Tuesday, July 29, 2008

I almost fainted

Usually when I read about Crossfit workouts, you guys included, everything seems kind of neat and tidy. Sure there's the occasional "fail," but overall it seems orderly. My WOD today did not feel orderly. Anyway, here it is. (I'm not sure if I have the lexicon right here either).

Attempt snatch balance with barbell. Fail twice. Give up.

Overhead press
45x5, 55x3x2x2x2 (this was when I almost fainted. I think I forgot to breathe)

Squats
55x5, 65x5, 3 sets of 75x5

Deadlifts
95x5
4 sets of 105x3

Randy's 2 minute sit up / push up drill
67 sit ups (no resting)
36 push ups (lots of resting, diminishing form quality)

5 comments:

Randy said...

That's a pretty hardcore workout, and it's humbling that you put in such big numbers in the situps/pushups after all that. Nice going!

Melanie said...

Thanks Randy!!

Sam Crish said...

Yeah, that's a lot of volume

The way I do it is the weight by the reps by the sets, so if you did three sets of 5 reps with 95lbs it would be written like so:
95x5x3

For not the same number of reps across sets you separate by commas - Like if on your first set you got five reps and then three reps on your second set and two reps on your third set it would look like this:
95x5,3,2

For different weights across sets you can go like this if it's the same number of reps:
3x5 (95, 105, 115)

or go like follows:
95x5, 105x5, 115x5

And do that for different weights and reps.

I'm not married to any of this however and if anyone has a better way than that speak up.

Sam Crish said...

I'm still amazed you did all that.

Melanie said...

thanks Sam - that makes sens