Started Crossfit - update - I'm less fat now

[GasX]

Nice! I haven't checked the games site yet. Can you pick rx vs scaled on each wod or do you need to choose beforehand if you'll do all as one or the other?

I just registered and I don't see anything regarding that. I imagine that will come to light as things get going.

 

[usyed1]

Its very hard to gauge how well you're improving in Cross-fit... and injuries are a lot more common.

With most bench, rod, free-weight regimens once you have the form down pat its very difficult to injure yourself.

Those jerky movements in crossfit are not safe for joints :/

 

[blackdogdeek]

Its very hard to gauge how well you're improving in Cross-fit... and injuries are a lot more common.

With most bench, rod, free-weight regimens once you have the form down pat its very difficult to injure yourself.

Those jerky movements in crossfit are not safe for joints :/

Link(s)?

 

[GasX]

Its very hard to gauge how well you're improving in Cross-fit... and injuries are a lot more common.

With most bench, rod, free-weight regimens once you have the form down pat its very difficult to injure yourself.

Those jerky movements in crossfit are not safe for joints :/

You have a source of all this definitive information?

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Its very hard to gauge how well you're improving in Cross-fit... and injuries are a lot more common.

With most bench, rod, free-weight regimens once you have the form down pat its very difficult to injure yourself.

Those jerky movements in crossfit are not safe for joints :/

"Hey guys! I've got an idea! Lets post a bunch of unproven, unsupported statements on an internet forum and see who responds!"

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Nice! I haven't checked the games site yet. Can you pick rx vs scaled on each wod or do you need to choose beforehand if you'll do all as one or the other?

You select scaled or RX when you input your score. Tip - if you do even one rep of a workout RX you will be higher than ALL of the people who completed the workout entirely scaled. So if the RX workout calls for 5 muscle ups (scaled = body row to ring dip) and you only do 1 muscle up and then switch to the scale, you will end up higher than all the scaled folks. At least that was how it worked last year.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Grrr... twisted my right knee yesterday doing lunges as part of a supplemental strength routine I've been doing. Might have sprained my medial collateral ligament. Hurts like hell.

 

[finbarqs]

damn I just injurred myself during crossfit yesterday too

I did "The Don" (Hero Workout) at the 6PM class, did Oly Lifting at 7PM and did "The Don" again @ 8PM

Now I'm out for a month

 

[GasX]

damn I just injurred myself during crossfit yesterday too

I did "The Don" (Hero Workout) at the 6PM class, did Oly Lifting at 7PM and did "The Don" again @ 8PM

Now I'm out for a month

"The Don"

For time:
66 Deadlifts, 110 pounds
66 Box jump, 24 inch box
66 Kettlebell swings, 1.5 pood
66 Knees to elbows
66 Sit-ups
66 Pull-ups
66 Thrusters, 55 pounds
66 Wall ball shots, 20 pound ball
66 Burpees
66 Double-unders

Either you are a liar or a fool.

 

[blackdogdeek]

That's an insane amount of work over 3 hours.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

damn I just injurred myself during crossfit yesterday too

I did "The Don" (Hero Workout) at the 6PM class, did Oly Lifting at 7PM and did "The Don" again @ 8PM

Now I'm out for a month

If you actually did that you are nuts.

FWIW - I did not hurt myself doing crossfit. I hurt myself doing traditional weightlifting. Unlike a lot of crossfitters I don't do a metcon every day. I do 2 metcons a week, 2-3 pure weightlifting days, and 2-3 rest days.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Woot - 10# PR on push press today. 195#. I'm confident I would have been at 200 or 205 if I had not done so many lower weight reps. Rep scheme was as follows:

1x3 @95 (strict press)
1x3@125 (strict press)
1x1@145 (strict press)
1x1@155 (strict press)
Failed at 165 on strict press, converted to push press
1x1@165 (push press)
1x1@175 (push press)
1x1@185 (push press) - previous 1RM
1x1@190 (push press)
1x1@195 (push press) - new 1RM
Failed at 1x1 @200

 

[finbarqs]

If you actually did that you are nuts.

FWIW - I did not hurt myself doing crossfit. I hurt myself doing traditional weightlifting. Unlike a lot of crossfitters I don't do a metcon every day. I do 2 metcons a week, 2-3 pure weightlifting days, and 2-3 rest days.

The second time doing "The Don" I got time capped @ 52 minutes on my 45th burpee... Should've just let me finished it at the hour!!!

I didn't do it twice because I'm just a crazy person looking to injure myself: I did it to shock my body out of it's comfort zone. Yeah we can do the Don. We'll survive and sweat buckets. Us crossfitters have been doing this since day 1... But remember your first crossfit workout? Remember how "impossible" everything felt? I want that back again. Crossfit advertises "get out of your comfort zone". Well my comfort zone is regular crossfit + some oly lifting class. Yeah it's tiring and I lay on the ground, but I've been doing that for a couple of years. Time to get out of my comfort zone again!

 

[Sho'Nuff]

The second time doing "The Don" I got time capped @ 52 minutes on my 45th burpee... Should've just let me finished it at the hour!!!

I didn't do it twice because I'm just a crazy person looking to injure myself: I did it to shock my body out of it's comfort zone. Yeah we can do the Don. We'll survive and sweat buckets. Us crossfitters have been doing this since day 1... But remember your first crossfit workout? Remember how "impossible" everything felt? I want that back again. Crossfit advertises "get out of your comfort zone". Well my comfort zone is regular crossfit + some oly lifting class. Yeah it's tiring and I lay on the ground, but I've been doing that for a couple of years. Time to get out of my comfort zone again!

You might want to try something else to get out of your comfort zone. Yoga, ERG sprints, triathalons, etc.

 

[finbarqs]

If that were the case, then I wouldn't need Crossfit anymore. I'm just using Crossfit as a vessel.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

WOOT PR'd split jerk yesterday. Up 15 lbs to 225.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Did a fun clean complex today. Sets of 1 clean followed by 2 push jerks. Had a good day. Completed 3 sets of the complex in 10# increments from 155 to 205. On the first set at 215 I cleaned and pushed jerked the weight just fine, but failed on the second jerk. All in all a good day.

PS: Wrist wraps are a lot more helpful than I thought they would be.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Fun weightlifting session today.

Spent 15 minutes warming up with stretches and several max effort rounds of double unders. Finally starting to get DU's down. Had many rounds of 20+ connected DUs. Still working on volume there.

After warming up I did a front squat complex. 10 rounds, where each round was 3 front squat reps with a 3 second pause "in the hole." Started very light (95lbs) and built to 175lbs, which is 10lbs less than my 1RM front squat. By the end I felt nice a loose in my hips (very unusual for me), but I was dripping sweat.

Following the front squats I did a 20 minute EOMOM (every other minute on the minute) workout, where on the even minutes (0, 2, 4, 6, 8 etc.) I would hold a 225lb bar in the front rack position for one minute, and then rest during the odd minutes. Doesn't seem like much but it was quite a good core workout.

 

[finbarqs]

just PR'd my 1RM snatch! Went from 115 to 200 today! that goes to show what good coaching can do!