My Daily Near Death Experience » Air Squats

“Murph”

Steve — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:06:33 +0000

I swear Tim has a sadistic streak in him. The posted WOD for Thursday was:

For time: 21 HSPU 6 hang squat cleans 95/65# 15 HSPU 9 hang squat cleans 9 HSPU 15 hang squat cleans 6 HSPU 21 hang squat cleans

I was all psyched up to do handstand push ups and hang squat cleans. But, the 5:30 class had a surprise waiting for us:

"Murph"

For [...]

I did 170 push ups this morning…

Steve — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:21:57 +0000

... and 255 air squats and 85 pull ups. But not all in a row.

Presenting "Cindy"!

As many rounds as possible in 20 minutes of: 5 Pull ups 10 Push-ups 15 Air squats

This is an endurance workout. It seems easy at first, but quickly starts wearing you down. But you just have to keep on pushing through to the [...]

Barbara

Steve — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:58:57 +0000

Another near death experience!! "Barbara" is such an innocent name to call such a killer workout. CrossFit is deceptive that way.

Surviving a CrossFit workout takes as much mental discipline as physical discipline. Several times during this workout - not to mention every other one as well - I feel like quitting because I'm so exhausted. I [...]