{"id":3014,"date":"2011-08-17T21:18:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T01:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2011-08-17T21:18:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T01:18:48","slug":"happy-crossfit-iversary-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/17\/happy-crossfit-iversary-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy CrossFit-iversary to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks one year of my participation in the delightful masochism we like to call CrossFit. On August 17, 2010, I met Coach Dave at <a href=\"http:\/\/crossfitdurham.com\/\">CrossFit Durham<\/a> for my first Foundations session, and I&#8217;ve been back there two hundred eleven more times. That&#8217;s an average of exactly four times per week.<\/p>\n<p>If you had asked me a year ago how long I would make it, I have no idea what I would&#8217;ve told you. But I&#8217;ll say now, I&#8217;ve never logged this kind of record at a gym. I belonged to one in Carrboro for a couple years, but if I made it to one or two aerobics classes a week, that was a lot.<\/p>\n<p>This next part&#8217;ll be boring to everyone but me, but I&#8217;d like to get down my most recent numbers now, just to have it on record. All are one-rep maxes, unless otherwise noted.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>3\/21\/11 Row 2k 10:38<\/li>\n<li>4\/1\/11 Run 800 meters 4:57<\/li>\n<li>4\/8\/11 Row 500 meters 2:06<\/li>\n<li>4\/8\/11 Run 400 meters 2:04<\/li>\n<li>4\/9\/11 Clean and jerk 100.5 lbs<\/li>\n<li>5\/2\/11 Front squat 115 lbs<\/li>\n<li>5\/23\/11 Overhead squat 75.5 lbs (x3)<\/li>\n<li>5\/27\/11 Push press 90.5 lbs<\/li>\n<li>6\/16\/11 Bench press 95 lbs<\/li>\n<li>7\/8\/11 Snatch 68 lbs<\/li>\n<li>7\/20\/11 Press 75 lbs<\/li>\n<li>8\/?\/11 Kipped a red-band pull-up<\/li>\n<li>8\/5\/11 Back squat 155 lbs<\/li>\n<li>8\/8\/11 Deadlift 213 lbs<\/li>\n<li>8\/9\/11 Push jerk 102.5 lbs<\/li>\n<li>8\/12\/11 46 dead-hang blue-band pull-ups in 20 minutes<\/li>\n<li>8\/17\/11 18 Double-unders in a row, during a WOD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These numbers are stupid. They&#8217;re stupid. I&#8217;m <em>really <strong>not<\/strong><\/em> strong or fast (definitely not fast!) or good at anything, compared to the other people at the gym. But they&#8217;re my numbers, and they&#8217;re better than I did a year ago, so I&#8217;ll go ahead and be proud of them.<\/p>\n<p>And I can&#8217;t see myself stopping any time soon. I love it. So there you go.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I looked at today&#8217;s WOD online this morning, and&#8212;get this&#8212;it was (1) Run 800 meters carrying a 12-lb medicine ball, (2) 100 20-in box jumps, and (3) run another 800 meters carrying a 12-lb medicine ball.<\/p>\n<p>For my CrossFit-iversary, I gave myself the gift of not doing that fucking bullshit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks one year of my participation in the delightful masochism we like to call CrossFit. On August 17, 2010, I met Coach Dave at CrossFit Durham for my first Foundations session, and I&#8217;ve been back there two hundred eleven more times. That&#8217;s an average of exactly four times per week. If you had asked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/17\/happy-crossfit-iversary-to-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy CrossFit-iversary to Me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liftin-heavy-objects-over-ma-head"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}