All Entries in the "Training of the day" Category
Wednesday 4th August: Oly and Circuits
4th August 2010 Snatch, Clean and Jerk and Crossfit Triplet Snatch- 5/40, 3/50, 2/60, 1/70, 1/75, 1/75 Clean and Jerk- 5/70, 3/80, 1/90, 1/95 Circuit, as many rounds as possible in 10minutes: 6 Cleans at 55kg 12 Pull Ups 24 Double unders Total: just fell short of 4 rounds. I’d just commenced the double unders [...]
Tuesday 3rd August: Hills
Tuesday 3rd August 2010 10* Mounstfield Park Hill I managed 10 of these bad boys today. So things feel like they are improving on the running front. I’ll try a track session and a steady state session later in the week- woo hoo!!
Monday 2nd August 2010: Squats, Cleans and Pull Ups
Monday 2nd August 2010 Squats, Cleans and Pull Ups Squats- 5/5/3/3/3 Clean and press thruster and Pull ups- 5 rounds of 5 and 10 This was the second week of my 5/3/1 strength focus and today was squats. So I managed 5/90, 5/110, 2*3/127.5 and 4/127.5. This was tough, the 3s at 127.5 were a [...]
Saturday 31st July: 400s and Burpees
Saturday 31st July 2010 6*400′s with 25Burpee Recovery I was planning on trying a 2hour plus run this morning, but realised I didn’t have enough time as I had to be on a train to Manchester at 1:20pm. This was on the Crossfit mainsite so I thought why not? The workout was 6*400ms and 25Burpees, [...]
Thursday 29th July: Isabel and KB Snatch
Thursday 29th July 2010 Isabel and Kettlebell Snatches Isabel is 30 Snatches at 60kg as fast as you can. This took me 4:40. I also learnt a lot. I learnt that you can almost always squeeze out another rep! I did it the studio too which meant I wasn’t dropping the weight, you end up [...]
Wednesday 28th July: Presses and 5km
Wednesday 28th July 2010 Presses and 5km Today was time to apply 5/31 to my standing press. As I only managed 65kg last week today was time to perform 3 working sets of 5 at 85%. I did this at 55kg. I managed 8 on the last set- this is still quite poor, yet obviously [...]
27th July- Squats and Roy
Tuesday 27th July 2010 Squats and Roy Squats – 5*5 Roy- 5 rounds of 15*100kg Dead Lifts, 20Box Jumps, 25Pull Ups Today was the first time implementing the 5/3/1 plan with my squats. I hit 140kg last weekend so today I was scheduled to perform 3 sets of 5 at 85%. I did a couple [...]
Isle of Wight- alright!!
Monday 26th July 2010 35min run on the Isle of Wight. I came down to the West Bay Club to meet with them about the possibility of running some courses and to look at their gym. As I was on this beautiful Island I decided to have a run around. This was the first steady [...]
Sunday 25th July: Angie
Sunday 25th July 2010 Angie Following on from yesterday I decided to do another Crossfit workout from the mainsite. Today’s workout was Angie which is 100 Pull Ups, 100 Push Ups, 100 Sit Ups and 100 Squats. For this I took myself to Finsbury Parks outdoor gym. It took me 40minutes!! People have done this [...]
Saturday 23rd July 2010: Crossfit Total
Saturday 23rd July 2010 Crossfit Total This had been brewing for a while. After much deliberation, contemplation, conversation and even some hesitation I bit the bullet. I was going to start on Monday but when the Crossfit Total came up on Saturday I thought it was time to see where I was at. The Crossfit [...]