Oct. 30, 2010

Fight Gone Bad once more

300 (M) (show workout)

Marotha 17:20 2 x

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Fight Got Worse (M) (show workout)

Anthony 438

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Fight Gone Bad (M) (show workout)

Eugene 294
Jim 266
Steve 259
Glen 251
Tami 244
Susan 235
Ashlea 209

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No matter how you slice it FGB is a lung searing monster of a workout.  The light loads are crushingly difficult when you are shooting for max reps.  Marotha was back for more and got through 2 rounds of 300 More before he, wisely, called it good.  When coming back from a long absence from CF it is not a good idea to hit the ground scootin and shootin right from the start.  He is easing back in and will be tearing things up in no time. 

Oct. 29, 2010

Fight Gone Bad

Fight Gone Bad (M) (show workout)

Anthony 402
Jennifer B. 273
Danielle 264
Emily 180
Marotha 180

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What a first time after a long time away workout.  Emily is back after a year and a half break to have some babies and Marotha is back after about 3 years or so away.  FGB is self scaling so both were able to temper their efforts to suit their level of pain tolerance.  Anthony tore it up with that 402.  Anything above 350 is really crazy good. 

Oct. 28, 2010

Amazing Snatch

Root Canal (show workout)

Glen 31:00 215, 105, 105

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Amazing... (show workout)

Barbell Snatch

Sarah 19:07 45/55/45 18-12-8
Beth 20:25 50/70/40 16-12-12
Michelle 21:50 50/70/40 10-9-12
Eugene 22:00 85/105/75 12-12-8
Lance 22:45 85/105/75 12-10-8
Tami 23:00 45/65/45 17-14-9
Ash 25:05 45-65-45 14-10-7

Squats

Danielle 20:15 85/105/75 10-11-8

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Glen enjoyed Root Canal while the rest of us dealt with an Amazing Snatch.  The 85 wasn't bad but the 105 was awful. 

Oct. 28, 2010

Wednesday's Root Canal

Other (show workout)

Tabata Pushups, Squats, Situps

Jan 8, 14, 11

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Other (show workout)

Air squats with 25 lb Vest
40 Situps
Ball Slams
40 Situps
Box Jumps
40 Situps
21-15-9
Then 45 of each straight through

Michelle B. 25:38

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Root Canal (show workout)

Zach 19:17 155/85/85
Nick 20:02 185/75/85
Eugene 21:07 185/75/85
Jenn B. 22:05 125/50/55
Anthony 22:56 225/115
Danielle 23:54 145/65/65
Sarah 24:14 110/40/25
Jamie 24:43 133/45/65 (Hawaii workout…leaving on Thursday)
Lance 24:56 185/95/95
Steve 27:22 225/115
Susan 28:30 110/40/40
Ashlea 29:02 110/40/40
Mel 29:21 115/45/15
Beth 35:25 155/65/65
Dennis 37:20 185/75/85
Michelle 37:37 155/65/65

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Nobody likes a Root Canal.  But having had a root canal I think I'd rather have another one of those rather than do this again.  What a lung crusher.  Michelle B. clearly had situps on her mind with the workout she through up for herself.  By my count thats just 5 short of 495 situps.  Ouch. 

Oct. 26, 2010

Another Amazing Day

Thermopylae (show workout)

Eugene 32:16
Susan 32:47 (3x)

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Amazing... (show workout)

Back Squat/DB Push Press

Jenn B. 75/95/65 30/35/20 18, 13, 10 26, 23, 18

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Amazing... (show workout)

Snatch/Push Jerk

Danielle 31:00 13/12 9/9 0/0
Anthony 35:00 95/115/95 135/155/135 10/8 8/6 6/5

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Kill Bob (M) (show workout)

Tami 22:07
Nick 23:20
Ashlea 23:46

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Amazing... (show workout)

Hang Power Clean/Push Jerk

Nick 23:50 95/115/85 25 clean, 20 push press, 19 cleans
Eugene 25:10 95/115/85 20/14 15/14 13/13
Jim 31:30 95/115/95 20/22 16/13 12/11
Rob 26:20 95/115/95 20/22 16/13 12/11

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Here is a bad plan.  A tough Amazing workout, in this case Hang Power Cleans and BB Push Press and immediately after that Thermopylae.  The bad part is the "Immediately After".  While Tami and Ashlea Killed Bob, Susan decided on Thermopylae.  She decided on that one after I said, "Do Thermompylae". I didn't want her to do it alone so I did it with her.  I am all kind of tired now.  Nick dorked up his amazing and alternated the max reps part so as pennance he did 12 Hail Mary's and Killed Bob. 

