Three games of basketball. I ran my ass off. I figure cause I can't make a shot if I am not directly under the basket (95% true as in I am literally shooting 5% from outside the paint) I need to run my guy around people until I can get open within 5 feet of the basket. The dude who was guarding me told me to go run on a treadmill. Some skinny kid at like 5'11 got a rebound from me. I absolutely destroyed him on a pick the next time down the floor. A couple times when people are really moving and smaller than me and they don't see me set the screen I warn them and kind of try to catch them before I crush them. I didn't warn this guy. Definitely sour grapes on my part.
I had a lot of work to do so I got to the gym late and stuck to basketball. I haven't lifted for about 10 days, which is a bummer.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
field workout: 04/10/11
Sorry for the hiatus...who am I speaking to? I guess I am apologizing to myself. I played disc golf at fools and was just lumbering like an exposed brontosaurus through hordes of velociraptor/poison ivy. We even mentioned it at the time, but it just seemed too early for poison ivy. Sure enough on Sunday night I start to get the tingle. Its a slow burn for me. I took Monday off cause I had tons of school work to make up. In between my fingers was getting red and angry. Tuesday it felt worse than it looked so I took that day off too. Wednesday morning and I couldn't even approach a fist with my right hand because there was poison ivy bubbles in between half my fingers. I get miserable when I have poison ivy. Miserable and completely crazy. I took everything to the dry cleaners. I threw shoe laces away. I actually haven't touched the shoes or cleats I wore to fools they are on the floor next to the door. Alexis is supposed to do something with them, but I think she forgot. It spread, not in bubble form thankfully to my thighs, neck, bicep and even creeped up onto my face. It was a lot less worse than it sounded or at least with my history of poison ivy it was a very minimal case, but I swear it gets worse and hurts more with exertion so I took it easy.
On Monday I did not have to go to Rutgers so without the gym at my disposal I tried to get up for a field workout. I got to prospect park and there were 1000 asians tossing frisbees. Weird anywhere else, but this is just Stuyvesant HS. So I threw with a 17 year old for a good 10 minutes and then rattled off something like this:
cones @ 10 yds, 20, 30
suicide
rest
0,30,0,30,0,30,0,30,0
rest
suicide
0,30,0,30,0,30,0,30,0
rest
suicide
My hips weren't opening up on the sprints so it wasn't a great workout. Good limbering up though.
the "0,30,0,30,0,30,0,30,0" got me thinking about how to make team workouts fun in the spring. One of the reasons crossfit is marketable and appealing is because in many cases it is measurable, not only can you see personal increases, but you can match yourself up directly with another person. My idea is that for the team ultimate workouts that I make up in the spring, I am going to dabble with some crossfit measuring ideas for ultimate workouts so that everything is reportable and competitive.
The "0,30,0,30,0,30,0,30,0" got my attention because what if the workout was As Fast As Possible (AFAP) "0,30,0,30,0,30,0,30,0 and 10 seconds of rest x 6" You wouldn't even have to stop the watch, just take your total time and subtract 50 secs from in. Or AMRAP 30 yards sprints in 30 seconds or a 1 minutes, etc. Things to think about.
On Monday I did not have to go to Rutgers so without the gym at my disposal I tried to get up for a field workout. I got to prospect park and there were 1000 asians tossing frisbees. Weird anywhere else, but this is just Stuyvesant HS. So I threw with a 17 year old for a good 10 minutes and then rattled off something like this:
cones @ 10 yds, 20, 30
suicide
rest
0,30,0,30,0,30,0,30,0
rest
suicide
0,30,0,30,0,30,0,30,0
rest
suicide
My hips weren't opening up on the sprints so it wasn't a great workout. Good limbering up though.
the "0,30,0,30,0,30,0,30,0" got me thinking about how to make team workouts fun in the spring. One of the reasons crossfit is marketable and appealing is because in many cases it is measurable, not only can you see personal increases, but you can match yourself up directly with another person. My idea is that for the team ultimate workouts that I make up in the spring, I am going to dabble with some crossfit measuring ideas for ultimate workouts so that everything is reportable and competitive.
