July 14th - 1 day to go

11:00am - Crossfit Longbeach with Chris

5 rounds
7 Pwr Cleans @ 60
7 Burpees
7 Pwr Snatches @ 60
7 C2B pullups

untimed - felt pretty heinous. was in the mood to just sit around and watch others train. nice to blow out the jet-lag cobwebs and experience training in the heat etc.

Met fellow competitor, Spencer Hendel and his Father from Nth Carolina, and fellow Aussie competitor Chad "the man mountain" McKay.



Good times.

July 8th - 7 days to go!!!

9:00am - Schwartz's

Strict Press
worked up to 6@60kg
3 x 65
2 x 67.5
1 x 70

*shoulders feeling good

then

Canadian Regional Event 5 (Kinda)

12 Tyre Flips with Jump in and out
6 Power Clean & Jerk @ 60kg
400m run
9 Flips
9 C & J
400m run
6 Flips
12 C & J
400m run

time - 11:21

*felt good. nice to do something i'm good at. back a bit tight.




Yummy "Paleo" Passionfruit tart at CF StKilda. Yum, Thanks Rose.

4:00pm - Back at Schwartz's

Timed Amy's Tyre Flip WOD



Check out the Vid on Amy's Blog - http://amycrossfitlog.blogspot.com/

*the link doesn't work, so just cut and paste it.


then

5:00pm

Push Press with 12 Chins in between (no butterfly. fast short kip. chin over bar)
worked up to 8 @ 65kg
70kg x 6, 7

then

40kg Barbell Overhead lunges ~30m
21 Burpees
20 kg Plate OHL
21 Burpees
15kg DB Left Arm OHL
21 Burpees
40kg BB OHL
21 Burpees
15kg DB Right Arm OHL
21 Burpees

time - 20:49

*low intensity, just did the work. shoulders fried.

7 days left!! Feeling Good.

July 6th - 9 days to go

5:00pm -

Run to Schwartz's

2.5km

*back tight.

WOD
30 Wall balls
30 Ground to overhead @ 40kg (power snatched)
30 KB Swings @ 32kg
30 OHS @ 40kg
30 Burpees
30 Ground to shoulder @ 40kg (power cleaned)

time - 14:19

*harder than it looks. low intensity. back v. tight. should be sub 10min.

July 2nd - 13 days to go

8:00am

~3.5k run - 15min

*first 10 mins warming up, 5 min 70% run.

1:00pm - Garage

Power Cleans
2 x 5 @ 40, 50
1 x 5 @ 60, 70, 80
5 x 5 @ 85

*last two sets felt good. taking long time to fire up.


5:00pm - Schwartz's with Chris

1000m Row
21 Cleans @ 70kg
750 row
15 Cleans
500 row
9 Cleans

time - 16:51

then

*played around with Handstand Ring Pushups




Nick on the Rings

June 14th - 31 days to go

4:00pm - Power Cleans
2 x 5 @ 40kg
2 x 5 @ 60kg
1 x 5 @ 70kg
1 x 5 @ 80kg
1 x 5 @ 85kg (f5)
1 x 1 @ 90kg
1 x 1 @ 95kg

*Grumpy.

5:00pm - Filthy Fifty

50 x Box jumps 24in
50 x Pullups (Kipping not jumping)
50 x KB Swings @16kg
50 x Walking Lunges
50 x K2E
50 x Push Press @20kg
50 x Back Ext
50 x Wall Ball @20lb
50 x Burpees
50 x double Unders

Time - 20:55

*Happy.

June 10th - 35 days to go Happy Birthday Amy

10:00am - Pressing

(Strict)Press (3 min rest b'ween sets)
worked up to 8 x 50kg
52.5 x 7,6,7,7

Clean and (Split)Jerk (2 min rest)
worked up to 85kg
*felt rubbish so did a few at that weight

Power Clean and (Push)Jerk x 5 (1 min rest)
worked up to 60 x 5
*concentrating on form

Physically feeling a little rusty, mentally feeling good.

2km row - 7:07.2

The selection of rowers at Schwartz's.