A year of Crossfit

About a year ago, I did my first Crossfit workout. Today, I repeated it.

Baseline #1

500m row
40 squats
30 situps
20 pushups
10 pullups

Last year, I did the pushups from my knees, and did the pullups by jumping on a box to get my chin above the bar. 7:42.

This year, normal pushups, and kipping pullups with a rubber band….

My goal was to beat 7:42. I struggled with the last two pullups…they took 4 tries to get my chin above the bar. I finshed, and Damian asked me what I thought my time was. “6-something?” “Nope.” “5:30-something?!” “Nope.” “5-something?!!” 5:19.

Ho-lee-crap. Never thought that was possible. 30% improvement in time in a year. It boggles my mind. Maybe next year I’ll crack 5 minutes and not have to use the band for the pullups.

Straightforward class last night. I got to lead the warm up. With the Sub Hunt coming up, we’re apparently going to be focusing on getting ready for it.

We did positional work from mount, side control and guard. 4 minute rounds. Escape/submit/standup vs submit/pass/maintain. Switch sides and repeat. Ron and I paired up, and both did pretty good offensively against each other, but strangely couldn’t maintain any of the top positions very well. Tim worked in with us here and there, which is always humbling.