Strong Partner.

This blog is a dedication to my strong Crossfit partner, not only my mother, but my best friend, my confidant, my motivation, my strength, and my teammate throughout this entire Crossfit experience. 

My mom is incredible, and to be honest, I can't even describe in words how truly proud of her I am. There are not many daughters who can say, "My mom Crossfits." For that alone, I am still blown away. 

My mom knows that she's my motivation... Heck, without her I probably wouldn't be doing Crossfit. However, what she doesn't realize is that she is my inspiration. Every workout that she completes, whether it's minutes ahead of me or minutes behind me, she is a machine and a true champion. I am 25, in the prime of my life and my mom is right by my side lifting weights not far away from mine, it's insane! 

It drives me nuts sometimes when she compares herself to me or to others working out because she doesn't really get the chance to step back and take a look at herself. Everyone that sees her in and out of that gym thinks she looks amazing. All of our Crossfit friends, including our trainers, are astonished by how great she is doing. The problem is, she doesn't see that. In fact, she doesn't see a lot... 

She doesn't see the smile on my face when I watch her and see the incredible progress of her deadlifts, front squats, back squats, overhead squats, clean jerks, overhead presses, and God knows what else. 

How about the fact that a month ago, 20 burpees almost made her quit and throw up and last night she did 100. 

Or that a month ago we were pressing nothing more than a bar and 2 green weights (35 pounds) and now it's nothing less that 65 pounds. 

Or that a pull-up seemed impossible even with a band. And now we moved up two bands. Knees to bar? We laughed when we watched the trainers do that because we said no way, and then tonight we did 42 of them. 

I want to be doing what she's doing when I'm at that point in my life and I hope I am. It's incredible and it really does inspire me. 

The crazy part is, my mom does beat me in workouts and it kicks my butt knowing that I have such strong competition by my side. 

The number one rule to crossfit is to remember that you are not competing with anyone in that place other than yourself. You are tracking your own progress, finding your own times for workouts, increasing weights and comparing it to your old max weight. It is all about YOUR OWN progress and nothing else should matter. 

Some awesome pictures of my strong partner :) 

Front squat

Overhead split

Box push ups

Overhead squat 

Farmer's Carry

Ring push-ups

Inverted ring stand

Rope climbs

Burpees

Thanks Mom, without you, I would not be where I am. I could never thank you enough for how you have shaped my life and how you continue to inspire me and make me want to live better. You are a strong, sexy, confidant crossfitting woman and I get to call you mom. 

Burpees (kill me)

Tonight was painfully, brutally absurd and I enjoyed every butt-kicking minute of it (psychotic, I know). 

First...not one warm up, but two (is that even logical?) Bill made us do two warm-ups. 

First...

Then...

These warm-ups had me ready to go for this workout; however, seeing the WOD on the board, made me want to puke already. They say there are 5 stages of crossfit.. 1. Fear and dread 2. Acceptance 3. Pain and suffering 4. Total Elation and 5. Excitement 

Every single one is SO TRUE... Especially seeing tonight's WOD

WOD:

100 burpees?!?!? ONNNNNEEE HUNNNNDRED BURRPEEEES??!?!?! 

PLUS... HANG CLEANS! 

Okay, let's discuss a few things for those of you that do not know....

1. Burpees are the death of Crossfit! They suck and we hate them! 

2. Doing ONLY 20 Burpees is hard! 

3. Adding hang cleans in there....just forget about it... Aka "Fear and Dread"

Well, we chipped away at those burpees...one by one...

The way Bill set this up was we started with a hang clean, 75% of our max weight. My max was 85 and moms was 45 (she was just having an off night with hang cleans). That means during the workout, I used 65lbs and mom just stuck with her 45lbs. After we did one hang clean, we used the remainder of a minute to complete as many burpees as we could. Then, after the minute was up, we do another hang clean followed by burpees until the minute was up. We had to do this until all 100 burpees were complete. No breaks.

We started off great. I think I got about 15 burpees in the first minute. After that, it was all downhill. Next minute, maybe 8. I probably stayed at this pace. At one point, I only did 5 burpees in 45 seconds because I was so wiped out. It was very hard and I felt like I was going to puke when I got to burpee number 50 (still having 50 to go). 

...

We made it through alive and without puking. However, my knees are so bruised up that it looks like someone took a bat to them (thanks burpees). My hands are a little torn from the hang cleans.. But other than that, I feel fabulous! Completing that workout was awesome and I am elated for sure! 

Success comes to those who go after it.

-Crossfitlys 

Double Unders. Nada.

Tonight's workout can be described in one word... "Perfect." It was the perfect combination of challenging but manageable, fierce but calm, and brief but tiresome. 

WOD:

We spent about 20 minutes on the power clean and push jerk. The last time I did this, my max weight was 55 and moms was 50. Tonight, I maxed at 100 pounds and mom maxed at 70 pounds!!! I think I could have lifted more but we ran out of time and my wrists were starting to kill me. Here's some pictures of me and mom doing the power clean and push jerk. These are tough but they feel awesome! Total body workout! 

