Ouch! That Was Hard!

I was so achy from yesterday that when I saw today's WOD on the board my heart sunk. I didn't even know what a couple of those exercises were and I knew for a fact I wouldn't be able to do a toe to bar.

Here is what I saw:

Strength: modified curly p’s 4×5 (10lb dbs)
Conditioning: 3rds
20 wallballs (10lbs)
20 upright row (15lb kb)
20 toes to bar
20 jump squats
20 DU or 40 singles
20 mt climbers (alt knee to elbow)

I didn't know what a modified curly or an upright row was. But after the instructor demonstrated the exercises, I felt more at ease. 

The modified curly p's were by far the hardest strength exercise I have had to do. Basically you hold the dbs on your shoulder and do 1 squat, 2 lunges and 1 push press, 4 times. It sounds easy, right? Well, it isn't... The weight of the dbs on your shoulder definitely take a toll. I used 15lbs dbs for the first round and I regretted it instantly. I then changed it to 10lb dbs. 

Then the Conditioning.... The most difficult were the wallballs... It gets REALLY tiring after a while. I had to do in sets of 10 then 5 towards the end. 

And of course, I couldn't do the toes to bars. The instructor told me to instead, lift my knees up, kind of like a crunch but without lifting your arms. I was like "I can't do that", and she said "Yes, you can!". And she was right... My hands hurt like hell but I was able to do all 20 of them, each time. I think I will get calluses after this. 

So yeah, it was a very difficult one, but all my back and shoulder pain from yesterday went away after I did the workout today. Ironic, huh?

I finished the workout in 16:30. 

I'm going to have to ice my palms tonight :)

6 Weeks Into Crossfit

I'm starting to feel the heat out there, even though it wasn't that hot today. As always, it felt great afterwards. My sister in law also joined me today so it was nice having a partner to work out with :)


Here is what we did:
Conditioning: 20min amrap
10 push press (10lb kbs)
10 box jumps (20" box)
20 mt. Climbers
Run 100m


Each round took me about 3 minutes to complete, so I think I did about 6 rounds, but I'm not sure. All I know is that it was harder than I thought it would be. 


Afterwards we did abs work out, so we did some situps, butterfly situps and bicycle. I really don't have a problem doing situps. I find that's probably the easiest thing for me to do, out of all the exercises. Bicycles, however, make my sides burn a lot, but I guess it's because it's working. 


It was a good workout overall :)