May 8 - WOD

21 - Shoulder Presses (65#)
21 - Pull Ups
15 - Shoulder Presses (65#)
15 - Pull Ups
9 - Shoulder Presses (65#)
9 - Pull Ups

Well ... the shoulder presses were supposed to be handstand push-ups but I am still not up to that. Standing shoulder presses with no leg drive at all are a substitute. We tried several things to get me up on the wall - like climbing backwards up, but dang it, I'm just not there yet. *sigh* Can you sense my frustration?

We followed it up with our standard (for this week, anyway) 20 Knees to Elbows.

April 26 - WOD

I know I sound like a broken record, but ....

When we were writing down today's WOD, we both caught ourselves saying "is that it?"

I should have known. I should have known RIGHT THEN that we were in for more than we bargained for.

So ... without further whining ... today's WOD looked like this ...

Five rounds (for time) of the following:
7 - Pull Ups
7 - Dips
400M Run

The pull ups/dips combo we did like this... 1 pull up, 1 dip. This is our "work around" for not yet being able to do muscle ups. My chest is quite sore - we haven't done dips in a while and I could feel it from the very first set.

The run wasn't a lot of fun either, but that got better with each round. It was probably the hottest it's yet been this spring and I felt it. But on the whole, the run felt OK.

I'm not terribly happy with my time (24 minutes and 11 seconds) but I guess not every WOD is going to feature PRs.

We followed this up with 20 knees to elbows. I am really liking the hanging straps we got for this exercise!

I'm kinda glad Wonder Boy's piano lesson got cancelled because I'm wiped out now. Time to find the couch and stay there a while.

April 12 - WOD

Tonight's WOD is pretty straight forward:

Record the time it takes to do the following:
45 - Thrusters (75#, for me)
45 - Pull Ups

Straight forward? YES. Easy? Heck no!

I know, same song, different day, no? I'm nothing if not consistent (in this regard anyway). It was tough; very, very tough!

The thrusters are hard on your whole body, taking you from standing, through a front squat, and all the way back up to an over head press. That's a full body work out right there. Then we added the pull ups. I managed the first 35 or so in groups of 3 to 5 reps. But the last 10 I had to resort to jumping up to the bar and lowering myself under as much control as possible.

I guess I should be happy that I'm now able to put together 3 to 5 reps at a time when just a few months back I was jumping for each rep. But I'll admit I'm a bit disappointed that my body wore out like that.

In the end, my time was 10 minutes and 43 seconds.

And we finished up with 15 knees to elbows. After all of those pull ups and then the knees to elbows, my core got a heck of a workout tonight. Going to be feeling this one for sure tomorrow!

April 4 - WOD

There's no soccer game tonight (for a change), so we thought we'd take the opportunity to try the 13.5 Open WOD.

This one was a bit tricky to understand, but it goes something like this:

Each round is broken into 2 exercises:
15 - Thrusters (65#)
15 - Chest to Bar Pull Ups

The goal is to do as many reps as possible (AMRAP) in 4 minutes. But here comes the tricky part. IF you manage to complete at least 3 sets (90 reps total) in that 4 minutes, then you get an additional 4 minutes to keep going.

If by the end of 8 minutes, you have done 6 sets (180 reps), then you get another 4 minutes, etc.

The is pretty comfortable for me, but I knew the pull ups would be difficult (& they were). I managed 59 reps in the first 4 minutes. So yes, that means I did not get an additional 4 minutes to keep going.

As you can guess, I was gasping for air and falling to the floor at the end of my 4 minutes. FOUR minutes. But it was a kick butt 4 minutes.

Enough said. :+P