I'm close to my 30th post. I have never updated a workout journal as consistently or as thoughtfully as I have updated this blog. I feel like the record-keeping has had a tremendous impact on my fitness productivty. In fact, I suspect I owe a substantial part of today's workout to this blog. You see, in one of my first posts I asked readers more knowledgable than myself (so most readers) what their view on scaling crossfit workouts was. Specifically, should I scale down workloads to accomodate unbroken sets and more fluid circuits or should I suffer through the rx'd loads and severely break everything? CJ responded that I should do both and change it up quite a bit from circuit to circuit - big surprise from a crossfit trainer. So shit, this means that once in a while I need to stop being such a pansy and push, pull, swing, and throw the rx'd loads. Well, seeing as how I just got new 45 lb bumpers, I figured it was time for some heavy thrusters.
Thrusters at 135 lbs (as rx'd)
* denotes unbroken (didn't put the bar on the ground or screw up on the jump-rope set)
10 Thrusters
50 Double-Unders
8 Thrusters
40 Double-Unders*
6 Thrusters*
30 Double-Unders*
4 Thrusters*
20 Double-Unders
2 Thrusters*
10 Double-Unders*
Time: 15:10
I'm thrilled with the workout and feel like I got some much needed redemption after the last few days. I'm also thrilled that I don't appear to have hurt myself! My time wasn't incredible but this is to be expected since 135 lbs is a &^%$ing heavy thruster for me. The metcon component of this workout wasn't really a factor - It was almost all strength. In fact, I must confess that I kinda jerked the push-press portion of it a lot of the time. That or shoulder-pressed the end. Whatever, I got 'em up and fully extended under control. I'm counting them!
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