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Crossfit: Day 53 - F@#!&?!!!!!

The lowest. Today was my lowest day without a doubt. The f@#!&? LOWEST!!!! I had a WOD that did not feel beneficial one bit today. It just felt frustrating. Do you care to know why? Because today's WOD was... The WOD 18 minute EMOM

7 Pull-ups (every even minute)

20 Double-Unders (every odd minute)

THIS!!! You want to know what happens when the WOD consists of the two basic movements I can't even come close to doing? What happens is 9 minutes of me screwing up the coordination of moving the jump-rope and jumping...getting it tangled around one food...trying my best to do single-unders because there's no chance of double-unders but screwing that up too. In addition to that 9 minutes of frustration, you get to witness 9 MORE minutes of me trying to do pull-ups. Fumbling with resistance bands, burning and shredding my palms trying to keep my weight up on the bar without falling to the floor. Falling to the floor anyway. Chalking my hands but not getting much help from that...and in the end you'd see a callus surface on my right hand and rip wide open all in the same workout. I didn't even know it was there until the end when I looked at my palms expecting to see the normal shred but, instead, finding this fun little piece of skin flapping back and forth in the wind exposing a burning layer beneath.

I was highly frustrated and dropping F-bombs left and right under my breath throughout the WOD. I profanely cursed the jump-rope when it got tangled, I cursed the pull-up bar when I fell from it and I cursed myself for my inability. I also cursed the gloves I decided not to buy last week. I'm buying them. End of story. I've been working on the pull-up motion with Steve and continuing to practice a few on my own when I'm in the gym. I've heard several people mention not using gloves to get a better grip on the pullup bar but, you know what? I'm getting some gloves. I feel that if I had a better grip on that bar and my palms weren't slipping that I'd be a whole hell of a lot closer to achieving my goal of one pull-up before I hit the 90 day mark. I don't care if I'm using bands for assistance or not. I just want to get one pullup where my chin or chest gets level with the bar. Sooooo, there it is. For all this muscle gain and hard work, today felt like the first damned day again. Maybe that's an exaggeration and I need to go back and read the first ten days of this blog and see for myself that today was not as bad as I'm making it out to be. Tomorrow. Please Note: If a very sweet, very caring, very considerate friend offers you a skin glue called "New Skin with pain relief" to seal up the open callus...kindly decline that shit!!! It burns like the fiery pits of hell!!!

...but the hole in my hand is nicely patched up now that I've stopped being such a pu$$y about it.

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Crossfit: Day 49 - Amaze-Wall-Balls

Look...I'm not going to get too long-winded today. I woke up to 37 degree temperatures. I put on sweats and went in to Crossfit Tire Factory. It didn't take long before I got warm. We did 20 minutes of stretching/mobility followed by the warm-up. The warm-up consisted of three rounds of:

250 meter row

Some complex thing I can't remember the name of but it was:

One Airsquat

One Pushup

One Situp

One Superman

One Air jump (bringing knees up while in the air)

10 Box Jumps

I got through two rounds at the same time as everyone else finished their third so Tom had me stop there. That's when the sweatsuit came off. I was burning up. Heat. Flames on the side of my face. We took a second for water and went into the WOD. The WOD 12-minute AMRAP

150 Wall Balls

90 Double-Unders

50 Ring Muscle-ups

So, right there you can see how I wouldn't be finishing this in my wildest dreams. I honestly didn't think I'd get through the Wall-balls. I went with the 10-lb ball to keep the stress off my herniated disc when catching it. It was the perfect amount of weight for an all out effort today. Tom said to modify the double-under jumproping to single-unders if we couldn't do doubles. Who were we kidding? I wasn't making it that far anyway. Right? Wrong! Melody was to my immediate right and once the clock started, I just went as fast as I could trying to keep up with her pace so I could get between 12 and 15 per minute. After minute two, that number decreased but I was still doing 5, 8 and 10 reps at a time. I really pushed myself on this today. On one rep, I took a ball to the front of the face in the mouth. A few more reps and I caught it with the left side of my face. Not my finest coordination with catching the thing but that was it for injury. There was a good deal of pausing here and there to relax my arms. I'd let the ball hit the floor and then move my arms, pick it up and go again. I hit 138 reps around the 9-minute mark. I picked up the ball one last time with the intent to knock out 12 and be done. I got six. Dropped. 4 more. Dropped. Two more and dropped it. The clock was at 10 mins 30 seconds and I went for a jumprope. I quickly got to a space where I could start. Today was great on jumprope. I was getting two consecutive jumps like the last time but then in the last 30 seconds I got two sets of 4 consecutive jumps. When the clock ran out, I'd jumped the rope a total of 16 single-unders. Not bad. I'm glad that's getting better. Melody was the only other person that got through all the wallball reps and even her 90 double-unders. I know my weight on the wallballs was less than the rest of the class and that's the only reason I made it through. Some were using 10 and 20 pound balls for the WOD and that's definitely why they didn't finish and I did. My only excuse is that the weight and speed of that ball coming down can easily aggravate my back/disc so I need to scale down until my strength is way up. So there you have it, folks. That wasn't long-winded at all. Let's talk more tomorrow! IT'S GOING TO BE MY 50TH DAY OF CROSSFIT!!!!