Oct. 25, 2010

Lift more than you can

Kill Bob (M) (show workout)

Susan 29:06

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Clean the Dead Badger (show workout)

Jen B 6:40 150 75 25
Jan 7:24 255 125 30
Lance 9:35 286 140 44
Jim 10:24 315 135 45
Sarah 10:37 135 60 20
Melinda 11:37 115 60 20
Eugene 11:42 263 135 44
Beth 12:54 205 75 25
Michelle 13:04 205 75 25
Steve 13:17 345 (rnd 4 with 325) 160 55

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Just plain amazing this morning.  Keeping with the addage that in order to get stronger you should lift more than you can lift I snuck 205 on the bar for both Beth and Michelle.  Now snuck is not really all that appropriate since the bar load is right there in front of them to look at but I just built up the bars and said, "There.  Lift that."  They did.  They bellyached only minimally but did say repeatedly, "That's heavy."  Yes, yes it is.  But they both lifted it and beat their previous best deadlifts by more than 50 lbs.  Amazing.  As you can see Lance did 286, 140 and 44 in 9:35, I did 11:42 with 263, 135 and 44.  Lance may be stronger but I was slower. Surely that means something.  Nothing good but something.  While most of Cleaned the Dead Badger, Susan Killed Bob. 

Oct. 25, 2010

Le Grand Century

Air Assault (L) (show workout)

Nick 38:10 row

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Le Grand Century (L) (show workout)

Sarah 32:07
Sammie 32:08

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While I was off to Renton to take the Level 1 test the gym took care of itself.  Imagine my surprise when I come back to find that my little Sammie left me a note saying that she was sorry she missed me and that she did Le Grand Century with Sarah.  Only Nick had his name on the board too so I know he was there.  What, did the girls run to the gym for some extra work?  I'm guessing that Lance dropped them off but why was Sammie with them.  Odd.  So my 8 year old goes to the gym and does 30 minute workouts without me needing to set things up for her or help her along.  Great, she'll want the car keys soon. 

Oct. 24, 2010

Forget the Fat Burn Zone

http://www.cbass.com/FATBURN.HTM

This is an article written by Clarence Bass about high intensity work. He's not a CrossFitter so he's not just singing along with the choir here, this is some independent discovery of what we CrossFitters already know is true.  High intensity and power generation is where it's at. 

Hammer on. 

Oct. 23, 2010

Grab Bag

Double Dare (show workout)

Lance 37:42
Nick 39:13

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500 (L) (show workout)

Sarah 32:39

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Wind and the Lion (show workout)

Anthony 28:52

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Sweater of Discomfort (L) (show workout)

Tami 18:57 45
Ashlea 19:07 45

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Mother and daughter workout this morning with Tami and Ashlea putting on their sweater.  In the soggy afternoon Lance and Nick Double Dared each other, while Sarah went for the 500 and the over eager Anthony the did the Wind and the Lion.  Twice.  Twice as in he did two rounds of it for the long and then, because he's Anthony, he did two more rounds to make it an Epic.  Ouch. 

Oct. 23, 2010

Ninja's Mile

Ninja's Mile (show workout)

Anthony (AM) 16:59 61/75/52/61/185
Anthony (PM) 16:48 same weights AND all 30 snatches (he did 15 in the AM workout)
Eug 18:49 as Rx’d
Lance 19:33 as Rx’d
Jenn B. 20:15 Row 36/50/26/36/135/25/26
Nick 20:33 as Rx’d
Danielle 22:05
Steve 22:40
Sarah 23:06
Glen 25:04 same loads as eug
Dennis 38:36 same loads as eug

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Anthony did Ninja's Mile in the morning in 16:59 which is very fast and then in the afternoon he did it again and did 16:48 even though he included 15 more snatches than he did in the morning.  He thought the count was 15 total instead of 15 each arm.  Even though his time was slowest, Dennis had the hardest workout of the day to be sure.  amazing how a couple of 44 lb kettlebells can humble you.

