I bought the GHD AND the bumper weights today. I am going to go back for med balls and squat racks next week. There is a pretty extravagant squat rack/pullup setup. It is pretty tall for the garage and a thousand bucks. I just don't know that I want to leave a thousand dollar piece of equipment outside. Even in San Diego. We will see.
I bought 365 pounds of bumper weights. Actually 350 and 15 pounds of iron Olympic weights. 5 pound and 2.5 pound will never hit the floor so they need not be rubber. The bar is a little bigger around than I am used to but it is okay. 31 mm is definitely as thick as I want to go. The GHD is not a Sorinex, but the footplate might as well be as it is the first GHD other than Sorinex that I have ever used that my feet don't fall out of it. This is why I bought it. That and it was a couple hundred less than a Sorinex. As you can see from the pictures it is assembled in our garage and the bumper weights are in there as well. I did some GHD situps as part of my warmup today. I did the Rx'd WODs for Monday and Tuesday. I got to play with the bumpers a bit. I think I want to put some rubber flooring in the garage. The bar is longer than the other weights so the soundproof room is a wee bit tight, especially if you drop them.
So the WOD for Leap Day:
2 Rounds for Time
29 Double Unders
29 Box Jumps
29 Broad Jumps
29 Jump squats
29 Hops on each foot
Plenty of leaping and jumping. Yeah, Leap Day!
No need for my new equipment tomorrow. Maybe I will do some extra. Actually I am going to the gym so I hope to double up.
Shit. Shit. Shit.
ReplyDeleteI failed.
And as I was walking through the commissary yesterday I was 100% ready to say that my diet is pretty clean (though not Paleo) and I wasn't ready to improve it. But I was going to quit hiding from you and own up to it and really work on the workout bit.
But then I saw multiple recent pictures of myself on FB. I nearly choked on my ice cream. Or cookies. Or zinfandel. Whatever non-Paleo (or CLEAN!) substance I was choking down at the time.
So, I am not going to win the big challenge, BUT I REALLY WANT TO WIN AT LEAST ONE WEEK. And then I am going to buy myself some equipment. Because really, what else am I going to do with the deployment money? I am sick of saving. :)
That would be a 21 for week 2 and a ZERO for week 3. Week 4 can't be anything but better!
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ReplyDeleteI have done hardly any workouts. Maybe 2-3. I don't feel bad, because really I have just been focusing on what I can do easily. Hitting the low hanging fruit if you will. Sleep 8 (if Possible) and reap the bonus points. Kapow. You will win at least two weeks I predict. Remember... Gary has three kids who always eat non-paleo. He can't throw away food, ever, ever, ever. Lisa will be the tough one to beat. She is rocking it right now, and she will beat all of us.
But hey, beating Gary will be good enough for me. He was always sort of a dick playing games with me when we were kids. I would like to see him place last. BEAT GARY!
Thats my rally cry.
Jonny, what were your scores? I am thinking that some of you have beaten me at least one week. I came out guns blazing with a 49 that first week. I fell quickly to a 37 and a 40. This is day three of this week and if I don't have any more "slips" I will be at 20 for the first three days. Your point about me not being able to throw away food is so true. Today I finished the girls muffins that they didn't eat at breakfast. Sierra had stolen one and promptly pooped on the floor. After that shit show (pun intended) I decided I was not feeding her the other one. The first week I held strong on my Sunday. That hasn't been the case the past two weeks. This week we will see. I know that I will lose some points next Wednesday through Saturday as Jason Wieczorek is coming to town. At the very least I will be losing my alcohol points and sleep points. In 3 and a half weeks I have earned precisely 3 points for 8 hours of sleep. This is me trying my best to get 8 houirs. I am just not wired to do it. Maybe if I ran and did two WODs every day I would be able from pure exhastion. I am glad to have you two back in the fold.
ReplyDeleteJenn, (and Jonny and Lisa) don't worry so much about the Paleo challenge. The whole idea was to make some tweaks to your diet and see if you feel better. I for one KNOW that I am better able to perform Crossfit workouts and run/bike/swim when I am eating Paleo than whey I am not. My joints feel the difference. Sunday I ate like crap and Monday my shoulder hurt doing pullups. That was the first time it hurt since we started this. As I told Lisa, most of us eat a pretty good diet. The idea of the challenge is to "push" yourself to see what else you might be able to tweak. For me the biggest take away to my paleo eating has been the absolute eradication of grains and peanuts and peanut products. For years my night time snack was an english muffin with peanut butter and a glass of milk. Nowadays that would be minus 3. I had played with Paleo while on Kansas Avenue, but this time I think the changes are lasting. I still intend to live my life and enjoy things that I like when I want to, but with these principles it is easier to maintain a healthy weight and I have more energy to do the WODs. The one dietary fact that I had learned that is unrelated to Crossfit and Paleo eating is that grains and dairy tend to reside right around your midsection. Bellies, love handles (my personal bugaboo) and pooches are all a result of dairy and grains. Sure, other stuff plays a role, but these guys like to hang out there. Since starting this challenge, my weight has moderately declined, but the size of love handles has been drastically reduced. I still have some work to do, but I know I can get there. I had them gone for about 6-8 months while in Kansas but they snuck back on in the Halloween Candy, taking classes, Lisa is gone so nobody sees me eating 15 pieces of chocolate at 9 o'clock at night fall of 2011 that I had. 7 pounds down in three weeks. My Sunday binge has me carrying three more pounds than I was, but I know it will go away. I gain weight very quickly, so it is pretty important for me to watch my diet. The rest of you have to figure out what works.
