No days missed this week and I did finally start doing them in the morning again. I always think its better to just get them out of the way.
| Date | Day | Done |
|---|---|---|
| 2012-01-08 | 8 | 8 |
| 2012-01-09 | 9 | 9 |
| 2012-01-10 | 10 | 10 |
| 2012-01-11 | 11 | 11 |
| 2012-01-12 | 12 | 12 |
| 2012-01-13 | 13 | 13 |
| 2012-01-14 | 14 | 14 |
I also managed to get a few other friends to join in! Will need to check in and see how they are doing…
Recap of week #1:
| Date | Day | Done |
|---|---|---|
| 2012-01-01 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012-01-02 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012-01-03 | 3 | 3 |
| 2012-01-04 | 4 | 4 |
| 2012-01-05 | 5 | 5 |
| 2012-01-06 | 6 | – |
| 2012-01-07 | 7 | 13 |
Not bad, only 1 missed day… Go figure, it was a Friday night. I haven’t gotten in the habit of doing my burpees first thing in the morning like I use to do. Hopefully this week I’ll start that up.
So I did actually make it to the gym on Sunday for the team workout, but didn’t make it back in until yesterday after that. Was pretty happy with the clean (full/squat), as in the past my power clean was always more than my squat clean due to my lack of being able to catch in the squat position. So I’m considering this a PR, since I don’t have any log my previous squat clean max. Woot! PR!
Now the AMRAP was a different story… as expected, the sit-ups did me in again.
WOD:
1 rep max clean (full/squat)
5 min AMRAP:
RESULTS:
215# clean
5 rounds + 5 situps
15 burpees
Back to the gym. I realized that another thing I need to work on again is my Oly stuff. Clean & Jerk = Good to go, Squat Clean & Jerk = Not so good. For this part of the work out, on minute 4 I probably did 6 squat cleans but couldn’t recover my grip to do the jerk as I would end with only 1 or two fingertips on the bar. As for the met-con, I started out pretty good with the Toes to Bar, but quickly tired out and by the time hit the burpees I was just done…
WOD:
Squat Clean and Jerk ladder: The first minute perform 1 squat clean and jerk @ 135#’s, the second minute perform two squat clean and jerks @ 135#’s. Continue this process for as long as possible.
Then For Time:
Results:
Squat Clean and Jerk ladder – Completed minute 3
Metcon- 16:10
So its been almost a week since I’ve been back to the gym because of my hurting my arm last week… and no surprise, I pretty much sucked ass, but got a good workout. We started with back squats which went well. Due to the size of the class instead of doing stuff on the minute, we just cycled thru folks sharing a rack (for us it was 3) and then rested 30sec. For the met-con, I opted to go a little lighter just because I know deadlifts agitate my back and I didn’t want to skip another week by tweaking it. Still took me over 5min…
WOD:
Back squat ladder on the minute @ 135#
Then for time, 4 rounds:
Results:
11 @ 135# (3 folks, rest 30sec between sets)
6:27 @ 205#
WOD:
“Lumberjack 20″
20 Deadlifts (275lbs)
Run 400m
20 KB swings (2pood)
Run 400m
20 Overhead Squats (115lbs)
Run 400m
20 Burpees
Run 400m
20 Pullups (Chest to Bar)
Run 400m
20 Box jumps (24”)
Run 400m
20 DB Squat Cleans (45lbs each)
Run 400m
RESULTS:
35:36 @ 225# deadlift, 95# overhead
Open WOD 11.4:
Complete as many rounds and reps as possible in 10 minutes of:
RESULTS:
60 burpees + 7 overhead squats = 67 reps
I had hoped to do better. I figured I wouldn’t make it the muscle-ups, but thought I would get a few more of the overhead. Also the burpees also took longer than I expected having done some many recently. I just dropped the bar at the bottom 4-5 times, which sucked because I then had to get the bar back up overhead which takes a bit of work. I hadn’t done overhead squats in a while until Monday, but I only used 75#. 120# is a lot harder.
I have to say, I do like the way they programed this workout for the Open. When I heard muscle-ups, I thought “wow, that might be a problem for a lot folks” (including me). But by making it at 10 min AMRAP instead of “for time w/ 10 min cap” it allowed everyone that can do a burpee to finish the workout and get a score. I know one of guys from the gym PRed his overhead during the workout which is awesome.
Yep… 132 burpees done after a night of karaoke.
Note to self: Do burpees before staying up to 2 AM playing Magic with a friend.
I did it again… missed yesterday. So tonights evening workout….
130 + 131 = 261 burpees = 25:00 minutes!
And this brings me the commited end of my burpees challenge, from Dec 1st 2010 thru April 10th 2011 for a 131 days of burpee fun making a grand total of 8646.
So the question… keep going??
Note to self: Do burpees before going out with co-workers.
Did not do my burpees yesterday having gone out with co-workers in the evening, so I had a nice little workout to do before lunch today…
128 + 129 = 257 buprees for time = 26:01