Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Whats worse then going to a Big Box Gym once a day?

...going twice a day

So, I have been spending the last week in Columbia because Louis is back for his break/birthday/intended leave of absence from Princeton. The house he grew up in is vacant for the majority of the year because his mother lives in her late boyfriends home. Therefore, I stay there so we can train together. And, no, we are not bromantically involved.

The only annoying part of training in Columbia is the facility we use. Luckily, they have 1.5 pull up bars (one of the bars is attached to the wall so kipping is impossible and it is as thin as a crayola marker), two squat racks, a squash court (that no one uses) we use for jump rope and miscellaneous, and box jumps up to 2.5 ft. With the addition of my rings and other random equipment we own, we can basically complete all of the workouts rx'd. However, there are no bumper plates, chalk is prohibited (although we still use plenty) and 99.9% of the members are bodybuilding knuckleheads who take up way to much space. We deal.

AM: 2008 Crossfit Games Event
5 rounds
5 deadlifts, 275#
10 burpees

4:02

Let me just get my excuses out of the way. It was 7:30am and the gym was packed with fools walking all around our area. I mean when you do single sets of 5 per exercise, you are going to walk around a lot like the nimrod patrons at this big box gym. Pretty distracting. However, I think I went pretty fast (for me), I am sure I could have got sub 4 later in the day but I was happy with this time. I was very tired afterwards! After checking the 2008 games scores, it seems my time was in the top 30.

PM: AMRAP 15
6 push press, 135#
6 weighted supine pull up, 25#
6 broad jump (3 ft) over 1 ft box jump

10 rounds + 2 press

This was a good workout, I was soaked by the end. We were pretty tired and unmotivated when we started. My performance was certainly not 100%. I was able to do nearly all of the sets unbroken for everything. I think I dropped once from the pull ups.

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