Blog Hiatus

Visit the CFOT Mobility Lounge for insightful and witty pre-wod strategies.

Otherwise, I am hoping to focus more time and effort preparing for and doing the wods, and less time reminiscing and typing about them after the fact.

Really, how much do you want to hear from me anyway?

MarkD

Intervals

First of all, I am injured. I have a major strain of my TFL. If I turn my leg a certain way and put weight on it, I almost collapse. Feels like an electric shock running from my knee to my hip. So I have a lot of icing in my future. For a moment I thought I did something really bad, like a knee injury. And while a muscle strain is a pain to deal with, it is much better than a structural injury.

So the interval wod of d/u, hspu and ghd presented some problems. I focused on the hspu and was able to get 1 minute rounds of 30, 27, 27 and 22 = 106.

That was fun. Looking forward to another run at this when I am full strength.

Barbells for Boobs

A long chipper of 12 exercises. 30 minute time cap. Towards the end, my knee and hip failed and I could hardly even put weight on it. Not sure what it is.

cleans, etc

Clean x5 touch and go. I was able to get 155 fairly easily. 175 slipped from my grip after 3. Then again after 4. Hello grip, where were you today?

deadlift and burpee tabata. Not so hot for me. Scaled to 245 and by the end only could get 2 per round. A burst of 9 burpees at the end to salvage my pride, but not my score.

200m run and thruster intervals

If its Monday, it must be heavy lifting at CFOT. Today, work for 2 minutes, rest for 2.

Run 200m and for remainder, perform max thrusters.

Round - Weight - Reps - thoughts

1     155     5  Very heavy - did 2,2,1
2     135     7  Felt ok - did 4. But then was very winded and could only do another set of 3.
3     115    11 6 then 5
4       95    16  8, 5 and 3
5       75    21  all 21 baby. Slow and steady. Never dropped the bar.

The Mobility Lounge

Late one night, over a few bourbons - I thought up the CFOT Mobility Lounge. Initially, this little space is set up as a FB group here: The CFOT Mobility Lounge

I will try my best to load it up with relevant and timely mobility advice and videos to assist CFOT members as we attack our daily WODs. It is something I have been doing for myself anyway. And short of me doing better at CFOT, I like nothing better than to see everyone else doing better too.

Being 42+ with several recent surgeries means that by all rights I should not be any good at Crossfit. Working on my mobility is the only thing between me showing up ready to work, and me looking like this guy.

Happy stretching.