Jonny, I think the reason you thought I was a dick was that I won. When I was a kid I probably wasn't as gracious. As I have aged I have learned to be more humble while still maintaining a highly competitive edge. This is why Crossfit appeals to me. There are always people you can compete. There are some workouts you will win, but there will always be someone better, stronger and faster to keep you humble and motivated.
I probably should have saved this for a post. Maybe a redux.
13:33 for the Leap Day WOD. I thought I could do it in 10:00 but the box jumps and broad jumps took longer than the one minute per round I was hoping for. The second round of double unders was a struggle as the first six or seven were one at a time before I found the groove. I am sweaty and breathing heavy so it did the trick. Crossfit Kids in a little over an hour.
ReplyDeleteJenn, I was re-reading your post and thought of one of the "Crossfit mantras" I have learned to live by. If you aren't failing then you aren't trying hard enough. Also known as "working your margins." Do things that are hard and if you fail once in a while at least you are trying to do something outside of your comfort zone. As for me I can tell I am outside of my comfort zone when life seems so chaotic that nothing is getting done but all seems to get done at the same time.
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ReplyDeleteColleen and I actually did the Leap Day WOD on the first of March because I forgot to bring home my list of WODs. Oops. . . .
We did NOT do the broad jumps (sub situps) as the last time I did them in my Five Fingers, I had shin splints for two days.
Colleen: 13:19
Lisa: 13:50
As far as all these posts, I emailed Gary a few weeks back that the Paleo Challenge was making me feel angry, inadequate, resentful and all other sorts of nasty words. This place fucking blows and the last thing I need is to feel guilty for eating some chocolate because this place fucking blows. I KNOW eating Paleo makes me feel better. I KNOW working out makes me feel better. I KNOW sleeping more makes me feel better. And, yet, sometimes chocolate fills an immediate need--one that would be filled by beer but I am at this place that fucking blows. (Ooh, it has been a stupid day.) I do well in the AM and then the PM comes and I lose all willpower, motivation and general happiness.
I have so much to be grateful for and I am so eager to get back to what's important to me. I want to come home happy, healthy and a better me. Here, it's exceptionally difficult to do that but each day I try. I'm not always successful, but I try.
I must admit something: my "cyber-bullying" of Gary has resulted in him getting some much-deserved CrossFit equipment. I'm going to continue on my "cyber-bullying" campaign until he buys a three-tap kegerator, too. . . .
(Jenn: Spend that deployment money! I'm quite certain there is something you deserve equally as much as Gary deserves his bumper weights, GHD, squat rack and KEGERATOR. If Spence is anything like me, he WANTS you to have it--whatever "it" is--but he doesn't have a freakin' clue how to buy it for you.)
Ooh, ooh! Gary, can you develop a "Work Your Margins" WOD? It is a WOD designed specifically for those exercises that need the most work. I know mine--double unders. It could be single or multiple exercises; simple or complex; long or short; skill work or intense. I've been wanting to take a day and focus solely on double unders. Here, I cheese out because I don't want to hold up others--and I sacrifice my own skill set. Colleen and I have different strengths/weaknesses, so my double under day would be something very different for her.
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU!
I will. I have actually not been doing what I want to with the WODs anyway. I want to build in little pieces of strength or skill work prior to the WODs or after the WODs. Deadlift one day a week. Some sort of squat one day a week. Skill work one or two days a week. I will do a "slay your goat" type of thing soon, but will Rx everyone to work on some skills. Here is a confession. . . I program out for a week and a half to two weeks at at time. When I get that email from you that says "we need more WODs" I go to work and program in what should fit for the metcon part of this and keeping it varied and working all domains. What I forget to include is the strength and skill piece. I know I want to add it, but I get sidetracked with programming the "right" movements and "right" combinations to keep us improving. My pledge to all of you is to not forget strength and skills anymore. Just be forewarned that I KNOW that all of you (and me) can use some improvement in the pullup department. Pullups and dips precede muscle ups. Muscle ups are necessary to compete in the Crossfit games. Double Unders also. Handstand Pushups. Pistol squats. See? There is already a list of skills building.
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