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Got 8 Squats At 250 Pounds This Morning

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After my form breaking a good bit on the second heavy rep for my last cycle of 5/3/1 I knew what I had to do. I decided to knock some weight off my training max. It’ll get back up there in a few cycles and hopefully, I’ll be able to do better.

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Heavy Squats Felt Easy Today

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Today was the day I decided to get my 5/3/1 heavy squats done for this week. They were at a A heavy weight that was getting into my head, so I wanted to avoid letting the thoughts eat away at me.

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Poor Focus On Squats Today!

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Last night, I got startled as I was falling asleep. This morning something startled me awake again, so I’ve been feeling off and having poor focus. It burnt me on my twenty rep back squats.

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Switched Up Equipment In Today's WOD

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This morning, I had to do my deadlifts and then wanted to do today’s WOD. I wanted to switch things up with it and use the air runner, bike, and rower for each machine part of the WOD, and it was fun and really tough.

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Good Longer WOD

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I have been wanting to do the WOD that Street Parking had programmed on Thanksgiving since it was posted. Last week I was feeling a bit off, so I held off in it since I knew it was going to be a longer one.

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Good To WOD After A Lazy Week

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Last week I was lazy when it came to WODing. I did a couple and barely did my lifts. I had just been feeling so tired with a stuffy head. In hindsight, I may have had a bit of a bug. Felt great to get outside and do a WOD today.

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Good Halloween In The Home Gym

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I had a good day in the home gym today. Despite my knee bugging me, I got a conservative triple at a very heavy weight on the back squats. I beat my old score on a repeat WOD. I even wore my running sucks shirt with my cheetah costume because it’s Halloween, so why not have fun?

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Brutal Sled Outside Today

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It was such a nice day outside with the high in the mid to upper seventies, we just had to take the sled out for a WOD. There was one that looked particularly brutal t ha I’ve been wanting to do, so I did that one today.

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Nice PR On A Repeat WOD Today

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Today’s WOD was one that I didn’t feel like I’d get a lot out of, so I did one from long ago. I have a bunch of the older ones saved in my favorites, so I can do them on days like today. I went way heavier and PRed timewise on it to boot.

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Squat Day!

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I am starting my third cycle of 5/3/1 today and the first day up is squat day. I’ve been feeling really good with it. It was time to change things up.

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Picked Up A Weighted Vest

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I have been thinking about picking up a weighted vest for years. I didn’t know how it would work for me, and they were pretty pricey, so I never did until I saw one cheap on Amazon. Today it arrived, and I tried it out, and it was a good pickup.

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Something Different

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There was one of the dirty work WODs that has intrigued me, so I wanted to give it a try today. I used the sled instead of running, but what intrigued me was the sandbag bear hug carries. It was easier with the strong man sandbag than the brute force one.

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My HRM Pro Died

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My Garmin HRM Pro strap seems to have died. I went through the troubleshooting and then got on chat with Garmin support. After a few questions, they set me up with a link to order a replacement. I can’t complain about that.

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That's A PR

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Today was a really challenging day for me in the garage. I didn’t sleep so great last night to start things off. To top things off, I had to do PR level back squats at two hundred and seventy-five pounds and then near Pr deadlifts at two hundred and ninety-five pounds.

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Heavy, Heavy, Heavy Today

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This was one of those days that I had very low expectations for. I’ve been gassy as hell and didn’t sleep too well last night because of it. My lifts were all on the heavy side to add to that. In the end, everything went well, and I made all of my lifts, even with dropping the stupid 2.5 pound change plate on my toe.

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Still Did A WOD!

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I woke up with my stomach feeling off this morning. Lots of churning after I took my thyroid pill and drank some water. It got worse and keeps feeling like I’m being kicked in the gut. I still manged to get a WOD in.

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WOD Felt Good Today

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I didn’t do a WOD yesterday or the day before. My hamstring got really tight out of nowhere just when I stood up to take Brooke to the bust stop. I attempted my strength Thursday and quickly decided to rest.

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I Can Still Do Box Jumps

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I don’t normally do box jumps here in the home gym because we don’t have enough room for me to safely fail in my normal failure modes. The risk with me being legally blind is pretty high to and usually just isn’t worth it to me. Today I did them for the WOD and really did enjoy them. I do love jumping.

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Underestimated That WOD

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Today I felt really good about how I did with the WOD. I did underestimate it though and the intensity of it really caught me off guard a bit.

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It's A Rainy Day

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Today it is a rainy day. My middle finger is a bit angry from curling my step grandson yesterday. I did a lighter WOD than I normally have because of that When we went for a walk in the evening, I had to jump in the puddles because life’s too short to not have fun.

