jumpdog - 17 April 2009 05:32 PM

1 round + 15 Box Jumps in 7:00 - Pop in right achilles tendon

Turned 45 yesterday, and apparently my body is in rebellion.  First the shoulder and now the achilles; these have both been chronic issues but under relatively good control until this week. It’s going to be hard to work around both of these injuries, I’m going to have to be creative with subbing.  Unfortunately what I need to give up for awhile is basketball.

Make sure you warm-up well, stretch, cooldown and stretch some more.
Listen to Kelly Starrets’s interview on CF Radio if you can. It’s a free download, if rather large.
http://journal.crossfit.com/2009/04/crossfit-radio-weekend-edition-5-090412.tpl

Some of the stretches Kelly has put totgether are linked here:
http://www.crossfitbrandx.com/index.php/forums/viewreply/86173/

Also watch Kelly’s videos from the CF Journal. Excellent stuff.
http://journal.crossfit.com/exphysiology/

jumpdog - 17 April 2009 05:32 PM

BathMatt,

I stand corrected and humbled by your excellent expanation of the effects of gravitational force between two objects.  As soon as I posted yesterday I started to think about my answer and realized that while the force of gravity is a constant, it didn’t make much sense that distance wouldn’t be a factor, otherwise why would you be weightless in space.

Ahh, that may be a different case.

The earth’s gravity extends well beyond the orbit of the moon, it’s why the moon is in orbit after all. What you’re talking about when you say weightless is actually freefall. Astronauts appear to be weightless because they’re hurtling toward the earth under the influence of gravity, it’s just that because of their tremendous horizontal speed they keep missing it.
The net effect is that they appear to be weightless, but actually gravity is pulling them nearly as hard as it always does,

There are some quite good Wikipedia articles about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-G
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microgravity

500m Row
CFWU

WOD:
Complete as many rounds in 20 minutes as you can of:
18 inch Box Jump, 30 reps
95 pound Push Press, 20 reps
30 Jumping Pull-ups

Got to 3 complete rounds at 16:28 and had to lie down.

moved my post to correct day

WOD #17

“Danny”

Puppies:
Complete as many rounds in 12 minutes as you can of:
20 inch Box Jump, 20 reps
45 pound Push Press, 15 reps
20 Pull-downs 100#

3 1/3 rounds, had to break up the sets of presses and pulls into 2-3 smaller subsets after the 1st round

500 m row, 21 burpees, 400 m run
for 3 rounds
subbed 400m run for rows.
23:45

“Danny”

Complete as many rounds in 20 minutes as you can of:
24 inch Box Jump, 30 reps
115 pound Push Press, 20 reps
30 Pull-ups

I did:
18” Box Jump, 20 reps
85# Push Press, 15 reps
20 Pull-ups

Three full rounds
plus 20 Box jumps and 5 push press

Metric - 18 April 2009 01:28 PM

jumpdog - 17 April 2009 05:32 PM

BathMatt,

I stand corrected and humbled by your excellent expanation of the effects of gravitational force between two objects.  As soon as I posted yesterday I started to think about my answer and realized that while the force of gravity is a constant, it didn’t make much sense that distance wouldn’t be a factor, otherwise why would you be weightless in space.

Ahh, that may be a different case.

The earth’s gravity extends well beyond the orbit of the moon, it’s why the moon is in orbit after all. What you’re talking about when you say weightless is actually freefall. Astronauts appear to be weightless because they’re hurtling toward the earth under the influence of gravity, it’s just that because of their tremendous horizontal speed they keep missing it.
The net effect is that they appear to be weightless, but actually gravity is pulling them nearly as hard as it always does,

There are some quite good Wikipedia articles about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-G
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microgravity

Yeah,
That’s cool stuff.  I believe that they are building (have built?) a micro-G research facility in a mine in the northern part of my province.  Super crazy experiments are run in the seconds that it takes for the apparatus to free-fall down the mine shaft.  I think the main goal for this one was research new forms of materials (stuff like growing nutty micro-G crystals like the wiki article mentions).

But I could be wrong about that.  It was years ago that I heard about it and haven’t kept up on it.