Yup, doing only CrossFit this week because of all these things I have going on at night. Kettlebells are out of the question as PKTC’s sessions are only from 6 PM onwards, Mondays to Fridays, and at 9 AM on Saturdays.

Today’s session was easy for me. It was a “strength day” so you have to lift the maximum weight you can carry. And because I haven’t done the CrossFit Foundations class, instead of doing cleans, I had to do sumo dead lift high pulls again. And while I could lift the 45 lb. barbell easily, I couldn’t lift the 55 lb. one. (Although, now, I wonder if we had fastened the weights on properly – I couldn’t get the side grips on so Karen told me not to bother with them – if I would have been able to lift the barbell…) So I stuck with the 45 and did five sets of three quite easily.

The next was two minutes of sumo dead lifts, followed by two minutes of overhead lunges with a penalty: Whenever someone dropped a weight, ten minutes would be added to everyone’s time.

I told Karen I would stick to the 45 lb. barbell for the sumo dead lifts but she preferred that I use the bar (25 lbs.). I should have insisted. I did 43 reps, while everyone else struggled at 12-20. If I had no problem lifting the 45-lb. barbell, the 25-lb. bar was a piece of cake. I’m sure I could have done more reps too but I stopped a few times because I was worried that my arms would be too tired to hold up the 10 lb. plate for two minutes for the overhead lunges.

CrossFit lunges require having the back knee go all the way down to the floor. Of course, not having done the Foundations class, I only found this out halfway through my count. I counted a total of 42 lunges.