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  • Inkratlet
    Inkratlet Posts: 613 Member
    Sorry you've had a rubbish week, ascrit
  • ascrit
    ascrit Posts: 770 Member
    Thanks Inky. <3
  • ascrit
    ascrit Posts: 770 Member
    PR'd my deadlift today at 385 lbs. My strategy now is to work on my form and then try for a PR again in about a month or so. I want to hit 400 lbs this year.
  • kelly_e_montana
    kelly_e_montana Posts: 1,999 Member
    Awesome job! sounds fun.
  • bostonwolf
    bostonwolf Posts: 3,038 Member
    ascrit wrote: »
    PR'd my deadlift today at 385 lbs. My strategy now is to work on my form and then try for a PR again in about a month or so. I want to hit 400 lbs this year.

    Checkout Mark Ripptoes Starting Strength if you haven't already. Just the basic tips he discussed regarding deadlifts helped tremendously
  • DenverJesse
    DenverJesse Posts: 1 Member
    Started CrossFit in late May of last year. Since then, I've lost 40lbs - don't know if that's a PR in itself, but I'm proud of it. I've also been able to get 2 strict PU's and have bumped my 5RM Squat up to 345. I really drank the koolaid!
  • xfit229
    xfit229 Posts: 35 Member
    hello everyone.. finally found this group.. Ive been crossfitting for about 3+ yrs.. Love it. couldn't go back to global gym if they gave it to me for free.. but recently I pr my strict press to 145# been about over a yr since Ive hit 135. Could get over that. def knew it was a weakness. So work on alot of shoulder mobility and finally got over the 135. felt great .
  • ascrit
    ascrit Posts: 770 Member
    Last night we went for our 5 rep max on the back squat and I got up to 275 which is a new PR for me. I was pretty pleased.
  • Curlychip
    Curlychip Posts: 292 Member
    edited January 2015
    I restarted today after a couple of months off with injury, then flu, then too much work, then festivities... :s
    Started with
    Warm up: 400m Row
    Stretch/Moblilise/Tekkers
    WOD:
    40 minute AMRAP (scaled):
    Burpees x 10
    30 Walking Lunge Steps
    Nine Pull ups (jump up)
    Deadlifts 20kg x 10 (restart small - it was enough)
    30 Double Unders (I did single unders with 2 jumps - can do 8 in a row now)
    Russian KB Swings 6kg x 10
    (BENDER)

    Oh my... reminded that burpees are the cruellest, along with lunges ;)
    Any tips about how I scaled? I completed 5+39
  • Inkratlet
    Inkratlet Posts: 613 Member
    Awesome victories :D Well done for getting back on it, Curlychip
  • bostonwolf
    bostonwolf Posts: 3,038 Member
    foam roll and stretch today. You're gonna feel that one :) Welcome back, hope you are healthy and strong and ready to kick *kitten*.
  • Curlychip
    Curlychip Posts: 292 Member
    edited January 2015
    Yup, healthy and strong :D Am feeling it today though - quads, adductors, anterior shoulders and butt mostly :#
  • jefftb20
    jefftb20 Posts: 8 Member
    I did my first RX Wod and it was the Victoria hero Wod.
  • Curlychip
    Curlychip Posts: 292 Member
    B) Yey!
  • Inkratlet
    Inkratlet Posts: 613 Member
    Really pleased with the *kitten* kicking I gave Cindy this morning: last score 10 rounds 11 reps, today 16 rounds 5 reps. Same scaling, so a significant improvement. What a difference 7 kgs bodyweight makes to these engine type WODs!
  • Curlychip
    Curlychip Posts: 292 Member
    Good job!
  • emma7437
    emma7437 Posts: 225 Member
    For the second time ever I tried pull ups. First time I used a blue band and needed help. This time I did two on the blue band, no dramas, no help. Then tried and almost got one on a red band. Think I need to get used to the movement as much as needing strength. Very stoked, pull ups were the thing I watched others do with envy.
  • Inkratlet
    Inkratlet Posts: 613 Member
    That's really cool Emma, well done
  • Curlychip
    Curlychip Posts: 292 Member
    Well done :-)
    I just got a PB doing a cluster (front squat for 3 secs then thruster) of 32kg (70lb) :DB)
  • bostonwolf
    bostonwolf Posts: 3,038 Member
    great job Emma. These are my main GOAT focus for the year too. I want to have a few dead-hang pull ups by my birthday in April.
  • AllanMisner
    AllanMisner Posts: 4,140 Member
    Deadlift 5RM (2 sets)

    Recently, I’ve been working 5RM dead lifts at 315lbs (I’m typically doing deadlifts after squats, as was today). Because my workout partner was doing 245lbs for his sets, and we didn’t have much time, I just had the 45 plates put on each side (335lbs). I popped out two sets of five with minimal rest like candy. I am hoping this translates well to my one rep max and I blow my 405lb max out of the water in March.

