Week 2 of Honeymoon

Week 2 of our Honeymoon was spent in Sydney. We were able to train at Crossfit Creature the majority of the time, they were awesome and let us drop in whenever we wanted and let us do what we wanted.

Day 1 - We did the class workout with our friends we were staying with, felt like that was appropriate on our first visit :)

A1. DL 51X1 x2; rest 1min
A2. Ring Rows 4141 x4 rest 1min

EMOM x 16
Even - 2 wall walks - max double unders in remaining time (I just did 25 singles each time)
Odd - rest

Did this with the 6am class, was pretty tired but it did feel good to train, wasn't too hard of a workout

Day 2 -
21-Oct
A1. Muscle ups; 15 for time x2; rest 1 min
A2. 15 strict hspu for time x2; rest 2 min

MU were off this day and hard, the straps on the rings were real long so my timing was off compared to our rings at home, I did 3 sets of A1 and A2 vs 2 and did 10reps each time, so I got the volume in just had to break it up more. Strict HSPU felt great though! I did the first set of 10 in like 1:20, PR! haha the next 2 sets were around 2:00-2:20.

B1. Wall facing static hs hold; accumulate 90 seconds AFAP x4; rest 1 min
B2. Supinated false grip above the ring hangs; accumulate 90 seconds
x4; rest 1 min

Completed these, took awile to accumulate the full time. HS holds felt really good, false grip holds were toughest.

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5 rounds
10 toes to bar
30 seconds side plank/side
30 seconds hollow body rock

Did this with Mike, forgot to look at the clock :/
Did first 3 rds ub then did 7/3 on ttb
Had to break hollow rocks a couple times, accumulated :30 on the rounds I broke

Day 3 - Rest (Day 2 in sydney was my 3rd day on. We trained Sun(Hamilton Island), Mon, Tues.

Day 4 -
22-Oct
A. Power snatch/clean tech work 15 min
Worked up to 110 snatch and 135 clean

B. Box front squat; 5, 5, 5, 3, 3, 3; rest 2 min
95-105-115-125-125-125

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10 min max reps KB snatch (1.25 pood, bell cannot touch the floor)

Mike talked me into doing a partner workout with one of their girls because 2 of their comp athletes were there and he wanted to pair up with their guy and do a workout. So i decided to.
We did
10min amrap
30 pullups
30 DL @175
30 DB S2O 30# DB
30 Burpees
30 KB snatch 55#
- my partner and I divided all the reps equally, we did 8/8/7/7
Once you completed the kb snatch you went back up the ladder, we almost made it all the way back up, got through 16 of the pullups.

Day 5 - Rest - Stayed the night at the zoo the night before :)

Day 6 - Rest - our friends picked us up to go camping!

Day 7 - We did their 8am saturday group class

4 sets of the following:
1 min - amrap strict HSPU - got 5 each minute
1min - rest
1 min - reverse grip strict TTB 5-10 reps
1 min rest

8min amrap with partner
2 DL
2 burpee over bar
*Increase by 2 reps each round
I think we made to the round of 16reps of each

rest 2 min

8 min amrap with partner
10 wall balls
partner holds DL bar while partner does WB
*Increase by 2 reps each round
I completed the 20 wallballs, I had to break my 16 & 18 but there was only 1 min left when I got the wb for the set of 20 and I didn them all unbroken. They felt pretty good!

10/28 ohhh 7 min of burpees :)

25-Oct
A. Banded deadlifts; 3x3; rest 2 min

175,195,205

Felt strong 

B1. Single bar inverted hang; accumulate 60 sec x5; rest 15 sec
B2. Wall facing hs hold; 105 seconds x5; rest 1 min
B3. Hanging 1/2 windshield wipers; 15 reps x5; rest 1 min
B4. Muscle ups; 8 for time x5; rest 3 min

1:20 (7ub then 1) big mistake lol 

3:30

2:45

2:55

3:00

First round blew me up

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7 min amrap burpees

102 didn't do jump touch like the open but I tied a bungie rope at finger tip reach and did "tippie toe" touch to where I had to go up on my tippie toes to reach it. 

