Thursday 090507

I am real sorry I haven’t posted in quite some time but I have been real busy with getting myself ready for the regional qualifier. I have been training real hard to prepare myself for what might come up for the workouts. I know we have three, two on Saturday and one on Sunday, so I will be ready for that. I know we will have chest to bar pull-ups and there will be a run. I also know that we will probably have to pick up something heavy and maybe might have to put it overhead. Finally, there will be either burpees, hspu’s, or air squats. With this all said, I hope we have some type of clean thruster, clean and jerk, or dead-lift, all my strengths. I also hope we have the clean and jerk with a run because that would be right up my alley. Whatever it may be though, I will be ready and I will be ready to go hard. I have really been honing in on my training and my eating. I am starting to lean out and I feel strong and small which is were I want to be. I can hang with the biggest of them with the loaded movements but will they be able to hang with me on the bodyweight movements and running? 

I am excited and the nerves are starting to kick in, which only means my body is feeling it and preparing itself for battle. I am going to get in a few things before next Thursday before we leave, including a massage, a few sessions of ART (active release) and chiropractic adjustments, some meditation, and lots of fish oil and rest. I will probably take Friday off, workout on Saturday, take Sunday and Monday off, workout on Tuesday, take Wednesday off, and get in a final preparation session in on Thursday when we get arrive in Denver. 

I can’t wait to workout. I don’t really like working out but I love to compete and CrossFit gives me that opportunity. I don’t compete much here in Omaha. I work a different way. There are a lot of people who truly believe in working out with some one who is better than or at least of your caliber in order to get yourself pushed to new limits but I don’t work that way. I know how to unleash my inner beast when I need it and therefore I keep it locked in when training. This doesn’t mean I don’t go hard, it just means that I prefer to train alone and find ways to push and motivate myself. Most of my times within workouts come from working out by myself. I know that I can shave off considerable amounts of time if I was working out with someone else but I would rather save that for competition. When I was a wrestler in college, I was what you would consider a workout room warrior. I was a beast in the practice room but as soon at tournament time came, I would fold like a lawn chair. Once my senior year came around, I busted out of my shell and figured out how to wrestle smarter and train smarter. I started to show up in competition and use practice as just that, practice. A time to fine tune technique, increase strength, improve mental capacity, and every now and then, push my proverbial wall back. I am full aware of my capabilities and what I need to work on. When competiton rears its face, you will see a new me. A person that has that look in his eye. When I hear the words 3…2…1….GO!, I will go until the last rep with everything I have. This doesn’t mean I won’t manage my capabilities and work capacity for longer workouts because I always know about how long a workout should take me. It just means that I will give everything I have to beat the living snot out of the closest competitors. It’s go time baby.

I love CrossFit because it has given me the opportunity to make up for those years of college wrestling that I lost due to not figuring my self out. I don’t regret anything but I know I should have had a more successful career. I used up all my eligibility and now CrossFit has given me another avenue of competing. I thrive in that kind of environment. I love it. 

Wish me luck or better yet, wish me the best of times. I just want to enjoy myself and leave knowing I gave it my all. 

Today’s workout
3 rounds for time
200 meter run with 20kg bumper plate
50 Double Unders
Run 25 yards with plate to row machine and row 250 meters
Run 25 yards with plate to 20 inch box and jump 20 reps
35 Pushups
Run 75 yard shuttle with plate

Time: 17:38