As the title of my blog might suggest; I don’t do cardio. I just don’t. I spent years of my life dedicated to being fit in the oxidative pathway. I spent hours upon hours staring at a black line, controlling my breathing and paying attention to pacing. I swam. I swam competitively and very well for many years coming within two seconds of Olympic Trials Finals in the 200 butterfly.
As some might understand, I grew tired of being skinny (ladies, trust me, you look better with a little meat, e.g. Jocelyn Forrest). This is why I’ve turned to strength training. It appeals to me as it is something vastly different to what I spent my life doing, something that got me into college and something that I was reasonably good at. Granted, I was a sprinter more than anything (the 200fly being the exception, I could just suffer longer than others) but I trained long and hard.
But that’s gone. My aerobic capacity is null. And while I don’t regret any part of my training I am becoming a certain type of athlete. I have pigeon holed myself, again, into being good at one thing and one thing only. Hopefully I can include some different modes of training that would help me become the broad general athlete that I know I can be and that Crossfit encourages.
WoD:
Snatch - 3{1@185, 195, 200}
Sn Pull - 2x3 @ 235#
SnDL - 3@255#, 2x2 @ 275#
OHSitups
Back Ext. 3x10
Sprint 8x100m @1:00 - held :15. I used to do this set swimming and have no problems. Wow.
