CrossFit Masters
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I didn't register for the Open last year but our box did all the workouts, and we were not allowed to scale them. So, since I didn't have C2B or any pull ups for that matter, I had a total breakdown and cried. It was horrible. A lot of people found those workouts a bonding experience, but I found myself skipping those days and going to my regular gym by the end in order to get a decent workout for the day in since I would get stuck on elements I couldn't do and couldn't scale them to a good workout. I did get a few DU's in 14.1 and did pretty well in the workout with thrusters & burpees. For a newbie, I feel I killed it on 14.3 (deads & box jumps).
My coach wants me to start hard core metcon-ing and tweaking my nutrition after my PL meet to prepare for the Open. He was in the top 100 in masters in his age group last 2 years but didn't make it to the Games and I know he would eventually like to see me feel as passionately about competing in it as he does. However, at this point, I kind of like local comps with shorter WODs and heavier weights. I feel I would do the Open this year if I had pull ups. That will be my # goal from mid November to the beginning of the Open. If I don't have pull ups, I'm not going to subject myself to the Open process though and I'm not going to even go to the WODs with pull ups in them because they won't allow us to scale. I'll be back at my regular gym trying to get a full workout for the day in. This is a big issue for me since I feel I could be quite competitive if I were to be about 15-20 pound lighter but I use CF as a big piece of my eating disorder recovery and I don't want to get back into restriction and possible binging again just to become better at CF. I don't know...I'm torn. Also, I track my progress on a subscription software database, so it wouldn't be hard for me to know how I'm performing even without paying the $20 fee. Via this subscription, I found my CF twinsie related to age, lifts, run times and row times and I could see that she placed 36th in her age group/region for the games, so I can kind of see how I might do (again, if I had pull ups).0 -
Thank you for sharing Kelly! I feel we shared the same experience in 14.2 as I too had a total mental breakdown from the disappointment in myself. Luckily 14.3 was designed for people like you and I, strong lifters. Unfortunately, I was already checked out of the Open completely by then - my mistake #2.
Ya know, if you're as strong as you sound like you are, you just gotta jump on that bar get the friggin pull-up. I was certain that it was never going to happen and after literally forcing myself to give up the band, I have them. They're not pretty or efficient, but they're there. I have a strong sense that 14.2 will return in 2015 and I don't want to find myself curled up on the floor again.
Again, thank you for sharing your struggles with your recovery. Very brave and inspiring!0 -
I got the pull ups this morning.
I never did pull ups as a kid, so my bod just doesn't know how to do the movement. I'm just teaching my muscles how to communicate with each other since they've never done this before. Sounds weird. Anyway, I guess after the PL meet, IT'S ON regarding Crossfit! 0 -
kelly_e_montana wrote: »I got the pull ups this morning. I never did pull ups as a kid, so my bod just doesn't know how to do the movement. I'm just teaching my muscles how to communicate with each other since they've never done this before. Sounds weird. Anyway, I guess after the PL meet, IT'S ON regarding Crossfit!
I am so happy for you!
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well, we'll see. I did 2 pull ups in June and then never again since. I did a chin up like a couple months before that and then never again since. I did two yesterday and then could not do them again several hours later. I think it has to be during an eclipse or something.0
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I did all five last year. I submitted a score in each, but they were designed to allow that.
I can only get single double unders, so I did that for 15.1 until I got 30, then moved on to snatches. Submitted a 96. For 15.2, I scored a 10. I could do the OHS, but not chest to bar pull ups. For 15.3 it was 81, so I got into the 275lb deadlifts. For 15.4 I could not do toes to bar so I submitted a 60 then just did knees to elbow and kept going just to get the workout in.
15.5 was evil. Took me 42:25 because I'm awful at thrusters. And most of them would have been no repped in competition because I lack the mobility to go to full depth.0 -
Seems that for me the key to C2B is just losing weight. I need to drop another 30/40 lbs. I could almost get one at the end of our challenge at about 285 lbs. I figure every pound I lose gets my chest an inch closer to the bar. When I started I could go from dead hang to having my arms at about 90 degrees. At the end I got about 3/4ths of the way. Going to add in some negatives and keep pushing until I get one.0
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bostonwolf wrote: »Seems that for me the key to C2B is just losing weight. I need to drop another 30/40 lbs. I could almost get one at the end of our challenge at about 285 lbs. I figure every pound I lose gets my chest an inch closer to the bar. When I started I could go from dead hang to having my arms at about 90 degrees. At the end I got about 3/4ths of the way. Going to add in some negatives and keep pushing until I get one.
Keep pushing Bostonwolf!0 -
Weight loss and prepping for an Oly meet this weekend!
Well since I started using MyFitnessPal to hold myself accountable, I've been able to drop close to 14#. My goal was 5kg for the month of October, so that's a pretty good place to be right now. Meanwhile, our gym is holding it's first annual Olympic weightlifting meet. Last time I did an Oly competition it was at the Cal State Games back in June and I weighed in at 109kg. Brutal weight to be at and a tough class to compete in. Going into that competition I knew I should be at 105kg but for some reason I didn't give a *kitten*. I figured I wanted to lift heavy weight and in order to do that, you need to eat a lot food. Well that's exactly what happened. I increased Oly comp totals by almost 30kg, but I also gained maybe 20#. Needless to say it was a bittersweet victory taking the gold when you're the only "master" in the 105+kg ("fat man") class.
So this time around I'm determined to weigh in <105kg. So far so good! I dipped to my lowest point this month on Wednesday at 102.5kg but finished the week at 103kg this morning. For some reason I seem to dip really low every Wednesday but gain a pound or two by Friday morning. I train Monday through Thursday and again Saturday morning. I figure as long as I continue to weigh less this Friday than I did last Friday, I'm making progress.
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Kelly - stoked to read you got your pulls ups the other day. Stay off the band and keep on going - you WILL get there and get MANY more. I was on the thinnest band for ages and one day my coach told me to get off it and stay off it. So I struggled for a while and then one day just got them and then started kipping them! My point is, if this is your major goat then it's totally achievable to master them. Just keep on going and don't let it stop you from 2015! Good luck!0
