CrossFit Day 9
Today’s workout was a choice of two “girls”: Cindy or Mary. I picked Cindy. Cindy is the name of a workout (CrossFit workouts are named for girls or soldiers killed in combat) that consists of doing rounds of five pullups, ten pushups, and fifteen air squats against a timer set for twenty minutes. As many rounds as you can, if you please, Mr. Apollo.
I’m not fully down with full pullups (I have maybe two, if I’m lucky). So, I do a jumping pullup, where I jump until I’m over the bar, then let myself fall back to full arm extension, resisting my downward movement as much as I can. I haven’t been doing very many pushups or pullups lately, so I’m weak in those areas.
I managed to complete six sets, but stopped the clock at 18:28. The first minute or so of the exercise involved me fiddling with my heart rate monitor. It’s been having some issues lately where the contacts don’t pick up the correct heart rate for some reason. For example, I walked 4.30 miles this afternoon at a pace of almost 4 miles an hour and the heart rate monitor had me at 105 bpm most of the time (that drives me absolutely crazy). Once I started, though, I could tell this one was going to be rough.
I’m not very good at pushups, which means I need to do a lot more of them. My wrists pop and crack and my hand position is always screwy. I get tired very quickly. After a few of the sets, I had to subdivide the ten rep sets into threes and twos and singles. There were a few times when I was pushing from the floor and I just didn’t have it and collapsed back down.
Six sets is far less than I expected to do, but I’m going to improve. But, wow. I am really weak. That’s only 30 negative jumping pullups, 60 pushups, and 90 squats. Next time, let’s shoot for ten sets.
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