Day 105

WOD

For Time:
30 Chest to bar Pull-ups
15 Deadlifts (225/155)
400m run
30 Push-ups
15 Push Press or Jerk (135/95)
30 Squats
15 Front squat (135/95)
400m run
15 Deadlifts (225/155)
30 Chest to bar Pull-ups
Post time to comments.
Everyone will have 1 bar and change weights themselves.

My results: 25:46 with red, blue and black bands (I probably should just use green but mentally, this helps me to use smaller bands), 155lbs for the first round of dead lifts, 45 lbs for the push press and front squat (weak but I was dead tired by then) and 125lbs for the last deadlift set.

So after a three day stint with Strep Throat (yes, it was nasty and yes, it made me draggy all week), I felt good enough to come into the gym today to get my butt kicked.  And by the looks of that workout,  it was definitely going to be a butt kicker.  And it did kick my butt but in a slow burn way.  It was hard to know how to scale this because I am a lot stronger on the bottom than on the top.  I can lift 155 15 times but not in a row.  I can’t do it twice in one workout.  My form starts to go to crap around 12 and that’s no good as I want to have  a healthy back and doing deadlifts the wrong way is a surefire trip to backache city.

Over it’s been over 100 Crossfit workouts for me and I must say that I feel really good.  More times than not I am still terrified of workouts and if I am not terrified, I am completely caught off guard by how hard a supposedly easy looking workout really is.  As I count down to deployment which is only three weeks away, I have to say I know I still won’t be a perfect workout machine, but I’ll probably be able to hang on in the runs that we have to do.  I now know that I won’t die if I have to carry four seabags full of crap down a tarmac by myself.  I feel physically confident enough to handle a weapon.  And I am mentally confident that I can take some pain.

I have to head off to training for about two weeks, but I am hoping to try and find a box near where I am to get a workout or two in. Until then I’ll be stalking the PCF page and trying to do the workouts on my own.

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