gymgirl's workout journal

[minime]

nice work gymgirl! i know you are disappointed with your DL but i would kill for 235! Also good job on getting to 155 for 3 reps on the squat!

and of course ten rounds of that WOD is awesome, l-pullups are so hard! I cannot even do one.

[gymgirl]

Originally Posted by seraph

gymgirl, excellent work on monday's WOD. i managed to get 7 rounds in. my "core" section is sore form the "L" pullups!!!!!!!!!! i could barely do situps yesterday

god mine is sore too, then i was stupid and did nancy yesterday, yet another brutal core workout.

thanks minime.

tuesday, january 22, 2008

"Nancy"

Five rounds for time of:
400 meter run
95 pound Overhead squat, 15 reps (sub 65# girl rx'd weight)

time: 18:25 (PR)

runs on TM

Eric 34/m/140

19:24

eric's first time ever trying OHS. we stuck with the 45# for him today. runs on TM. form was pretty decent, he came up on his toes a bit but got full depth in the squat.

pre: OHS warm-up
post: nothing

Congrats on the PR.

[j2bryson]

wow, nice work!

[seraph]

good job gym girl, i just found out my gym is a "crossfit gym" but i can't find them on the crossfit site?

[gymgirl]

seraph- what city? and what is the gym name?

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Four rounds for time:
Run 400 meters
Rest 2 minutes

on the treadmill:
1:28
1:28
1:25
1:23

pre: nswux2 + stretching

post: 5x5 shoulder press 65x5, 70x5, 75x5, 75x5, 75x5

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Snatch 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 reps

55-60-60-65-65-65-70(PR!)


pre: nswux1 + burg wux2

post: met up with eric for christine

Christine:

3 rounds for time of:
500m row
BW deadlifts, 12 reps (used 115#)
box jumps

13:52 (horrible)

eric 34/m/147

135# DL
13:19

I hate when eric beats me! AUGH.

Friday, January 25, 2008

rest day

finally got a cheat meal. went to sushi with a girlfriend and had 2 sake infused martini's so good. then we went to a bar and had 2 glasses of champage. went home made a trader joes pizza and had a zone bar.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

"Nasty Girls"
3 rounds for time of:
50 Squats
7 Muscle-ups (sub jumping bar muscle ups, bar above head with arms extended)
135 pound Hang power cleans, 10 reps (sub 95# girl rx'd weight)

11:51

pre: nswux2 + burgie x2
post: nothing

Sunday, January 27, 2008

took another rest day. rode the ferry across the water to have brunch on bainbridge island. had the best carmel pecan french toast ever, with lots of coffee. spent the rest of the day in bed then thai food for dinner before the sonics game, 2 lite beers there too. god it felt great to get a little break from the zone.

[JDR3]

Great job on the Nasty Girls!

Sounds like Sun. was a very nice day!

[minime]

congrats on the snatch PR gymgirl!

sounds like you are having a suck-fest with the zone, did you consider going higher on fat like nicole suggested? That way you can get your calories up without going out of the zone.

That happened to me too, when I started it i felt great then slowly it began to suck the life out of me lol, I just think it was a matter of too low calories. Also I began to gain weight despite only eating 1600 calories per day! I eventually said screw this, if I'm going to gain weight I'm doing it with a lot of food!


sounds like you had a good weekend! caramel pecan french toast, now that is something I could get my teeth into... mmmm

Here's my belated congrats on your snatch PR and the other stuff you did. You still are in the pedal to the metal zone.

I'd sure like to see a video of your snatch workout (sounds terrible I know) so I can learn from a pro how to do it right. The last one you did was quite a while ago. When you have time.

I posted the bodyweight-only training article I wrote on another fitness website and a comment came up about the depth of your Atlas pushups and whether it was shoulder-safe. I responded that the person doing those is gymgirl from DiscussFitness, a superfit athlete and a personal trainer who knows what she is doing. No further comments came up.

