Image via WikipediaComplete as many rounds in twenty minutes as you can of: 65 Pound Thruster, 10 reps 10 Pull-ups CFWUx3 / no pullups / situps 60 / 60 / 64 As rx’d: 10 rounds + 10 thrusters Also of note: scaled the thruster weight up to 85 pounds. This one was a gasser… there [...]

A big white truck with a lift gate just came down my driveway and dropped off 1,060 pounds of bumper plates. It’s like a winter solstice party in late April here at the Malz Compound. Russ and I went a little crazy and ordered up bumper plates, a squat rack, a glute-ham bench, various bars, [...]

Run 5K I should have known this would come up today, what with yesterday being a heavy thruster day, and Sunday having been a day off, in which I opted to run a 5k. Well, the WOD is the WOD, and so off I went. Due to some personal / family constraints on time, I [...]

Image via WikipediaThruster 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 reps CFWUx3; situps: 60 / 60 / 63 Thrusters as rx’d: 135 / 185 / 205 / 225 / 245 / 265 (F) / 270 (PR) I went up after the fail because the fail was all in the momentum off the bottom, and I really should have had it – [...]

Image via WikipediaOfficially, it was a rest day. Being as it is that I’ve got more ambition than sense, I decided to run a 5k. In an actual road race. A bit of preface information: The last time I ran in a road race was the Manchester Turkey Trot all the way back in 1994. [...]

Five rounds for time of: 95 pound Hang Power Snatch, 15 reps Run 400 meters CFWU x 3; situps 60, 60, 62 Scaled the weight for the Hang Power Snatch up to 115 pounds. I thought it only fair, given scaling for strength or bodyweight and / or for the amount in the CrossFit Total. [...]

Deadlift 3-3-3-3-3 reps. Deadlift 3-3-3-3-3 reps. CFWUx3 / 60-60-61 situps Deadlift 3-3-3-3-3 as rx’d: 225 / 315 / 365 / 405 (PR for 3) / 425 x 1 (Grip failed, PR for 1 rep) Cardio, stretch. – Of interest here is the fact that the last time I did 1RM on Deadlift (which was during [...]

“Angie” For time: 100 Pull-ups 100 Push-ups 100 Sit-ups 100 Squats CFWUx3, skipped situps and pullups. Angie as rx’d: 18:29 (PR). Last time: 20:25 The run yesterday definitely took something out of my legs, the squats were painful and I had to break twice due to muscle soreness. Stretch.

Image via WikipediaRest Day Yeah, did that. Then I got antsy and it’s sunny and 80 freakin degrees here in scenic Connecticut, so I said when the hell and went for a 2 mile run in my preparation for the somewhat dreaded and somewhat looking forward to 5k on Sunday. I just measured it on [...]

Weighted pull-ups 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 reps CFWUx3, skipped pullups, situps 70 / 60 / 50 Weighted pullups as rx’d: 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 60 / 70 (PR) / 75 (F) I was using a 50 pound weight vest from weightvest.com for the efforts up to 50 lbs, and was holding the dumbbell between [...]