{"id":3137,"date":"2011-09-07T22:25:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T02:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2011-09-07T22:25:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T02:25:10","slug":"helen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/helen\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did Helen tonight.\u00a0Don&#8217;t get too excited, my lesbians; that&#8217;s just the name of one of the CrossFit benchmark WODs. Helen is:<\/p>\n<p>Three rounds of<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>run 400 meters<\/li>\n<li>21 kettlebell swings (35 lbs for women)<\/li>\n<li>12 pull-ups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last time I did this WOD (December 3 of last year), I used a 20-lb kettlebell and green-plus-skinny-purple bands for the pull-ups. I finished in 14:30. Tonight, I was using a 30-lb kettlebell and the blue band. And it took me 14:42.<\/p>\n<p>So it took me twelve seconds <em>longer<\/em> than it did nine months ago. Fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I know I was doing more work this time with the equipment change, but goddamn.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago after a workout, my buddy Jack said, &#8220;Good job, Scott.&#8221; And I said, &#8220;No. It was not. I have a Bad Attitude about my performance today.&#8221; And we laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I can do that. <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2132\">Laugh about how bad I am<\/a>. Other days I <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2157\">boo-hoo into my sleeve<\/a>. Occasionally, I <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2954\">spew vitriol at myself<\/a>. Today, I just feel like, goddamn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did Helen tonight.\u00a0Don&#8217;t get too excited, my lesbians; that&#8217;s just the name of one of the CrossFit benchmark WODs. Helen is: Three rounds of run 400 meters 21 kettlebell swings (35 lbs for women) 12 pull-ups Last time I did this WOD (December 3 of last year), I used a 20-lb kettlebell and green-plus-skinny-purple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/helen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Helen<\/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":[20,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-world-problems","category-liftin-heavy-objects-over-ma-head"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","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=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3138,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions\/3138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}