May 18, 2012

At the Agogae

The original WOD was Day off Tomorrow but it was too much like Probably American so I made up something else.   I came up with At The Agogae which is 400 meter runs with a net climb, 2 rope climbs, 3 stone cleans, 4 tire flips and 5 burpee pullovers with a 6th run after that.  During the workout Tiffany said, "Even my baby hates you."  Zach was typically blazing and ate our collective lunches.  What a day for Steve to come back.  He has been out with some shoulder issues and managed to stumble into this horror.  Killer.  We used a 95 lb stone for the cleans...except for Rich, he used a 142 pounder.  Sammie managed to shoulder a 60 lb ball at 54 lbs.  She's 9 and pound for pound the strongest person in the gym. 

Posted by Eugene Allen at 4:08 p.m.

May 17, 2012

Honey Badger is Probably American

"Probably American" is what one of the sharks in the sunken submarine says in "Finding Nemo" as an expression of who he thought took Nemo from the dropoff...though for the record it was an Aussie dentist.  This workout because of its superior quaility, union backing and crushing difficulty deserves to be called American.  It was right up there with B5 and Kitchen Cinco.  Krista did it earlier in the day, then Zach with absurd weights and finally Rich and I suffered through.  We were miserable from the start and would rather have joined Chris and Lisa and their Honey Badger wrestling.  Lisa managed 1218 and 150 of that was Air Squats.  That's 30 Air Squats a minute for 5 minutes.  One every 30 seconds.  Who ocan do that?  Well, Lisa apparently. 

Posted by Eugene Allen at 7:40 p.m.

May 16, 2012

Oh that's just nasty

A short Shuttle Run replace the Thai kicks and the run is about 3/4 of the width of the gym.  I moved some of the events around a bit to balance things out and the new arrangement seems better.  Painful still, but a nice flow.  The only slight conflict is going from the ring pushups to the KB Push Press...try as I might though, I could not move things around to avoid some other sort of back to back conflict.  This will just have to do.  Krista and Red went head to head this morning and Red put 52 reps on Krista.  Good fight though the whole thing.  The surprise killer effort, aside from Jeff's terrific 908) was Jennika's 866.  Her last three scores of 130  140  and 110 put her over the top of most everyone.  She said she never stopped for the air squats and just kept going the whole time.  I can't even chew gum for 5 minutes without resting.  Air Squats?  I sit on the toilet for a long time because I'm resting.

Posted by Eugene Allen at 11:58 a.m.

May 15, 2012

Steve's Insane

Steve Lee is insane.  He came up with Steve's Insanity and it is 5 1/2 buckets of yuck.  It looked kind of hard so I decided that we would do the strength training after.  As it turned out, after is going to be this weekend...or next week.  Tomorrow we will be doing Honey Badger and that is one full hour of lousy...so we won't be doing any strength work tomorrow either.  Big Phat Helen wasn't enough for Krista so she did Wheezy afterwards.  Rich had to wait 15 minutes after the workout before he drove home.  He was still under the influence of CF so he had to recover a bit.

Posted by Eugene Allen at 6:36 p.m.

May 14, 2012

A Wheezy Ab Rower

So, new girl walks into the gym and says she has never really worked out very much and is out of shape and wants to do CrossFit to become more fit.  So something nice and easy, a smooth transition from couch potato to superstar right?  Well, it didn't work out that way.  She the strength workout first, back squat and bench press, then Wheezy and finally Ab Rower.  She soldiered through each one without complaint and then she died.  No just kidding, she looked just fine.  Very impressive work ethic.  She'll be here on Wednesday for the Epic...Honey Badger. 

Posted by Eugene Allen at 6:24 p.m.

May 13, 2012

Couldn't be nicer

This weekend is why people put up with all the rain and cold.  Absolutely perfect weather.  Just Zach on Saturday and he did Fran with a 96 lb Atlas stone in 7:51.  I pretty sure I would have hurt myself if I tried that.  If God wanted you to put those stones over your head he wouldn't have made them so stupid heavy.  On Sunday Zach came back and did a 115 lb overhead carry for 400 meters with 20 burpees every time he put down the bar.  He had to set it down 5 times so he had 100 burpees to do on top of the carry.  Took him 20:07.  I would have had a concussion. 

Posted by Eugene Allen at 5:36 p.m.

May 11, 2012

Fourplay

After yesterday's metabolic nightmare a heavy thing was in order.  Unlike the other kind of same sounding thing, this lasted a long time and didn't feel good.  Zach, as if this should come as a surprise to anyone, was a step above and did the workout with absolutely crazy weights and did it in a very good time.  Great workout, I'll remember it through the weekend.  Zach was playing with his balls again today.  He made three more...another 95, another 115 and a bigger one...142 I think.  All I can do with that one is roll it around the gym. 

Posted by Eugene Allen at 4:58 p.m.

May 10, 2012

Hospital Stay

If you have COPD you have great difficulty breathing, you can't work very fast or hard and an ambulance ride to the hospital is in your future.  Similarly, when you do COPD simulator you have grreat difficulty breathing, you can't work very hard or fast and you really would like to get in an ambulance and go to the hospital.   The usual joyful banter was replaced by awful, hurtful words and gestures that made me cry.  I defense of those that berated me and all my ancestors, it really was an awful workout.  Glad to be done with that one and it gets the infamous really friggin hard red star for sure. 

