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'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.' Theodore Roosevelt 23 April 1910

Wednesday, 18 May 2011

WOD-tastic!

Today's WOD was short and sharp:

3 x (400m run, 21 kettlebell swings and 12 pull-ups).

My kettlebell has now increased to 20kg and pull-ups are now on the purple (thinnest) band. Hopefully, in another few weeks, it will be no band at all! I smashed through this in a little under 10 minutes and altough tired felt really good. It seemed that I was not alone in feeling good, and we agreed that another set of exercises was required, and eventually we settled on deadlifts and burpees for time. The first set would be 10 deadlifts and 1 burpee, and on each set the deadlift would reduce by one as the burpee increased. After finding the 65kg deadlift the other night somewhat easy I upped the deadlift to 75kg, completely missing the point that I had done just 21 reps the other night in groups of 3 reps, and tonight would be 55 reps! This was chuffin' hard, as witnessed by the pools of sweat that each of us left on the floor afterwards. Overall, an excellent workout.
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