[gymgirl]

mm- not really a suck fest with the zone. the first two week are usually tough, but this time is worse then last time because i went bat **** crazy in december, so as dave (my cf seattle coach) says january is going to be really tough and i will feel like crap all around.

the zone really worked for me last time, i just should't have taken a month off in december, as fun as it was. i am on higher 2x fat and that seems to help with the hunger. like i said it's just the first two weeks that are brutal, i'll stick with nicole's perscription and if i don't feel better in another 4 weeks ill just add 1 more block.

pieirni, ill try to video my snatch (hehe) next time. my form is not perfect by anymeans, probably pull too early but it is better then the old videos from awhile back. i think everything just clicked last week so the weight felt super light. thanks for having my back re: the atlast push-ups. i cannot tell you how many comments, messages i got via youtube on those videos. so funny.

hi, JDR, yes sunday was a great day!

Monday, January 28, 2008

took a rest day as i was feeling a bit under the weather again. apperently what we thought was strep is just a mean virus, and the symptoms re-appeared. took a nap and got to bed early, feel better today. hoping to do the CFT and cindy this evening.

[gymgirl]

tuesday, january 29, 2008

"CrossFit Total"
Back squat, 1 rep 185 (PR)
Shoulder Press, 1 rep 95 (PR)
Deadlift, 1 rep 240 (-10)

Total: 520 ties PR

then met up with Eric (and we got a newbie! one of eric's rowing friends from college) for cindy.


"Cindy"

Complete as many rounds in 20 minutes as you can of:

5 Pull-ups
10 Push-ups
15 Squats

Nadia: 24 rounds

eric: 22 + 5 pull-ups 10 push-ups

geoff: 10 rounds
(great job for his first WOD, also did push-ups on DB since he hurt his wrist)

Had to share the pull-up station with eric (it's the weird grip one under the cable machine, because he wanted to do the workout with me, rather then me at the other end of the gym where the semi-straight pull-up bar is. Geoff had his own station next to us, but I had to wait a few times for eric to finish pull-ups before i could start my set. I actually needed the rest so it was good. my legs are super sore today. i'm frightened by how quickly eric is catching up to me. he's been keeping up lately when he used to gas on metcons. i'm not liking this at all!

making up grace tonight.

[pseudonym]

24 round Cindy - very nice my friend. very nice indeed.

Full props to your friend Eric too - I've been watching his progression through your journal and it's putting a lot of us to shame ... awesome stuff .

Keep it up (as if there's any way you would stop eh! )

... oh and I guess 2 PR's on your CFT was an OK effort too

[j2bryson]

24 rounds... wowee!

[minime]

great job gymgirl, on the total and on that awesome cindy performance! You are so far ahead of me I cannot even eat your dust lol!

that is funny : i feel like that sometimes with this girl I work out with now! she has so much natural strength she is seriously almost as strong as me in many things, despite having not been much of a gym-goer before! I have to keep on my toes or I will be eating HER dust in a few months!

Hope your date with Grace went well!

[gymgirl]

Originally Posted by pseudonym

24 round Cindy - very nice my friend. very nice indeed.

Full props to your friend Eric too - I've been watching his progression through your journal and it's putting a lot of us to shame ... awesome stuff .

Keep it up (as if there's any way you would stop eh! )

... oh and I guess 2 PR's on your CFT was an OK effort too

yeah he is insane, it is not fair 6 weeks or so into crossfit and he's blasting through the metcons. i need to up his weight now which will slow him down a bit hehe. and thanks for the nice comments.

minime, i hear ya sucks when newbies catch up with so quickly! then i try to remind myself they will hit a slump soon. when you start you have nowhere to go but up, then i'm guessing they might plateu a bit.

i am so sore from cindy, funniest part is eric isn't one bit sore! bastard.

wednesday, january 30, 2008

"Grace"

135 pound Clean and Jerk, 30 reps (95# girl weight)

Use 95 pounds, 65 pounds or broomstick as needed and post time and load to comments.

time: 9:25

after doing the math, i probably should have done 85# C&J since the rx'd weight of 135 is for a 175# male. and 95# is only 15# shy of my BW. great workout, didn't stop sweating for a good 20 min post workout.

btw got my first "celeb" client! he's not huge but in a pretty famous band, one that i have been a fan of for years.