We’ve all heard it p
lenty of times, 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night is ideal. We know it’s essential to recovery, and if we’re missing the mark in our workouts it’s one of the things we’ll look at. The position we sleep in can also impact performance, and was the focus of Tuesday’s Mobility WOD, which also reminded me of these blog entries (part 1, part 2) by CrossFit Invictus from back in December. As Kstar says “athletes that respect themselves don’t sleep on their stomachs”. As someone who alternates between the fetal and freefaller positions (see diagram at right), I need to work on my sleeping technique, and use the soldier position more often. This probably explains my tricky shoulder/neck/back/traps. I switched my pillow, which seemed to help, but just like buying a new pair of running sneakers to aid sore knees, it’s only putting a bandage on the situation. To remedy the problem, the form must be corrected.
Wednesday’s metcon here at CrossFit Fenway is a mainsite favorite, and a great test of bodyweight conditioning. Like the baseline workout, but a little longer and with less movements, it’s not a question of how the work will be done, but how fast. There’s no reason to break up the reps, just charge through them. Here’s a video of Chris Spealler getting it done in 6:42 (WMV/MOV)
September 29th, 2010
Strength: Overhead Squat 3-3-3-3-3
WOD:
100′ walking lunges
21 pull-ups
21 sit-ups
100′ walking lunges
18 pull-ups
18 sit-ups
100′ walking lunges
15 pull-ups
15 sit-ups
100′ walking lunges
12 pull-ups
12 sit-ups
100′ walking lunges
9 pull-ups
9 sit-ups
100′ walking lunges
6 pull-ups
6 sit-ups
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It is 11:30 pm as I read this, and I have to get up in under 6 hours for class. Irony?
OHS: 60kg (65kg to insufficient depth)
WOD: 11:42 Rx
How would I have performed with a full night’s rest? The world may never know.
Eric, have you tried sewing a tennis ball to the front of a t-shirt?
No tennis ball…yet.
Also ironic that this post coincided with the worst sleep I’ve had in months.
OHS: 80kg
WOD: 9:33 Rx, I could have smoked spealler if I only had to go to the 12 rep set.
What Eric didn’t mention was that in order to correct his sleeping form, he’s also hired a former Russian school teacher to slap him with a three day old codfish every time he rolls onto his stomach. He’s very serious about this.
It’s Pose sleeping with Romanov’s brother. I was pretty good for the first few hours last night, but from about 2 AM onwards my technique degraded, and I was beaten by that cod like a red headed step child, which I happen to be.
“Hey baby, let me show you the starfish.” – Great pickup line!
A great note on potential from Games athlete Blair Morrison of Crossfit Mobile
http://crossfitmobile.blogspot.com/2010/09/fitness-is.html
I’m a big freefaller, and for insufficient time at that. This explains everything…
I sleep like I’m in a coffin – hands folded across chest… and wake up in any weird position… but who knows what happens during the night.
Great workout today, felt great… but I’m so hungry and keep eating… all good stuff of course.
OHS- 55kg
WOD: 14:54 rx .. cutting it a little too close to the 15 min time cap
justin, i finally ate the fudge (stacey convinced me since it had been in the freezer that i was safe)… SOOO GOOD. feel free to make another batch any time now 🙂
also… today is dennis’ birthday.. the big 22. he’s currently sailing somewhere between ghana and south africa, but he can check his email!
dsmoriconi@semesteratsea.net
wish him a happy birthday and tell him to stop slacking and go wod.
OHS: 65kg
WOD: 16:43 – got confused and lost some time stopping on the cutoff. lunges kill.
i freefall to fetal. maybe log it up sometimes. soldier just feels weird…
Hahaha. I am so stupid. I did this workout on my own and neglected to see the ‘ or foot marker on the walking lunges. I ended up doing 100 walking lunges per round. That’s 600 in total! Should’ve watched Spealer’s demo video. Oh well. Lesson learned. Took me 26:19 and my legs are quite tired… Like they’ve been beaten with a 3 day old codfish by a Russian school teacher.
OH Squat: 55kg
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OHS: 70kg puuuuumped
WOD: 9:46 RX
-situps were super slow god damn
Sick OHS bro, that’s really impressive
“The Incredible Yosh” – nice time and OHS.
OHS: 60kg (I feel a little tighter than the last time I did them)
WOD: 15:20ish Rx
80kg OHS, attempted 90kg, but the first rep wasn’t low enough – rep 2 and 3 were low.
11:44 WOD
i freefall to fetal. maybe log it up sometimes. soldier just feels weird
OHS 20KG, which is PR for me. Granted, when you start from the bottom the only way to go is up…but I finally felt way more comfortable with this one and my shoulder flexibility seems to have improved a lot over the last few weeks.
WOD: 14:35 with a green resistance band. i never realized how hard lunges can be when you’re tired!
I sleep like a soldier when alone; starfish when being used as a pillow. Snuggles are awesome.