Our workout room has a small bump out due to the fireplace above it (honestly I have no idea why, but it’s a great space).
Added a couple of shelves to get nearly all the gear off the floor.


Our workout room has a small bump out due to the fireplace above it (honestly I have no idea why, but it’s a great space).
Added a couple of shelves to get nearly all the gear off the floor.
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.
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 elevation gain of 1,200 metres.
It was definitely one of the hardest hikes I’ve ever done, but the views were worth it!
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 straight
Handstand walk – blah. This one is hard. I have a hard time committing to the handstand and usually fall back on my feet.
Muscle Ups – I did a ring MU with a four pound medicine ball between my feet, so I’m definitely getting stronger. Tomorrow’s WOD had 5-4-3-2-1 of muscle ups and I’m going to try to go unbroken.
#goals
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.
My plan is to stay after class a bit each day to work on a skill.
Found with workout that will be great for traveling.
*Complete each exercise 25 and repeat circuit 4 times for 1000 reps:
Today I participated in our gyms annual CrossFit competition.
It was really hard. Yeah, really hard. But it was fun too.
We were on teams of four, two guys and two girls. And I agreed to be on a RX team, which is basically signing up for pain 😜
Here were the four events.
Event 1 – B17: Flying Fortress
This is a Bombers CrossFit special. I’ve done the workout twice in a scaled fashion, never the RX.
The workout was five rounds of 17 back squats at 135 lbs and a 400 meter run.
The tricky part was that we had to all squat in formation at the same time. The first few rows were okay, but rounds 3, 4, and 5 destroyed my legs.
Event 2 – Skills Competition
In this round there were four max effort events that each team mate had to do one of the following moves:
I was drafted to do the standing high jump. And even though it was 30+ minutes after the first event, my legs hadn’t recovered.
I ended up getting 21 inches which was just short of 10 feet in the air. If I could have a step to approach, I’m sure I could have gotten 25+ inches.
This was a partner workout of back-to-back-to-back girl workouts:
We had a pretty good strategy and I had a super human partner.
I did 30 wall balls, then Travis did 90, then I finished it off with 30 more and Karen was finished.
I moved straight to Annie and did 50 double unders and 50 sit ups. Travis did the next two rounds of 40 and 30 and I completed the last rounds of 20 and 10.
Finally Travis did the hard pars of Fran, 21 thrusters, 21 pull ups and 15 thrusters. Then I did the rest of 15 pull ups and 9 thrusters and 9 pull ups.
We got second in this workout and we were all exhausted by the end of it.
Event 4 – The Obstacle Course
This was a goofy short event where we had to pull a sled with 180 lbs on it and maneuver around obstacles and twice pick the sled up and carry it over an obstacle.
The twist on this one was we had to all for be touching the whole time.
Since we had super strong Travis, he picked the sled up himself and we got first on this one.
Overall it was a fun, yet exhausting day. I am not looking forward to seeing how my legs feel the next few days!
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 🙂
Completed my first #murph workout @bombers_crossfit this morning. Definitely a challenge.
1 mile run
100 pull ups
200 push ups
300 air squats
1 mile run
Time: 44:00
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 see where we rank against all the other people in the world.
Here’s my ranking from last year:
There were 178,538 worldwide men, so I scored in the top 42% and top 44% in the Central Regional.
My goal is to be in the top 35-40% after adding a year’s worth of experience.
Over the last few years, I’ve been a pretty clean eater.
We’ve typically eaten gluten-free, with little sugar, and the occasional dairy.
And in November, I challenged myself to eat gluten and sugar free and was successful for the entire month.
Starting today, our CrossFit gym is doing a Paleo challenge for four weeks leading up to the CrossFit Open.
Each week, we start with 35 points and for every “cheat” meal we have, we have to deduct 5 points.
We get 10 points for coming to the gym (max 30 points per week).
The winner will be based on the number of points, amount of improvement in the benchmark workout, and changes in body measurements.
A fun little challenge to hopefully make the cold Ohio winter go faster 🙂
I got a notification on Wednesday about a new challenge from my Apple Watch activity app and as I looked at it, I realized that I had no data prior to getting a new phone at the beginning of November.
It turns out that the data isn’t connected to your iCloud account and can only be added back to your phone by restoring from an encrypted backup.
I exported the last two months of activity from my phone and saved it to my iCloud Drive. Then I followed the steps here to restore all my Health data since May 2015.
Lastly I used this app to import the last two months of data back in.
It’s all there now, but I’m missing almost two months of rings in my Activity app. Definitely better than losing the 18 months of data.
Last week at CrossFit, we had a workout that had four different moves and each move had 100 reps. The moves were box jumps, pushups, situps, and lunges. For me, the pushups were the by far the hardest.
Since this a move that I can work on at home, I found the 100 Pushup Challenge. Over the next few weeks (and while travelling next week), I’m going work on getting strong enough to do 100 consecutive pushups.
After doing the initial assessment, I was able to skip to week 3 to start the program. The last two rounds of 13 and 17 were tough! I’m excited to see how I progress thru July.