Fight Gone.... Worse?

You know, I didn't think it was humanly possible to make Fight Gone Bad suck anymore than it already does, but, yet again, I was absolutely wrong. Fight Gone Bad sucks, but Fight Gone Bad with set reps sucks even more. Let me 'splain... (no, there is too much. Let me sum up. Buttercup marry Humperdink in little less than half an hour. ;) ) Sorry, random movie reference... but if I didn't, I just wouldn't be me... anyway, back to the 'splaining... ;)

Fight Gone Bad is 3 rounds with 1:00 on each exercise in each round. So literally it's 15 minutes of suck. But, if you're like me... you try to game FGB. You know that rowing sucks the life out of you, so you try to keep a normal amount of calories and then just pick up a few extras somewhere where you are good... like oh say.... PUSH PRESS? Ah... jess, push press my old friend. However, once you take away the gaming aspect of FGB... well then, you are stuck with a whole lot of SUCK because you can't fudge! So, really, you have no choice but to go ahead and embrace the suck... because just looking at it, you know it's going to. The suck looks a little sumptin' like this...

3 Intervals
Rest 1:00 between intervals
20 wall ball
20 KB high pulls (53)
20 box jumps
20 push press (55)
20 calories

Doing the box jumps right after the kbhp and the wall balls was brutal. I kept thinking I was going to miss and hit the box on my shin again. But then, it got better. Once I had NO feeling left in my legs, I had to go hop in on a rower. Speaking of having no legs, I'm really tempted to throw out a Forest Gump reference, but I'm refraining. Be very proud. Anyhoo, where was I? Oh yes, back to the sucking. My intervals looked a little sumptin' like 'dis...

Round 1
5:12
Round 2
6:53
Round 3
6:51

Dang... I'm pleased that I kept this under 7 minutes at the end. I was sucking wind... and I mean sucking... if we ever do this again... I am taking a freakin' rest day... period. For cereal.

Put your hands up, put your hands up...

Monday... ugh. Who likes Mondays? Not me, but when they involve overhead work, eh.... they're tolerable. ;) Since I work Sunday nights, and especially since things have been kickin' up at the restaurant lately which means me staying later, I've been getting in Monday nights more. Contrary to popular belief, I have not abandoned my normal 0515 team, but I've been floating around a lot more these days.

I got in Monday night, and after a frustrating day at work, it was good to see my old friend, Jerk, up on the board. Jerk and I have reconciled after the big break up and subsequent outting of me and my torrid affairs... but Jerk understands that, well, I have more than one favorite in my life. He's ok with that now, not so much then, but we've mended the fences in time. ;)

It's been awhile since Jerk and I have seen each other really... I think the last time I hit jerks to be honest, was not too long after the Helen challenge. Throwing around 100 seemed a lot easier then because we were doing a LOT of overhead work. But lately, especially with my wonkey schedule, it seems that I've done no overhead work, except for squats and they don't really count IMHO because my load has been relatively light.

Anyhoo, I jumped in with the 545 crew on Monday night and worked up to some heavy jerks x 3. I had forgotten, how could I have?, that the bar can be VERY unfogiving to your clavicle... let me tell you... my "hickies" are GREAT! :P I really need to stop making out with the barbell... anyhoo.... weights looked like 'dis.

35X5
55X5
75X3
85X3
95X3
105X3
115X3
125X3
130X1

130X1 is the best jerk I've had since mid-December. I was pleased to get that overhead. Last time we did SINGLES Jerry stopped me at 125 for form faults. It felt good to throw 130 up over my head. I'm not going to lie. It felt good to get my hands up. :)

Helen Challenge Finals...

I was going to do a nice write up about this... but instead, I think I'll do a photo essay...















Original time- 12:48
Finals time- 12:37
3rd place in the women's division

Two words about this workout... HURT LOCKER.... I highly recommend NOT taking high dossages of antibiotics the night before attempting this...

"I better not do any, I don't know... LUNGES?!"

Wednesday's metcon was pretty brutal. I'm not even kidding. After the front squat disaster, I knew I needed to get in on Wednesday. So, in I went like a good little lemming after school. This WOD really sucked! Just in case you were wondering.

For time
100 M walking lunges
21 pull ups
21 burpees
100 M walking lunges
18 pull ups
18 burpees
100 M walking lunges
15 pull ups
15 burpees
100 M walking lunges
12 pull ups
12 burpees
100 M walking lunges
9 pull ups
9 burpees
100 M walking lunges
6 pull ups
6 burpees
100 M walking lunges
3 pull ups
3 burpees

Time: 24:27

Are you feeling "slug"gish?

