hand-foot-mouth disease!

I am officially out of commission for a few days as I recuperate from the dreaded "hand-foot-mouth" disease, which apparently impairs not only my ability to exercise but also to type. Hand, foot, mouth disease is also known by the slightly more humorous moniker "Coxsakie virus."

Coxsakie is rare among adults. Josh and Eli both had it, and I took on the brunt of their childcare hoping to keep Tracy healthy, and ended up catching it. I'm sure my immune system was run down at the time. Its transmitted via direct contact with saliva, mucous, or feces. Not only have I had direct contact with all three of those things from each of my children, but I probably touched all three simultaneously!

Anyway, my throat started feeling scratchy on Saturday night. By Sunday evening I had full blown shivering chills and a 104 degree temperature. The fever subsided by Monday morning but now I have an incredibly painful sore throat. It feels like someone took a cheese grater to it. There are also small painful blisters forming on both of my hands. Very gross.

Do not confuse hand-foot-mouth disease with "hoof and mouth" disease. When my father in law -- who grew up on a farm -- heard that I had hand-foot-mouth, he recommended putting me down before I infect the rest of the herd.

The only silver lining is that I visited the doctor yesterday and my weight looked good (187 fully dressed, pants, shoes, wallet, keys, phone, etc.) and my blood pressure was 110/60.

Make up CF WOD 081016

Make up for CF WOD last week 081016.

Snatch 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 reps

For many Olympic lifting neophytes, snatch is the final frontier. I am still not confident performing the snatch with heavy weight. I decided to go light and add overhead squat and straight leg dead lift for a snatch progression.

Results:

• 7 rounds of:
• snatch 1 x 95
• overhead squat 3 x 95
• straight leg dead lift 3 x 95

Not to be out done...

My older son Eli obviously inherited my genetic gift for strength building and my penchant for shameless exhibitionism.

Results?

Here's a pic from Seaworld taken ~6 weeks ago. Since I started Crossfitting, my arms and shoulders added thickness and definition without any direct arm or shoulder isolation. No curls, no military press, no delt raises, no shrugs. Just total body functional movements: pull ups, push presses, dead lifts, and cleans.


The handsome devil in the cowboy hat is my youngest son Josh.

Make up WOD

We had guests for the past two weeks so I missed a few workouts. I also had a small situation with my workout shoes. Hopefully I am back.

"Cindy"
Complete as many rounds in 20 minutes as you can of:

• 5 Pull-ups
• 10 Push-ups
• 15 Squats

I completed 12 rounds. The first 6 took 5 minutes and then I gassed. A backwards step? Maybe. I have never tried Cindy before, so I have no comparative data. My goal going in was 20.

I shouldn't feel too bad. Combining these results with my warm up nets:

• 240 body weight squats
• 150 push ups
• 60 pull ups
  

WOD

This is one of my own invention. Linda preparation. For those who don't know, Linda is a brutal workout:

• For time 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps of:
• 185 lbs bench press
• 135 lbs clean
• 275 lbs dead lift

My workout:

• 185 lbs bench press (55 reps)
• 135 lbs clean (55 reps)
• 275 lbs dead lift (30 reps)

Hopefully this will help me reach the full Linda workout. I would have done Linda except I only have 1 bar and not enough weight.

CF WOD 081006

CF WOD:

• Five rounds for time of:
• 135 pound Deadlift, 15 reps
• 135 pound Hang power clean, 12 reps
• 135 pound Front Squat, 9 reps
• 135 pound Push Jerk, 6 reps

I did 3 sets with 135lbs. The hang power cleans were very difficult. The other movements were pretty easy.

CF WOD 081004

"Barbara"

Five rounds, each for time of:

• 20 Pull-ups
• 30 Push-ups
• 40 Sit-ups
• 50 Squats

I did not finish Barbara and I did not keep time.

My results:

• 4 x 20 pull ups (most in any 1 set was 12. i just wasn't feeling it today)
• 4 x 30 push ups
• 3 x 40 sit ups
• 3 x 50 squats

This workout is totally different than Angie even though its the same movements. I wasn't prepared. At least I got some good work in today.

CF WOD 081001

Hero workout: "Nate"

Complete as many rounds in twenty minutes as you can of:

• 2 Muscle-ups
• 4 Handstand Push-ups
• 8 2-Pood Kettlebell swings

My scaled version:

Complete as many rounds in twenty minutes as you can of:

• 12 pull ups
• 12 dips
  
• 6 handstand push ups
• 8 55 lb Kettlebell swings

I completed 4 rounds. The hand stand push ups turned out to be a big time sink. This is 4 days in a row. I'm looking fwd to my next rest day.