Snatch it up

I find it difficult to write right after I get back from CF.  CF ends at 2030.  Then I have to get home and take a shower.  By the time I get done it is almost 2130 and I'm tired and ready to sleep.  I will try to make more of an effort to write each night I work out though.  Last night the WOD from CF was

12 min. AMRAP

OH (Plate) lunge 50 feet
5 snatches

You choose the weight of each.  Again, because of my cast I would not do the workout as Rx'd.  My WOD was

12 min AMRAP

KB lunge 50 feet
5 KB snatch

Total rounds: 8

Today I hit up Gold's for Body Attack.  After the first 6 months I will probably sign up for the unlimited plan at CF.I just can't get enough of it.  Not that I do not enjoy the classes at Gold's.  I just love CF.

Weekend work

Hello all!  Apologies for not writing about my weekend last night.  I would say overall it was a pretty good weekend filled with exercise of course.  On Friday the workout was

Back Squat 3-3-3-3-3 then 12-9-6
My sets were: 165-185-215-230-250

After the main workout, the coach had us put our first weight back on the bar and we did 12-6-9 reps.  The goal for this was to do each set unbroken with a one minute rest between each set.  So perform 12 reps then rest one minute, then 9 reps, rest one minute, then 6 reps.

So on Saturday it was a group WOD.  We split into 5 teams of four.  Each person would start out at one of the four stations.  The stations were
Thruster 35 lb.
Butterfly crunches w/ Ab Mat
SDLHP 45 lb.
10 burpees

This workout was for AMRAP for the thrusters, Butterfly crunches w/ Ab Mat, and SDLHP.  Highest amount of reps wins.  It was a lot of fun!  I also got a friend to come and checkout CF and he liked it so much he signed up!

Tabata

I love tabata workouts.  They are so much fun!  I wish I could do it as Rx'd but the cast will be off before I know it.  So long as I continue to go and give it all that I have it's all good.

Tabata

Ring Dips

SDLHP

Sit-ups

My modified WOD

Tabata

Single arm ring push-ups

SDLHP (65 lbs.)

Sit-ups

The results:

I definitely would have had 9 for sdlhp if I had realized the timer went off on the very last round.  I lost 5 seconds.  Pay attention Jason!  Otherwise it was a great workout with awesome people.  CrossFit Impavidus rocks!

No cast is stopping me!

So I went to the orthopedic today and it was good news.  I do not have a fracture.  Well I guess that is good news.  What I do have is Gamekeeper's thumb.  I now have a short black cast to keep me from moving my thumb that I have the pleasure of wearing for one month.  After this time is up, I will see another specialist who will take the cast off and see if I need to get another cast on or have surgery.  As you can guess, I'm hoping I will be fully healed and ready to go.  Fingers crossed.  With that, today was my first day working out with the cast.  Of course I'm still going to workout!  I hope you didn't think I wasn't going to because if you thought that then you really don't know me.  The Rx'd WOD today was

AMRAP in 12 minutes of -


5 Pull-ups
10 Push-ups
15 Air Squats

For those of you familiar with CF, this is just a short Cindy.  Sadly (and I really do mean sadly), I can't do pull-ups or push-ups for the time being.  So my modified WOD was


AMRAP in 12 minutes of -

5 ring incline press
10 push press (30 lb DB right arm only)
15 squats
Total Rounds: 13 +5 ring incline

I was happy that I did get past 12 but I was pushing for 14.  Hopefully the next time this rolls around I will have my hand back.  The most I have ever done on Cindy is 19.  I have never been able to hit that 20.  Next time.  Anyways the workout went great.  I was sweating and working hard.  Believe me I know there are worse things that can happen then being slightly inconvenienced with a cast for a month but that doesn't mean I'm not counting down the days until this fiberglass is off....

Give me a break

So let me begin from Friday the 21st.

As I said on my last post

"Hopefully I don't pay for it tomorrow."


