Recently in Fight Gone Bad Category

I went to the Dallas area to visit a friend. We visited the nearest CrossFit gym, the very large new CrossFit FX TX (Hey! that's my photo on the home page--with the donkey--"two asses!" ha ha), and met Dylan and Dustin Gautreaux, co-owners. The workout of the day was Fight Gone Bad. Dylan said, "We don't bother with that three-round stuff; we're going five." Whoa! Everything's bigger in Texas! And besides that, I was the only person who showed up for class at 10 on a Friday morning, so I would fight on my own, timed (but reps not recorded) by a trainer named Blake. Results:

The aftermath:

That's Dylan on the left and my friend Cathy on the right.

I worked out four times this week. Elizabeth in the basement; Fight Gone Bad on Thursday; Back squats and calisthenics on Friday; and heavy kettlebell swings and jumprope on Saturday morning.

My Fight Gone Bad scores are down from last time:
Wallball, 12 lbs: 30, 24, 21
Sumo deadlift highpull, 2 x 12 kg kettlebells: 23, 17, 15 (down a little)
Box jumps on our higher box: 17, 13, 13 (this one was WAY down)
Pushpress, 25 kg barbell: 15, 13, 11 (also way down)
Row for calories: 12, 10, 10

On Saturday morning we had two attempts to do as many heavy kettlebell swings as we could without stopping. I did 52 and 26 swings with a 24-kg weight. One of our very fit women clients did 121 swings with the same weight - so impressive! I have to work on my conditioning, clearly, considering those FGB scores and KB swings. Oh... and I need to work on ring dips for a better Elizabeth time next time. I suppose any day I don't work out in the gym I should do max kettlebell swings and several max sets of ring dips in the basement. There is always so much to work on!

The gym had a barbecue last Friday night after lots and lots of people ran through Fight Gone Bad. My score was 276 278. This score was fine with me--the middle of the range I've scored in the past five or so times I've done FGB. My CrossFit workouts have been sporadic lately and mixed in with weightlifting and bike rides and a few runs. So I'm glad to see I haven't lost tons of conditioning.

Individual exercise scores in rounds 1, 2, and 3:
Wallball (12 lbs): 30, 22, 22
Sumo HP DL (24-kg kettlebell): 25, 19, 16
Box jump: 25, 17, 18
Pushpress (24-kg barbell): 20, 14, 19
Row (calories): 13, 10, 8