Crossfit Endurance + Crossfit = WOOO!

• Category: Experiments
• Date: 6.23.09

It’s been well over 2 months now since I’ve really done any serious metcon work, other than the Painstorm a couple weekends ago (although that was more of a hellish marathon than a nice short metabolic blast!). Today I decided to dive into some Crossfit for shits and gigs.

I was meeting a buddy there for the 7:15 Crossfit class. However! As things worked out, my new client who was supposed to show up at 5, decided to show up at 6 (half an hour after I said fuck it and left ). Thus I had plenty of time to kill, and with it being WAY too fucking hot outside for a patented travel pillow nap in the car, I figured I’d head over to ACF early and try out the Endurance class.

So, for starters, I hate running, so an endurance based class wasn’t all that great of an idea, add in the fact that my focus over the past 6 weeks has been maximum strength and I’ve been gorging on whole milk (a gallon a day to be exact), and you got a terrible mixture!

The warmup consisted of a light jog to the Spectator building, crab walking up stairs and bear crawling down them a few times, a jog back, and a mix of side shuffling, before hitting some stretching back inside the box.

The workout:

800m run

15 potato pull ups

400m run

15 potato pull ups

200m run

15 potato pull ups

100m sprint

… What’s that you say? “What in the sweet fuck is a potato pull up”? What, you live’n under a rock? It’s the new craze! Ok, so our resident rock climbers – Lisa and Glenn – brought in these holds that help bolster your grip strength. They hang from the pull up bar, and basically look like floating potatoes.

Each run was to be done as fast a pace that can be maintained for the full duration of the run. Blast out the pull ups asap, then onto the next run. With the 100m being a full out sprint.

I hate running, however this workout was cool, I approve haha. Only had a puke-burp once, and quickly disposed of it during the run, tastey

Fucken warm, thirsty, and in dire need of a wicked poo, I was ready for round 2! BRING IT ON BITCHES!

Ladders! Fucken yes! Love em!

1-10-1

KB swings

sit ups

1-10

push ups

double unders

I was kind enough to take a bullet and give “Stickers” the only other 24kg KB, sacrificing my own hardcore workout and taking the 20kg. I know, I’m such a nice guy eh

Kind of annoying having to do 1 swing and 1 sit up, but got better by 4ish, and by 8 1 was a dream.

The double unders were getting the better of me, haven’t done them since I was only in the 180’s, so the extra 20lbs took some time to get used to haha, but I got it. My 7, 8, and 9 were all solid in a row. Fucken tiring though.

Finished it at 13:21 I think, was hoping for a bit better, but I’ll take it. Stickers and the Angry Russian were still going strong, for quite some time actually, until finally they realized you didn’t have to go back down the ladder on the push ups and double unders hahaha! Stickers got back down to 7, but the Russian got all the way to number 2 before Andy reminded them that it’s done at 10.

Oh good times haha.

Tune in next time! Who knows what will go down!

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