Monday, April 1, 2013

Playing Catch Up: 03/23/13

Week 3 in the crossfit games and they unveiled a workout from last year that I was real excited about.

12 min AMRAP: 150 20lb wall balls, 90 double unders, 30 muscle ups, repeat

I crushed the wall balls.  20 at a time with a 10 second rest between. Took me 6 minutes.  I slopped my way through the double unders. 30, 20, 15, 15... Then the muscle ups.  I went to the crossfit gym the day before to try to perfect my muscle up technique.  Not only did I fail to perfect it, I only got one. 30 minutes, 15-20 attempts, completely fresh, not a one. So what the F am I looking at after 150 wall balls and 90 double unders?  I had plenty of time when I finished the double unders. Nearly 4 minutes to do muscle ups.  A couple times when I've tried to do muscle ups, my elbow has gotten loose and darted out in a crazy angle leading me to think it was dislocated.  Now I am attempting them after a pretty brutal workout.  But, whatever, crossfit power! I grapped those stupid rings and pulled myself upward and, voilah, a muscle up.  I got 4 more before I started failing.  If only my form was better.  I could have been something.  I thought it was a pretty easy workout till my quads started seizing from all the wall balls a couple of hours later.