More Team Building at the Job . . . .

The boss is always saying that I am too distant, aloof and all around jerk and need to implement some team-building into my management . . . soooooo, today the boys did Fight Gone Bad. How's that for building a team . . . through destruction of the team members.

Fight Gone Bad
Wall Ball
75# SDHP
Tire Jumps
75# Push Press
Row

3 rounds, 1 minute each station, 1 minute rest between rounds, score is total number of reps and calories rowed. It sucks . . . but it is awesome.

Team WORKout & Nathan catches up

Today, as part of a "teambuilding" exercise, I brought our training program to work.

We broke up into 3 teams and pounded out the following:

12 - Team Tire Flips (550# tire)
60 - 25# KB SDHP
250' Sled Drag (180#)
9 - Team Tire Flips
45 - 25# KB SDHP
250' Sled Drag
6 - Team Tire Flips
30 - 25# KB SDHP
250' Sled Drag
3 - Team Tire Flips
15 - 25# KB SDHP
250' Sled Drag

Lobus (the boss) "forgot his clothes", so he didn't participate. Our two man teams were, in order:

Dan & DJ - DNF (completed 1 round, both quit)
Jeremy & Jason - 15:15
Bill & Taza - 15.33

I called Nathan on my way home and he headed over. He did one that Jeremy and I did last week, based on CrossFit's "GRACE" (30 Clean & Jerks with 135# barbell)

We did it with 102# stone. He knocked it out in x:xx

Row, row, row your . . . . rower?

Today was three Tabatas (8 rounds of 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off)

Rowing - scored by meters rowed
Abmat Sit-ups - scored by total reps
Rowing - scored by meters rowed

Rowing sucks . . . 'nuff said.

Nathan
Round 1 - 764 meters
Round 2 - 78 sit-ups
Round 3 - 741 meters

Taza
Round 1 - 907 meters
Round 2 - 56 sit-ups (I would have done better, but my gut kept getting in the way!)
Round 3 - 781 meters

Nathan's 1st and 3rd are separated by only 23 meters, whereas mine are separated by 126 total.

Wednesday - 10.28.09

Today we modeled our work out after CrossFit's "Jackie"

Jackie is 1000 meter row, 45# thruster x 50 and 30 pull-ups

We don't have a pull-up bar yet, so we did 50 push-ups

I did fairly well on the row and thrusters, but stunk it up on the push-ups.

Nathan did the push-ups quickly, but without full range of motion for the majority of them.

Not our greatest showing . . . .

Taza - 13:35
Nathan - 11:35

102# Boulder

We have two boulders that we have been playing with, doing thrusters and various carries. Tonight, for the first time, we weighed them. I was floored to find out that one of them is 83# and the other is 102#. I would have guessed them to be about 40# and 60#, repectively.

I don't know if 102# constitutes a boulder, but it just sounds better than rock. Maybe I could have gone with "stone"?

At any rate, today's was CrossFit's "GRACE" (30 Clean & Jerks) with a 102# boulder, rock, stone, instead of a 135# barbell. It was tough to get a good grip and it doesn't go up or down even like a barbell does. We will definitely see this one again.

Jeremy - 11:58
Taza - 6:07

Heavy Stuff 10.23.09

Friday, Jeremy and Nathan came over and we did a circuit reminiscent of the early days of Titan Training . . . .

3 rounds

550# tire flip x 5
Boulder Thruster x 5
Suitcase walk across yard (L there, R back)
Keg walk across yard (racked there, overhead back)

Not for time . . . just for fun.

This one AGAIN?!?!

Just got back from the company sales meeting, so after a couple of 4 hour drives in a 24 hour period, I really didn't want to train today. Thankfully, Jeremy called and came over.

We did one that Nathan and I did a couple of weeks ago, Crossfit RVA's "Katie Brown"

AMRAP 10
with a 55# Kettlebell . . .

9 goblet squats
6 OH swings
3 SDHP

Jeremy - 7 rounds, 5 squats
Taza - 8 rounds, 3 squats and I quit 18 seconds before the time limit. LOSER!!

When we revisit this one, my goal will be 9-10 rounds . . . and no quit. I want to see this one before the end of November and use it as a gauge for progress for all of us.