My Version of a WOD

This morning I did the planned WOD (see sidebar).

Prescribed was:
4 rounds-
100ft lunges w/ 2-30lb dumbbells
30 box jumps
20 weighted pull-ups (30lbs)

I can't do weighted pull-ups and I've really wanted to practice my strict pull-ups (without kipping), so here's what I did:
3 rounds-
100ft lunges w/ 2-15lb dumbbells
20 box jumps
10 strict pull-ups

Total time = 19:37

The pull-ups were by far the hardest part. The lunges, well, I felt like I could have done those all day. The box jumps were tough right after the lunges but after a while, my body adjusted and I did fine.

A "strict" pull-up is probably what you imagine when someone says a "pull-up." I can really only do the kipping kind where I use my body's momentum with a strict one here and there just to practice.

If I had done kipping pull-ups during today's WOD, I probably would have had a time around 10 or 11 minutes. It took me that long to do the strict pull-ups. I can only do one at a time, jump down, shake my arms, then do one more, repeat. And I have to confess that the last set of 10 was half kipping/half strict. I wouldn't say they were kipping pull-ups, but I had to swing my body a little or I wouldn't have been able to do them. Overall, I'm happy with it because I did more than I've ever done before and this is the only way to get better at them.

Until tomorrow,
Kelsalynn