Tuesday, October 16, 2012

PR: Handstand Walk

New personal record:  94.5 ft.  Closing in on 100.

Friday, October 12, 2012

PR: Double-Unders

My personal record for consecutive double-unders was set a few months ago:  67.  I've gotten halfway reliable at doing sets of 50, by which I mean I can do them about half the time;  50 is about as many as I expect to need to do in a WOD.  Perhaps I'll see if I can get to 100 in a row.  I don't think I'll try to go beyond that.

PR: Handstand Walk

I set a new personal record for handstand walking today:  93 feet.

PR: Snatch

I set a new snatch PR today:  150 lb.  That's a 10-lb improvement.

PR: Handstand Walk

Earlier this week, I set a new personal record for handstand walking:  83 feet.  I hope to reach 100 feet sometime this year.

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

PR: Pull-Up/Wallball WOD

Last Monday, October 1, CrossFit Diesel repeated this unnamed WOD:

  • For minimum time, peform 21-, 18-, 15-, 12-, 9-, 6-, and 3-rep rounds of
    • Pull-Up
    • Wallball 

I set a new personal record of 8:40.  That's almost 5 minutes faster than my previous best of 13:25.

PR: Push Press

Lacking a post to the contrary and being too lazy to dig through my handwritten records, I'm going to assume my push presses today constituted personal records:
  • Push press, 4 reps: 165 lb.
  • Push press, 5 reps:  160 lb.

Monday, September 24, 2012

PR: Clean and Jerk, Clean Only

New personal records set September 22:
  • Clean and jerk:  195 lb.  (A 2.5-lb improvement.)
  • Clean:  200 lb (A 7.5-lb improvement.)
These PRs are only small improvements over the benchmarks set almost exactly a year ago, but given the injury, illness, and lost training I've experienced since then, I'm pretty happy with these results.

Since I'm skill-limited rather than strength- or power-limited on the clean and the jerk, I find ramping up in very small steps (2.5 lb) to be very helpful.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

PR: Grace

Tonight, I set a new personal record for the WOD called Grace*:  5:39.  That's a 34-second improvement.  Next time, I'll aim for 5:30.

* 30 clean and jerks at 135 lb.

Monday, September 17, 2012

PR: Grace

My personal record for the workout known as Grace* is 6:13, set on April 19, 2012.

* 30 clean and jerks at 135 lb.