Row 500 meters
Run 400 meters
12 deadlifts
21 box jumps
Three times through
My time: 20:00
"Plus" because Christine normally doesn't include any running. "Plus Plus" because I rode my bike to the gym and back. The long shallow hill on the last two miles to our house seem longer after a workout like this one.
Recently in "Christine" Category
Row 500 meters
21 box jumps
12 bodyweight deadlifts (60 kilos)
Three rounds
Time: 13:02 -- much slower than previous attempts a year and more ago -- what went wrong? I felt like I was working hard.
At the gym on a piece of paper, I have a note of doing "Christine" in I believe 11:57 in June 2006. I can't find that here so I guess I didn't blog that one.
Thursday we revisited "Christine" again:
Row 500 meters
21 box-jumps, 24 inches high
12 bodyweight deadlifts
Three times through.
My time was 12:29. I thought I'd get closer to 10 minutes this time, but I'm a terrible rower, and I haven't mastered the way to do deadlifts the most efficiently--you sort of drop the weight, but you follow it down with your hands and pick it up again immediately. I drop it and let it bounce a little too much. My time improved a bit from last time, though, when it took me 12:57.
Today was my third attempt at "Christine." My first attempt was on my first day there, and my second was... dang, I can't find it! I didn't know its name was "Christine" when I first blogged it. Anyway, my time on my last attempt was about 14:30 I'm pretty sure. If we get under 10 minutes, we get a T-shirt.
Three rounds:
Row 500 meters
Bodyweight deadlift 12 reps
21 box jumps
I shaved some time off but am nowhere near getting a sub-10 shirt. My time was 12:57. I need to do the deadlifts faster, Dave suggested, by following the bar down as I drop it. I know I also need my 500-meter row to get faster. I think I rowed 1:55, 2:05, and about 2:08. Not bad but not going to get me that T-shirt.
Later I tried dead-hang pull-ups, after weeks of kipping them, and found I could do six; I rested for a few minutes and then did another six on the rings. It was hard not to kip because after getting used to it, it feels so natural to swing into the pull-ups.