Posted by Eugene Allen at 5:58 p.m.

May 9, 2012

Romageddon

Rich showed his rowing prowess by really tearing up Rowmaggedon but Bryce was ot on  his heels.  That was Bryce's best workout so far and he has had a lot of good ones.  Gracie from Okinawa was here and as she was doing her beautiful Butterfly Pullups Rich said, "This aint her first Rodeo."  Well that's for sure.  She's Level 1 certified and her experience is easy to see...especially in her double unders.  The rope sounds like one long whistling sound.  Rich almost left.  Rowmageddon was as miserable as it has always been and tomorrow we do COPD Simulator which is new but will probably have a similar effect. 

Posted by Eugene Allen at 7:42 p.m.

May 8, 2012

End of My Rope

I used to think front squats were awful.  That was until I did it with rope climbs.  Now fronts squats don't seem so bad.  Rope climbs however, are absolutely hideous.  Great workout. 

Posted by Eugene Allen at 6:31 p.m.

May 7, 2012

Pho Sho

Posted by Eugene Allen at 9:36 p.m.

May 5, 2012

The Weekend

Red went after the Catch and got ate up by it.  He was hammering along the entire time though and got his money's worth for sure. 

Posted by Eugene Allen at 9:48 p.m.

May 4, 2012

Vest of Tribulation

After Santa Maria which is so very leggy, the perfect complementary workout is a more arm focused, or at least more upper body focused workout and Vest of Tribulation fits that bill perfectly. 

Posted by Eugene Allen at 10:49 a.m.

May 3, 2012

Pinta, Nina

I hvae no idea which one Chris was on in 1492 but the workout today was the third one.  After yesterday super squats, and a workout that was much like this one, todays back squats before the workout was, to put it mildly, soul crushing.  We are all sure that Tiffany has an unfair advantage because she has that little baby helping her. 

Posted by Eugene Allen at 5:57 p.m.

May 2, 2012

Bring me a Bucket

Base miles and base meters now. All of you getting ready for the June Mud Runs and of course the biggie in September - The Tough Mudder - need to be getting in some base miles to build on later with more quality runs closer to the race. Go run.

Bring me a bucket is a 25 minute AMRAP that is quite a test of your mettle. Row for 3 mintues and then do an exercise for 2 minutes and repeat that 5 times. You are going to be uncomfortable.

Posted by Eugene Allen at 9:29 a.m.

May 1, 2012

Tha's Going to Leave a Mark

Lifting heavy stuff is just plain uncomfortable.  Why do people do this?  Maybe a nice step aerobics class or Pilates will be in order so it's just not so doggone hard.  Before we started Rich said, "I'm nervous."  Now what kind of thing is that?   Shouldn't we be a bit more relaxed and comfortable?  Shouldn't we be doing this to feel good about ourselves, to feel empowered, to feel...(surely there i some other new age bullshit word I can come up with here)  as if we are in control of our expressive physical natures?  Rather than Pukie the Clown maybe our mascot should be Ulrich the Unicorn.  We'll have a white unicorn with a rainbow banner fluttering behind him, pastel colored leg warmers and rubber coated 5 lb dumbbells.  Yeah, I'm feeling empowered.

Posted by Eugene Allen at 6:44 p.m.

April 30, 2012

Fly Like a G6

Zach looked at the workout up on the board and told Rich it looked like a 10 minute workout.  Rich told him no way can you do that in 10 minutes and Zach said he could.  Took him 10:43 which is just stupid fast.  Faster than you should do such a thing.  We think he's cheating.  He's stronger than he should be, faster than he should be...we're pretty sure he's a robot. 

Posted by Eugene Allen at 9:48 p.m.

April 30, 2012

A Painful Sunday

It wasn't raining, but it was thnking about it.  I was miserable from Tourettes and my hamstrings were in rebellion.  Though it felt horrible the entire time, I finished faster than usual.  I was chasing Chris the whole time...he kept pulling away, and I was racing away from Rich and he kept closing the whole time.  About half way through he fell off the pace a bit, caught up a little and then leveled off.  We're all going to have sore legs for a bit. 

Posted by Eugene Allen at 8:58 a.m.

April 28, 2012

A Gorgeous Saturday

Went out to Pt. Defiance today and took a nice walk with Krista, Sammie and her friend Sabrina and of course Baxter who now smells like the ocean.  No, more like low tide.  My legs, in particular my hamstrings,  are too sore for more than just a bit of  a hike.  Tourettes really did me in.  In the afternoon Tiff 2 ate up Touretts in 30:30.  That's really fast.

Posted by Eugene Allen at 4:27 p.m.

April 27, 2012

Many kinds of awful

Not a lot of takers today...looks like Friday is a favorite day off.  Bryce really tore up A Nice Run Ruined, very fast.  Zach's workout was some nutty thing with the log and carrying it 800 meters and burpees every 3 minutes...nutty.   Tourettes smoked me again as it always does.  Really an ugly combination.  Krista came in and rowed Major Tom. 

Posted by Eugene Allen at 5:38 p.m.