    It would be a great day if the Cindy WOD after didn’t kick my *kitten*.
  • bostonwolf
    bostonwolf Posts: 3,038 Member
    So many times it's your mind that is holding you back, not your body. Good job!
  • Inkratlet
    Inkratlet Posts: 613 Member
    Had an interesting session @ Buddhist centre yesterday about how we think things are vs. how they really are. Moving from thinking mode into sensing mode, being mindful and aware. Touched on thoughts as facts vs. thoughts as mental events, and how powerful thoughts can be. Some CBT therapies use positive thoughts to reinforce desirable things. But the more you come to understand thoughts as mental events and not as facts, the less they will hold you back.

    Thinking "I can't deadlift that" isn't fact. It may sometimes coincide with the truth, but it is not in itself a truth.
  • AllanMisner
    AllanMisner Posts: 4,140 Member
    While I agree with you on “thoughts can be limiting” I think they can do exactly the opposite. I remember a guy who was a senior when I was a sophomore. My teammates loaded a bar with all the weights we had in the “gym” and asked him to come deadlift it. Nobody else was close to lifting it.

    He was as strong as an ox, but never worked out. He worked so hard on his father’s farm, he didn’t want to work hard for football. He was simple-minded, so not likely to go far in life, but he had no set limitation on what his body could do.

    He’d walk up and do it like he was picking up a box of copy paper. He didn’t have any conception that he couldn’t lift any bar loaded with weight. I have no doubt he lifted heavy things working for his father, but in reality as a deadlifter, he was untrained. Still, he lifted more weight than his body should have been able to, because of his mind.

    So, I believe the mind can both hold us back and push us forward.
  • Inkratlet
    Inkratlet Posts: 613 Member
    edited January 2015
    Or it was the lack of pre-conceived ideas (thoughts as fact), either negative or positive, that allowed him to approach the bar and lift it.
  • AllanMisner
    AllanMisner Posts: 4,140 Member
    Same idea. Lack of awareness probably means mind limits have been turned off.

    Except for box jumps. Every time I try to zone out for box jumps, I miss. Lack of awareness doesn’t work for box jumps.
  • Inkratlet
    Inkratlet Posts: 613 Member
    edited January 2015
    Not quite the same :) You're talking about using positive thoughts ("I know I can do this because I know of no reason why I can't") as being influencing. Which is a good approach for some and is used in some CBT's very successfully.

    I'm talking about separating thought from fact - thinking you can/can't do something doesn't make it a truth. They are entirely separate things. I can think "I am not able to type this sentence" but the evidence (the fact that I am typing this sentence) suggests that thought is not truth. This approach can be taken to lifts. I understand that my thoughts are not fact therefore even if my thoughts are negative ("I can't snatch that") there is every chance they are untrue.

    But, we digress :D this is not CrossFit
  • kelly_e_montana
    kelly_e_montana Posts: 1,999 Member
    This might sound like a weird victory. I have anxiety and the box environment in general can be very triggering for it. I don't get exercise anxiety when I am powerlifting on my own @ my gym. Anyway, today I got to the box and I don't really know what set it off but I was just in a panic. I was ready to just go home but I decided to work on some olympic lifting stuff on my own. I hit a 15# PR on overhead squat. It still felt like a cruddy day because I didn't metcon on one of my goats but the fact that I did SOMETHING and PR'd was a success. Every bit that I do instead of running away when under duress is a victory in a) Crossfit and b) the struggle with the anxiety.
  • AllanMisner
    AllanMisner Posts: 4,140 Member
    kelly_e_montana wrote: »
    This might sound like a weird victory. I have anxiety and the box environment in general can be very triggering for it. I don't get exercise anxiety when I am powerlifting on my own @ my gym. Anyway, today I got to the box and I don't really know what set it off but I was just in a panic. I was ready to just go home but I decided to work on some olympic lifting stuff on my own. I hit a 15# PR on overhead squat. It still felt like a cruddy day because I didn't metcon on one of my goats but the fact that I did SOMETHING and PR'd was a success. Every bit that I do instead of running away when under duress is a victory in a) Crossfit and b) the struggle with the anxiety.

    Outstanding PR!

  • bostonwolf
    bostonwolf Posts: 3,038 Member
    ^love it.

    Allan, we had an in-house comp this summer and had a snatch ladder. It was a row of barbells from 85 to 245 lbs in 10 lbs increments. You started at 85 and did the lift, stepped forward and did it again. You snatched until you could not any more, then clean and jerked, then clean. I PRd every one of them because I never asked what the weight was when I failed. Someone was writing it down for me. I had no idea what the weight on the bar was. I just stepped up and tried until I failed.
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