And after Fran there was Barbara

Oh yes, another lady WOD. This time we had Barbara.

We are now starting a new 6 week period of strengthening programme at my box (CrossFit gym). To start the programme we all had to do Barbara, a WOD we will repeat towards the end of the six week period and see how much we have improved.

My pull-ups are jumping from a box and my push-ups are on the knees (girly ones). I hope to at least move to proper push-ups towards the end. The sit-ups were not that bad since I have been doing extra every time I have been to the box, so I managed to go through them rather well. My time? 37min 28sec...

Body is feeling rather good, still a lot to improve and as long as I keep going, keep sweating and keep trying harder I shall see results in time.

ToughMudder, here I come!

The dear old Fran

For those of you who do not know, CrossFit has some tough workouts that have girl names to them. Why? Well, as Coach Glassman, the founder and President of CrossFit explained it. “I want to explain the workout once and then give it a name.  I thought that anything that left you flat on your back, looking up at the sky asking ‘what just happened to me?’ deserved a females name.  Workouts are just like storms, they wreak havoc on towns.”  

Today we did FRAN, a combination of Thrusters (lifting weights) and Pull Ups. I have to say I am rather pleased with myself. I am yet to be able to do a proper Pull Up, so I use the scaled down technique, where you do a tiny jump to help you get the chin over the bar. However, I managed to do my Thrusters with the 30kg weight as it was written on the board! I completed it in 7 minutes.

Image above taken from here.

More information about the other girls can also be found here.

I am getting stronger and it is only a matter of time before I can do a pull-up.

In other news, I am now running over 5km, 6.3km last time. This week I want to achieve a 10km. Time is closing in for Tough Mudder!