Regional Differences
I’ve had a few questions come my way recently regarding diet and nutrition. For those of you who’ve been around when they come up, you know they are a trigger for me to go off on a (not so short) rant. That being said, nutrition plays a HUGE role on our health, fitness and general well-being. But it’s also a very personal issue. Each of us have a relationship with food that related directly to our relationship with ourselves. All relationships are different, so each of us are really on our own journey here.
So I throw this out to you, the community of CrossFit Somerville – How can we help you? Would a nutrition challenge be helpful (where you track what you eat and are held accountable for both positive and negative choices)? Or perhaps a short “seminar” on the basics (and perhaps not so basics) of healthy eating and how what we put in ourselves affects us and our journey to becoming more fit and reaching the goals we set for ourselves? Or something totally different? Let us know – here (on the blog), in person, via email or whatever works best for you.
The WOD today is a variation of an old regionals workout with a little extra volume to help us enjoy it just a bit more. There’s a time cap, but if we scale well we shouldn’t need it. Have fun! =)
STR:
Press
3-3-3-3-3
WOD:
40 shoulder to overhead (155/105)
80 burpees over bar
*partition reps however you’d like. 20 minute cap
This looks fucking gross.
I second that.
I’d be up for another food challenge! And/or a seminar (maybe at the start of the challenge to help us create our plan(s)?). I very much appreciate that CFSV recognizes that people of a variety of needs/issues/etc and is willing to support us in nutrition and health.
Maybe in January? (she says, eyeing her Manhattan and thinking of Holidays).
I’m with Lydia! Seminar before challenge. Great idea!
I’d love a food challenge!
I like the food challenges, but prefer ones that count beer as positive points 🙂
Press: 145# another PR this week!
WOD: 14:30 @ 115# All the shoulder work yesterday and today made this really hard. Doing a big chunk of the burpees at the beginning was a solid choice, I did 20 then a set of jerks then 20 more burpees and then broke it up into chunks of 10 after that.
Food challenge – good. Seminar – good. After the holidays – even better!
Also would love to hear healthy eating tips and tricks from other members. Particularly those who achieved aesthetic results from a combination of crossfit + corrected nutrition. Always hard to work out portion size etc., when you’re doing a lot of exercise. Love a good case study 🙂
Food challenge could be good, though I’m with Mike beer would need to slip. Got a brew in the fermenter right now.
Press 135# PR
The WOD sucked. Is it too early to say weekend earned 😉
15:03 @135# I did the standard 10 burpees 5 push press. It worked well for me.
P: 67# (70# 1RM)
WOD: 12:35 (65#)
Think lunges from yesterday made burpees tough. Nice takeover on PR city 630!
Second those above – seminar & food challenge will be fun. Maybe also improving resource section on CFSV page. After knowledge sharing via seminar, it would be nice to reference back on website (links/resource information). Also those desiring to collaborate and share recipes, what’s food is good to replace, etc. Maybe we can create few google docs that everyone can edit/contribute and keep conversation going. With my consulting hat on, I know ideas don’t become reality without man power – so I’ll offer to help JT with this up if people are interested.
Press: 170# PR (175# for 2, also a PR)
Getting closer to that bodyweight press!
WOD: 10:59 RX
I changed my strategy about 100 times during this workout.
Also, I don’t care what kind of food challenge we do as long as I can still eat pizza, beer, and peanut butter cups. These are critical for my performance.
Press: 85# ugh.
Went too heavy too fast, failed, and kept failing even after I dropped weight.
WOD: 16:00 @ 95#
Strategy: matched push jerk and burpees for sets of 10 then 5, and finished up with 40 burpees.
I’m with Dan. I thought Crossfit was a license to eat anything and everything because it’s just delicious, delicious FUEL. Ice cream has protein, no?
Srsly though, strict paleo makes me go “wha?” but education about nutrition for active people would be a pretty nice thing.
P: 90#, tried at #97 (true 95#) but after 1 I knew it wasn’t going to happen 2 more times…
WOD: 12:12rx. I did sets of 5 push presses/jerks most of the time, and I swear to god some little ghost or fairy stuck an extra 20# on the bar for the final rep EVERY TIME. Annoying little bugger.
I liked this wod though. I like when there’s an element of choice and strategy thrown in there. I did mostly 5 S2OH/10 burpees, but the 2nd to last round I knocked out 15 burpees so I could end with just 5. In retrospect, with how difficult the 5th push jerk always felt, it may have made sense for me to do 10 rounds of 4 push press/8 burpees.
I couldn’t love this community more.
That is all.
Press 125# PR
WOD 13:35 @ 95#
It was interesting with the choice element (@Olivia) and it’s somewhat even more interesting that everyone used a different approach. For whatever reason I pounded out 35 S2OHs (10, 10, 10, 5) and then 80 burpees (obviously a couple breathers in there…) and the last 5 S2OH’s was like my dessert (speaking of food…lol)
I was right that was fucking gross.
13:24 rx-ish
Soh@105# burpees with bar step overs
Nico was nice enough to call it RX. I’m calling bullshit on myself.
Press:
65#
WoD:
I cant eve remember my time 🙁
@ 75#
Broke it up into 5 rounds of:
8 Push Press
16 burpies
*thanks to the suggestion by Chris Wells for the round break-downs
Press:115# not a PR. This month on shoulder stability has been stressful on my shoulder.
WOD: 11:09RX I choose 4Rounds of: 10 S2OH and 20 Burpees. Stayed with those rounds but had to break up the S2OH after round 1 to 5reps.
1. i’m totally on board with sharing recipes that anyone might be interested in. slow-cooker brussels sprouts, never-overcooked slow-cooked eggs, and slow-roasted beef recipes are all life-changing..
2. sleep challenge! runner-up: fruit and vegetable challenge.
3. press: 85#. WOD: 11:37 @ 75#. got 60 burpees over bar out of the way first. then 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 alternating burpees and S2O, then 20 S2O broken in sets of 5. loved this one in terms of giving autonomy over sequence.