The "0,30,0,30,0,30,0,30,0" got my attention because what if the workout was As Fast As Possible (AFAP) "0,30,0,30,0,30,0,30,0 and 10 seconds of rest x 6" You wouldn't even have to stop the watch, just take your total time and subtract 50 secs from in. Or AMRAP 30 yards sprints in 30 seconds or a 1 minutes, etc. Things to think about.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Fri-Sun 04/01/11 to 04/03/011: Fools Fest
Lots of ultimate at an average of 75%, but sometimes spiking upwards of 95%. Metal wins the tournament despite being more Rusted than Twisted. Highlight for me was trying to throw a 45 yard blade in the finals. Lowlight was shorting it by about 15 yards. In general I was good for a couple cuts than a lot of deep breaths, lots of lasers and a couple decent hucks and lots of mistimed jumps along with a couple good skys. I also lost in pokey by way of a face shot that went in my mouth and scraped my gums. I hope his nails were clean.
Monday, March 28, 2011
3/28/11: Gym
One and done in basketball. I took the initiative on offense because our team sucked. We got as close as 10-8 before they won.
Front Squat: 3/3/3/1/1/1; I've been rocking this set structure for a bit so I thought I would assess where I was in reference to years gone by.
242/242/242/264/275/286 fail (f)
275 I actually matched my PR. I wasn't even close to the 286. I got stuck pretty deep and never recovered.
Rack Pulls: 4x5
285, 295, 305, 325
reverse lunges from deficit:
8 @ 30 lbs
Front Squat: 3/3/3/1/1/1; I've been rocking this set structure for a bit so I thought I would assess where I was in reference to years gone by.
242/242/242/264/275/286 fail (f)
275 I actually matched my PR. I wasn't even close to the 286. I got stuck pretty deep and never recovered.
Rack Pulls: 4x5
285, 295, 305, 325
reverse lunges from deficit:
8 @ 30 lbs
Friday, March 25, 2011
cross fit: 3/25/11
3 rounds not for time (RNFT) wall walk/skin the cat:
wall walks suck. They put so much stress on the shoulders in semi-compromised positions. I hate them. My first round was great, much better than a month ago. My form deteriorated quickly. Skin the cat was more to practice the movement than make it hard. I couldn't get my feet up past the bar without catching the bar with my foot. Doing the skin the cats on the rings was pretty easy.
Clean and Jerk: 3/3/3/1/1/1
145, 145, 165, 175, 185(f), 185
I was getting ready to toss 10 more lbs on the bar when they told us we were done. My last rep should have been at 195. The 185 rep that I missed was terrible. I tried to press it before I was ready and was still mere degrees away from locking it out. Not too much trouble the second time, but it was time to move on to...
21/15/9
power clean @ 115
push ups
GHD situp
6:53
21 is a lot of power cleans. My form was terrible for the first 7 as I tried to just use speed and brute strength to get my reps in. The situps were weird. My lower back ROM is bad so I wasn't really breaking parallel. My last set of 9 cleans and pushups was blazing. I was behind the other dude in the class coming off the 15 situps. He might have done 2 or 3 power cleans by the time I got there, but I ripped off 9 cleans and then 9 pushups as fast as possibe, giving me the lead, but I lost it on the situps, which is fine cause I didn't want to win with the fake situps I was doing.
wall walks suck. They put so much stress on the shoulders in semi-compromised positions. I hate them. My first round was great, much better than a month ago. My form deteriorated quickly. Skin the cat was more to practice the movement than make it hard. I couldn't get my feet up past the bar without catching the bar with my foot. Doing the skin the cats on the rings was pretty easy.
Clean and Jerk: 3/3/3/1/1/1
145, 145, 165, 175, 185(f), 185
I was getting ready to toss 10 more lbs on the bar when they told us we were done. My last rep should have been at 195. The 185 rep that I missed was terrible. I tried to press it before I was ready and was still mere degrees away from locking it out. Not too much trouble the second time, but it was time to move on to...
21/15/9
power clean @ 115
push ups
GHD situp
6:53
21 is a lot of power cleans. My form was terrible for the first 7 as I tried to just use speed and brute strength to get my reps in. The situps were weird. My lower back ROM is bad so I wasn't really breaking parallel. My last set of 9 cleans and pushups was blazing. I was behind the other dude in the class coming off the 15 situps. He might have done 2 or 3 power cleans by the time I got there, but I ripped off 9 cleans and then 9 pushups as fast as possibe, giving me the lead, but I lost it on the situps, which is fine cause I didn't want to win with the fake situps I was doing.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
3/22/11: Gym
I should have learned my lesson from yesterday. I really wanted to do the crossfit games WOD that I had practiced the day before. I talked myself out of it so I could play basketball. I told myself that I could do it at the crossfit gym where it would be more official. We shall see if that actually works.
