Weekly Workouts Recap - Eat the Gains

A recap of my weekly workouts from the previous week.

Happy Monday! Hope everyone had a great weekend and is ready for the week. I am traveling back home this week and am so excited! I can’t wait to see some family and some old friends.

Last week I started a new strength training program. Strength has been one thing I have somewhat avoided in my past 5 years of CrossFit. Don’t get me wrong, I am so much stronger than when I started CrossFit. I couldn’t do a pull-up, handstand push-up, and snatch more than the training bar when I started. But I have never really focused on getting stronger, it just comes naturally with doing CrossFit 5 times a week for a handful of years.

I am now actually going to be focusing on that aspect. While I am happy with my conditioning, I have been stuck at certain weights on a few lifts for years. I mean I don’t go out of my way to get better at them so that is why. But now is the time. I have a competition coming up in 2 months that I need to be stronger for. I think it will be a good change from my norm and push me out of my comfort zone a little.

The only way to get better at things is by working on them. So here’s to lifting some heavy (to me) sh*t and getting better. Is there anything you have avoided over the years that you would like to improve on?

Sunday – rest day

Monday – rest day/too hungover to workout

Tuesday – CrossFit City Limits workout

tabata push-ups
tabata bottom to bottom air squats
then:
for time
1 mile run

I got 64 push-ups, 106 air squats, and finished my mile in 6:44.

Wednesday – CrossFit City Limits workout

strength work with programming from my coach

5 RFQ:
10 toes to bar
10 back extensions
10 strict pull-ups

Thursday – CrossFit City Limits workout

21-15-9
deadlifts (225lb/155lb/50% of 1RM)
strict ring dips

I finished in 10:08 using 135#. I did all the ring dips strict without any assistance so was pretty happy with that.

Friday – rest day