 0 start - 65 now (mobility/old should injury issue)
Deadlift - 285 start - 390 now
Power clean - 165 start - 190 now
Snatch - 115lbs start - 155 now (Oly class helped a lot - will go up once I can get under the bar better)
Strict Press - 85 start - 105 now (old shoulder injury = limiting)
Pullups - 0 start - 4 now
Max effort unbroken pushups - 25 start - 47 now
 
Sho'Nuff said:
You know what? I don't! I'll have to work it into a side workout one of these days. The CF box I workout at never seems to program bench into a WOD or strength session.
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We also rarely do them (~1 time a month) but I know mine has gone up since my last known 1RM because I'm doing at least 20# more for reps these days. I'm pretty sure it's all the shoulder work.
 
2 movements i'm ashamed of from crossfit are the pull ups and the pushups. The kipping kind of looses the original intention of the exercise, but makes it possible for people to even attempt it. The pushups, all the way down and up just gives people time to rest (when your chest touches the floor) and push up to get a higher rep scheme... Better than the half pushups!

Other than that, keep it up! I injured myself today doing an EMOM/6 backsquat @ 85% 2 reps per minute. Don't be like me and get injured by crossfit... My form was perfect too (being watched closely by the coach) But truth be told, I did lean forward a bit (when moving 85% of 1 rep max you tend to get tired at the later reps) so that probably messed my back up quite a bit. Quality over Quantity... My back is the proof...
 
Sho'nuff, I don't think you're actually doing crossfit. You haven't posted minimum 5 times a day telling us you do crossfit, so it is obvious, you don't. >_>
 
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smackababy said:
Sho'nuff, I don't think you're actually doing crossfit. You haven't posted minimum 5 times a day telling us you do crossfit, so it is obvious, you don't. >_>
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Lol. I have noticed that the cf community tends to be a bit outgoing about CF.
 
finbarqs said:
2 movements i'm ashamed of from crossfit are the pull ups and the pushups. The kipping kind of looses the original intention of the exercise, but makes it possible for people to even attempt it. The pushups, all the way down and up just gives people time to rest (when your chest touches the floor) and push up to get a higher rep scheme... Better than the half pushups!

Other than that, keep it up! I injured myself today doing an EMOM/6 backsquat @ 85% 2 reps per minute. Don't be like me and get injured by crossfit... My form was perfect too (being watched closely by the coach) But truth be told, I did lean forward a bit (when moving 85% of 1 rep max you tend to get tired at the later reps) so that probably messed my back up quite a bit. Quality over Quantity... My back is the proof...
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I don't really understand your first two points. I don't know anyone who can do kipping pull-ups without first being able to do strict pull-ups. I certainly can't. And full range push-ups are much harder than half IMO.

As for your injury- sorry it happened. Hope you recover soon.
 
Just a minor update - my CF box finally did bench as the strength workout. My 1RM was 210lbs, but I think I could have done more if I structured the workout differently. Did too many reps at lower weight before trying for the 1RM.

On another note- the olympic lifting class I am taking through my box has generally been good but I found it extremely frustrating last night. We started working on clean and jerk last night. After talking through the theory of the jerk, the trainer immediately asked us to chain a bunch of clean and jerks together as if we were doing a CF WOD, increasing weight every 1-2 minutes. Most of us barely understand the theory of the clean (much less actually perform it properly), and the instructor now wants us to chain clean and jerks without even practicing the jerk first? What made it more frustrating is that the instructor complained that we went up in weight despite the fact that our form (unsurprisingly) sucked. All I could thinks was "hey dumbass, didn't you tell us to do that?" Grumble grumble. Thankfully the class is not always that way.
 
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Sho'Nuff said:
Just a minor update - my CF box finally did bench as the strength workout. My 1RM was 210lbs, but I think I could have done more if I structured the workout differently. Did too many reps at lower weight before trying for the 1RM.
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That's still great! You'll know for next time now.

On another note- the olympic lifting class I am taking through my box has generally been good but I found it extremely frustrating last night. We started working on clean and jerk last night. After talking through the theory of the jerk, the trainer immediately asked us to chain a bunch of clean and jerks together as if we were doing a CF WOD, increasing weight every 1-2 minutes. Most of us barely understand the theory of the clean (much less actually perform it properly), and the instructor now wants us to chain clean and jerks without even practicing the jerk first? What made it more frustrating is that the instructor complained that we went up in weight despite the fact that our form (unsurprisingly) sucked. All I could thinks was "hey dumbass, didn't you tell us to do that?" Grumble grumble. Thankfully the class is not always that way.
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That sounds like the instructor is a CF guy who took an olympic lifting class rather than a real olympic lifting coach teaching a class. It also sounds like a recipe for injury. Did you do push jerks or split jerks?
 
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