Corey's CrossFit Obsession and Stuff

Good and bad - The last 3 days

First of all, the diet has not been the best... at least for dinner. Breakfast, lunch and most snacks. I know not having a near 100% Paleo diet is effecting my metcon WODs, but I am still getting stronger.

On December 28th I did:

5 Rounds
21 Thrusters 75#
21 Double unders
12:23

I knew I was kind of slow on this even though I didn't know my PR. When I checked I saw that my PR was 11:39 from 3 months ago. I was very upset. My coaches told me that I shouldn't expect to hit a PR every time, but I think otherwise. I know it has to do with my diet because I did not have the energy that I normally have.

On December 29th I did the CrossFit Total

I went to the board and wrote the numbers I wanted before the WOD.
Previous results, 11/10/09 - 810,  9/1/09 - 845

Numbers I wrote on the board were. BS 345, SP 155, DL 410
I did them all and my new total is 910. Much better than last time and blew away my PR. The diet is having no effect on my strength.

Today, 12/30/09 we did:
40,30,20,10 of
Kettelbell swings 1.5 pood
Knees to elbows
12:49
No previous results on this, but my body felt just like it did the other day. I barely beat one other guy with the same weight as me when I am used to crushing everyone times. Not good.

What happens is I need to rest too much and the body feels week and the stomach hurting.

To sum all of this up, I will be eating a sub par diet until the 1st. Then I will be near 100% clean to train for the NorCal sectionals. 

I do have some nagging minor injuries I am working to fix, but should not hold me back to much. One bright spot is that the knees to elbows and skin the cat did not hurt like they did in my arm and back like they have in the last couple of months. I have to test some kipping and butterfly pull ups to be sure.

That's it for now. I hope I have some good news in a few days.

My gym

I just took a few pictures of my gym for anyone what would like to see it. I don't do too many WODs in the gym these days as it is really cold most of the time.

I will compete

I have decided that I will compete in the 2010 CrossFit Games Sectionals in San Jose on March 27-28.

More info to come on how I will prepare. First thing first. I have to get some nagging injuries fixed fast. I have an appoint with my orthopedic guy on Jan 12th. I hope whatever has to be done only takes 2 weeks, then it's major training time!

The last few days

I need to get my diet dialed in more. I keep slipping
and I think my numbers are showing it. I think I did good today
though.

Friday was supposed to be a rest day, so I did max effort push ups.
Only 81. I was shooting for more than 100. I need some work on push
ups. We did do Tabata Something Else on Thursday, so that may be the
reason.

Anyway, I was feeling good on Saturday, so this is what I did:

Big team (partner) WOD:

AMRAP in 3 minutes of each exercise while the partner "rests" in
distress: rest 1 minute between exercises
Work                 Rest
Pull ups             Dead hang on par            80  (For work I did
ring rows)
20# Ball Slams   Hold 20# ball overhead    111
Sit ups               Elbow Plank                   122
Push ups           Push ups plank               131
Air Squats         Air bench against wall      165
Not sure how many reps my partner did

Then I did Press 1-1-1-1-1, Push press 3-3-3-3-3, push jerk 5-5-5-5-5
WOD
115,125,135,145,147
115,125,135,145,150
125,135,145,155,160

Then I went snowboarding for 5 hours

Sunday Eva T was in the gym and we did a team WOD and she was on my
team!
Cool WOD. 4 person team for 15 minutes. 1 person rowed, while the rest
did AMRAP of:
30 lunges
20 Knees to elbows (I did GHD sit ups)
10 burpees
Our team even with the slowest guy in the gym won. Eva and I both did
4 rounds, not sure how much we rowed.
I found out that Eva and I have the same favorite WOD: Nate!

I only did a couple runs of snowboarding. Then chilled with football
for the rest of the day.

Monday we did "The Chief" - I always wanted to do this one. I ended up
loving this WOD. I love any mini round WODs.
My gym only counts full rounds, but for some reason I finished a full
round right when time was up each round.
5 rounds each round for a total of 25 rounds.

I think The Chief may overtake Nate as my favorite WOD.

First post

My name is Corey Bibolet and I am a computer geek that has many interests. I am recently divorced and have two wonderful kids ages 10 and 11. We live in Truckee, just north of the beautiful Lake Tahoe. My interests include many of the outdoor activities we have in the area. Winter: Snowboarding, cross country skiing (skate), snow shoeing, ice climbing. Summer: Mountain biking, rock climbing, wake boarding, skateboarding, hiking, kayaking (river and lake), etc. Some of my other interests include break-dancing, electronic music production (Breakbeat and Drum N Bass), DJing, working on computers. My number one interest and what I drive almost everyone crazy with is CrossFit.

I am obsessed with CrossFit. I love it and I love to way it makes me feel. I found something that I am really good at. It has taken time to get proficient, but there is always room for improvement. I will be making more posts just about CrossFit, but this is just my intro.  

I wish I had more time right now to Blog more, but this has to be enough for today.

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