Crossfit Life: Shoulders, shoulders, shoulders...

7 days off from Crossfit for the holidays.. That is one long break and I am not too happy about it... It's been a busy last week but it feels so good to be back in the box!!

Christmas was amazing and I got all new Crossfit gear! My new Crossfit lifters, workout shirts, pants, wrist wraps, socks.. You name it :) I am one happy CrossFitter, that's for sure!

Anyway, tonight killed my shoulders. We did shoulder presses, push presses and push jerks for the power lifting part.

Bill set it up in a way that we had to keep increasing weight and reps.

Shoulder Press 1-1-1

Push press 3-3-3

Push Jerk 5-5-5

My PR for each was:

75/95/75

Once it was time for the push jerk, my arms were so weak and it was tough to maintain that 95 weight. I had to drop to 65 at first and could only get up to 75 pounds.

The warm-up and work out weren't too bad tonight, except for the fact that my quads and calf muscles were on fire!

Warm-up

Row 2 min

Then

4 rounds

-1 wall climb-

-5 pull ups-

-10m lunges -

WOD

As many reps as possible in 10 min

500m row

100 air squats

50 double unders (150 regular jump ropes)

15 foot rope climb

The WOD was a killer on the legs. Coming off the rower and going into air squats burned so bad! Then going into jump roping after squats, forget it! My legs were so numb after jumping that I could not even climb the rope. I was so mad I didn't get a rope climb considering I can fly up that rope now. It's unreal how mad you get at yourself when you can't do what you know you can do. It's okay, it was a good workout after a 7 day break.

After the workout, I was beat but it's been worse before... Way worse...

Craig (my soon to be brother-in-law) was the only other person in class tonight with me lol. He got a rope climb in and I'm so proud of him! He's new to Crossfit and he's kicking butt!! His PR tonight with the shoulder presses, push presses, and push jerks were 165/185/165 which is really impressive! He had to drop down in weight on the push press too. He's still trying to find his PR's with certain lifts so he went a little heavy to fast.

Here's some pics of us lifting tonight.

Craig at 185 push press