CrossFit Day 5
Today’s workout called for 30 muscle ups. A muscle up is an exercise where you false grip a pair of gymnastic rings, pull your body up and over the rings until you’re on your hands in dip position. Oh, there is no way I can do that. Watching videos of that is hard enough. The subsitution suggested is 4 dips and 4 pullups per assigned muscle up. This makes 120 of each. I’ve been working at a multiplier of 45%. So, that makes 54 of each this evening.
After nearly four hours of hiking this afternoon, I just wanted to go out, do a few sets of a few reps at a time, and trudge home dragging my knuckles. Trying strict pullups—yeah, two. Two? Is that all you have, Apollo, you weak piece of crap? Okay, pullups in CrossFit speak are kipping pullups, unless designated as strict. Try as I might, I cannot get the rhythm down for those types of exercises.
So to build up to that, because I have no upper body strength at all, I did a bunch of jumping negative pullups. This is where you grab the bar, jump to where your chin’s over the bar, and lower yourself to full extension, fighting gravity. I grunted out 40 of those before my arms could handle no more.
From the bar, I headed over to the parallel bars to see if I had any dips. I had two of those, too, at full strict extension, no leg movement and full arm extension. Okay, let’s not go down all the way and see if we have a few more. After an eon of doing the ones where I’d go down less than six inches, I had finished 40 reps and could no longer hold my own weight on the parallel bars. Wow. Weak. Embarrassingly weak.
It’ll come. I just have to push as hard as I can, keep doing what I’m doing, and I’ll get stronger. Onward!
My results: 20:53; HR: 156 avg, 144 max; 289 cal (30% fat)
Today: including the hike and the warmup walks and today’s pullup/dip fiasco, I burned 2344 calories. That’s not a bad day at all.
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