Posts Tagged "crossfit"
Deadlift day
Wednesday was one rep max deadlift day at the gym! My favorite day – deadlifts are the best lifts in all the land. At least for me. Finally, those big hips, butt, and thighs come in handy. I hit a PR by 10 pounds, I’m finally at 300 pounds! Woooo! My girl Lisa hit a PR too, here she is doing 230. It’s all in the faces you make. I promise. In other CrossFit-related news (sort of), I am so excited to announce that I’ll be redesigning and rebuilding Robb Wolf.com! His book The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet comes out next month and so the next few weeks will be a whirlwind trying to get him moved to a new, more reliable web host, making...
Read MoreMore CFVB action
Check out this super cool video about Crossfit Virginia Beach, where I work out! Now I really regret not being there that day, and yes I have done that workout before.
Read MoreWrecked
This is what 150 pullups will do to your left hand when you already have calluses from pullups and weightlifting. My right hand is ripped as well. I don’t want to touch anything! This is so gross and yes, it hurts. I will be vigilant about filing down calluses from now on. Still loving every minute of Crossfit. Would not trade the feeling of being able to say, why yes I did run 1.5 miles and do 150 pullups in 41 minutes to have my girly, delicate, lotiony hands back. Edited to add: before I get 200 comments about needing to wear gloves, they supposedly make it worse. Then the whole surface of your hand is rubbing fabric AND has the pressure of your body weight...
Read MoreCrossfit Virginia Beach
Yesterday I launched the brand new Crossfit Virginia Beach website. I’ve worked pretty hard on it and I’m really happy with how it came out. If you have a second to go glance at it, let me know what you think! While building this site (migrating it from typepad) I have learned to really hate Typepad. It seems to be fine if you are using them, but if you ever try to leave, God help you. Maybe I’ll go into all the reasons why Typepad is awful in a future post, but let’s start with: it turns image URLs to garbage, forcing you to have to manually reinsert ALL your images when you import to your new site (unless you just want to pay typepad to keep...
Read MoreIt sucked, and then I died.
Saturday morning Mary and I got up bright and early to check out the open house at Crossfit Virginia Beach. I was prepared to get murdered, but ouch! Brutal! Photos were being taken the entire time. I expect NOT to be posting those once they’re online, unless you guys want to see me in all my grunting, screaming, sweating and panting glory. It was completely unconscious but from the wall balls onward I’m pretty sure I sounded exactly like those pro tennis chicks that I always make fun of, that scream every time they hit the ball. Yeah, that was me. The WOD (workout of the day), for your amusement: Tabata WTF Complete 32 intervals of 20 seconds of work...
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