Still waiting

Well, it's week 2 in Baltimore and I'm still waiting on my set of bumper plates to come in the mail. I've received my Olympic bar and my power rack (awesome!), but having all the support tools without the weights has been a bit frustrating. The pull-up bar on the power rack has come in very useful and I still have my rings, kettlebells, and heavy bag. Pretty much every CrossFit workout can be adapted to use those items. It has been a while since I did high-rep kettlebell work, and it is a smoker! My last workout was a 20 minute continuous superset: 10 kettlebell snatches per arm and 10 ring dips. I rotated through the 2 exercises as many times as possible in 20 minutes. At the 15 minute mark I was in a good deal of pain....at 20 minutes I dropped the kettlebell and collapsed on the ground. I was only using a 44 lbs bell, but I instead of doing the standard swing snatch, I did the snatch from a dead hang. This takes away the back swing and most of your momentum and really forces your body to generate full power on every snatch. Needless to say I was very sore the next day.

Today I am doing a 5K run. I haven't done a long run since I left Ft Bragg at the beginning of the month. When left to own choices, I tend to refrain from a lot of long distance running (not that a 5K is long distance). That is why CrossFit is such a great site. When the workout of the day says 5K, I do a damn 5K. When it says 10K, out I go with my running shoes. CrossFit forces me to cover all my fitness bases.

So until my bumper plates arrive I am going to continue to adapt my CrossFit workouts to what I have and really amp up on improving my metabolic conditioning. After all, the metabolic conditioning work is what transformed me when I first started doing CrossFit. Time to get back to the basics. Let's hope the weights come in eventually....I going into heavy squat withdrawal.