Fatbusting: Kirwan's log
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[quote name='BartMan']SO YOU WALK INTO A HANDSTAND POSITION AGAINST THE WALL YOU MEAN? Sounds tough![/QUOTE]<br />
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Yeah, but it's easier than the handstand pushup. It's a core and shoulder/arm exercise. You aren't allowed to just drop, so when the volume gets involved, I'm sure it'll get tougher. I think it's paired with deadlifts, so that would be fun. -
Fun day to day, did my first rope climb and got a PB on Cindy. Rope climb was with technique of using your legs, wrapping the rope around your feet to make a step. <br />
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And Cindy was 14 rounds + eight of 5 pullup, 10 pressups and 15 squats in AMRAP in 20 minutes. So that works out as 75 pullups, 143 pushups, and 210 squats. My pushups deserted me in round 7ish, and I had to break up the reps, but was really pleased that my pullups and squats were all unbroken. Have learned how to do kipping pullups properly, and it makes a massive difference. Can do 15 of them in a row now.<br />
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Oh, and had the "fun" of getting stuck under a back squat and having to get out of the way and drop the weight. Umm, lets say I need to work on that! Didn't hurt myself thank christ <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' /> -
Still trucking along. Had to take a week and a half off as I had an injury scare, I went from nervously getting my neck checked out to the relief of rotator cuff problems.<br />
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My guess is that I didn't warm up enough for a try at my 1 rep max for Bench Press. Manifested itself in some interesting pain over the next few days.<br />
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Rest seems to have sorted it out, have some physio lined up to work out what actually happened. In the meantime, I've been back twice to xFit going at 90% and being very careful with warming up and have added in my suspected exercises carefully. Only one not tried again yet is hand stand pushups, I'll wait a week on those.<br />
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I did manage to get through a pretty comfortable 5km run on Friday, with no calf or other issues, so at least one injury site seems to be clearing up. -
Yeah, sucks to get old <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> I got to do the Bear today @50kg in a WOD. Yeah, that's hard work.
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Amusing workout yesterday;<br />
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10 Handstand Pushups, 20 9kg Wallballs, 30 Toes to bar, 40 50kg Power Cleans, 50 Burpees, 60 35kg Sumo Deapdlift Highpulls<br />
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Took somewhere around 21 minutes. Toes to Bar and Burpees kicked my arse, did the handstand pushups unbroken though, was pleased with that. Felt like puking during the Burpees. -
I watched a youtube video that was pretty close to that workout - ugh it looked super painful!! the toe to bar one in particular. Nice work on the handstand pushups! 10 in a row is excellent.
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[quote name='Paekakboyz']I watched a youtube video that was pretty close to that workout - ugh it looked super painful!! the toe to bar one in particular. Nice work on the handstand pushups! 10 in a row is excellent.[/QUOTE]<br />
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Yeah that was a surprise, as my previous best only a few weeks ago was three - and I just done a PB on the Push Press and figured my shoulders were toast.<br />
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The toes to bar aren't too bad, I mainly struggled on those because my hands are all cut up. -
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[quote name='Kirwan']Today was all about the snatch. I went to a different class time today and was the only one there (no surprise, it was Monday 9am....) [B]so the trainers asked if I minded helping him work on his snatch x 3[/B]. Got a PB of 50kg, was pretty happy with that.[/QUOTE]<br />
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Only in crossfit lol!! -
or Olympic lifting <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> It's hard to write snatch without sniggering, or say it the gym. Some terrible joke to be had.
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I would love to get stuck into the olympic lifts - but don't want to be taught bad technique etc, and no one here to teach it right. <br />
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WOuld have loved to be an Olympic lifter, reckon it's primeval, just having to lift something really really heavy over your head!! -
Absolutely smashed. You know it's going to be a tough workout when the trainer advises you not to do the normal 800m run warmup...<br />
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Meet Eva; 5 rounds for time of 800m run, 30 x 32kg KB swing and 30 pullups. I had to scale to the 20kg KB and do jumping pullups, and still took 45mins to do 4 rounds. Hard to describe what happens to you in the run after the kettlebells + pullups. Not much oxygen left, that's for sure. -
Heavy day yesterday, lots of cleans. Worked towards 5 x 5 of 70kg squat clean, which was a PB, so happy with that.<br />
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Short WOD of 8mins of 17.5kg dumbbell squat cleans and pressups in the following sequence, 3,3 - 6,6 - 9,9 - 12,12 - 15, 15 until you run out of time. I got up to the end of 15s before spluttering to a starfish position. -
First Aussie Hero workout called Wood for today;<br />
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5RFT of 400m run, 10 x Burpee box jump, 10 x SDHP and 10 x Thrusters, 1min rest between rounds.<br />
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Took me just over 30mins (with the rest time subtracted), was all legs and no oxygen. Pleasant.
