Catching up…
The second half of May was a bit of a blur with a trip to
Melbourne, Regionals action and Cam moving out.
Training took a bit of a backseat but it was necessary and was a good
break to just indulge – in food – namely bacon and beer and too many
carbs. Good times.
There were however a few WODs during the trip. Two visits to Crossfit Victoria It was great to get
different coaching perspectives – sometimes even the same cues but with
different words and to see how different boxes operate.
Cam and I attended to sessions at Crossfit Victoria and both
were WODs that were more lifting focused than metcons. As a group we warmed up and then on both occasions
had a set period of time to go through some movements on our own in a bit of a
rotation to get us ready for the WODs.
5/20 – Push Presses
at Crossfit Victoria
I don’t remember in detail all the dynamic stretching that
we did on this one but I do remember at the end of it all that we partnered up
and for 1 minute had to be on all fours – knees could not touch the ground and
in essentially what was a chaotic bear crawl we faced off with our partners and
tried to slap their hands. Every touch
resulted in an immediate pushup penalty for our partner. It was really hard not to laugh while doing
this – I think it’d make a great addition to fun time Fridays.
Pre-WOD was a 5 minute cycle of 10 Russian KB swings at a
heavy weight (I think I picked 24kg as this was the only ‘heavy’ option once
everyone else had grabbed theirs) followed by 30 seconds of our choice of active
rest (box jumps, burpees, running on the spot, skipping). The clock just ticked away. It was good fun and a different
approach.
WOD
Push Press 5 x 2
I *think* I got up to 42.5 for a few rounds though I
can’t quite remember as it’s been a while.
I do remember a new PR so that was exciting. It was also good practice to not re-dip a la
push jerk too. I enjoyed it and it was fun
partnering up with a couple of girls that I just met and seeing them push their
limits too.
5/21
– Backsquats and Burpees at Crossfit Victoria
It was a last minute decision to rush over and catch this
class at noon. Thankfully Cam’s cousin
Christian lives a minute from the box so a quick change and a dash over and we
were set. Unfortunately though we
arrived 2 minutes after the class had started and were taxed with the burpee
penalty. Now at Southern it’s a fair 3
burpees per minute but here we got the West Coast inflated amount of 25. Ouch.
So off Cam and I went with our burpees.
I’m not sure if the Coach was serious when he threw them at us but was
probably impressed that we got right to it.
We laughed.
Pre-WOD
5 or 10 minutes (can’t recall) of squat holds and leg swings
and hip stretches – basically rotating through the movements that would get us
limbered up to start squatting.
WOD
For 15 minutes (10 rounds)
Every 90 seconds complete one round of:
3 back squats (at approx. 5RM)
6 burpees
45kg
I partnered up with Laura on this one and she was going with
45kg. Given that I hadn’t worked out
much and was exhausted from the weekends escapades of excessive drinking and
not sleeping, staying out til the sun (almost) came up and hours of endless
walking through the days I was cool with this.
I knew it was light for me but a good time to focus on form.
I enjoyed this format.
The burpees were quick but also left your heart racing – or perhaps that
was just because I was trying to race Cam on them each and every time – I would
beat him off of the squats and he would catch me on the burpees. I think I managed to finish just fractions in
front of him until the last round where he *finally* realized it was a
competition (it really wasn’t) and kicked my ass. Ha!
Enjoyed our time here and met a lot of cool people that I’m happily
going to keep in touch with. It’s
reasons like this that I love the Crossfit world, it truly is an international
and welcoming community.
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