“Lynne”

Five rounds for max reps of:
Body weight bench press
Pull-ups

didn’t know body weight when we started the workout, so i just threw some saucers on top of the 185lbs that the boys were lifting – so that’d be 255lbs on the bench portion.

My Results:
R1: 11,6
R2: 8,4
R3: 6,3 1/2
R4: 6,3
R5: 7,3

not the greatest, but after not doing ANYTHING for months, it sure felt good to be working out again. i definitely need to get back into workouts and with the closing of the fitness center, i’m out of a stellar workout facility. i’m thinking about joining the Crossfit club in woodbury… the closest one i can find to mi casa. anyone know anything about it?

the holiday break for me was nice and relaxing. i went up to the cabin to get some fishing in – pretty low key weekend. j and the wife stayed back and so did cocoa. i got a bunch of fishing in (caught a lot of largemouth bass and small pikes, but not the crappies and walleyes we were looking for). and even slept in a couple days

it’s good to be back though; i missed being away from the family – even though it was just a couple days.

inspirational quote of the day:
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
– Henry David Thoreau

with that being said, i will not be able to get the insanity workouts in – i will be plenty active, so i’m fine with that portion of the agenda. the big question is: “what do i do when i come back?” where do i start back up with the insanity workouts? i’ll be back Tuesday night, so Wednesday AM, do i go back and re-suck at the last Wednesday workout? i think that’s what i’ll do. like i told Julie a couple days back, i don’t know what Shaun T would suggest, but this is what i’m doing. i’ll be gone various 3-4 day stints in June, so i’m not sure how this will affect my insanity workouts other than that it will. gotta stay flexible like a Romanian gymnast.

so until then, enjoy the beautiful weather (if you’re in the midwest), get outside, wet a line and most importantly, thank a serviceman/woman for giving us a reason to celebrate this weekend!

on the bright side, i got the okay from the wife to workout MWF (instead of MWT), so my workouts will be more spaced out – yay!

also of note, my 100 push up challenge is going swimmingly – 1/4th of the way done. it starts to get difficult pretty soon – if memory serves.

Doing the CrossFit Football workout for today, which consisted of:

4 rounds of 7 cycles, one cycle:
power clean, front squat, push press, back squat and good morning.

rest 90 seconds between rounds, and during the round, no dropping of the weight. a drop costs a penalty of one burpee at the end of the workout.

My results:
1x 95lbs
3x 115lbs
2 penalties (drops)

i didn’t know what weight to use for this workout, so i started out at 95lbs for the first round. it wasn’t easy, but i decided to go up for the second round to 115lbs. this wasn’t easy. and while my forearms were burninating the neighborhood, i finished with only two penalties.

i finished up with 3×5 in bench and felt the bad kind of pain in my hammy on my second set of 3×5 in the squat, so i stopped. twas not a pop, but definitely NOT a good hurt. hoping tomorrow feels better.

Now this morning, i was feeling the workout from Monday. Lats and arms: SORE… but that just tells me I’m alive or that’s what i keep telling myself. i do not like pull-ups. for one, i’m fat and out of shape and it takes a lot of work pulling myself all up ons that bar! to some extent, i feel like John Pinette “I don’t do ups”:

but not completely have i reached the John Pinette level of fitness

Lo and behold… the WoD we did today, had more pull-ups and this time they were weighted pull-ups.

Another time-limited workout – 20 minutes. one round consisting of:
1 rep deadlift 80% 5rm
1 weighted pull-up 25lbs
3 reps deadlift 80% 5rm
3 weighted pull-ups 25lbs
5 reps deadlift 80% 5rm
5 weighted pull-ups 25lbs

since i’m just starting up again, i had no clue where my 5 rep max was for deadlift… so i approximated. i set my deadlift bar at 335 for this workout, which felt pretty solid.

My results:

4 full rounds, 1-3-5 reps on dl and 1-3 pull-ups.

and again the pull-ups killed me. i will NOT be doing pull-ups tomorrow AM.

after that, i did the BFS 3×3 power clean workout. which felt pretty good, until i formed a blister on my hand and immediately ripped it open. time away from the weightroom is not good for the hands.

Now, time to bust out my 6 push-ups for the 100 PushUp Challenge and get ready for tomorrow’s workout – i think i’ll do some agility ladder (found some new things to try out, thanks to the google).

Today’s workout on CFFB wasn’t possible because it had ball slams with 40lb medicine ball… which we don’t have at Park… so i looked back and gave the boys i workout with an option… “Cindy”, “Mary” or “Angie” (the CrossFit realm will give girl names to some of their common workouts and also honors fallen soldiers with some very intense and difficult workouts – i still remember doing the ‘Tillman’ WoD last spring). They chose Cindy, which, i’m not sure i’m happy about, but it happened nonetheless.

Cindy

Cindy is a time-limit workout – 20 minutes. and in that 20 minutes you do as many rounds as possible of the given regimen:
5 Pull-ups – 10 Push-ups – 15 Squats
so you do 5 pull-ups, then 10 push-ups and 15 squats (bodyweight), that’s one round. do as many as you can in 20 minutes.

My result: 10 rounds

Not terrible, considering i haven’t done any real working out in a couple months – but i’m sure not used to finishing last in these workouts.

I then got a quick lift in did 3×3 in towel bench and front squat. it felt good to get back into the weightroom, but i’m going to be feeling it in a couple days that’s for sure!

on sunday, i’ll be leaving for orlando, fl for a week long conference for work. it should be interesting, first time i’ve gone to one of these things. i’m expecting to learn a lot about iMIS (that’s our membership program at PF). and it will be integral to my position, which could possibly be changing at PF in the not-so-distant future… dun, dun, dunnnnnnn

and you can watch the geeks at mozilla scramble to get their site up so people can download the browser that is “all that is man” at www.mogulus.com/air_mozilla

i am such a geek

I’ve been using the beta and RC1-3s of FireFox 3 (FF3), but a lot of the very useful add-ons that i use haven’t been upgraded for FF3 yet, so i’m very excited for this release, so that the developers can update the add-ons for FF3, especially the theme designers (i miss Noia, it feels so weird with another theme, when it’s my computer).

for those completely lost, firefox is a web browser. a far superior web browser than IE. it’s faster, standards compliant, safer, open source and has the backing of millions if not billions of geeks around the world. the add-ons are extremely useful (especially for a computer geek like myself) and greatly reduces the time it takes to find issues in a website (for the early stages in design and for tweakings towards the end). if there weren’t a handful of stupid websites that actually require IE, i’d completely ditch it. however, i am not so lucky. sign up for the download and prepare to surf like you’ve never surfed before…