I think that Blackberry's are freaking awesome!

On the advice of Pat I tried a www.maxfitusa.com WOD.
AQAP:
45 Thrusters (M=95lb/W=65lb)
45 Pull-up
7:01

The first 21 of the thrusters were completed in under 1:30 min. I was
happy with the speed of the thrusters to that point. Then... 3:00 mins
for the remainder. The pulls were dismal as well. Which is odd for me
because I thought that I would hit those hard and be okay.
"Excuse" warning!
The gym I frequent has run out of chalk. So the bar was slippery for
the thrusters plus the pull up bar was almost impossible to hold on to.
To fix this I tried to hold on to paper towels while I did the pull ups.
That was better but far from the effects that chalk produces.

Recently I have upgraded my phone to a Blackberry Curve. I think that
this device just about the coolest thing ever. I am happy with it for
the following reasons:
1. It makes calls
2. It receives calls
3. I can create and send emails
4. I can post to my blog with it
5. It is my alarm clock
6. I can waste an enormous amount of time playing with the settings to
"tweak" it
7. It sync's to my iTunes playlists
8. It has a fairly decent camera
9. It has an icon that tells me the weather both long and short term
10. It has GPS
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The Daily Parker

Earth Day! My Dog PARKER!

Well today was a fun day.

WU 250m row, Steve's lifting warm up

Front Squat

5-5-3-3-1

135-225-245-245-245

50 x 1.5 KB Snatch

2:38

2 Rounds of:

20 x 1.5 KB Snatch

30 Push ups

4:10

I am noticing that I have some pretty good results for the first 2-4 mins and then I start to gas. It is interesting to me that a year ago I was "gaming it" for 30-45 mins in a row. I guess that is what happens with 30lbs of extra stuff around the center.

Navy Seal Box Jump

CFWU x 1 + various stretches to loosen up hips

5 Disastrous rounds of:
30 Squats
10 Pull ups
5 x 135lbs Clean and Jerks
12:21
Lost all my gas at 6:02. This was when I finished my 3rd round. I
think a good time for this would be 5-6 mins.

Going to NASCAR in June.

It has been a few daye since I have posted. No excuses.

Cleaned the garage today. It was such a nice day that I wanted to be outside.

After I cleaned the garage I took Parker for a run to see how my running is.

About 4.5 km

29:55

There was a lot of stopping and stretching. I was more sore then breathing hard. I was tired but I was having a tight pain on the right rear side above the hip.

Stretched and now icing the knee.

Hurricane Force Winds

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Gasping and destroyed

Warm up was fran with no weights or real pull ups.

"Fran"
Three rounds,21-15- and 9 reps,
for time of:
95 pound Thrusters
Pull-ups
5:55

So hard. I am shaking still.

2/3 of the driveway is completed. Pictures to follow!

Last night a few of us went out after work. This morning I had to ride the bike to pick up my car.

52 min Bike ride.

That is all.

Jimmy Johnson vs Kyle Busch?

Steve's unimproved warm up. Want to add some pull ups and push ups.

Deadlift
1-1-1-1-1-1-1
385-405-405-405-405-405-440 PR

Handstands for 3.5 mins.

The weight was feeling good so I wanted to have another test at a PR. 440 went up smooth and came down nice and clean. I think I was too worried about dropping it.

Chili + burpees?

Steve's warm up.
Then

7 rounds for time:
5 burpee pull ups
10 squats
6:21

15 x 95lbs OHS

Some snatch practice with 45lbs bar.

After this WOD I was having some serious acid influx.
Sent from my BlackBerry(r) wireless device

Graceful my Ass.

Dynamic warm up:
2x50m side shuffle steps
50m heel kicks
50m high knees
2x50m leg crossovers
25m crab walk
25m bear walk

This warm up is a mash up of what we did last summer prior to doing the Land O course and the one I learned at CrossFit Vancouver a year ago. I really like it because it gets my heart beating and I get to move around a bunch. It does however not incorporate any strength stuff. I will try to improve on it as I experiment more with it.

Grace

30 reps of Clean and jerk 135lbs for time.

5:10 (1:08 seconds off a PR.)

Felt strong as far a muscles go but breathing was impossibly hard.

I have had very peculiar and strange experiences.

Back Squat
3-3-3-3-3
295-295-315-315-315
Pull ups
1-1-1-1-1-1-1
35-45-70-90-100-100

These were not records I just wanted to lift something heavy. I think
Pat's message is affecting me. That is a good thing.

The title of this post is from the psychological test I had to do. The
MMPI-2. Strange test.