Posts Tagged “deadlift”

I didn’t get a great sleep last night and have been tired and groggy all morning, but knew going to the box would wake me up and get the blood flowing.  I was right!

Warmup
Tabata Rowing for Calories:  8 rounds.
9 Calories
9 Calories
9 Calories
9 Calories
9 Calories
8 Calories
8 Calories
7 Calories

Had the lactic acid build up nicely and took a few minutes to recover before attempting max pullups.  Just wasn’t feeling it today and didn’t post a great number.

Max Pullups:  20

Skills

Deadlift practice.  Jenika isn’t a big fan of using belts, she feels they are more for powerlifting and lifting without one will increase core strength.  This is now the second CF box i’ve been to that advocates lifting heavy without a belt.  Add that to the fact that at the games I didn’t see one picture of an athlete wearing a belt for the Heavy DL WOD, so there you go, my personal choice is to stop wearing one for the heavy lifts. If my numbers drop because of it, oh well.

WOD

1RM Deadlift

5,5,3,3,1,1,1

Maxed out with a new PR of 385.8

Even without a belt I was able to hit a PR by 2.8 pounds.  Old PR was 383  Very happy today

What’s your opinion on wearing belts?  Do you?  If so, why?  If not, why not?

Well i’ve been itching lately to train with more CrossFiters and get plugged into a proper Box.  Training with Sterling has been and continues to be the best thing that’s ever happened to me as far as my fitness goes, but the grind of the Globo has gotten to me big time.  I crave the CF community and the experience that comes with training in a proper box.

My living situation remains in limbo with nothing certain of where i’m going to end up in a month or two, but one thing I do know is that i’m trying to organize my life and schedule a bit to allow me to get to classes at CF Westside.

Popped in this morning for the 7AM class and bought a 1 month membership and plan on hitting the box hard this month.  I asked Jenika to take my game to the next level and hopefully after a month i’ll be in a situation where I can make some more longer term decisions of where I’ll be training.

CF WestSidt WOD:   Warm up

3 Rounds
100 Skips
10 Dowel Rotations
10 Dowel OHS
10 Ab Mat Situps

Skills:   Deadlift technique

Partner WOD:

4 Rounds

1 Minute Row for Calories
1 Minute DeadLift 130#
1 Minute Pushups
1 Minute Rest

I can’t remember the girls name that I partnered up with, but give me a break, it was the first class with this crew, I will start to learn everyone’s names…I promise.

Partner Score:  397 Reps between the 2 of us.   Post WOD pullups divide by 10 = 39 pullups between the 2 of us.   We finished first so it was divide by 10, the other team had to divide by 5.

I enjoyed the experience allot.  You simply can’t compare CrossFit at a Globo, or on your own with the experience of a proper box.   Looking forward to more training in the next month.

So, as a result of joining CF WestSide I will officially be off .com programming for a while and will be following Jenikas Programming for now.  I may still do the occasional .com WOD, but they will be few and far between!

3,2,1  GO!