Fitness - WOD 7/27

Wowie! It's crazy how a weekend of pure indulgence and eating whatever, whenever really affected my body's performance. I woke up this morning feeling heavy and sluggish, although my muscles did feel rested and fresh. So, I decided to ride my bike to work today to wake up my body and start the week off on the right foot. I plan to bike to the gym and work every day this week.

For today's WOD I definitely felt like I had to brush off the cobwebs. I was excited to see overhead squats on the board as they are a movement that I really want to focus and improve on.

WOD - AMRAP in 15 minutes of (starting at 1 rep each, then 2, 3, 4. . . etc):
Over head squats - 50 Kg (110.2#)
Push Ups
V-ups

Score: 8
Calories burned (WOD only): 488
Calories burned (including bike to gym, WOD & bike to work): 1270

The WOD broke down like this: We went through each of the exercises starting out at 1 rep, then 2 reps each movement, then 3, 4, 5. . . etc. until the 15 minutes was up. We recorded the rep count of the last round we fully completed. I had started on my 9th round (9 reps each exercise) but time ran out before I could finish all the movements, so my score was 8.

I'm not terribly pleased with this performance, except for my form on the over head squats. For some reason, everything David had been teaching me totally clicked today and I had it dialed in. I feel like I could have easily finished 9 rounds fully and maybe even 10 but with the way it worked I spent a lot of time waiting for the guy in front of me to finish his squats before I could get on the bar (he and I were the only ones to take on 50 Kg so we shared a bar).

Overall, it was a productive day back at the gym after a weekend of fun in the sun (I've got the sunburn to prove it).