re: Daily CrossFit Thread: Workouts and other musings..

I got da 'rona. Found out today.


Guess it's gonna be a bit before I'm back in the gym.

So far it's just been a bad cold, with some fatigue. Hope it stays that way. Symptoms started Wednesday.

Figured I'd start paying attention here to get some tips and advice over time. Just started Crossfit 2 1/2 weeks ago. a few years back I was into triathlon and was pretty fit from an endurance perspective. Several half ironmans and finished up with a full ironman. Took some time off that turned into 2 years of no real active lifestyle. That and a bit of a covid related alcoholism led to me being 210 lbs when I was at about 175 lbs before.

So far I have my good days and bad. Going 5 days a week right now. Proud of certain workouts, completely dejected in others. Yesterdays workout was a huge hit to my pride

200m run
8 box jump overs
Pullups (as many as you can get)

Restart every 1:30 seconds for 9 minutes.

I never made it to pull ups, clock restarted every time. For a person who used to be able to consider a 10 mile run and "easy" run if prescribed to be such, this was very eye opening to how unfit I am. And coming from having no real strength training in many years, this is fun so far

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This is Crossfit.

Welcome to the pain.

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Today was a day of dejection, crashing back to reality.

It's my first week back after covid, and I had bronchitis just before that so my cardio, whole already not great, took a dive. All week I felt fine during cardio portion of WODs but today's kicked my arse, my asthma kicked in hard during box jumps and that was it.

Yesterday:

Back Squat
40%x3
50%x3
60%x3
70%x3
80%x3
90%x3+

Deadlift
40%x3
50%x3
60%x3
70%x3
80%x3
90%x3+

Finished at 315x3 on Back Squat and 355x3 on Deadlift.

No-show for me today. That makes one wod this week, yikes.

In NOLA this weekend. See ya Monday.

Back Squat
40% x5
50% x5
65% x5
75% x5
85% x3
95% xAMRAP

Strict Press
40% x5
50% x5
65% x5
75% x5
85% x3
95% xAMRAP

Finished at 330x2 on Squat and 185x1 on Strict Press

Tried 190 on press but could not lock it out and backed down 5lbs and hit 185.

Bench Day
40% x5
50% x5
60% x5
75% x5
85% x3
95% xAMRAP

4-5 Round
Max UB strict ring dips
15m KB SA Oh Carry (with another in the FR)
12 KB pull-thru per side while in the plank position

Climbed to 285 for a single on bench

Goal on the dips was to be vertical on the dips with no pike or forward chest lean. I stayed around 8 reps, some were hitting 12+ but those people were not following the proposed standard.

I’ll have to check how many are in at GCF

We used to get 100 people signed up and ran 6-8 heats of 10 people each on Friday night. The move to the new gym location happened right during the open 3 years ago, and the switch to the fall killed the enthusiasm.

CFHQ were idiots messing with it.

ETA: 24 signed up. The gym will have stuff going on Friday night again but a large number won’t be signed up.