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The Danger of Doing Your Own CrossFit Programming: Plateauing

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit

The danger of doing your own CrossFit programming is that you have a high likelihood of plateauing.

Plateauing when it comes to working out is just maintaining and not really growing your skills as an athlete.

For the past four years, I would say I’ve plateaued. I have gotten moderately stronger, but not really.

Granted, when I was injured, that was my goal — to just maintain.

Now, I want to grow stronger and become better, which is why I’ve partnered with a coach and with a nutritionist.

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CrossFit Hero Workout White

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit Workouts

CrossFit Hero workout White is a classic CrossFit workout that involves body weight moves. The workout is:

5 Rounds For Time:

  • 3 Rope Climbs
  • 10 Toes to Bar
  • 21 Overhead Walking Lunges (35 lb plate)
  • 400 m run

Watch my video review of this CrossFit WOD and have fun.

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CrossFit is for Those Who Like Beating the Shit Out of Themselves

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit

There are many reasons I want to train for the CrossFit Games. However, I’d say this reason reigns as one of the top one.

I truly do like beating the shit out of myself. I enjoy doing things other won’t. I enjoy making WODs harder by going heavier than prescribed. I enjoy being sore the next day.

It makes me feel alive. It makes me feel like I’m doing something.

It ultimately makes me feel like I’m not wasting my life.

See all of my thoughts about training for the CrossFit Games in this video, and subscribe to my YouTube channel today!

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7/13 Squat Program

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit

I started 7/13 Squat Program, which is designed to increase your front squat lift. It does both back squats and front squats. It’s a 10-week squat program that I did about three years ago. It is so named because it starts out lifting 7 front squats and 13 back squats back-to-back.

This program is brutal, but it works.

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Who Knew I Had Strict Chest-to-Bar Pull Ups?

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit

So, I went to the CrossFit gym today, mainly because the WOD had chest-to-bar (C2B) pull ups, and I wanted to practice my butterfly C2B pull ups.

But I had a problem; I had practiced both C2B and bar muscle ups in my garage yesterday, so when I woke up, I was sore, and my hands still hurt.

I went anyways and told myself to see how it went.

I tried to butterfly but gave up right away; I just didn’t have them in me.

So, I tried strict C2B pulls up, which I haven’t done in years.

And I had them!

Not only that, but I had A LOT of them!

Either I’m getting stronger (I’m sore enough to be getting stronger), or I just didn’t realize I had them.

Either way, it was cool to see, and it gave me renewed confidence that this pain is all worth it.

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It’s Time to Get Serious About CrossFit

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit

So after the CrossFit Open, I’m feeling like it’s time to get serious about CrossFit.

For the past couple of years, I haven’t improved all that much. Mainly because of injuries. However, I’ve found I’ve become quite complacent, and I don’t like that.

I should have done better at the deadlifts on CrossFit Open 22.2. I should have finished CrossFit Open 22.3 but got stuck on the bar muscle ups. I was just disappointed all around.

So now, I’m putting in place what I need to do to get stronger and to get my skills down.

I don’t want to be good any longer. I want to be more than good.

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CrossFit Open 22.3

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit Open

I did my best yet on CrossFit Open Workout 22.3. It is:

  • 21 pull ups
  • 42 double unders
  • 21 thrusters (65 lbs)
  • 18 chest to bar pull ups
  • 36 double unders
  • 18 thrusters (75 lbs)
  • 15 bar muscle ups
  • 30 double unders
  • 15 thrusters (85 lbs)

I had dreams of finishing this one, but all I got to was 5 bar muscle ups. I was happy with this, but I wanted more. My bar muscle ups suck. This will be a major push to improve over the next year.

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CrossFit Open 22.2

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit Open

CrossFit Open 22.2 is:

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 of

Deadlifts 155 lbs for women

Bar-facing burpees

10 minute time cap

I was excited about this one over CrossFit Open 22.1. However, I was extremely disappointed in my performance. You can see the video below and subscribe to my YouTube channel for more great content today!

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If I Didn’t Have CrossFit, My Life Would Suck

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit

I mean this with every breath that I breathe.

All I really do is CrossFit and work. That’s about it.

I am desperate to move to someplace warmer — preferably a beach. To someplace where there’s a CrossFit community that my daughter can join. To someplace where I can leave my computer behind and not think about it.

I don’t like how I look (story of my life). I’m getting older, so recovery is harder. My kids are leading their own lives now.

So, here I am: Me and CrossFit. And since sometimes CrossFit and me aren’t the best of friends, my life sucks anyway.

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The Perfect Saturday Morning Workout

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit

Usually, I’m so beat up from the week of CrossFit by Friday that I can’t wait to have the weekend to recover.

This week was not a hard week for several reasons:

  • I was still recovering from last weekend’s CrossFit competition
  • I was struggling mentally with doing CrossFit workouts
  • There weren’t a lot of good ones planned by the gyms I follow

So, I decided to work out on Saturday morning. I have been eyeing the new CrossFit Girl Workout, Grettel, for a while now so I did it this morning.

CrossFit Grettel is:

10 Rounds for Time of:

  • 3 Clean & Jerks at 95 lbs for women
  • 3 Bar-facing burpees

I did this in just under 8 minutes, and it was a perfect short workout. I then ran a bit to finish it off.

If you’re looking for a short workout to cap off your week, try out this one. It was a great ending to the week!

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