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Crossfit Gym Prices

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Crossfit gym prices have gotten out of hand. I get that it costs a lot to open and run a gym but they don’t have to get into the shady tactics and contract games.

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WOD With Devil Presses

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It has been some time since I’ve done a WOD that had devil press in it. I’ve been avoiding those with my arm acting up. Today was the first WOD that I’ve done with them in it and it felt better than I thought it would.

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It Turned Out Nice Today

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The forecast this morning was for the sky to remain cloudy all day today but shortly after lunch it cleared up. Not just breaks in the clouds but the sky fully cleared up and remained that way at least until after sunset save a few small clouds.

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Sometimes Counting Is Hard

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Sometimes counting during a WOD is just hard. This morning was a case where I kept losing count of either rounds or reps. Scores are really not all that important, so it’s no big deal.

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My Sandbag Broke

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The filler bag that holds the pea gravel in my sandbag broke during a WOD. I ate a lot of dust and sand and it made the WOD even more awkward. I guess I’ll see how Brute Force’s warranty service actually is.

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It's Friday So We Got Joys!

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It’s Friday today so we did our normal takeout from Joy’s Tavern. As always it was good. After eating and drinking I got the Street Parking vault WOD done.

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Some Optimism About My Quad

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While it’s still tight I am feeling optimistic about my quad. I was able to do some running in a WOD yesterday. Today I did some deep stretching and that seems to have helped it too.

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Looks Like Some Rest Days Now

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Looks like I’ll be having some rest days now. I felt a pretty good pop in my hamstring when doing some back squats. The saddest part is the weight felt light and I was moving well.

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I Saw An Interesting Post About Crossfit Punishments

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I saw an interesting post on Reddit about Crossfit punishment. Our old gym did the burpee punishment for not putting equipment away. The thing is everyone was “punished” for the same person that couldn’t be bothered to put his shit away and he wasn’t even there for the burpees.

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Heavy Front Squat Single Felt Great!

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I am continuing with trying to get baselines for my lifts by doing heavy singles. Today, I stopped at 255 pounds for front squats. I felt like there was more in the tank, but I stopped there today, thinking it was best for this day.

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Made It!

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I finally make it back up to 265 repping back squats. That weight gets into my head a bit due to it being my old and ugly Crossfit max. I failed the last set but I’m good with just making it there.

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One Step Closer

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Today felt like I got one step closer to beating a longtime mental block. For my sets of five, I back squatted 260 pounds. That’s over my good form one rep max from when we went to Trinium.

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I Finally Squatted 255 For 3 x 5

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I finally passed a mental block on back squats today. I got through all three sets of them at 255. That was my old non ugly max in at Crossfit so anything above that is always in my mind that I’m breaking even when I’m not.

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GymNext Flex Timer

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When we started doing WODs at home we needed to pick up a timer. We settled on a GymNext Flex Timer and have been happy with it since we got it.

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Weird Day In The Garage Gym

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Today was one of those days in the garage gym that seem destined to be complete failures. It seemed everything that could go wrong with the WOD did. I still did okay considering the way it was going.

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Why I Love Lifting

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I don’t really keep it a secret that I love lifting. Squats are my favorite lift. It’s just me against the weight and gravity. My low vision really isn’t a factor, and I love that I don’t have something uncontrollable holding me back.

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Pull ups

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After doing the WOD this morning I realized the bench was out of the way i figured I’d try some pull ups. They felt pretty good aFter being sloppy for a while. I could never do pull ups until I was nearly 40 year old.

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First Time Doing Box Jump overs

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First time ding box jump overs. We went to a friend’s boot camp and he had box jump overs programmed. I tried them and didn’t like how the soft plyo box felt unstable so I started legitimately jumping completely over it. That was actually fun. Reminded me of being a young kid and doing stuff like that.

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Deadlifts

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I have always struggled mentally with deadlifts. I think it comes from my back rounding in the distant past. It’s not been an issue for a long time but it’s still on my mind. At the same time I love doing deadlifts.

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Warrior Dash

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I’ve been seeing and hearing about the Warrior Dash id remembered how fun it looked when Molly did it. I wanted to do it but keep coming back to seeing Molly get shoved over the netting. I’d need to take it slow and feel my way and shoving would screw me up.

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Isagenix Bullshit

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A person on Facebook that used to go to our gym seems to do nothing but push Isagenix. If she’s not pushing that she’s bragging bout how much money she makes. I don’t get how people can in good conscience push these pyramid schemes, or MLM as they caLl them now.

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Back To The Gym

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We finally made it back to the gym today. We have been too busy to get there. I had personally lost my drive a few months ago when Nan died, but it’s back now.

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