Time passes by

OMG!!! I haven't posted anything here since April!
Now let me think back...... what would have made it so I didn't have time to post on my blog?
I know! that's when Fly Peacock Clothing started to turn over!
The important things first though.
CrossFit, it's still happening, I'm happily training three times per week (it's winter, well it was winter) so there, I was able to brave the 5:30am starts all through winter though!
Of course there will be CrossFit accomplishments like a recent split jerk pb of 97.5kg.

Time - it just passes by

I don't know how the time just goes by, seriously WTF!
Has life gotten so busy? it must have.
Since April, what has happened?
Fly Peacock Clothing launched into the market place, namely launching at The Village Markets here on the Gold Coast in Burleigh. That was in May 2013.
The biggest thing to happen in 2013 is that my daughter was born on the 13th of November 2013.  Seriously she is the cutest little thing ever!
Life goes on, still Crossfitting, still Fly Peacocking, and still the dad to the cutest little cherub I know.

So 2014 is booming along.
Stay tuned.

www.flypeacock.com

Next Level

So I've taken my supplementation to the next level, after using the same supplement stack for the past 14 months, it's time to take it up a notch.
Moving from Synthesis Protein by Syn-Tec to Glyco-Whey Protein by Syn-Tec.  Stacked with pure form Creatine and Beta-Alanin.

Rock up to CrossFit Nobbys Beach on Monday morning and training has been pushed to the next level.  I've been put into the 'Performance Training' group.  One of the WOD's from Monday was 5 rounds for time of - 7 x 40kg full snatch + 15 Wall Balls @ 10kg and 10 feet height.

Today was run 800m then 50 x 24kg single arm kettlebell snatch followed by another 800m run.
WOD 2 was - 4 rounds for time capped at 12 minutes.
20 x HSPU + 30 TTB

I got two full rounds + 20 HSPU + 18 TTB.

Good times are rolling.

The CrossFit Games Open is complete

Five weeks have passed - it's over for another year, the CrossFit Games Open has come to an end.

That's my Australian open score there in the highlight, pretty happy with that, being as it was my first time to compete in the open.

Over the 5 weeks we did all sorts of fun things.  Snatch & burpees, shoulder to over head, deadlift, box jumps, clean and jerk, toes to bar, wall balls, double unders and muscle ups then the 5th week was thrusters and chest to bar pullups.

All in all it was a great learning experience, I surely know what I need to work on over the next 11 months until the next open.

The list:
Double Unders
Wall Balls
Box Jumps
Thrusters
Snatch
Mobility
Endurance
Metabolic Conditioning


This morning we did a MetCon for time
10-1
Burpees & Toes To Bar
10 burpees
10 TTB
9 burpees
9 TTB
all the way back to 1 of each.
55 reps of each
I think I may have done 4 reps of burpees and TTB twice by  mistake.
my time 7:46

Time goes by

So it's Easter this weekend - wow.  That means it is my birthday next week sometime gee whizz.
The CrossFit Open is still going - we have two more open work outs to complete, this week and one more next week.  Then it's back to normal training.
What has the open highlighted for me this year, well I need to learn more about mobility for my hamstrings and lower back (tight lower back held me down for the 13.2 WOD)
I need to vastly improve my Wall Ball - those things are deadly and trying to do 150 of them is torture, it surely doesn't help that the target is a line 10 feet off the ground and my reach is barely over 6 feet.
Box Jump efficiency is also key - competition standard.
Must improve burpee - these things are the pudding of fitness
Must improve running - I hate running, I'm more of a short sprint kinda guy - 50-100m
Double Unders - must become more efficient in this discipline, I'm getting better.
My pull ups have improved dramatically over the past 12 months as my hanging strength and pull up technique has increased. I can happily do 15 pull ups.

CrossFit Games

We are now into week two of the CrossFit Games open.
The workouts are simple yet punishing.
What will they have for us next week?
So far we have done burpees with snatches, that was 17 minutes of punish
40 burpees with 6 inch jump
30 snatches at 30kg
30 burpees
30 snatches at 61kg
20 burpees
30 snatches at 75kg
10 burpees
then max snatches

I only got 9 snatches into the 61kg.

Week two was 10 minutes of:
5 shoulder to overhead @51kg
10 deadlift @51kg
15 24inch box jump

I managed 5 rounds and 4 reps of shoulder to overhead

good times had by all.

Time...........

Time.......... one's mind cannot fathom this concept.  Time is eternal, there is no begining and no end.

Anyway, it's been around 6 weeks since my last post.... whoa! where did the time go, every second that passes is gone, from being the future to the present to the past.

So what's been happening.... CrossFit wise.... alot, Clean & Jerk PB currently at 85kg - Bar Muscle Up under the belt! Double Unders... getting better.

The CrossFit Games open starts in two weeks, going to be an intense month of March.