Me 

Mom

This post is going to be short and sweet since I am beyond exhausted and insanely sore from this week. During the workout, Mom and I used 45 pounds for the 5 clean and jerks. Instead of 30 double unders, we did 90 regular jumps. A double under is when you are jumping rope but passing the rope under your feet twice in one jump. It is so hard to do and you have to be super fast at jumping rope (which I am currently not) lol. Over time, I know I will get better at this. I was able to do a few double unders during the 90 regular jumps; however, there's no way I can so 30 in a row! I probably couldn't do 3 in a row at this point. 

Anyway, the workout kept our heart rates up and at the end of 5 rounds, I was drained! I couldn't even stand up! It's crazy that a 10 minute workout does this to you! 

Here are the results from tonight! 

All the results from all classes today... We are at the bottom. 100 stands for my max power clean and then I did 5 rounds plus an extra 3 clean and jerks in my 6th round of the WOD. 

Ok. Well, like I said... Short and sweet and now Time for bed. 

-Crossfitlys 

AMRAP in 12 min.

GET IT!!!

Knocked out the warm-up quick! The last 10 meters of lunges, we had to hold each lunge for 5 seconds, that hurt bad but felt so gooood! Those 15 pull-ups were cake. Kipping is amazing hehe. It's time for me to retire the black band and start with the skinny red band! Same with momma.. She knocked those pull-ups out! 

WOD: 

I deadlifted 165 pounds! Mom deadlifted 155 pounds! Incredible!!! So proud of us! We are stronger than yesterday and we will be stronger tomorrow. This journey is so awesome.

AMRAP in 12 minutes was really tough. The kettle bell swings weren't too bad (we both used 26 pound kettle bells), but the rack position step ups were so tough! My arms were burning from holding that bar up. My mom had to use the kettle bell because the bar was causing her to be off balance because of her pulled knee. By the second round, I had to break the step ups into 2 sets of 5. The hand stand push-ups are, of course, still impossible, so we did box push-ups instead (still insanely difficult!). By the end of the second round, my legs, traps, shoulders, and arms were killing me!!! I kept pushing through the workout and so did mom. 

RESULTS: 

4 rounds and 20 kettle bells for me

4 rounds and 9 kettle bells for mom

So in 12 minutes, I did 100 kettle bells swings, 40 step ups onto the box, and 20 box push-ups... I'm feeling satisfied and very sore! Goal complete! 

Pictures from tonight's workout. 

Mom and Me maxing out dead lift. 

Mom

  

Me

WOD pics

Kettle bell swings (Bill telling me to work harder and lift the kettle bell higher lol)

Rack position step ups

Box push-ups

As I post about tonight's workout, all I can feel is the intense soreness starting to occur in my shoulders. Let's not forget that my hamstrings are still aching from back squats on Monday. 

-CrossFitLys

Haters are Motivators.

As I continue to become more obsessed and addicted to Crossfit, I am starting to realize that there are many haters out there. I am going to start keeping my "Crossfit Conversations" between those that actually want to hear about them... aka... People that crossfit (lol). 

See, what normal people (and by normal people I mean those that don't crossfit) don't understand is that Crossfit is the most superior, incredible, outrageous passion that I have ever involved myself in. The truth is, any CrossFitter will say the exact same thing. 

I have become a part of a very small percentage of people that dedicate their lives to becoming strong and healthy and truly taking full advantage of the incredible body God gave me. 

The haters are the motivators. They hate because they don't do what I do. They don't succeed like I do. They don't fully live like I do. And they don't feel the overwhelming joy and satisfaction that I do. I feel sorry for them. 

As my trainer says..

-CrossFitLys

Pounding Heart!

It has been 10 days since our last Crossfit workout... Something I am not too happy about! However, 5 of those days I was sick on antibiotics and the other 5 I was moving into my new house :) so it was a much needed break. Plus, Mom pulled a leg muscle and her back was kind of hurting her so she needed the break too ;)

Going ten days with no Crossfit and then getting slammed with today's WOD.... Well, let's just say that my heart was literally beating out of my chest!

Warm-up

Row 500 meters

Then -3 rounds-

10 air squats

10 V-ups

10 Good Mornings

(Nice warm up, not too crazy, but perfect in getting that heart rate up and muscles warmed up)

WOD

When doing our back squats, we used our max weight to determine the weight to lift at different percentages. My last recorded max for back squats was 85 pounds and Mom's was 75 pounds. 

So with that being said, we had to do 10 squats at a weight 65% of our max, which for me would be 55lbs and mom would be about 50lbs. We just estimated between our weights and did these together. We then did 8 reps at about 60 lbs. the 6 reps at 65lbs, the 4 reps at 70lbs and the 2 reps at 75. 

After this power move, we started practicing our back squats from the dead lift position. When doing the power move, we lifted from the rack which is much easier. During the workout, I used 55lbs and mom used 35 lbs. This was not easy!

We had to do 21 reps, then 15 reps, then 9 reps of both back squats, and push ups. 

The second round (15 reps) was so hard and my legs were starting to give out during those back squats but I kept at it! Mom did an awesome job and flew threw this workout. 

Results

Mom 6 minutes and 50 seconds

Me 7 minutes and 50 seconds

By the end of this workout, I collapsed on the ground after my last push up and could feel my heart pounding throughout my entire body! Now that's a high intensity workout for you! I couldn't move for about 2 minutes... All I could do was inhale that Oxygen as fast and deep as I could until I caught my breath. 

Man, I missed you Crossfit! 

Just some pics from tonight...