Tonight, we decided to go to Crossfit instead of the regular gym because the workout was a partner workout and we thought it looked fun. Hah! Little did we know!!! LOLing literally as I sit here and blog about this workout!
Tonight's WOD:
We started the workout with some backsquats. My last recorded PR was 125 and moms was 85. So, during the workout, I had to do 10 backsquats at 75 pounds, 8 at 80 pounds, 6 at 90, and 4 at 95 pounds. Same goes for mom using 85 as the weight to calculate percentages too. Anyway, Art only let us rest 2 minutes in between sets so this was a killer strength workout and it really took a toll on me right away. My legs felt like jello and I could barely lift my last 2 sets of 6 and 4 backsquats. Art had to assist and help me out. Mom banged these out so fast, she underestimates her strength because she lifts these with ease sometimes. Also, her backsquats looked incredible! She gets so low compared to before... Progress for sure!!
Just a few pics of us doing backsquats
Anyway.... I kid you not, looking at the partner workout involving rowing 250 meters and then doing burpees while your partner rows 250m and back and forth until 3000 meters is reached, looked easy to us. I mean we row all the time and we've done burpees so many times. We saw this workout and said, "250m row is cake" and "This won't take long" and "That's only 6 times on the rower for each of us and 6 times doing burpees, how hard can it be???"
WELL.... The holding back of puke several times (for both of us), the heavy heaving for air, the constant need for water during the workout (which we usually always wait to finish before we get water), and the never ending ability to not be able to catch our breaths made this workout one of the most difficult ones to date. I think one other workout was up there with this one and that was doing 100 burpees and then jumping over the bar or something.
The hardest part of the workout was coming off the rower and going into the burpees. Our legs and arms were so spent and now we had to jump down into a burpee! Not one, not two, not three, but as many burpees as needed until the partner was done rowing their 250 meters. THEN, going right back on the rower!! It was never ending!!! The rower was actually my break time in this workout and by NO means is a rower a break time LOL. I tried as hard as I could to maintain a consistent pace with the burpees, but it was so difficult to keep moving the entire time. I would take 3 seconds here and there to just take as many breaths as possible.
Man, what an insane workout! I'm seriously SO beat! Our faces at the end of this workout looked like cherries from being so red. We were soaking wet with sweat. My lungs and chest were on fire from breathing the cold, dry air so hard. There was no amount of water that could quench my thirst. (I know I'm being a little dramatic, but you have no idea until you do something like this.)
Total mind and body workout!
All I have to say is goodnight! Oh and here's how long it took us...
Not bad, 17 minutes and 30 seconds of rowing and burpees! We managed to get 135 burpees! Probably burned 4000 calories!
Nice job tonight everyone, especially my partner, my Mom! Couldn't do this without her!
-CrossFitlys
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