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creativeobsessive: Good day to do work.

creativeobsessive — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:56:54 -0500

creativeobsessive:

Good day to do work.

First one!

creativeobsessive — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:26:26 -0500

First one!

CrossFit - Muscle-Ups at 10,000 Feet with Neil Amonson

creativeobsessive — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:36:23 -0500

CrossFit - Muscle-Ups at 10,000 Feet with Neil Amonson

Training Log -- 14 August (evening workout)

creativeobsessive — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:26:56 -0500

“WHEN I PAINT PICTURES I’M DIPPING BRUSHES IN WARPAINT”

Hotel gym @ Grand Elysee Hamburg (Hamburg, DE)

warm up (sub: 500m)
WoD: 100 push ups FOR TIME
42’15”

That’s not a typo.

42 minutes & 15 seconds. That’s how long 100 pushups took me but I feel like it’s a good benchmark to work from (towards Murph specifically,) and one of the few I could go hard one without working my legs. It’s not that I’m just trying to puss out of leg training because of the hurt, but I’m scheduled to drop-in on the local box later this week and I’d like to have my full faculties then. So, leg rest it is.

I’m holding back on a long exposition about the workout because it would honestly be a lot of back-patting. I pushed through the “maybe I’ll just do 50 because I’m back at the beginning” thoughts. I tried not to rest any more than I had to. I even tried to keep going *just* until total failure so that I could recover for more pushups.

Yes, that’s a really long time for 100 pushups, relatively speaking.

But god-dammit, it’s a start.

Lt. Michael P Murphy, USN

DANNY BROWN — “MONOPOLY”

creativeobsessive — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:15:00 -0500

DANNY BROWN — “MONOPOLY”

Training Log -- 13 August (evening workout)

creativeobsessive — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:13:56 -0500

“AND YOU STYLE’S LIKE FRIED CHICKEN WIT’ NO SEASONING”

Hotel gym @ Grand Elysee Hamburg (Hamburg, DE)

warm up (sub: 500m)
WoD:

o 5-5-5-5 shoulder press (8kg-8-10-12)

o 3-3-3-3 push press (10kg-12-14-16)

o 1-1-1-1 push jerk (16kg-18-18-18)

My legs continued to be totally fucked.

I actually tried to hit a treadmill for the start of my warm up, but shit going on in my left quad/knee complex wasn’t gonna have it. The hotel gym has a water rower, and while it’s foot-holds are too janky to really bother with past 500m I was surprised that my legs were pretty okay with the movement.

For the WoD, I screwed up from memory and ended up doing an HQ WoD backwards.

And no, I haven’t stumbled upon a mythical hotel gym with real free weights. But this one at least has some dumbbell racks, though it only goes up to 18kg. The point is, it was another day of seeing an opportunity to slack off and make excuses for why I couldn’t train— or at least not train hard— but got shit done instead.

Still aggravated that my legs are keeping me out of cardio/conditioning though.

Danny Brown — “Outer Space” (live)

Today's Outlaw: Nothing Like a 405# Front Squat to Put Hair on Your Dicks

creativeobsessive — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 03:17:01 -0500

Today's Outlaw: Nothing Like a 405# Front Squat to Put Hair on Your Dicks

Training Log -- 12 August (afternoon workout)

creativeobsessive — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:29:00 -0500

“I’M ALWAYS TRAVELLING AND I DON’T GO HOME”

Streets (Cologne & Hamburg, DE)

ACTIVE REST: Lugging my 70# luggage huh, just hearing that in my head for the first time around two cities while I traveled from Cologne to Hamburg (via train)

Not much to say today. The travelling for work really takes it out of me some days, and the train from Cologne to Hamburg runs about four hours. I ate okay today, but went ahead and allowed myself some sugar, so I’ll just be starting with the 21 Day Sugar detox again tomorrow.

To be fair, I probably sled-pulled and sandbag-carried that luggage a couple miles over the course of the day.

Looking forward to sleeping, getting it on tomorrow. Legs still feel like death. better though.

Quad City DJs — C’Mon Ride It (The Train)

Training Log -- 11 August (late-night workout)

creativeobsessive — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:04:00 -0500

“LATE-ASS NIGHTS COME FROM LONG DAYS

DOIN’ ALL THE RIGHT THINGS IN THE WRONG WAYS”

Streets (Cologne, DE)

ACTIVE REST: walk/limping approx. 1.5 miles around Cologne

Woah. Holy shit.

I mean, I’ve been sore before. Especially after trying to start my training back up at full speed. But this day, Saturday, I was almost immobilized.

I really don’t like to sound like I’m using the excuse of “I’m too sore” but the ache in my left quad was (and still sort of is) bordering on a muscle strain.

What I really did wrong was let it fuck up everything about my day as far as this project goes. Sugar detox: FAIL

Eventually I got fed up, and I needed to find some not-gross food, so I hobbled my ass down the road to the grocery store. No, I’m not super proud to call that my active rest for the day, but I’ve committed to doing something every day and this was better than that laying in bed I felt like doing all night.

Monty Python — Ministry of Silly Walks

Training Log -- 10 August (evening workout)

creativeobsessive — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:38:00 -0500

“DAMN I FEEL GOOD, YOU AIN’T FEELING NOTHIN’ “

Hotel Gym @ Park Inn Cologne (Cologne, DE)

warm up
Travel WoD: “Invisible Fran”: 21-15-9 air squats + push ups FOR TIME

10’23”

Day Two on sugar Detox.