Oct. 21, 2010

Amazing Push Jerk

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Squats

Michelle 55/75/75 17-15-14

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Party with the Girls (L) (show workout)

Sarah 32:33 35/45

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Just Dumb (show workout)

Carole 2:57 50
Susan 3:25 45

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Amazing... (show workout)

Push Jerk

Eugene 105/125/95 17-14-11
Lance 105/125/95 17-14-11
Zach 115/135/105 21-13-11
Mel 45/55/45 13-11-8
Ashlea 45/65/45 15-11-9
Rob 105/125/95 17-15-14

All in 19:45 + or – a few seconds

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Here's a fine way to feeble up your shoulders.  Finished with painting in the chalk talk board and I'm making headway on finishing up with the whiteboards. 

Oct. 20, 2010

Party with the Girls

Party with the Girls (L) (show workout)

Lance 26:58 75
Jen B. 28:07 55 row
Eug 28:38 75
Rob 29:50 85
Jamie 31:08 55/36
Steve 31:49 95
Danielle 32:36 65/36 half the pullups with grn band
Carole 34:30 50/36 half the pullups with grn band
Susan 36:53 35/26
Glen 40:55 95

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Lance partied better than any of us today and we had lots of partiers going after it.  The pictures are from the loft area and show the two platforms and the matted workout area and the pullup bars, climbing wall and heavy bag stations.  Not too much more left to do save for some painting and a few otehr odds and ends.  CFPC is ready to rock your world. 

Oct. 19, 2010

That's Amazing

Kelsie's Naptime (M) (show workout)

Danielle 20:25
Melinda 24:53 (She said the words “This is too light”. A first)

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Other (show workout)

One mile run

Lance 7:15
Sarah 7:40

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Helen (S) (show workout)

Jen B. 10;08 36
Carole 16:26 36
Susan 17:21 26

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Amazing... (show workout)

Hang Power Cleans

Nick 19;01 125/145/105 – 26/16/10
Lance 19:30 125/145/115 – 17/14/11
Rob 20:30 115/135/105 – 21/15112
Danielle 24:15 75/95/65 – 13/10/7
Anthony 24:15 135/155/135 – 7/9/6
Zach 25:00 135/145/115 – 15/10/10
Jim 26:30 105/125/95 – 11/10/10

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Sammie christened the ropes and net by climbing up them without the least bit of concern for that pesky gravity thing.  It doesn't seem to affect her like it does me.  She can lock her ankles with the rope between her legs and hang by one arm.  if I did that I'd have a burnt hand and a burnt crotch from the very rapid and unchecked descent.  I hung the net by one corner so it would be more difficult to climb and no sooner than I put the ladder away Sammie was going up the net without the least bit of trouble.  That girl is a climbing machine.  Checkout the Cowgirl Up twins.  They went horseback riding and then came to the gym in their Looks-Great-Anywhere boots. 

Oct. 18, 2010

But not of Troy

Helen (S) (show workout)

Anthony 9:05
Eug 9:50
Lance 9:58
Jan 10:50 (he’s 65 folks)
Nick 10:55 grn band
Steve 11:02
Sarah 12:23 (36 × 2, 26 × 1)
Danielle 12:24 36
Rob 12:25 row
Jim 13:13
Glen 14:00
Ashlea 16:04
Cole 16:13
Melinda 16:48 35
Dennis 23:30

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Helen today.  I'm writing this at 8:42 and my lungs still feel her.  Great, great efforts all for this workout and the sweat angels were everywhere. 

Oct. 18, 2010

The weekend

Dementia (E) (show workout)

Jamie 58:21
Danielle 58:40

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Absolution (show workout)

Eugene
Susan
Tami
Ashlea

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Tourettes (show workout)

Steve Squat 135/155/125 125 reps
KB PP 53/61/44 144 reps

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Fity Cen (show workout)

Michelle 10:57 (+ 20 lb vest for squats)

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Jamie and Danielle stepped up for a biggie to celebrate Danielle's birthday.  That's quite a present, hammering for nearly an hour.  Ouch. 

Oct. 18, 2010

Renaissance

Renaissance (M) (show workout)

Anthony 27:28 30/35/53/115
Eugene 27:30 30/35/44/95
Steve 32:28 30/35/53/115
Glen 33:25 (2 rounds) 30/35/44/105
Susan (2 rounds) 23:10
Jan (2 rounds) 24:00

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The weather is cooling off, the big heater will be in use soon.  It won't be long before I have to leave the doors down.  The construction projects are winding down so I will be able to start tending to smaller things like getting the ropes and net up, some soft mats, the whiteboards and then finally some work on the office.  Almost there. 

