Whu Happen?

December 5th, 2009, by

Yesterday our strength work started with some dead lifts 5-5-5-3-3-3. We saw some pretty impressive numbers come off the floor! Bethy amazed me by dead lifting 85.5kg's for FIVE REPS! ATTA GIRL! Tommy Mo set a new PR AND beat Garth by 1kg. Congrats on 191kg's! :-)

After the strength work, we did tabata front squats. I knew this was coming, and to be honest, I was kind of dreading it. I watched Bill do this workout about 2 weeks ago, and it just looked painful. The prescribed weight for the men was 40kg's, and 30kg's for the ladies. The idea was to work for 20 seconds, rest for 10 seconds, and end up with the highest total reps possible after 8 rounds.

Stacy took the crown for the ladies by getting 78 reps, and Mark R took the crown for the men by getting 84 reps! WOW! Great job you two!

Um, Super Dave....Whu happen? Normally, I don't call people out for sand-bagging in workouts, but YOU GOT BEAT BY DAD. The idea of tabata is to go TO THE MAX every single round. Don't rack the bar with 6 seconds to go so you can get extra rest....you just keep squatting. I'm not even exaggerating when I say that by round 7, I wanted to cry. Deb can attest to that fact. I was literally shaking and wanted to cry just thinking about unracking that bar and squatting again.

That leads me to my next point. Have you ever cried during a workout? Ever WANTED to cry during a workout? What kind of things bring about those waves of emotions? I have felt like that under 2 kinds of situations. 1 - when I am pushing through the suck and feel like quitting. 2 - when I am having an "off" day, and I know I'm sucking the white off rice.

How about you guys? I know you are all macho, tough guys....but have you ever wanted to cry during a WOD?

Dad and Mark DEFINITELY gave it their all

Dad and Mark DEFINITELY gave it their all

Category: CrossFit

6 Responses to "Whu Happen?"

  • Super Dave
    December 7, 2009, 1:02 pm

    Wait, in the afternoon you guys used RACKS for this metcon?

    Okay, since I'm already in the doghouse with our Coaches for the Tabata front squat workout, I'll go first for the guys: Yes, I've wanted to cry, but only once that I can remember...and it was 2 days ago.

    That Lumberjack WOD was BRUTAL. I hate running as much as Jennie, and those runs never seemed to end. I'm known for having a smile on my face during workouts (which I've been reprimanded on many times). Coach Zach had the line of the morning when, upon seeing my face that screamed I'm going to cry, Coach Zach said:

    "You're not smiling now, are ya Dave?"

    No. No I'm not. I'm crying. On the inside. And maybe on the outside a little, too. But let's just call that sweat. Deal?

  • stacy
    December 7, 2009, 3:26 pm

    Deal Dave. I too have had sweat tears. There are times when I ask WTF am I doing this for and... I could just stop, right now, just stop. But do I, "Never!" finishing and succeeding mean more to me then that second of doubt.

  • Tommy Mo
    December 7, 2009, 3:57 pm

    I never wanted to cry at all, but I have had a few WOD's where my thoughts were very similar to officer Stacy's thoughts she listed above.

    "This is absolutely horrible. I am so miserable right now. I have to be nuts to keep going on.

    (i.e. "Kalsu" was one of them):

    However, I remember a Team Saturday, when I was teamed up with Matty Lo and we were once again (read: SHOCKER!) battling Pete and Garth. It was a lot of running, then repping out pull-ups, thrusters and maybe something else. Sometime back in March/April I believe.

    What made this WOD so miserable was the fact that I just began just embarking on the dietary change from "traditional body builder" eating to "paleo" as discussed with the Yundt's and Coach Z.

    I remember it was my final 400M run, I was on my way back for the final 200M and I just wanted to stop running, fall over and quit. I honestly don't know how I made it back to the fort, but I got into the box, fell to all 4's and then rolled over watching Matt rep thrusters. Had he finished 15 of them I would have had to get on the pull-up bar.

    My internal mental battle was this:

    - "Go Matty! Go! We gotta beat them!"

    Then my thought immediately after that was:

    - "Oh no! Please. Run out of time. I have nothing left. Please clock, move faster!"

    Had he finished, he woudl have turned to me and I don't think I would've gotten off the floor - I was trashed and absolutely miserable.

    I'll never, ever forget that Saturday!

  • Bethy
    December 8, 2009, 12:49 pm

    Jennie, I have to say, your two conditions sum it up pretty well. And I know I've been known to get a little leaky in the eye-region on occasion.

    As long as we're not crying *before* the WOD... ;)
    (and that one time early on when I started crying just from holding on to the climbing rope... ^_^ )