Travis Weaver and Sean Weldon are the two guys responsible for me doing CrossFit, and indirectly also Chris and Edward (here on our blog) cos' once I started doing it I brought them along into CF world with me (and thanks for coming guys!).
Anyway, Sean and his wife Ashley along with their two kids came over yesterday for some family pool time. We decided to do a quick Poolside WOD. One thing I learned from this, is that it helps to watch video of yourself. My burpees are pathetic, nowhere near full ROM. I could complain that I couldn't breath well because all of the swimming had to be underwater (you could bring your head up for air but had to stop going forward) but that's a lame excuse. If you're going to do a burpee, you should could damn close to touching the ground with your chest and your head shouldn't dip down, right?
So here's a video of Sean's wife and I, and then there's a video of Sean and my wife Chelle. Look at Sean's ROM on his burpees. Plus, he does all of his burpees and pushups "military pushup" style with his hands and elbows close in, like tricep pushups. That's hardcore.
We have a bunch more ideas for future pool and yard WODs. One thing we were doing too is taking the 36 lb kettle bell down to the bottom of the deep end (8 feet deep) then going underwater and doing a "thruster" from the bottom of the pool with the KB above your head, and you have to get your head out of the water in order to breath. Diving board muscle ups were also being toyed with. Super fun stuff!!
The WOD:
3 Rounds of
swim 4 lengths all swimming underwater
15 burpees in the grass
15 1.5 Pood KB swings
The videos are of round 2. Swimming was cake in round one, very hard in rounds 2 and 3 cos those burpees and KB swings wind you!!
You'll also notice we had the "toddler tunes" station on in the background for hardcore motivation. Let me know if you want a CD of this killer tunage.
where's my vid dude!
ReplyDeletethat was fun...thanks for having us over.