Plank Out

Today we started with benchpresses. I started at 35# and worked up to 85#. I did 6 of them.

Next we did our WOD, which was 5 rounds of:

20 ring rows (I did mine modified)
40 double unders
60 second FLR (forward leaning rest)

This was tough. Ring rows suck, and 20 is a lot of reps to do in a row. Ugh. I modified them by putting my feet on the floor instead of a box and going from there. I had to move up quite a bit by the end of my 5 rounds to make it happen, and I took it pretty slow, usually doing 5-7 at a time.

Double unders weren’t terrible. Luckily I am pretty proficient at them, so I was able to bust through them pretty quickly. Most of the people in my class couldn’t do them, so this is where I was able to kind of speed ahead of everyone. I didn’t do great, though – I tended to do about 7-10 before messing up, which isn’t awesome for me.

The 60 second FLRs were torturous. A FLR is basically holding a plank position for 60 seconds on the rings. We didn’t have to do the 60 seconds unbroken though thank god. I mostly did them for 20 seconds at a time. I know that doesn’t sound like much but that was seriously all I could handle. This is so hard for me! The person next to me was able to do his all in one go, or broken up into 30/30 or 40/20. Crazy!

This took me 24:35 to complete. I didn’t feel great during this workout. Since last night my stomach has felt a little bit off. Mostly just full of liquid. I think I drank a little too much wine last night, and I tried to counteract it by drinking a bunch of water before I went to bed. I didn’t feel hungover at all when I got up, but I have felt slightly off all day. Then I drank a bunch of tea before the gym, and I could feel everything sloshing around in there. I was pretty nauseous by the end of the workout. Which was a shame because there was a paleo food cart outside my gym today!

Even though I felt pretty terrible, I stopped and got a salad anyway. Paleo is pretty meat heavy and I’m a vegetarian, so I wasn’t sure they would have anything for me, but they did! I got a broccoli and kale salad with avocados, cashews, apples, cucumbers, and tomatoes. OMG. It was seriously SO GOOD. And I am not a huge salad person. It was sweet and salty and creamy and DELICIOUS. I also got a hibiscus lime tea that was amazing. If you are in Portland, the name of the truck is called Knuckle Dragger. They are just starting out, so check their Twitter feed to find out where they’ll be.

Knuckle Dragger hibiscus tea and broccoli and kale salad. SO YUMMY

Oh, and one more thing – I think my body has recovered mostly from my first three days in a row back at Crossfit. I was seriously so sore yesterday it was kind of crazy. Eric massaged me a bunch, and I went to a meditative yoga session at the ashram near my house, which was also pretty therapeutic and helped me stretch out. I am really loving yoga and hoping to add it into my regular practice.