Maybe it's the rain, maybe it's me... but whatever it is... these front squats SUCKED yesterday. Which is odd because normally I don't do too badly with squats. I love, love, LOVE me some OHS and last week nailed a 150 X 5. So why, when we were doing X 3 could I not get out of the suck lane? I felt like a total giant slug. There is one thing that I have noticed though, and that is that I do not do strength lifts as well in the evenings. I have more time at night, which I like, but I think going through the school day zaps me, so trying to do it at night is harder for me, but I don't want to blame that.

CF says that I should be able to produce on demand regardless of time of day, diet, etc. So why could I just not produce yesterday? I don't know. I really don't, but I just wasn't feeling it. I think part of it may have been that I had my eyes on a pretty high goal and jumped too fast, and then once I failed, just didn't feel like lifting anymore. It was just as much mental as it actually was physical I think, but then again, my brain has made mistakes before, so who's to say that I really know anything?

I had to settle for my first actual "no kidding, I suck" strength day in awhile. I couldn't even get 155X3. I didn't like the feeling. I especially didn't like it cause I feel like I just jinxed my spiffy new shoes. I don't want to lift badly everytime I wear them now. Poor shoes. They may just get chucked in the closet. (really and fo' cereal, no pun was intended on that one) :( That's a shame cause they're really cute. Boo... :(

On the upside, to save my spirits after the crappy lifting day, I went to Borders and used my 30% off coupon to purchase NCIS Season 2. I will be the first to admit that I love Burn Notice, and I heart, heart, HEART me some Michael Westen...



but... BUT Jethro Gibbs is after my heart. I am now addicted to the show NCIS. I seriously may need an intervention soon. If you were worried after my Michael Westen duct tape comments before, you may need to be even more concerned now. ;) I may need to have a serious love affair with Mr. Gibbs. Oh Jethro... semper fi. Semper fi. He is a dee-licious older man. Think very Harrison Fordesque. :) Oh... I think I'm in love... at least I'm not thinking about my craptastic front squats... hmmm... I could see my last name being Gibbs. Katie Gibbs... what do you think?

Don't mess with the farmer's daughter...

So, after a brief hiatus last week to relax and let my blood pressure go down from the stress of work, I returned to the box yesterday to get my butt handed to me. I knew that with being out for four days I was going to feel it. And boy did I. Jerry threw up an AMRAP workout that just whooped me. I swear, I don't know how Jerry comes up with the stuff he does. I think he just sits around and is like, "Hmmmm... what would really, really suck? Aha! I've got it." And the next thing you know, it's on the white board. No, really. I swear this is how it goes. ;)

Regardless, yesterday's real workout was Nate. But seeing as how I can't do A muscle up, let alone several muscle ups (to necesitate an entire rack! ***points if you know where that came from!) in a workout not to mention the HSPU, I decided to go with the alternate WOD. The alternate WOD looked like this.

AMRAP in 20 minutes
6 ring dips
6 pull-ups
DB strict press rep out
8 kb swings (53 lbs)

Really, this hurt my arms very very badly. I was sweating quite profusely at the end of this. I got in 7+ rounds, but it didn't feel good. I'm also back to using a band on the ring dips. Crap. I've completely lost the strength in my triceps. Crap, crap, crap! Did I mention, crap!?! Afterwards, Jerry "encouraged" us to do some farmer's walks. If you haven't been around for awhile, then you may not know that farmer's walks and I, well we get along pretty well. Lt. Col. Dan maintains that it's because I grew up on a farm.... I say that that's a completely moot point... just because the name happens to be Farmer's Walk... :P I went to the rr tracks and back with only 1 drop on 30lb bells. Not too shabby. It's a good thing though cause my forearms were jacked, and I really didn't want to do anymore push-ups. :P Today's fun I'm told is front squats X 3. I'm stoked and can't wait! :) Snazzy shoes here I come!!!!! :0)

Clean it up!

Today was fun! I got to wear my new lifting shoes... tehehe...yes those all my AWESOME Converse All-Stars pictured above! Today we worked on clean pulls from the floor. We didn't bring the bar to our shoulders, but just worked heavy on getting the bar from the floor into our "pockets" as Jerry calls them. Basically, getting from the floor to the hang, and emphasizing the shrug. I really liked doing this because I feel like my pull from the floor is really what screws me up when we start doing heavy cleans from the floor and not the hang. It's weird that I can hang clean more than I can clean from the floor. That should tell you something right there. The pull needs work. We noticed that I am chasing the bar a lot and moving my hips more like a KB swing and thrusting towards the bar moreso than doing a vertical movement and pulling the bar up. I had an "AHA!" moment, and really spent a lot of time trying to get the bar up instead of out. So, overall good solid work today. My max weight while mainting the clean pull and not going to a deadlift and shrug was 170, which is 30 lbs over my clean PR. Some solid work, especially considering that my arse was VERY sore today. The flexers were tight yesterday, EVERYTHING hurt today. Ouch! Stinkin' metcon nastiness! :P Boo hiss!