Today was another one of those fun benchmark workouts — “Tabata Something Else”

8 Tabata Intervals (20 seconds of work; 10 seconds of rest) each of:

Pullups
Pushups
Situps
Squats

I got a tear on my right-hand ring finger pad on my very last pull-up. I think I lost count on the pull-ups too. Kipping really helped me. I never anchored my feet before on the situps, so that probably accounted for part of my increase there.

my reps were

pull-ups: 41 (+21(!) from last time)
push-ups: 43 (+6)
sit-ups: 81 (+19)
squats: 91 (+2)
overall total: 256

Congrats to my co-worker, Christian, who came for today’s free day.

We did back squats again today.  I thought the three reps with a weight of 111# last week was somewhat easy, so I did my first round at that weight.  My 5th rep was a little unstable, so I moved down to 99#.  I felt a lot more stable on my last sets once I got myself to stop unconsciously leaning forward.  I felt good at the end.

The WOD was a little bit of torture.

50-40-30-20-10 reps of:

Push Balls (like a wall ball, but you just push press the ball up)
Situps

I challenged myself on this one and did the first 50 reps with a 14# ball, and the rest with 10#.  There’s not much to say about it.  Maybe could have tried to do the first 25 of the second round with the 14# ball, so as to done half with the heavier ball instead of a third, but I’m not upset about it.

Time: 10:20

Today’s workout was long, but didn’t leave my body blasted like yesterday’s did.

3 Rounds:

800M Run
50 Situps
50 Good Mornings

Last time I did 3×800, my average split was 3:26 and I tried to keep my pace as close as I could to that time today.  The good mornings were a new movement for me.

Splits:

• 3:21 run / 3:27 sit-ups & good mornings
• 3:35 / 3:17
• 3:27 / 3:06

Total: 20:12

My average 800 time was slower by 1 2/3 sec compared to last time, which surprised me.  I thought I would be slightly faster.  I kept each round much closer to my average though.  I felt unsure about the movement on the first round of good mornings, which slowed me down.  I didn’t know if I was keeping my lumbar curve as I bent over, and also didn’t know if I was bending over deeply enough.  Landon assured me that my form was good and I sped up on the second and third rounds.

It was a longer workout than many, but I felt good afterward.  Most 20+ minute workouts have been killers.  This one was long, but pretty easy.  We’ll see how tomorrow goes.

A lot of reps of some standard exercises today.

WOD for Time:

1 Minute Handstand Hold
40 Pullups
40 Burpees
40 Situps
40 Air Squats

We did some front squats as part of the warm up (3x15reps). My PR 3rep FS was 75# a year and a half ago, but I also didn’t know what I was doing. I went with 67# today and got a good workout. My wrists need some stretching work so I’ll be adding the Reverse Namaste stretch to my warm up. I found another good tip online to think about pushing your elbows into the wall in front of you when doing front squats. This will create a bigger shelf for the bar and will give an extra half-inch or so for your hands.

On to the WOD. I think I can do a hand-stand, but holding it for 1 minute is definitely out. The substitution was a plank hold and even that was making my arms shake by the end of the minute. I was able to do 7 dead-hang pull ups, and the rest were jumping pull ups. The burpees were slow, but as Rx. Situps on an ab-mat.

Final time- 12:48

I haven’t worked out in a few weeks, so that has to change. A while back I had the idea of doing a quick round or two of barbara-lite (10 pull-ups, 20 push-ups, 30 sit-ups, and 40 squats) in the morning every morning. I did this today and want to keep doing it every morning.

Today was a lazy day at home, but at 9:00 I noticed that today’s workout didn’t require any weights, and I’d even done it before.

“Tabata Something Else”

Complete 32 intervals of 20 seconds of work followed by ten seconds of rest where the first 8 intervals are pull-ups, the second 8 are push-ups, the third 8 intervals are sit-ups, and finally, the last 8 intervals are squats. There is no rest between exercises.

Post total reps from all 32 intervals

my reps were

pull-ups: 3/3/3/3/3/3/1/1 total 20 (+3 from last time)
push-ups: 6/6/6/6/6/4/2/1 total 37 (-3)
sit-ups: 8/9/9/8/9/7/6/6 total 62 (-2)
squats: 11/11/11/11/11/11/11/12 total 89 (+6)
overall total: 208

Four weeks ago, I said that I hoped that this workout came up again soon. I guess I got my wish.

Most of the workouts on crossfit have female names, but there are a small number of men’s workout and they are tough.

“Michael”

Three rounds for time of:
Run 800 meters
50 Back Extensions
50 Sit-ups

I didn’t think I could even do 50 back extensions, much less a total of 150, so I scaled it down to 35 back extensions and sit-ups. I skipped the back extensions on the last round too. Total time: 32:31 or so.

Another successful crossfit workout.

Complete 32 intervals of 20 seconds of work followed by ten seconds of rest where the first 8 intervals are pull-ups, the second 8 are push-ups, the third 8 intervals are sit-ups, and finally, the last 8 intervals are squats. There is no rest between exercises.

Post total reps from all 32 intervals to comments.

My reps were

pull-ups: 5/5/2/1/1/1/1/1 total 17
push-ups: 7/7/7/7/5/2/3/2 total 40
sit-ups: 11/12/12/7/5/5/6/6 total 64
squats: 5/15/10/10/10/10/10/13 total 83
overall total: 204

Someone posted an mp3 mix with beeps at the 20 and 10 second intervals, and another sound that signals to switch to the next exercise. It helped me a lot to not have to always be looking at my watch. I hope when this workout comes up again that I’ll do a bit better at it.

It’s been a while since I worked out, with the holiday travel and all, but Hillary and I got into a nearby gym this morning. The Rxed workout for today was a 5k run. Running is one of the only crossfit workouts I can do as prescribed. Yesterday’s workout was a straightforward one named Barbara – 5 * (20 pull-ups, 30 push-ups, 40 sit-ups, 50 squats). I planned to do Barbara-lite by subtracting 10 reps from every exercise. I ran the 5k in 29:30 ish, and got through one set of Barbara in 6 minutes before giving up.