I must say I pushed hard and it felt good, I was in pain. Had an overwhelming feeling of emotion when I finished, not sure if it was due to pain, happiness I could push so hard or what lol. I got 104 in the open when they tested this, so I guess I can't complain, the competitive side of me always wants to do better but I did just have knee surgery 4 months ago ha. 

Was at 55 at the 3:40 mark. 

This was my motivation, I stared at it the whole workout, it was just me the music and the chalkboard.

Training week 1 - Hamilton Island

Week 1 of training I did while at Hamilton Island. It actually turned out great, the island was not only the prettiest thing I'd ever seen but they also had a great work out facility there and even had rowers.

We went to bed that first night at like 8pm, so therefore woke up at like 5am the next morning, felt amazing so we went and trained at 6 after we watched the sunrise, this just became out normal routine the whole week, went to bed at 8:30 and woke up at 5:30, I've never felt so energized in the mornings. It felt great. 

Oct 12th - We had a long layover in LA on Sunday so out friends picked us up and we went and ate, walked manhattan beach then went to their house and did a little banded hex bar deadlifts, farmers walks and then some Air Dyne Intervals. Nice little workout before we boarded out plane for the 13hour flight. 

Day 1 - October 15th 

(We flew out sunday morning after the wedding but due to time loss we didn't get in until Tuesday the14th.)

A1. 5,5,5,5,5) Close Grip Bench Press; Rest :30s

(Used Kilos so didn't know how much weight I was doing went by feel, last set I only got 3 and then realized it was 137 on the bar so I was ok with that ha)

A2. Strict pullups (-1); Rest 1min

(8,8,8,7,7) - these felt strong

8min Amrap - w/partner(Mike)

20 Med Ball situps on a situp bench thing

Partner holds FLR on rings while the other completes situps

Went on and swam with the sea turtles, swam some laps in the infinity pool, laid by the beach and learned how to catamaran sale!

Day 2 - Oct 16th 

A little limited on time because we had to catch the boat at 8am to go to the Great Barrier Reef and snorkle!

A. Single leg split squats x10 per leg; rest 1min btwn legs x5

B. Dumbell Strict Press x10; rest 2 min x5 

(used 35lb dumbells I believe, they were 15kilos each)

EMOM for 8min

Odd - 10 burpees

Even - 20 step ups onto box (around 22" i'd guess)

Spent all day snorkling the Great Barrier Reef, it was amazing and incredible to see it and all the fish that live on it.

Day 3 - Oct 17th

This was a busy morning! We crushed it. 

They offered a Spin class combined with a CRX class. The spin was 30min and the CRX was 25min.

Spin was awesome, it was a great cardio workout and burned my legs bad, Mike did it with me and it was a nice change and fun to do. 

Spin immediatly led into the CRX which was a core training type class, we didn't know what we were getting ourselves into. I got my butt kicked. It was so much different planks and core work and also shoulder work. My abs were sore the next day, but it was also nice and a good change for the day.

We went back and ate breakfast, out hotel had an awesome free bfast. Then we went on a hiked passage peak, which was a 2700km hike one way with several steep inclines along the way. It took us about 2 hours. I was spent by the time we got back. But the funny thing was, we did all of this by 10:45 am ha. We trained and completed the hike by 11. We thought the hike would take us longer and we got back and were like "uh oh" haha. We ate a small lunch and took a nap and then went and swam and hung by the beach the rest of the day. 

Day 4 - Oct 18th -  Took a rest day, was pretty tired when I woke up.

We decided to take a large catamaran to whitehaven beach, it was a 4hour day trip. It turned out to be amazing, WhiteHaven beach was incredible! Its australias #1 prettiest beach. The sand is all silica sand, which is very fine bleach white sand and the water is crystal clear, it was so relaxing, we swam and played frisby and did hand stand holds :) I must say Im actually getting better at these because of all the work we've been doing! I held one in place perfectly for a solid :5 at least and did it a few times. So much fun!

