Saturday, November 13, 2010

BLAKE

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5 comments:

  1. JustinNovember 13, 2010 at 9:52 AM

    WODoers: I was run down after a long week and Nancy yesterday, plus I forgot to eat breakfast and so I was pretty much so overwhelmed by the first round. My legs were on fire and I was thinking there was no way I could finish, especiallly all those hsps. Then at the beginning of round two I started thinking about Blake and his family and all the other heros and I just started to cry. We are so damned lucky that we have people like that who serve and give their lives for the freedoms we sometimes take for granted. Along with the tears, I also found my resolve and started moving again. I touched my head to the ground on every single HSP and I went as hard as I could on everything else.

    37:57 exactly as rx'd

    A word of warning, be careful on that first box jump after those lunges.

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  2. Craig FletcherNovember 13, 2010 at 3:25 PM

    What an absolutely phenomenal post Justin. Your netal fortitude is an inspiration, and your grasp on what life means is as well. It is a complete tragedy what these families have to deal with, but I am proud to be an American, and one thing's for damn sure... FREEDOM ISN'T FREE. People like Blake are what life's all about.

    Today was my first WOD since last Sunday's heinous mtn bike wreck. I couldn't hardly walk for two days, and my wrists got hammered too. So I made up a WOD for myself doing whatever I could do.

    4 rounds for time
    Row 500M
    15 strict dead hang pullups
    20 elevated pushups (feet on 20" plyo box, hands up on parallettes)

    These pushups were derived by the fact that I couldn't do palms down pushups, hurt my wrists too bad. These types of pushups are awesome for your core. Try them out. You can go really deep too.

    For the pullups for the first set I did ultra wide grip, next set ultra narrow grip, then palms inward (chinups), round 4 was freestyle, any grip you want. The dead hangers slowed me WAY down.. total muscle fatigue. Just waiting, many failed reps/do-overs. No WOD in a week will do that I guess.

    TT 21:12, a lot longer than I thought.

    Check out my hip. It might not look bad, but I do NOT bruise very easily at all, and the thing runs deep... and it feels like there's like a hard sponge about as big around as a drink coaster in there.. it's a weird tissue damage type of deal.

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  3. Craig FletcherNovember 14, 2010 at 8:03 AM

    Scaled and subbed... hip and wrist still jacked good. I can't do HSPUs or pushups or anything that needs a 90 degree wrist bend.

    3 rounds of
    25 lb plate OH lunge about 85% ROM (hip)
    30 24" box step ups in slow motion (felt more like one legged squats)
    20 wall balls 90% ROM (all the way down = bad)
    10 ring dips
    5 100 lb shoulder presses

    17:50

    COuldn't move very fast at all. Time was almost irrelevant. Just trying to recover from the wreck boys. Dad's 60th birthday party is today. Woot!

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  4. MikeNovember 16, 2010 at 1:25 AM

    This one was definitely a tough SOB. I have a feeling that my legs are going to be sore for the week. The box jumps after the lunges were really scary, especially on the 3rd and 4th rounds. My HSPU's were terrible, especially towards the end. So, I switched to negatives for the last 5 HSPU's.

    TT - 39:56

    I wasn't able to get the hang snatches for Tuesday in, and there's another basketball game tomorrow. So, I guess I'll be doing a double on Wednesday.

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  5. MikeNovember 16, 2010 at 1:31 AM

    I was just looking at the times on the main site. It took Mikko slightly longer to do 4 rounds than it took me to do 1. That is crazy.

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