A Month of Crossfit

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Hi Friends!

It’s been FOREVER since I did a Fitness Friday post hasn’t it?! I mean like, I’m pretty sure it’s been a full month. That means I have lots of workouts to catch you up on…and since I have another post planned for this Friday, I thought we’d just do it today.  Let’s get started shall we? Here’s what I’ve been up to at the gym lately:

FF1

1.  Loved this one! I finished 6 rounds with the Rx weight, used 2 abmats for the HSPU.
2. Oh Helen…you slay me. 12:05 Rx. Last time We did this I did banded pullups so I was happy I could do it Rx this time!
3. Hubby and friends helped put up some racks to hold our bars at the gym.
4. Hubby testing out the watt bike. Look at that tricep 🙂

FF2

1.  Holy shoulders. 12:31 with 55# for the first two and 65# for the rest – plus a 90# bench press PR and 115# hang squat cleans!
2. This was a rough one on the wrists. 11:05 with 55#.  We subtracted the 4 min of rest from our time to get our final time
3. This was the worst. 15:32 rx plus I got two 125# front squats! I hate toes to bar.
4. This one was a challenge. My hip was bothering me so I chose to do 85# instead of 95#. Finished in 11:54. Plus I got a 120# power clean PR!

FF3

Just hangin’ out at the gym with some super stars. That’s our coach Heather Welsh in the shorts…to her left is another top Crossfit Games athlete- Talayna Fortunato. She finished 3rd at the games last year. No big deal! The shorter guy is Doug Katona. He coaches Heather and Talayna, along with several other athletes, and the guy on the right is Darnell Sanders. He played football at Ohio State and went on to play for the Cleveland Browns. Celebrity central I tell ya!

FF4

1. Freakin’ killed this #wod – 6:20 rx plus a 25# PR for overhead squats!! I did two at 100#! I LOVE pistols!
2. Spicy Fran conquered! This was the traditional Fran benchmark workout with kb swings added at the beginning and end. I finished in 10:45 Rx, which means I smashed my previous Fran time. Last time I did Fran, my time was 12:05. This time, I finished 25 kb swings, plus Fran in 9:53, which means if I’d just been doing Fran alone, I would have gone sub 9 min, which is awesome!
3. Finished in 6:09 with 125# back squats and 35# kb swings. Plus 95# overhead squats for skill/strength!
4. This was a good one! 11:59 rx plus a snatch PR- 85# 🙂

One Saturday I tackled this workout with another guy from our box. Let me tell you, it was brutal:

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I finished in 38:57 with 70# thrusters, 145# deadlifts and 53# kb swings. If you can’t tell by how red my face was afterwards, it was HARD. But I did it!

We’ve also been sneaking in some walks with the buddies!

buddies

But mostly, it’s just been crossfit, crossfit & more crossfit. LOVE IT:

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1. Holy shoulders! 115# hang cleans for the strength/skill, then did the #wod in 11:33 rx.
2. 6:59 for the first part, 6:05 for part two, plus 5×10 95# back squats
3. Snatches and sprints
4. Saw this on twitter last week and loved it.

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1. We did this one on Saturday. It’s HALF of one of the Crosfit Games Regionals workout. Our coach was doing the whole thing to practice since she’s going to Regionals…so she did 100 wall balls, 100 chest to bar pullups,  100 pistols and 100 one arm 50# dumbbell snatches. It was ridiculous. The rest of us did this modified half version and it was still killer. I finished in 12:15 Rx.
2. This one was harder than it sounds. We did 8 rounds of each exercise, 20 sec on, 10 sec rest and you counted your LOWEST score. So my scores were 5 pullups, 6 pushups, 10 situps, 14 squats.
3. This day almost killed me. I was shaking like a leaf when we finished. I got up to 105# front squats for 8 reps and finally got the motion of butterfly pullups! Then I did 3 rounds +24 reps of round 4 for the wod.
4. Strength is beautiful 🙂

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WHEW! All caught up. In other news…tickets for the Crossfit Games went on sale on Monday and hubby and I bought some!!! CANNOT WAIT to go to the games and see all the amazing athletes! Plus, they’re in California…so that’s awesome!

Let’s chat: How have your workouts been lately? Done any good ones? Leave me a link!

Enjoy!
–Lindsay–

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  1. So fun you’re going to the crossfit games! That will be so amazing to see all the athletes in action! Looks like all that crossfit has been paying off and I love that you love it!

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  2. Wow, keep it up girl! I just registered for CrossFit and I’ve only been to 3 sessions. It works me out so good but I’m definitely struggling through each one. I hope it gets easier on me!

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  3. Ok. I don’t do crossfit so most of your post went RIGHT over my head!
    I did notice, however, that you were smiling in one of your pictures. Obviously you love this Crossfit thing 😉 I am sure I would, too.
    My workouts have been runs, Jillian DVDs, walking the dog, and doing some planks/pushups/crunches on my own.

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  5. I understand nothing of the above. Except seeing a strong healthy woman. Actually I’ve been watching last year’s crossfit games on tv lately and enjoying it, so maybe someday I will understand the secret crossfit ode 🙂

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  6. Pistols amaze me! There must be a secret that I don’t know about because my leg doesn’t want to operate like that! CrossFit games – nice! I watched last year on my computer and was in awe!

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  8. These are some awesome workouts, and you’ve clearly been working hard! 🙂

    I’ve been dying to try CrossFit, but my lack of moolah prohibits such things. (Le sigh.) Instead of that, though, I’ve been doing lots of FitnessBlender workouts — mainly kickboxing, HIIT, kettlebells — as well as strength training while using The New Rules of Lifting for Women as my guide.

    Also, I LOVE the CrossFit women’s creed. I go mildly insane when I see makeup-wearing women who glisten daintily at the gym (while I’m sweating like a wildebeest and working my butt off), so I especially appreciated that portion. 🙂 Have an awesome day!

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  10. your strength picture is AWESOME! i’ve been doing tina’s best body bootcamp and my body is super sore right now so i’d say that’s a good indicator that my workouts have been hard 🙂

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  11. What an awesome month of CrossFit! I love that you’re rewarding yourself with a trip to the Games! Having not tried it (yet), it looks like a foreign language to me 😉

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  12. You’re going to the games???! SO FREAKIN COOL.
    And your box really is rockstar central!!

    I want to try “the 7” – looks awesome!

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  14. i’m so jealous of people that can handle crossfit. i did it for a while and my joints killed. especially my shoulders. i’ve had too many injuries, i guess. don’t really need arthritis any earlier than i’ll get it. i still love the exercises i can handle. they really are the best workouts!! thanks for sharing 🙂

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  18. I love the crossfit creed! I am going to borrow this for the future 🙂 I am obsessed with crossfit too…Im working on writing up some travel WOD’s that I can do in FLorida in a couple weeks. I have a kettlebell so Ill take that with me..if you have one I can share on my blog let me know 🙂

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  20. I only wish I understood half of all your crossfit board workouts 😉

    I was planning on joining crossfit at a gym near me for FREE through my husband’s work earlier this year. But the demand was so high that I’m STILL on a waiting list. I wanted to try it for free before I paid to join a gym, but I think I will be on the waiting list forever… Sadness! Maybe someday, though. I know I would love it.

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  22. I love seeing all of your Crossfit workouts – so intense!!!
    Very cool that you are going to the Crossfit Games – maybe next year y’all when compete!!

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