Category: Fitness

My CrossFit gym, Bombers celebrated their fourth anniversary and it was roughly my second anniversary of participating in CrossFit. To celebrate we had four team workouts which had us doing wallballs, deadlifts, pushups, pullups, squats, rope climbs and partner carry. Each workout was tough, but a lot of fun to workout and compete with friends.

After my two feats of fitness, I decided to do a simple walk around the Lost Lake while I caught up on a few podcasts.  It was quite brisk, but the views were worth it!

Today I went on a hike with some colleagues up Blackcomb Ascent. > The Blackcomb Ascent Trails are three interconnected uphill hiking trails that meander through beautiful old growth coastal rain forest terrain from Whistler’s valley bottom to the Rendezvous Lodge on Blackcomb Mountain. Upon completion, the trails will travel a total of 6.1km with a total…

Today I ran in the worldwide WordPress 5k with my colleagues. Finished in just under 23 minutes. Which I think is pretty good, considering the last 5k I ran was last year.

We had a scavenger hunt today with some teammates and we found this cheap mountain bike. 

Glad I packed this lacrosse ball with me to relieve the tightness in my calf muscle.  Woke up in the middle of the night with a huge cramp; probably from the dozen hours of standing at the conference. 

I’ve been working this month on a few CrossFit goals and I’m making good progress on handstand pushups.  Push Ups – been working on these sporadically. Probably could get 30 straight (in one set only) Handstand push ups – I got six unbroken today, which is well on my way to my goal of 10…

I’ve been following the hundred push-ups challenge, in attempts it be able to do more of them.  So far, I’m halfway thru week 4 and doing well!

I have gotten pretty decent at most CrossFit moves, but I’m focusing on four in particular in August to get better. Push Ups. This is one of the easiest to work on and I always feel dead after about 20 in a WOD. I’d like to be able to get 50 straight by the end…

Found with workout that will be great for traveling. *Complete each exercise 25 and repeat circuit 4 times for 1000 reps: Mountain Climbers Body Squats Push-Ups Burpees Left Side Lunges Right Side Lunges V-Ups Body Weight Dips Jumping Jacks Plank Shoulder Taps

It’s one of my favorite CrossFit workouts and today I was the fastest 😃 In the first minute, you run one shuttle run length. The next minute you do two, then three and so on.  I finished round 15 as time expired and got 9 of the round of 16. 

Another new toy, complements of BidFTA.

In today’s workout, it had 30 muscle ups.  I did a combination of ring and bar, but I got all thirty of them.  CrossFit plus gluten/sugar eating is making me stronger 🙂

‘Tis the time of year for 90%+ humidity days in Ohio.  70 degrees and 95% humidity during my morning workout completely drenched my shirt. 

When your on paternity and it’s a beautiful day and you have to entertain a three year old for a while, we will take a long bike ride to the post office instead of driving 2 minutes. 

Rope climbs seem so much easier with chalk on your hands. 

I had the fastest time for today’s CrossFit workout, until the afternoon class came in.  Five rounds of 5-10-5 Shuttle Run 12 Hand release push-ups 24 Sit-ups  48 Double Unders I got the first 4 rounds of double unders unbroken and got tripped up after 32 in the final round 😢

I think I need a few more pairs of Adidas athletic shorts. 

I didn’t quite finish, but I got 200 reps of the 225 rep workout in twenty minutes. 50 pounds was certainly heavy.  One Open workout down, four to go.  

It looks really tough. Dumbell snatches and burpee box jump overs. It’s a lot of heavy one arm snatches, so that’s the move I’m most nervous about.

On Friday, the CrossFit Open begins. I’m excited to see how much stronger I am this year. As motivation, I’ve been watching Fittest on Earth today.

I signed up to compete in this year’s CrossFit open. Last year I had a ton of fun, even though I had only been CrossFitting for about 5 months, I joined the world-wide competition. Our gym does all of the workouts on Fridays and then we log our score with the official app and can…