I did a lot of banging in these games. There was this one dude who thought he was Lebron. Bummer was that he actually pulled it off. He was probably 6'1 200 lbs. Either on a fast break or from the top of the key he would get a head of steam, protect the ball like a RB going through the line, plow through 4 guys and somehow lay it up. It was really frustrating, but he didn't play any defense so I actually got some offense going. After losing, hopping on the next team and losing again I went to run some stairs. At that point I was feeling shitty about my play and was gonna head down to the gym and lift it off, but a different game needed a 10th. It was school yard style picks and I got picked first. I did legitimately did the look around after he called my shirt color cause he had just seen me miss 2 or 3, 2 on 0 layups in the previous game. This isn't an exaggeration. A guy on the opposite team drove to the rim and missed and everyone thought he got fouled but he didnt call anything. While everyone is trying to figure out what happened me and a teammate take off. I get the ball under the rim and miss. He missed. I missed. I missed. I made it. Or something like that. Nobody bothered to try and play defense on us. It was funny more than humiliating. Really. It was.
We lost and I felt lousy for not playing well and for not lifting. I think playing basketball is good for cardio, but lifting one day and running another is definitely better than playing basketball one day. Whatever. Ill adjust.
I did a lot of banging in these games. There was this one dude who thought he was Lebron. Bummer was that he actually pulled it off. He was probably 6'1 200 lbs. Either on a fast break or from the top of the key he would get a head of steam, protect the ball like a RB going through the line, plow through 4 guys and somehow lay it up. It was really frustrating, but he didn't play any defense so I actually got some offense going. After losing, hopping on the next team and losing again I went to run some stairs. At that point I was feeling shitty about my play and was gonna head down to the gym and lift it off, but a different game needed a 10th. It was school yard style picks and I got picked first. I did legitimately did the look around after he called my shirt color cause he had just seen me miss 2 or 3, 2 on 0 layups in the previous game. This isn't an exaggeration. A guy on the opposite team drove to the rim and missed and everyone thought he got fouled but he didnt call anything. While everyone is trying to figure out what happened me and a teammate take off. I get the ball under the rim and miss. He missed. I missed. I missed. I made it. Or something like that. Nobody bothered to try and play defense on us. It was funny more than humiliating. Really. It was.
We lost and I felt lousy for not playing well and for not lifting. I think playing basketball is good for cardio, but lifting one day and running another is definitely better than playing basketball one day. Whatever. Ill adjust.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Gym: 03/21/11
I played too much basketball. 3 games kills any chance I have of getting to the actual gym, but I was coming off a great week of basketball and I was itching to keep playing. I played ok and ran a lot. I'm not sure I took a shot that wasn't a put back. I did have 2 absolutely monster blocks. I mean like volleyball spikes. One was on game point. I usually get caught up in the moment and let out something gutteral that ends with my pretending like I was clearing my throat.
My dude scored the winning basket in game 3 at double game point. Terrible. Three games left me little time for lifting, but I banged out:
3o double unders
15 power snatches at 90 lbs
couple more double unders
This was one round (30/15) of the cross fit games workout. I'm not sure when I am actually going to bang it out, but I am hoping to break 4 rounds.
box squats:
5 @ 200
5 @ 222
5 @ 243
3 @ 263
I'm still out of sorts with where these numbers are relative to my PRs from years past.
step up jumps:
15
Just something single leg oriented to toss in before sprinting to the train.
My dude scored the winning basket in game 3 at double game point. Terrible. Three games left me little time for lifting, but I banged out:
3o double unders
15 power snatches at 90 lbs
couple more double unders
This was one round (30/15) of the cross fit games workout. I'm not sure when I am actually going to bang it out, but I am hoping to break 4 rounds.
box squats:
5 @ 200
5 @ 222
5 @ 243
3 @ 263
I'm still out of sorts with where these numbers are relative to my PRs from years past.
step up jumps:
15
Just something single leg oriented to toss in before sprinting to the train.
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