Front squats

Workout:

Front squat

3 (40 kg)

3 (60 kg)

3 (80 kg)

3 (100 kg)

3 (110 kg)

110kg - 242 lbs

Short post today, my keyboard is partially broken.  Hopefully get new one by Wed

Mike

Workout: 

Michael

3 rounds for time of 

run 800m

50 back extensions

50 situps

Finished in 25:38

Harassed by the trainers at the gym for dropping my barbell.  My new gym sucks!

Off to Ireland today!  Might try to workout at Dublin Crossfit.

DEADlift

Workout -

Deadlift 

1 (100kg)

1 (120kg)

1 (140kg)

1 (160kg)

1 (180kg)

1 (190kg)

1 (200kg) - miss

1 (200kg)

Finished with a 440lb deadlift, which ties my best, so I'm happy that my strength is still good.

Unfortunately I think I overdid it on the first day!  In addition to this, my warmup was...

1300m row

2 rounds of

20 pushups

10 one legged squat (attempts)

10 handstand pushup (attempts)

10 pullups

10 situps

10 back extensions

10 overhead squats

PLUS, I played basketball for an hour at lunch, and 2 hours of softball after work.

I'm freaking exhuasted!  It's listen to my body time.  I'm skipping the morning workout today.  If I feel better, I'll go this evening, but I'm only doing the warm up.  More than likely I'll just skip and go tomorrow.

Back bigger and better

Ok, so it's been a long time since I posted here.  Many things have happened and travels have been had.

Some highlights

• Decided to stay in London, moved to a nicer part of town, and am loving it
• Have visted Switzerland, Amsterdam, Rome, and heading to Ireland this weekend
• Got down to 243, but now back up to around 258 after not working out seriously for about 4 months.  :(

That about sums it up....I'll try to interject a bit more life stuff in future blogs.  For now, the reason for this post.

Inspired by the extraordinary progress my mom has made doing crossfit, we have decided to embark on a challenge.

Over the next six weeks (finishing June 1), we each have 5 goals...whomever reaches the most goals over that timespan will win.  

Jason:

10 handstand pushups
30 pullups - chin above the bar - can't come off the bar
2000 meter row - 7:30
10 one legged squats

Read one month per week of the crossfit journal

Mom:

10 pullups
400 m run - time 1:34
10 ring dips

perfect overhead squats - video taped 

Read one month per week of the crossfit journal

Over that same timespan, I have a co-worker who was talking smack to me about how he could do more pushups and pullups than I can.  I told him to bring it!

As a result, I have a second challenge for June 1

-Pull-ups - most without dropping off the bar.  Standard is chin above
bar
-Pushups - most without stopping (stopping is putting your knees on the
 ground) - standard is chest and thighs touch the ground to full
 extension at the top

This guy was talking a lot of crap, and being a real punk until I actually challenged him, so I'd better be able to back up my talk....I can't wait!

My plan is to do crossfit everyday for the next 6 weeks, with some focused effort on the skills required for the challenge.  I also plan on zoning it as far as eating goes, with as many paleo choice foods as possible.  These goals are challenging, especially because I've never done any of them before, but I think it's possible.

Can't make any promises about posting frequency, but I'd like to spruce up the blog a bit and post more often, so those of you still reading will have something to look at.

Post your thoughts to comments, is this too ambitious?

It's time

Agree with my sister, It's time to stop making excuses.

More new Lows!

Weight: 244.6

Workout:

Saturday Dec 13 -

Nasty girls (modified) -
3 rounds for time of
50 squats
7 muscle ups - subbed 21 pushups instead
135 lb hang power cleans

Finished in 12:40

My gym was getting renovated, so no pullup bars for the pullups/dips which normally sub for muscle ups.

Sunday Dec 14
3 rounds for time of
24 in box jumps - 30 reps
185lb deadlift - 21 reps
30 pushups (subbed again for pullups)

Finished in 18:42

Monday Dec 15
Run 10k
Finished in 53:28

Record time for the 10k by about 5 mins. That didn't make it any better....running a 10k SUCKS!!!

Also, besides a couple of cheats, I've been sticking with the paleo diet pretty consistently. I am hoping to get under the 240 mark by xmas.

New low and New PR!

Weight: 246.6 (New low!!)
Workout: Annie
50-40-30-20-10 of
double unders
sit ups

Finished in 12:42 PR by 1.5 mins!

Pushed myself hard on this one, and was really hoping for sub 10, but my double under technique wasn't the best, and slowed me a lot.

FYI, my warmup included 30 ring dips again. I'm developing some nice bruises on my triceps from where the rope rubs against my arms...battle scars!!!

Looking forward to taking my new cardiovascular ability to the basketball court at lunchtime today.

Food -
9:30 - eggs, mixed fruit
1:30 - ground beef, spinach
4:30 - raisins, nuts
8:00 - shrimp, spinach