I have a few very close friends who have already spawned offspring in the last few years. And honest to God, the following statement does not apply to them in any way, nor any seeds I may or may not show in the future:

I really fucking hate kids

As tore-up and sore as my legs (quads especially) have been after Thursday, I felt okay once I get started moving in the gym. I felt good repping out the squats for I-Fran once I got moving, but I would pay for it later.

Push ups were kind of an issue when I was rolling deep with my training a year ago, and they’re one hell of an issue now. I’m hoping to put together a program to specifically target the muscles for that movement, because I’m going to need them once I lighten up. That said, this day was a win because I did every-damn-push up-assigned. I feel really, really good about that.

Are we gonna talk about the ‘hating kids’ thing or was that just…..

Right. My bad. I hate kids because one of the few times in my life that I really feel angry is if my workout gets blown or interrupted in the middle of it. Seriously, white hot anger. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PARENTS: If you bring your children to the lap pool, see that I’m in the middle of swimming laps and *do not* want me to drown your disgusting loin-spawn KEEP THEM THE FUCK OUT OF THE POOL.

Breakdance kick to the face

Training Log -- 9 August (evening workout)

creativeobsessive — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:10:00 -0500

“REST IN PEACE TO THEM [DOUBTERS] WHO WAS DEAD WRONG”

Hotel Gym @ Park Inn Cologne (Cologne, DE)

warm up
Travel WoD: 200 air squats FOR TIME

10’59”

Swim (10 lengths)

I got tired of waiting.

Maybe it was just a kind of inevitable or maybe it was out of some divine assistance, but I got tired of waiting for nightfall to say

“okay buddy-boy! We’re gonna get us some sleep, get up and at-em early in the morning! And then we’re going to eat clean all day and have two training sessions and tomorrow will be the start of my brand new permanent life!”

‘Cause I probably wouldn’t have.

Or maybe I would, but I got tired of taking that chance.

Did I eat perfect today (that’s it, pretend you’re not writing this on a Sunday afternoon train)? Not really. But I did make it through a Day One of no sugar, and while I didn’t double up the training I did hit it hard in the evening. Couldn’t have asked for much more. I’m frankly proud of myself; which is a feeling I’ve missed a lot more than the soreness and funny walks.

Childish Gambino ft. Bun B — “R.I.P.”

Fuck Yeah Crossfit: 7 (of the probably neverending excuses) we give ourselves to get a break during a WOD and let ourselves off the hook

creativeobsessive — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:11:19 -0500

Fuck Yeah Crossfit: 7 (of the probably neverending excuses) we give ourselves to get a break during a WOD and let ourselves off the hook:

1. “My mouth is dry… I NEED a drink of water… bad.” You know what? The Marines who stormed the beaches of Iwo Jima - who didn’t get resupplied for days and fought in 90 degree heat for days on end… now THEY were thirsty and NEEDED water. You? Fraid not.

2. “Chalk. Chalk. Where’s the chalk?…

Definition of a bad-ish start to the week: no sleep, no AM...

creativeobsessive — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:41:28 -0500

Definition of a bad-ish start to the week: no sleep, no AM session, and German diabetes for breakfast at the office.

Fuckity-bollocks.

CAN'T SLEEP

creativeobsessive — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 16:56:37 -0500

…clown’ll eat me.

Photo

creativeobsessive — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:25:26 -0500

Open 2013: Day One Retested BACK SQUAT 1 RM after a month of...

creativeobsessive — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:14:21 -0500

Open 2013: Day One

Retested BACK SQUAT 1 RM after a month of work:

1 RM: 325# (10# increase over 30 days)

done barefoot, no belt

After 1RM: 2x400m farmers carry (x2 70# kettlebells)

One day down, y’all.

creativeobsessive: Tired. Reading, listening to Eisley. My hair...

creativeobsessive — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:34:43 -0500

creativeobsessive:

Tired.

Reading, listening to Eisley.

My hair says it’s been a long-ass day.

First day training for 2013 Crossfit Games

creativeobsessive — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:34:21 -0500

paleocaveman:

3/26/12

Warmup:
Double under skill work 10 mins
Light stretch

Wod 1:
20 backsquats 185#
40 double unders
15 backsquats
50 double unders
10 backsquats
60 double unders
5 back squats
70 double unders
1 back squat
80 double unders

11:43

30 mins later
Warmup:
Light stretch
Mobility

5 strict pullups
10 knees to elbow
4 rounds

WOD 2:
21 Turkish getups 65# bar
500m row
Amrap 25 mins

18 tg of 2nd round

This year, I’m changing my mind set. Watch me grow!

Awesome. I reckon a few thousand of us are titling entries in a similar way today.

Let’s get after it.

gettough: Thanks for the tips on 12.5, Speal! BADASS.

creativeobsessive — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:17:46 -0500

gettough:

Thanks for the tips on 12.5, Speal!

BADASS.

crossfithobbit: bacon > humanadmit it. you know it’s true....

creativeobsessive — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:15:59 -0500

crossfithobbit:

bacon > human

admit it. you know it’s true. sometimes.