friday morning Angie practice
Max pull-ups 6 min: 75
Max push-ups 5 min: 112
Max sit-ups 4 min: 107
Max squats 3 min: 107
Okay I admit, I was pissed that I didn’t get close to 100 pull-ups because my goal for the Angie is to finish the pull-ups in 6 minutes - last time it took me 7:30. However I learned something important, as I tried a new strategy today and it clearly didn’t work, so back to the old strategy it is. Then again, I may just be tired from Cindy on Tuesday, though at the time, the pull-ups were the easiest part.
I like the body-weight exercises. They’re simple, you don’t use excessive equipment or waste a lot of time, it’s just you and your body and gravity. Part of what I like about CrossFit so much, that sometimes the most simple things are the hardest.
Max push-ups in 5 minutes reminds me of this article I read about 119 Chinese high school kids getting rhabdo after being challenged with the exact same task. You can be sure as hell I’m going to be drinking about 5000 gallons of water today. Br J Sports Med. 2005 Jan;39(1):e3.
RANT: There is someone at my gym who will remain nameless (but sweats a lot) who makes me insane. He wasn’t there today, but he is there on many other days and he always pulls the same shit. He shows up and immediately goes off on how the workouts are too easy, and that he deserves a harder workout, and that everything is too simple for him. There have been a few times that I have had to bite my tongue from telling him to go stroke his ego at another gym then because I don’t give a fuck how easy he thinks it is. Then he’ll make comments on other people’s strength, asking why they couldn’t use more weight or why they went so slow. Dude. This is totally not making you any friends. One time there was a team workout, and he of course had to point out which members of the team did more work or more reps. This is not what we call a “team player.” If you’re reading this, person, cut it out. Seriously.
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