Oct. 18, 2010

Row, Row, Row your Erg

Amazing... (show workout)

Row

Rob 20:00 27/16/10
Anthony 20;00 33/13/10

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The climbing wall and heavy bag area is coming along.  After this only small projects remain.  Amazing row is a crusher. 

Oct. 13, 2010

(Half) Hour of Power

Half Hour of Power (show workout)

Susan 72/85/30/188/56/95 = 526
Ashlea 10/74/38/30/60/100 = 442
Tami 60/61/42/83/63/102 = 411
Cole 36/40/6/60/75/42 = 319

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Hour of Power (show workout)

Pwr Clean/Wall Ball/Pullups/Push Press/Row/Snatch

Eugene 72/90//90/270/135/130 = 787
Lance 75/96/104/180/124/185 = 764
Rob 90/125/85/100/145/150 = 695
Danielle 70/120/70/70/145/104/165 = 664
Steve 80/110/85/160/107/122 = 664
Anthony 100/70/100/100/106/120 = 596
Jim 60/80/61/100/140/115 = 156

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CrossFit's aim is to improve work capacity over broad time and modal domains.  CF is well known for how it improves your athletic skills.  Rob demonstrated today that CF does not improve your penmanship.  In fact, one might go so far as to say it simulates written drunkenness.  It is quite easy to see from Rob's scoresheet which thing he did last. 

Oct. 12, 2010

Squat day

Yvette (M) (show workout)

Sarah 15:27 20/25

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Amazing... (show workout)

Squats and Push Press
Anthony 24:50 185/215/195 52/61/44
Lance
Beth 2
Michelle 1

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The WOD was Amazing Squats/KB Push Press but becuase of Beth 2's shoulder she did power cleans for push presses as did Michelle 1.  Lance had some shoulder issues too today so he went light with the KB's.  Did some Kali and Thai boxing with Carole, Tami and Susan and then took them through a Squat workout afterwards.  Got the white boards taken care of...for he most part.  Some touch up to do with taking the edges and such but it is mostly done.  A bit more work with the pullup bars and then some more beams to hang bags from and the set up is complete.  Oh wait, the net and ropes have to go up too. 

Oct. 12, 2010

The Badger and the Bear

Baseline (S) (show workout)

Dennis 10:23

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The Badger and the Bear (show workout)

Carole 10:11 15/45
Jamie 11:00 20/45
Tami 12:22 25/45
Nick 13:20 35:95
Jan 13:37 35/95
Mel 13:40 15/55
Jim 14:01 35/95
Susan 14:06 12/45
Ashlea 14:43 20:45
Davis 24:20/ 25/75

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In the morning Jennifer Milton came in and put herself in Sammie's hands for the workout.  Of course whe had to wait while Sammie climbed down from on top of the 9' in the air framing for the pullup bars.  Sammie made up a workout I put in the book but didn't take picture of.  It had 20 pullups, 20 pushups, 30 lunges, 30 box jumps, 400 meter row and 40 ball hops for 3 rounds.  Sammie is quite the task master and she did the workout with Jennifer and they finished within seconds of each other.  Davis came to the gym for the first time today and wrestled with the Badger and the Bear and a friend of mine from work, Dennis, gave Baseline a shot. 

Oct. 10, 2010

Sunday

Kelsie's Naptime (M) (show workout)

Lance 22:15
Tami 23:24
Ashlea 26:07

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Cheesecake (show workout)

Jamie 34:48 Jumping pullups for double unders, air squas for box jumps
Rob 34:51 Jumping pullups for double unders, air squats for box jumps
Sarah 39:01 25, 45, 26, 45, 30, 35, 45

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I worked on my framing project some more today but also the whiteboard set up.  Used Liquid Nails to glue the white board to OSB and found it takes at least two tubes of the stuff per board.  I only had enough glue for 7 boards so I had to go get some more to finish up tomorrow.  Susan, Tami and Ashlea showed up in the early afternoon and took a nap with Kelsie after we did some Thai boxing, well all we got to was punches and elbows.  In the afternoon Jamie and Rob went after some Cheesecake with Sarah while Lance Napped and Alex did some ab work recovering from his football game yesterday.  Walked another frog out to the pond.  Somehow little frogs are making their way into the gym. 

