CrossFit Indy recently changed its schedule and “Heavy Tuesday” got moved to Wednesday. Focusing on Olympic/technical lifts, “Heavy Wednesday” takes weightlifting away from the posing mirror and sends it straight to hell. Today’s Workout of the Day, or WOD in CrossFit jargon, consisted of -

12 deadlifts (pick up a weight from the floor and stand up)
9 power hang cleans (pulling the bar up to the chin from hanging arm position)
6 push jerk (think military press but more explosive

I racked up 135# on a bar and the workout looked manageable. Except for the fact that I had to do five rounds of it. I breezed through two rounds, I started the third thinking I needed to drop weight, I started taking long breaks in the fourth, and in the fifth I figured if I hadn’t dropped weight already why wimp out at the end.

After all, I had guys on either side throwing up 155# which means that if they completed the workout they hoisted…um…let’s see, 12 plus nine plus six…multiply by…carry the number…2700 freaking hundred more pounds than I did cumulatively. Indy CrossFit owner Jeff Chapman did the workout this morning at 185#. Gnarly.

Three days in I feel like I am starting to get my legs under me and today in particular I felt strong like bull. Maybe a small bull but a bull none the less.

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