Upgrading from Mildly Insane to Full Out Psycho

Alright, I'm now learning what happens when you start attending crossfit classes 5 days in a row. After yesterday's workout, I wasn't really sure what to expect, but it sure as hell wasn't Fight Gone Bad. This was a tough one for me mentally. Here's my score:

Wall ball 26, 11, 8, 7, 10
High pull 20, 18, 10, 10, 8
Box Jump 18, 15, 23, 11, 14
Push press 10, 12, 8, 10, 10
500 m 8, 10, 10, 9, 15

5 round total: 311, 3 round total: 207. Can't say I'm too happy with this one, but that's how I fared. I don't want to start making excuses, but my shoulders were shot from the 100 hand stands yesterday, making the push press really tough. However, I noticed that 75#s felt really, really light. I just didn't have any shoulder strength today. More importantly though, I think I was defeated before I began. I was just feeling groggy/tired/just not with it. I wouldn't say I had a negative mindset, but it wasn't positive, just tired. There was only one point were I felt mentally "there" and it was the last half of the last round of box jumps. I think since this was five rounds I just wasn't pushing it in an effort to pace myself.

My whole upper body is sore, as well as my quads from all those burbees yesterday. Oh yeah that's another thing. Yesterday Jerry helped me out with my burpees. He showed me how to correctly go from the plank to what I'll call "frog stance". I was originally going to something like a pike when I jumped my feet up from the plank, bending at the hip and folding myself in half. In this stance I only use my back to extend up to the jump. Now I keep my hips low when I jump, enabling me to use my legs to power up for the jump. I get more hops now, but it works the quads a lot more. Thanks for the tips Jerry, I really am trying to dial in on technique for every exercise we do, from burpees to overhead snatch.

Alright, time for bed; gotta get ready for tomorrow's workout.

FGB round 2

Today was a rough day. Of course, Fight Gone Bad isn't meant to be cake. My legs are really, really sore from Friday's workout, they were sore yesterday and they're sore today. Just jogging into the blue room today made my glutes feel like they're on fire with each step.

I had the fortune of having Charlie as a partner today. Today was the first time I've had a chance to talk to him, and it was because of him that I performed as well as I did. The wall balls and KB high pulls were def the most draining for me. Charlie asked me if I rowed in college because "my stroke was so smooth", always feels nice to hear compliments like that. I don't know why, but everything just seemed to suck. There were a couple of times when I felt just completely worn out, but I knew I couldn't stop, that I had to go "one more round" like Jerry talked about.

All in all, I scored 228, 17 points higher than I did three weeks ago. I didn't have a strategy last time. This time I didn't have a strategy, but Charlie had one for me. He would keep telling me to get X number, and I would take a couple seconds for a break every now and then after banging out a certain number of Y.

Looking back at my previous score, I wonder why it's only 17 points. I remember with the row getting something like 21, 15, and 15 and that right there is 15 more points than last time. I know I didn't get as many KBHS, but I felt like my wall-balls were about the same. Guess I better not forget to keep the sheet next time.

My ultimate goal of breaking 300 seems far off, but I figure if I can keep improving roughly 6 points a week then I should be able to get to 300 in roughly 12 weeks. ...I really don't konw if that's a realistic goal, but I'll make it my goal regardless.

FGB

Just when I was thinking I didn't push myself of Friday, I woke up today with sore lats, and a sore right calf and hip muscles. I think I was only sore on my left side because my hip is now in proper alignment.

So today's WOD was fight gone bad. First time I've done it, so here's my score:

Round 1 2 3
Wall Ball 13 12 13
KB High Pull 26 14 2
Box Jump 17 20 13
Push Press 15 15 15
Row 14 11 11
Subtotal: 85 72 54
Total: 211

Because of the enormous class size today (28) we all started at different stations. I started on KB swings, and those 26 reps the first round took out all the leg strength I had. My partner, Lef, made a somewhat similar mistake with starting on the row. He started off with 35 calories on the row, and just couldn't catch his breath after that.

Today really was an awesome day, there were so many people in attendance. Sunday is the one day where the 5om class can meet up with the morning classes.