Day 5 - Oct 19th 

Trained early this morning and then flew to Sydney at noon. 

I actually did what you wrote me for the 20th this day, I knew in Sydney we there would be a couple days we couldn't train because we were going camping. 

I couldn't do the lifting because you couldn't olympic lift but I could do everything else. 

For time:

Row 1k

Rest 1 min

100 walking lunges 65# front rack

rest 1 min

Row 1k

Took me 16:40 - this was much tougher than I though. Those 100 walking lunges crushed me ha

First 1k I rowed a 4:10 

Lunges I broke - 25,20,15,15,15,10

Last 1k I rowed a 4:07

I was spent after this and dang I felt those lunges for at least the next 3 days haha. 

Training was great at Hamilton Island, Mike and I felt great that whole week, the island was so beautiful, peaceful and fun. It was very secluded, everyone drove gold carts "buggys" around, there were no cars, we just walked every where we went. I think that was the first time I felt that relaxed and stress free with no worries and it felt amazing. I was so sad to leave the island, it was hard to go but I knew sydney would be fun as well!

We have so many pictures, I'll have to go through them and make a post with some of my favorites.

Week 2's post will come shortly, probably tomorrow! We are at the Minneapolis airport waiting for our connection to Memphis now. 

10/7 - great session

7-Oct
A1. Muscle ups; 10 for time x2; rest 1 min

1:10 (5,2,2,1) 2:30 (3,2,2,1,1,1)

1st set felt amazing, I think I could of Prd my max set unbroken! Burnt out on round 2. 

A2. 10 strict hspu for time x2; rest 2 min

3min, 4min, mainly all singles.

B1. Wall facing shoulder taps; amrap x3; rest 1 min

30,25,20

B2. Rope pull ups @22x2; 6 reps/side x3; rest 2 min (put the hand of
the low arm at the elbow of the high hand)

Grip burner!!

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4 sets:
10 burpees
10 CTB pull ups
10 calories airydne
rest 3 min
(all @100% effort)

Ah these felt so good but hurt so bad all at the same time.

1:25

1:27

1:28

1:25

All ctb unbroken! Burpees I even jumped a little on the burpees. They felt better than a few days ago! 

10/3-10/6

3-Oct
A. Power snatch/clean tech work 15 min

Cleaned up to 110#

Snatched up to 100# 

Felt pretty good but decided to stop there. 

B. Running/deep squat practice - low volume, just confidence building

Felt awkward. I think because I haven't done it in so long. Just having to relearn the movements and trust my knee 

C. Box squat; 6x6; rest 3 min

125# for all, these were tough 

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5 rounds for time:
Row 400m
14 walking lunges 65#
10 GHD sit ups

Whew I had jello legs after this. Took me 17:26 

4-Oct
A. Banded deadlifts; 5x5; rest 2 min
B1. Single bar inverted hang; accumulate 45 sec x5; rest 15 sec
B2. Wall facing hs hold; 90 seconds x5; rest 1 min
B3. Hanging 1/2 windshield wipers; 10 reps x5; rest 1 min
B4. Muscle ups; 6 for time x5; rest 3 min
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12 min amrap:
12 kbs 2 pood (russian)
12 4 point burpees (no jump)

6 rds + 2 burpees

Holy burpees...it's been since regionals since I did these :) nothing's changed I still suck at them haha

5-Oct
OFF

6-Oct
A. Power snatch/clean tech work 15 min
B. Running/deep squat practice - same as fri

Felt better today, a little more coordinated. 

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7 rounds for time:
15 wall balls
15 calories rowing

14:32

I did legit wall balls! 14# and below parallel! 

I did each set unbroken, just not powerf coming out of the squat. Felt pretty good,  tried to not favor to my left side. Last 2 rounds hurt a little on my knee but not bad. 

Rows were all around :50-:55

Cristy is in town and Jess comes Wednesday morning so I get good training buddies this week!!