Box Jump Bonanza!

Yesterday was truly a box jump bonanza! After a long day I had been super efficient so that right at 3 pm I could leave and jam over to cf for the 3:30 class.  Lately 3:30 has been less crowded and it still leaves me time to work on other movements after class and allows me to still get home at a reasonable time. Just as I was gathering my things about to walk out of my classroom two former students of mine who I taught in 6th grade and are now sophomores in hs come through my door! I love seeing old students and catching up with them. As they told me about how well they are doing through the many challenges they are facing, and how some of them are now football and track stars there I sat and listened and suddenly realized that the hundred box jumps could wait another hour. :) Just so happened by some miracle that I was still able to get there just a few minutes late to a cf class that was only 4 of us and me being the only female. It was great and brought me back to days of the 3:30 class at our old box. It was often the same make up as yesterdays class however I was waaaaaay less skilled than I am now.

I power cleaned three sets at 110 and then got ready for the workout. I loaded RX 105 on my bar including the 1 and a half plates on either side to make it legit and got my 20 in box ready for jumps. coach Rick said in the first min we could even get 50 jumps. Don't think I've ever.gotten more than 20 or 30 in a min but I was determined to try my best.

Clock sounded and in the first minute seemed to connect the jumps like I haven't normally done with a quickness as I was counting and reached thirty I kept going. When he finally yelled clean and jerk, I had.gotten exactly 40 in the first min! The 105 seemed a tad heavy but I was able to do it. Got on the box jumps again and legs started feeling like gumby! I pushed through it and throughout the workout. I ended up having to do.three clean and jerks over because I was not able to completely lock it out. But when I was done I had.completed it.in 6:32 and knew I had given every once. Moat importantly I know anything less than forty jumps in a min isn't acceptable!  Fight.gone.bad....get ready for me!!!!

After the workout I.did seven sled pulls with the last two totally 225 pounds. Thanks to another cfers for that opportunity to Excel! 

Wednesday clean day!

Ever have a day when you work out and at the end of the workout you feel like your heart is gonna explode?!?! You push through it unsure of the weight that you just loaded up on your bar... But all you know is that you are going to finish the workout... When its over you realize that every second you thought about stopping and decided not to counted in your favor. You look at your time and you realize that you have just completely amazed yourself and being that you are your own worst critic you know that you must have done a pretty awesome job. Well that is just how I felt today.... Great, just great...  Thanks to coach Rick and coach Jason for pushing me to do RX.

For starters today we did one rep max cleans. I got a 3 pound pr...at 123 pounds. Then we did the workout of power cleans and bar facing burpees at 95 pounds. We did 15, 12, 9, 6, and 3 for time. I completed it in 7:15 mins.  Yaaayyyy buddyyyy!!! I was excited!  Power Cleans are one of my favorite movements!  The workout today came from crossfit.com.