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I’ve just watched it and I’d have to say the mainsite video today is rather good. 2009 CrossFit Games Overview by Marty Cej and John Buffone - video [wmv] [mov]
The affiliate blog has some marvellous Martins (and GD ) doing “Jeremy” at CrossFit Santa Barbara recently. I think they were road tripping back from the Games?
I’m guessing that if you print the picture out and turn it over you’ll see BBoJ taking the photo.
No don’t try that, it won’t work, it was a joke!
Filthy Fifty
Pack:
For time:
35 Box jump, 30cm box
35 Jumping pull-ups
35 dumbell swings, 17.5kg
Walking Lunge, 35 steps
9 KTEs, then 26 situps unanchored
35 Push press, 25 kgs
35 Supermans
35 Thrusters 7.5kg dumbells
35 Burpees
35 Standard Jump Rope Jumps
around 25:30 PR about 5 mins less than last FF. Although I think the movements were different.
I recently discovered that the bar I’ve been using was 10kg instead of 5, which ups all of my PRs by a little. Anyway, as expected, I set a new PR over my last (160), and am continuing to see fairly quick gains in strength (can anyone comment: 7.5kg in 3 weeks?). I obviously need them. I hope this makes up for my utter failure yesterday.
My form was pretty ragged on the 130 rep so I decided not to add the 1 kg plates and match my PR.
Nice workout. I didn’t think I could change the weights in time, but the only one I missed was going from 85 to 90 kg (when I swapped the 10 kg plates for the 15s, and took 60 seconds for the transition).
I recently discovered that the bar I’ve been using was 10kg instead of 5, which ups all of my PRs by a little. Anyway, as expected, I set a new PR over my last (160), and am continuing to see fairly quick gains in strength (can anyone comment: 7.5kg in 3 weeks?). I obviously need them. I hope this makes up for my utter failure yesterday.
It can happen. I’ve seen some folks make frankly, from this skinny boy’s perspective, obscene gains . . .
And don’t worry. EVERYONE who’s been doing this for a while has a crash and burn story. A long time ago the main site posted something like “Brandon’s very bad day” (One thing I miss it that while the old vids were unprofessional looking aka Crossfit + Blair Witch, they used to come up with some funny stuff).
Started out heavier (at former PR) today and felt good. But, when I went for 335, I couldn’t extend. Then I couldn’t get 315 again, so I dropped. I think I may need to look at my form and how low I drop my backside before I thrust upward. Also a note, I ran my 5k about 1.5 hours before…
WU: 2 brief rnd of CFWU and DL technique with empty bar.
WOD: DL 1-1-1-1-1-1-1
Me: DL [First time so started low] 60/80/90/100/130/140/150 kg (330#)
Cash Out - 1 headstand and 5 KTE
I have some disc and bone problems in my lower spine, but find the strength gains from weight-training hugely improve my functionality and keep the pain away, so it’s always a calculated risk for me as to how hard to push. I want to keep building strength without doing any further damage.
Due to serious soreness of the kind of “how the hell am I gonna get out of bed today?”, resulting from Sunday’s upper-body strenght training (benching and rowing 10x5) and on top of that the first kettlebell-class in a while,
I went to a spinning-core class the day after to get some blood pumpin’ through my aching inner thighes and butt, to hasten recovery… Not just sore ass… Dumbass!
So tuesday was spent lying down reading, and sitting infront of computer playing Fallout 2.
My plan was to get behing the schedule to better be able to adjust it to my life, so therefore I got up today to break some serious sweat! “Filthy Fifty” or perhaps “Tacky Twenty” since I’m scaling down to Puppy-level, atleast with this WOD.
Still sore beyond reason, I got up, saw that there was now way I could get this workout down in the over-crowded gym I had aimed for, so I steared my way to school, transformed the dance-classroom into a crossfit gym! Took about two hours but now I’ve got
Barbell with weights, Box-jump box, place to perform GHD/Back extension, a rope to perform rope-pullups, a wall ball and three meter wall to shoot against, an “Rope-bell” 16 kg (1 pood) weightplates bound together tightly with rope and a handle, works great.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Now for some workout stats:
“Filthy Fifty” modified puppy scale
Puppies:
For time:
20 Box jump, 50 cm box
20 Jumping pull-ups (rope-chinups, no bar available)
20 Kettlebell swings, 16 kg
Walking Lunge, 20 steps
20 Ab-Mat Sit-ups
30 Push press, 20 kg/44 lbs
20 Back extensions
20 Wall ball shots, 5 kg ball/11 lbs
20 Burpees (broke them up in 5/5/5/5)
20 Standard Jump Rope Jumps (added 30 jumps)
Time: 15.25
Max HR measured:172 bpm
Average HR measured:152 bpm
Cash out: 10 x ring rows, about 50 degrees fokus posture
2x 10kg weightplates Waiters-walk 25 sec
2x10/8 rep lateral shoulderlift 5 kg plates
10x crossover boxing GHDsitup.
) doing “Jeremy” at 
