Mercer Island Crossfit

Crystals Good Bye Poem

June 24, 2010 |

Author Scott

Why Do I love Crossfit?

by Crystal Fink

I love Crossfit because it is the only time during the day that the only thing running through my mind is the number of reps I have completed

I love Crossfit because I am competing with myself to go hard, faster, stronger everytime I am there

I love Crossfit because now I can do pull-ups, power cleans, ring dips, and deadlifts and handstand pushups

I love Crossfit because it is a community of people holding you accountable to reach your goals

I love Crossfit because it challenges me physically, mentally and emotionally

I love Crossfit for the pride not only of myself but from my Coach

I love Crossfit because I am in the best shape I have ever been in

I love Crossfit because I will never again have smooth hands, but I will forever have strong calloused hands of an athlete

I love Crossfit because it is the only thing that I have ever done where I have bled, sweat, and felt like dying but never gave up

I love Crossfit for the feeling of nervousness you get right before a WOD

I love Crossfit because no matter what workout you are doing it is NEVER easy

I love Crossfit because I crave it everyday… yes I am addicted

I love Crossfit for those first 30 seconds after you have completed the WOD and you know that you have given all of yourself

I love Crossfit for the RX next to my name

I love Crossfit for the bonds that I have created with my Coaches, my fellow athletes and my students that will last forever no matter what Coast I am on.

Thank you for being a part of my Crossfit community. A special thanks Coach Scott for completely changing my life both on a fitness level and personal level. He introduced me to Crossfit and helped fuel my love and passion for it. I wouldn’t be here without you. Also a huge thanks to Corey for being a great coach as well as taking me on as a Coach at Mercer Island Crossfit. This last year has been amazing and I am going to miss everyone so much!

With love, respect, and gratitude,

Crystal

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Birthday WOD

May 10, 2010 |

Author Scott

So today officially marked my 32 years of existense on planet earth. I couldn’t find a more reasonable thing to do but celebrate it with grueling workout, so I asked Corey to program today’s WOD. Here is what he came up with.

16 Muscle-ups

32 Burpees

32 Double Unders

32 Push Press

32 Double Unders

32 Squat Cleans, #75

32 Double Unders

32 Snatches

32 Double Unders

32 Push-ups

16 Muscle-up

My time today was 19:18 but as I re-write this WOD I realized I didn’t do the Squat Cleans. Ugh! Doh! You know what that means? I’m redoing this at the 1pm class. I better start fueling myself with proper fuel right now (11:28am). It is official 1 hour before I was offically born/delivered 32 years ago. That’s a deep thought.

Ok, I will comment or repost my next time. Those muscle-ups worked me, not so much the 1st round but totally the 2nd set. I was doing it 1 rep at at a time.

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Saturday

May 10, 2010 |

Author Scott

I knew that saturday was going to be a packed day and that I was going to be semi-celebrating my bday so I went in to SWCF a little early before my 1st session and I snuck in a strength WOD: Push Jerk

Strength:
Push Jerk
5/5/5/5/5
135/145/155/165/170

3/3/3
175/175/175

This was pretty tight because my old 1RM is 195 and I was Jerking 175 as 3 RM. If I wasn’t pressed for time I would messed around with my 1RM but another time.

Sunday:
Absolute rest day and hang out with my family. Took the kids to the park with my sister (karebear) and then rested a bunch.

Tomorrow is my 32nd birthday and I’m siked to hit my “Birthday WOD”. Corey programmed it. I figure it wasn’t doing anyone a favor programming what I wanted in my bday workout, so I knew Core would step it up and he did.

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