A new cross fit girls work out to add to the list of my mid-night work outs.
Mary is a lot like Cindy…but vastly different.
5 hand stand push ups
10 one legged squats (10 each leg)
15 pull ups
20 minutes – as many rounds as possible.
This was by far the hardest workout I have done to date. Hand stand push ups were done free-wall. Balance became a huge issue after only the second round and I had to resort to knocking out two presses before falling and starting over. Pull ups were hard solely because of volume involved, however the clincher came from the pistols. After the first round I could barely stop myself my falling over on the way down and form went completely out the door. I resorted to 5 pistols a leg followed by 10 air squats to scale for the missed pistols. My glutes hate me right now.
Mary was finished with 9 rounds exactly complete. Sleep ensued shortly after…who needs sleeping pills?
-Charles Moreland
Rolling Stones said it right I guess…
Angie was tonight, yet another Cross Fit girls routine. This one involves 100 pull ups, 100 push ups, 100 sit ups and 100 air squats consecutively for time. Break down went as follows:
100 pull ups – 10 minutes (I figured I’d pace myself to 10 a minute)
100 push ups – 5 minutes
100 sit ups – 4 minutes
100 air squats – 3 minutes
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22 minutes and roughly 14 seconds
I feel I could have pushed myself more, however form means quite a bit for me. All in all a decent addition to my daily work out. Class work has kept me from getting more than 5 hours of sleep each night this week and prevented me from my bouldering work out. Tomorrow should prove otherwise as a healthy break in my hectic schedule.
-Charles Moreland
I see my rather spontaneous characteristic one of my more favorable personality traits. It serves to keep my life interesting.
Last night I came home from a long day at the studio and from tae kwon do with the impression I would get some of my lab work done for an 8am class the next day. After a usual perusing of the forums and a quick email check, I headed downstairs to grab my lab manual and begin my work. At this point I look up at the muscle up bar I have installed in my stairwell and immediately decide to knock out five pull ups. Looking at my cell phone, seeing the numbers 11:40 flashing in my eyes, I figure it’s all too perfect and drop down to begin my wonderful Cindy.
Cindy is a Cross Fit designed workout which involves five pull ups, ten push ups and fifteen air squats. These sets put together make up one round, and the goal is to do as many rounds as possible in twenty minutes.
Ten minutes later I had completed eleven rounds and was entirely exhausted. I threw my phone away, determined to finish at least 16 rounds before again looking at the time. It was around round fifteen where I knowingly turned off my thoughts and entered my meditation zone – a state of consciousness I learned how to do last year during my sprint three milers every morning for my Army workouts. I have no real recollection from round fifteen to nineteen; my eyes were closed most of the time.
After dropping from nineteen I forced myself to check the time to make sure I hadn’t gone over. Realizing I had one minute left, I closed my eyes again and attempted the final twentieth round. I dropped after five push ups and used the remaining thirty seconds to finish the last five that for some reason just would not go.
Letting the time go I dropped to the floor and laid there for about three minutes. Looking back up I found my lab manual sitting on the floor in front me.
I enjoyed my decision which was later re-affirmed due to my 8am class being instructed by a personal trainer with a masters degree who did not understand the role creatine phosphate played in the process of fabricating ATP. In my eyes, I did my homework.
-Charles Moreland