I’ve been asked how I stay fit without a gym membership, so hopefully this will answer some of those questions. Though I do lift heavy weights, I usually just use my body weight, and the resources I see around me. Today I went up to one of my favorite workout spots in Breckenridge to try something new – film my workout with GoPro. Besides sharing an example of a typical workout, reviewing the footage helped me see first hand how I can improve my form and technique to be more efficient. I’m always a work in progress, but I’m constantly finding new ways to make fitness fun. My arms are definitely going to be sore!
It’s been a while, since I’ve written anything in my blog. Not because I’ve had nothing to share, but because I’ve been having too much fun. Excuses, excuses. Well I’m going to try to do better… Correction, I WILL do better.
My life has changed a lot in the last few months. In fact, everything has changed. But unlike last time I changed my life, now I wasn’t running away from a bad breakup, or finding “myself” or chasing after boy. I was simply following a feeling I had when I spent time in Breckenridge. Following my heart I guess you could say.
In two weeks I quit both of my jobs in Denver, signed over my lease, moved to the mountains, and found myself living an amazing life in Breckenridge. I landed a great job that supports my snowboarding habit and my need for challenge, competition, and growth. I make my own schedule, so naturally I plan my work around my snowboarding…. kidding… kinda. But I do ride a lot, and work a lot.
I’ll spare you the details of how awesome my life is, but let’s just say I couldn’t be happier. In order to keep my posts more consistent, I am going to keep them shorter and more to the point. Sometimes I like to go on tangents when I write…
Anyways, enjoy some more pictures of my life lately. #BreckLife
After being out of the gym for over a month with a strained back it was hard to get back into training mode. I wanted to start small; lower impact skills and lighter loads, but that’s not what happened. I don’t know if it was my competitive personality or the encouragement from my friends, but I decided to join the D-Town team in the largest crossfit competition in the world: The 2013 CrossFit Games: CrossFit Open.
I figured I had nothing to lose because the workouts are designed so athletes of all skill levels can participate and get a taste of what it’s like to compete. I played competitive sports growing up so I’m no stranger to the challenge, but I have to admit, this was a whole new level of hard.
The Open consists of 5 workouts over 5 weeks. This week is week 3.
The first workout: 13.1
WOMEN – includes Masters Women up to 54 years old
Proceed through the sequence below completing as many reps as possible in 17 minutes of:
40 Burpees
45 pound Snatch, 30 reps
30 Burpees
75 pound Snatch, 30 reps
20 Burpees
100 pound Snatch, 30 reps
10 burpees
120 pound Snatch, as many reps as possible
My score: 165 reps.
I only made it through 1/2 of the 75# thrusters before time was up but to be honest, it was better than I had expected to do.
The second workout: 13.2
Complete as many rounds and reps as possible in 10 minutes of:
75 pound Shoulder to overhead, 5 reps
75 pound Deadlift, 10 reps
15 Box jumps, 20″ box
My score: 114 reps.
I went into this WOD thinking it would be short enough to go all out from the beginning. I was wrong. I was extremely tired after only 3 minutes and had to do step ups on the box jumps for much of the remaining time. I know I could have done better on this one, but I did not have time to re-do it before the deadline. Oh well… two down three to go. I’ll keep you posted.
The Third Workout was 13.3
Complete as many rounds and reps as possible in 12 minutes of:
150 Wall balls (14 lbs to 9′ target)
90 Double-unders
30 Muscle-ups
My heart sank as soon as I saw what the WOD was. Last week I did a WORd that totalled to 90 wallballs, and I was so sore for 4 days I could barely walk. I knew that 150 wallballs were going to absolutely destroy me! I forced myself into the gym with butterflies in my stomach. I couldn’t remember the last time I was this nervous for anything. When the workout started I felt the burn after just 20 reps. My strategy going in was to do 10 reps, then rest for 10 seconds. This worked well at first, but soon my rests turned into 15 seconds intervals and my rep counts became 7, then 5, then I only could do 3 at a time before dropping the ball. After what seemed like eternity, My counter yelled, “150!” Dropping that 14 lb medicine ball for the last time was such a great feeling. I could not believe I had finished all 150 reps with time to spare! Now for the double unders. Usually I’m good at these, and can easily do 30 unbroken. Today though, the wallballs turned my legs into noodles. I could barely jump off the ground long enough for the rope to pass under my feet twice. I did a total of 16 double unders before the 12 minute time cap was reached.
I curled up in a ball on the floor and closed my eyes until I could breath. I sat up to a room of people cheering me on and walking over to first-bump me and give me high fives. I was just sooo happy 13.3 was done!
My score: 166 total reps with a tie breaker of 11:24
{ AD WALL BALL PIC HERE}
The forth workout: 13.4
Complete as many reps as possible in 7 minutes following the rep scheme below:
95 pound Clean and jerk, 3 reps
3 Toes-to-bar
95 pound Clean and jerk, 6 reps
6 Toes-to-bar
95 pound Clean and jerk, 9 reps
9 Toes-to-bar
95 pound Clean and jerk, 12 reps
12 Toes-to-bar
95 pound Clean and jerk, 15 reps
15 Toes-to-bar
95 pound Clean and jerk, 18 reps
18 Toes-to-bar…
This is a timed workout. If you complete the round of 18, go on to 21. If you complete 21, go on to 24, etc.
After spending most of the week recovering from 13.3 I was ready to take on 13.4. Ok, I though to myself. This one I can do this one. It was quick, and heavy.
My score: 40 reps. time was up during my set of 12 C&J’s.
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