Well I did.  When I woke up Friday morning my right thigh and knee were killing me.  I was literally limping the whole day.  So with the hurt thumb, open wound, and throbbing leg, I decided I should probably take a day off from the gym.  In addition to that, I decided to call my GP who gave me a referral to get an x-ray on Saturday.  Saturday morning????  That means no CF.  Damnit!!  This was not turning out to be a good weekend.  With my newfound time, I decided to head on over to Harris Teeter, Trader Joe's, and Wegmans for price comparison on organic and natural meat.  To no surprise, Wegmans was cheaper than the others and they had more of a selection.  Looks like I found my winner.  I also picked up some yummy bison too since I was there.  So now I know where I will be shopping for this Paleo-Zone nutrition plan that I will be embarking on.  I thought I had started a week ago however, I failed to do proper research.  While I have modified what I am eating, it is not paleo.  Think of it as weeding out what I will not be eating for paleo.  Now that I have done more research on what foods I can eat, I am about to begin on putting together my meals.

So on Saturday I went and got my x-ray.  I love technology.  Not only is it digital but they gave me a copy on cd!  I looked at the pictures and to me it looked like two little pieces were next to my thumb.  Are they bone?  I have no clue I'm not a doctor.  At that point though I knew I should probably just not use my thumb until I heard back from my GP on Monday.  I ended up taking Saturday and Sunday off.  Three whole days.  What in the world is going on?  Honestly I can't tell you the last time I took three days off.

Today I got a call from the doc and surprise! I have a fracture. I made an appointment with an orthopedic and I will see them tomorrow morning to find out what I have to do to get my thumb healed and move on.  So I knew no big upper body stuff today.  I decided to grab something off the CFE site.

Run: 3x( 200m + 400m+ 600m)
core stuff

On the second round I put the incline up to 1.5.  On the third round I put the incline up to 2.0.  I know it is not much but I wanted to add something to it.  I feel much better now that I have gone to the gym.

I can pretty much kiss dodgeball goodbye for this season and climbing will most likely be on hold.  I'm trying not to get ahead of myself though.  Until I hear what they say tomorrow who knows?

That run did not go so well

As I said on Tuesday I was going to take Wednesday off and I was successful in doing so.  Go me.  Is it sad that I have to force myself to not workout?  I don't think so.  Today I decided that I was going to do the run I did not do last week.  Not sure if that was a good idea or not.  It started off just like any other run I do but a quarter into I got a charley horse in my right thigh.  I tried to just shrug it off but it got so tight that I had to stop.  STOP!  What the hell.  I don't stop during runs.  This time I had no choice.  My leg was not taking any weight without pain.  So I stretched out and walked for a minute or two before getting back to running.  It was still a little tender but bearable.  Then it happened again.  Once again I had to stop and stretch and walk for a minute.  By now I was pretty upset that the run was not going as expected.  I do my best to not stop and for an 8 mile run, there really shouldn't be a reason to do so.  I kept going though.  I was not about to turn around defeated.  I ended up stopping a total of 4 times but I did finish the 8 miles.  My left thigh was getting sore and well as both my soleus on both legs.  I'm guessing that I didn't do enough stretching before running.  To be fair I did kind of just run through the stretching.  I was trying to start so I could get done before it got dark.  Lesson learned.  Don't skimp on the stretching.  Hopefully I don't pay for it tomorrow.  We will see.

On another note, my thumb is still sore.  It will be 3 weeks next Wednesday since I injured it.  I know if I stopped using it it would probably heal faster but that means not lifting.  I'm giving it some thought though.

Front Squats

Not a whole lot to write about today actually.  My thumb is still sore.  Going on two weeks now.  My callus that I ripped off doesn't hurt anymore but I am keeping it clean.  The WOD today was

Front Squat 5 rounds, 5 reps each

155 pound, 155 pound, 175 pound, 195 pound, and 205 pound

I'm going to take the day off from working out tomorrow.  I'm trying to remember to take days off to give my body to recover.  Trying being the keyword!