Health & Wellness by Lexa's Journal

My mission in life is to not merely survive, but to thrive: and do so with passion, compassion, humor, and style. – Maya Angelou

Tag: pull ups

  • I did the 9:30 morning crossFit class today. After warm ups, we started with five minutes of butterfly pull up practice.  I didn’t think much of it because I’m accustomed to meeting the bar half way only to fail without a band. As usually, I say, what the heck and I give it a try with a…

  •   Daniel 50 Pull-ups 400 meter run 21 Thrusters 95/65 800 meter run 21 Thrusters 95/65 400 meter run 50 Pull-ups Refreshing! Now that I am on my summer break, I get to do the morning WOD’s. With 15 minutes to spare, I dropped B’Dazzle off at camp at 8.15 a.m and made it to the…

  • Row 1000 M 40 Back Squats (135/115) (95/75) 30 Pull Ups 20 T2B (Toes to bar) Rest 4 Mins Buy Out Prowler push (Modified due to class size) 25 pounds on sled 20 yard shuttle (10 up/10 back) Rest as needed between each shuttle. OMG!!  I actually did T2B (toes to bar) today!!  I was…

  • The CrossFit games are going on strong and so am I. I see that the 14.3 was a beast!  While I am missing out on this round of the games, there will be others. It has been nearly two weeks since completing my last WOD, so I was highly motivated to get to this morning’s…

  • Warm Up:  3 RDS of 50 DU’s (Double Under’s)/100 Singles 10 Push Ups 15 Sit Ups Mobility:  7 MIN SWOD:  10 MIN EMOM 5-10 Pull UPS + 10 Air Squats WOD:    10 RDS Row 40 SEC     *10 SEC Transition Hollow Rocks/Sit Ups 40 SEC These days, any day that I can do…

  • WOD Warm Up: 3 Rounds 200M Run + 1 Cindy (5 Pull ups, 10 Push ups, 15 Air Squats) Mobility: 7 Minutes SWOD: Romanian Dead Lifts @ 40 x 1 4-6 Reps x 3 Sets WOD: For Time 1000M Row 50 KBS (53/35) (44/20) 30 Burpees This was the first Saturday morning CrossFit class that…