Weekend!

Still chillin with one of my BFF's Big Lou Dogg Sarry...rrrrrruff rrrrruff

Saturday

At the top of each minute complete 3 power snatches, 95#, until you finish:
50 burpees
50 knees to elbows
100 double unders

12:54 (13 rounds, 39 snatches)

I am a fan of this workout. I would have liked it to be a little heavier but that is my only criticism. Unfortunately, we had to do this workout at Supremely Novice Sports Club: Home of the Sleeveless. Lou and I really felt out of place because our shirts were soaked with something known by athletes as "perspiration,", they each had 2 sleeves, 2 more then every other gym member and we weren't isolating a specific muscle. This really baffled the fools with their weight belts. Luckily, their breaks in between sets were long enough to watch us perform the whole workout without getting out of rhythm.

Unrelated to dealing with the amateur lifters was dealing with the amateur equipment. This entire gym does not have a single straight pull up bar! They DO have 2 lat pull down machines, a shrug machine and a plethora of cables for triceps extensions and other vital isometric trainers. The only pull up bars they do have are two angled bars (on different floors of the gym), with anti-chalk rubber around them, connected to the cable cross machine. Finding a time when someone is not using the cable cross is rare. Regardless, Lou and I managed the K2E's by sharing the angled bar, at the same time (each of us had a cockeyed grip on one side). Thank god we had our own mirrors to stare at ourselves during the workout or I might not have been able to keep going.

Sunday

AM: Interval Rowing
1 minute on, 1 minute off for ten rounds. Every 5m under 3000m at the end of the workout, complete 1 burpee pull up.

Total meters rowed: 3116
Total burpee pull ups: 0

I was a little worried that I would have like 150 burpee pull ups following this routine. When we got to round five (and decided against stopping), I saw that I had completed 1580m or something like that, I knew I was going to complete the WOD as rx'd with no penalties.

On a side note, to add to my disgust with society, especially novice training methods, and those who partake in them. When we went to row it was Louis, Krysta and I. There are 3 rowers, so we occupied them all. While we are sitting there (probably 5 minutes), deciding on how to go about the WOD, an old fat man comes up and says "are you all actually going to workout or are you just going to sit there!" we told him we were about to start and he was pissed. He goes and tells an employee who comes over and talks to us. We tell him we are starting and he leaves. During the final minute of our workout, while I am rowing, the cranky old man sits down next to me and gets in my face saying something along the lines of "you know, there used to be a rule of 20 minutes per machine blah blah blah" out of breath and while I am rowing I respond "this is a twenty minute workout, we are almost done!" Lou chimes in with some appropriate backup. I finish and tell the old man that I will be sure to be rude when he starts his workout. He barks back and this goes on while I gather my stuff. Some other old man feels its necessary to give his two sense, saying to me "if your going to act like this, don't come back! Theres a twenty minute limit!" Although, I realize its his gym (sarcasm), I tell him that our workout WAS 20 minutes. He replies "oh." So, we speak to the employee who came over earlier and he apologizes for how the grumpy old men acted and everything is cool. If there is one thing I love in my life, its the interaction with untrained fools at globo gyms.

PM: Turkish Get-Ups
2x1 20#
1x1 30#
1x1 35#
1x1 40#
1x1 45#
1x1 50#
1x1 55#
1x1 60#
1x1 65#
1x1 70#
1x1 75#

This was my first time doing get-ups in a workout. It was just as much a learning experience as it was a workout. I would have to say that my 75# attempt was better then my 40# attempt. When you are novice at something, your improvement rises drastically at first!

To add to the annoyance of 2010 regarding globo gym members. Some guy (with a pot belly of course) thought it was necessary to come up to us and tell us how we are going to hurt our back and body from twisting like that. I am really glad these people feel qualified to stick their nose into something that they have no idea, experience, qualifications or business talking about. He then continued his sets on the hack squat machine, one of, if not, the best way to work your legs.

Double stuffed props out to Big Lou who successfully completed the same reps and weight as I. The man has a lion heart and it shows in every WOD!