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6.29.2010

John Welbourn's Blog

From CrossFit One World, I was led to the blog of John Welbourn. This guy was great in the movie "Every Second Counts" if you haven't seen it. In the first post I read, there were several quotes, but this one made me laugh out loud. It could make a pretty great t-shirt or something... From his post "Be Smart":

"And since I am throwing out quotes to live by…'Show me someone that is fine with losing and I will show you a loser' – Steve Yurosek. I love that one."

Take a look at his blog, Talk to Me Johnnie if you have any interest.

What I love/hate about it

The people are nice.

I am anxious Every. Single. Time. I know I'm going for a workout.

Almost every time I go, something makes me so nervous or uncomfortable, it cracks me up. Out Loud.

I now know how to do some Olympic Weightlifting, and can tell you what the lifts are by name.

It once made my arms so sore I couldn't fully straighten them for 5 days.

They call the gym "The Box".

It's totally scalable. I can't do a legitimate pull-up to save my life but I can still participate in WODs that include 50+ pull-ups.

Hearing remarks like this, "I don't see any grimaces? This should be FUCK-KING HOR-RIBLE."

Feeling the soreness show up, stay, and travel around my body the 48 hours (can be longer) after a workout and being surprised by it's path and intensity.

Getting through a workout can be as much of a mental challenge as a physical one. To begin at all, to keep going. Throw accurately counting reps in the mix and you get the added benefit of being distracted from what you are doing to your body.

The trainers don't YELL. They encourage.

SUBCULTURE.

It's the only time I'm not freezing during the day. Special to those enduring Chicago winter.

As a life-long swimmer, I've never been much of a "sweater" in the sense that you don't soak your suit in the pool... Now that it's summertime, and around 80-90 degrees some days, I'm definitely a hot, dripping mess, usually by the time I'm half way thru warm-up.

My Numbers

1 Mile Run: 8:32
1/2 Angie: 11:56
1000m Row: 4:01
10k Run: 1:12:59
2000m Row: 8:50
500m Row: 1:47.2
5k Run: 32:56
ACF Baseline WOD: 8:21
Back Squat: 110#
Bear Complex: 70#
Bench Press: 100#
Box Jump: 29"
Cindy: 13 2/3 Rounds
Clean: 90#
Deadlift: 215#
Diane: 5:17 @ 95#/Box HSPU
Fight Gone Bad: 180
Freddy's Revenge: 9:03 @ 75#
Front Squat: 110#
Grace: 4:59 @ 75#
Helen: 12:41 @bodyrow/25#
Isabel: 3:59 @ 55#
Overhead Squat: 75#
Press: 85#
Push Press (3RM): 90#
Push Press: 95#
Push Split Jerk (3RM): 105#
Randy: 7:18 @ 40#
Snatch: 80#
Squat Clean: 105#
Thruster 3RM: 95#

6.29.2010

John Welbourn's Blog

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