1/17/12

This is going to be short and sweet today. After such a disappointing performance yesterday, I told Tiffany that I was going to put a time that is near impossible for anyone to beat.

Strength:
5x3 Thrusters
After watching videos of Jason Khalipa absolutely destroy thrusters today, I wanted to see where I stood on these. I worked up to a set of 215 for 3. I should have done 225, but I was too lazy to go grab another 45 to put on the bar. I was watching some of the CrossFit games competitors do these and get up to around 275 for one rep. I feel like I would be somewhere around 255 or 265, but strength has never been my problem anyway.

WOD:
10 rounds
15 deadlift 135#
15 pushups

I knew this was going to be a WOD I could fly through. My deadlift is somewhere around 500# so 135 was very light for me. Pushups are another exercise that does not tire me because of all the benching I am accustomed to. I was able to go nonstop with no resting between sets or reps through 4 rounds. I then made it through the whole workout without having to break up any sets, meaning that once I started the exercise I did all 15 reps. I did rest between moving from one exercise to another, but not for very long. Unfortunately this workout became a cardio issue for me, but that has been my weakness since I started CrossFit. I finished the workout in 9:53 which was by far the bast time of the day.  The next closest was about 3 minutes behind. I was very happy with my performance, but still know I have a lot of things that I need to improve on.

On a side note, Tiffany absolutely crushed it today. She did the whole WOD Rx'ed. She did 95 pounds on the deadlift, which is very close to her body weight. She was able to finish the whole thing without lowering the weight or stopping before finishing the whole WOD. Her time was somewhere in the 20's, but she did far more than my pound for pound. It was great to see her do a workout exactly as ordered, even if she did struggle through it for 20 mins. It was very impressive to say the least.

Until tomorrow...