Thrusterville !!!!

Hey Everyone

Another 3 sessions gone and again, new and harder sessions.

Really enjoying, as much as you can, the new level of volume and difficulty, these sessions involve now, although still unhappy at some of my progress, but that is more a mental thing, expecting to get better, quicker than I probably deserve.

Anyway, here are the last 3 sessions.

THURSDAY 1st AUGUST

A. Back Squat - 5 x 5
I did - 5@50kg, 5 @70kg, 5@80kg, 5 @90kg, 5@100kg and 5 x5 @ 110kg

B. 21-15-9 (21 reps of each exercise, then 15, then 9) of
2 x 16kg Kettlebells swings and 2 x 16kg Kettlebell Thrusters, which I thought was going to be tough enough, without Iain's added 'incentive' of anytime I put the kettlebells down, I had to do 5 burpees, before starting again.
Before i began I set myself the target of only doing 2 sets of burpees 
I did 3 !! 
This is how I got through it -
21 swings, 21 thrusters, 15 swings, 5 BURPEES, 9 thrusters, 5 BURPEES, 6 thrusters, 9 swings, 4 thrusters, 5 BURPEES, 5 thrusters

This was even worse than I expected, as a workout, anything with thrusters usually is, at least I won't have to do thrusters again for a while :-)

C. EMOM  (Every Minute On the Minute) for 10 minutes
EVEN minutes - 5 x 30inch Box Jumps
ODD minutes - 15kcal ski erg (have I mentioned I hate this ? ha ha )

Again, another really gassy workout, I had to drop to 13kcal, to keep it under a minute, which I was disappointed about, but not as much as I was when Iain told me he can do 15kcal in 30 seconds !!! I really need to get stronger at pulling down 


FRIDAY 2nd AUGUST

Feeling good today, well until I got to Crossfit glasgow box and Iain began writing on a whiteboard, while Nisha had a guilty knowing smile on her face.
 This is what he was writing !

THRUSTERS AGAIN !!

This, if you're not sure means 10 Tyre flips, 1 Thruster, 1 Yoke walk, 9 tyre flips, 2 thrusters, 1 Yoke walk and so on until 1 tyre flip, 10 thrusters, 1 Yoke walk.


This, to be honest, looked like I was going to be here, for at least 40 minutes, 40 minutes of chipping away, getting through it. No fun

You also know that it looks hard, when people (Mick Robertson) decide they are going to stay because "I need to see you doing this" 

After a bit of abuse and intimidation, while doing my warm up, I was ready. I had mentally decided it was going to take about 40 minutes, and breaking the thrusters into sets of 3 or 4, once I got to about 6 reps.

So, off I went, it was Ok, even with Iain playing the sun has got his hat on, wasn't putting me off, I felt better than I had hoped.
When I got to 6 thrusters, I was going to do 2 x 3 reps, but changed my mind and did the 6 unbroken.

Every round from then on, I just told myself, its only 1 more than you have done, do it unbroken, 7,8,9 came and went, there was no chance I was breaking on 10 reps.

Then it was last yoke walk and done

TIME - 25:28 a lot quicker than expected, in my head anyway, not sure what Iain was expecting ?

At least no more Thrusters for a while 


SATURDAY 3rd AUGUST 

A. 3-3-3-3-3 reps of weighted pull ups and dips
I wore a weighted vest for this and had Mick for company doing this, which was a good change.

B. 5000 metre Row for time ! Mick decided he had to go home ?
I actually would've rather done yesterdays session again, than this, not because it was easier, but I just get so bored on the rower and knew this was going to take about 25 minutes for me.
It took 22:03, I was very sad and bored ha ha


So, a good three sessions done and I'm still progressing, Iain is still adding new things, making it tougher every week.

At least I know there won't be thrusters in next sessions !!!
Surely not ?!?

Till then

Craig