My star is rising, people. The amazing, uber-talented Mel Joulwan (whose blog, I might add, is worth checking out for top-notch Paleo recipes, creative workouts, and Mel’s great sense of humor) blogged about me–what a sweetheart! She says you gotta meet me 🙂 Thanks, Mel! Also, this pic of me doing ring dips was on…
Tag: crossfit
And then I knocked my tooth loose
I did the warmup (200 jumprope jumps, 500 M row, 20 back extensions, 20 GHD situps, 20 squats) and the pre-WOD workout (5 x 5 Renegade Rows, 2 rounds at 15# dumbells, 3 at 20# dumbells). I was going to take on the WOD with the rest of the class when I realized the two…
New Power Clean Max + Tabata
Today’s WOD was a Roaring Fork CrossFit mod on .com’s Tabata this, subbing kettlebell swings for the rowing (probably due to # of rowers). Warmup: 15 minutes of free gym! I worked on two weaknesses: double-unders and overhead squats Pre-WOD: Power Clean Max 3-2-2-1-1 115-125-135-145-155FAIL NEW Power Clean PR: 145 (previous was 145 squat clean,…
Already famous
One day at Roaring Fork CrossFit and I’m already famous … http://roaringforkcrossfit.com/2010/02/15/february-15th/ WTF is up with my form?! Camera angle?! Or need more hip extension?!
Snatch Max
Big Mike, who is virtually coaching me while I’m gone, sent me the following combo .com WOD (a combo of Saturday + Sunday’s): 10 min time limit, 1 Rep max Snatch Max: 92 lbs amrap in 8 min 4 HSPU (green bands) 8 KB Swings (20 kg) 12 GHD Situps (regular situps) Score: 5 rounds…
I found my people … with egos
When you’re traveling, hitting a new CrossFit is a special treat: you get to do movements you know but with entirely different warm-ups and cool-downs and atmospheres and progressions and people. It’s awesome. I arrived at Roaring Fork CrossFit (in Basalt, about 25 mins from my home base in Aspen) 10 minutes late–Texans don’t drive…
You can stop hearing about CrossFit now …
Well, that’s probably a lie. But I’ve started an entirely separate blog just about my training for CrossFit, so I’ll at least be mentioning CrossFit LESS on this blog … Check me out: www.xlyssa.com You can now return to your regularly scheduled life in Austin updates.
B.S.
= Back Squats. And my form, for that matter. One of the things I was so thrilled about at the Cert was learning just how low to go to get below parallel (extra long femur, thanks for the extra work). So when a 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 back squat with exactly 60 seconds rest workout came up on…
Training your weaknesses – myth?
I’ve been thinking a lot about training my weaknesses. But then Keith Norris at Theory to Practice, a great blog, posted on the very same topic some very poignant insights: that while you address your weaknesses, don’t train away from your strengths–he sums it up best by saying “work whatchur mama give ya.” Check out…
Group Motivation: Me in the Gym
Today’s .com workout: Most of the comments went something like this: “wow that’s gonna suck” I, on the other hand, was excited. I love the olympic lifts and I need to work on rowing–a perfect combo of loves and not. I did decide before the workout even began that I’d scale to 3 Rounds. Breathing…