Oct. 10, 2010

Cheesecake

Cheesecake (show workout)

Eugene 34:54 35, 44, 95
Anthony 37:11 45, 62, 125, 52, 95, 52
Lance 37:27 35, 44, 95
Tami 38:1920, 20, 26, 55, 26, 55, 26
Susan 40:38 15, 12, 12, 35, 26, 36, 12
Steve 45:33 30, 45, 53, 115, 53, 115, 53

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Working on framing in a section of the pullup bars for the climbing wall/closet/pullup bar stability.  It's coming along but there is much left to do.  One of the big engineering challenges...no, not engineering, design, that's it, design problem; is making a framework for one of the walls to be angled a bit.  Almost there.  Susan took me out to dinner and a Jim Gaffigan show last night and after the show we went to the Cheesecake Factory.  That place is amazing.  In celebration of our caloric destruction derby I made up a workout called Cheesecake.  Metcon killer. 

Oct. 10, 2010

While I was Gone

Kelsie's Naptime (M) (show workout)

Anthony 17:56
Steve 23:46 225/135/115
Jim 25:46 225/115/95

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Fran (S) (show workout)

Anthony 3:46

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Amazing... (show workout)

Squats

Anthony 19:00 135/225/135 15, 8, 13
Danielle 25:00 80, 100, 70 15, 12, 8
Jim 21:45 185/215/185 17, 12, 8

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Other (show workout)

100 m run
50 lunges with a 45 lb plate
10 DL 155
3x

Jan 12:30

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I was on McNeil Island for much of the week for SWAT training and it was beautiful out there.  Great training and a BBQ on the Traeger with the best prime rib ever.  During my absence these workouts happened. 

Oct. 5, 2010

Mae West

Mae West (show workout)

Jennifer B. 7:27
Steve 7:36
Lance 7:39
Anthony 8:11
Danielle 8:19
Michelle 8:33
Sarah 8:39
Jamie 8:40
Jim 10:45
Melinda 11:34

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NOTE TO SELF:  When using the roll around stair thing to put up the pullup bars, it is a big time saver to avoid trapping the stairs inside the pullup bar arrangement. 

Oct. 3, 2010

Pullup bars

Heavily Armed (L) (show workout)

Steve 24:25 52, 135, 115, 44

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A Whole Lotta Lunge (show workout)

Sarah 25:19 15
Danielle 25:33 no weight
Lance 33:22 25

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Boy Named Sue (L) (show workout)

Joey 30;02

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Santa Maria (show workout)

Joey 30:02

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More work on the gym but it was mostly on the pullup bars.  Almost all the way in.  I was at Home Depot when Susan showed up and she decided on this rowing, running, GHDing thing.  No time on the board but she had a pretty good glow going on. 

Oct. 2, 2010

Potpouri

Santa Maria (show workout)

Joey

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Amazing... (show workout)

OHS Anthony
Bench, Curls, Steve
Bench Danielle

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Up the Down Staircase (L) (show workout)

Susan 41:15

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Woodpecker Lips (show workout)

Sarah

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Boy Named Sue (L) (show workout)

Lance 16
Joey
Danielle

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Susan did Up the Down Staircase and had some choice expressions for me as she did.  Lance had some fun with some fella named Sue and had some choice muttered words for me...as did Danielle.  Steve did an Amazing combination of upper body movements and his sone Joey knocked out Santa Maria and then ran with that Sue character after that.  Studly.  Sarah might be tough has nails but today she was hard as Woodpecker Lips and Anthony did Amazing OHS getting to 145 for his heavy sets.  In my dreams.  I got lots more done in the gym and have a plan for the pullup bars.  Steve, Lance and I should be able to get them in tomorrow.  Oh, Stephanie should have had her fight tonight and Jamie went to cheer her on. 

Oct. 1, 2010

Have to be tough with a name like that

Boy Named Sue (L) (show workout)

Anthony 17 + 5 115
Eugene 17 95
Jan 16 95
Jim 14 + 15 12 95
Susan 15 + 12 45
Steve 14 +15 +8 115
Rob 12 + 13 + 5 95 Burpees for box jumps

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A Boy Named Sue.  As Johnny Cash told us you gotta be pretty tough to have a name like Sue.  Take Susan for example, she knocked 15 and 12 push presses with 45 and a green box all by herself with nobody to push her.  The gym is coming along nicely, moved the kettlebells and dumbbells out of the middle and filled the space between with the stall mats.  The rumber is separated now and in front of each of the lifting platforms.  Looks great.