Saturday 9.03.11

Let's get it started!  If you're tuning in to my training log, you'll see a mixture of CrossFit Football, gymnastics, strongman training, and endurance work.  Hopefully I can meet my goal, which is just being all around more awesome.  But specifically, my goal is to decrease my body weight to 225 while achieving a 1700 CrossFit Football Total (power clean, squat, bench press, and deadlift 1rm added together). 

With that in mind today was Saturday, which is strongman training day:

SWOD:
Max weight yoke walk for 50 feet (must complete the entire 50 feet without dropping to count)
- Set 1:  175
- Set 2:  355
- Set 3:  455
- Set 4:  535
- Set 5:  635 (Missed on the first try, got it on the second try.  The first try was WAY off balance and can only be described as a 635 pound steel tornado)
- Set 6:  717.  Here's a video of the final effort.  Note the complete stop about 10 steps in while I re-stabilize the load.  Also note the poor video quality which looked a ton better on the iPhone.

Metcon:
"Mckenna"
15-12-9 reps of:
- 115 pound stone squat clean and press
- Chest to Bar pull ups

This took me 17:30 to complete.  Probably could have done it faster (note Craig's time on the same WOD) but I did it "dueling banjos" style with Matt, where I would do one rep with the stone, then he would do one, and so forth.