Oh my ****.

Crossfit or not just ****.

My back hurts just watching that shit.

I bought 2 tubs that can sit on my counter. I filled them with ice and gave my elbows 2 15 minute ice baths. My arms feel slightly better.

Keep doing it. As often as possible.

I'm also staying away from cleans for a while.

I'm 1 week into a 3 week strength phase of my buddy's program. We're doing heavy sets of 4-6 reps. I'm really hopeful that I'll blast through a couple of plateaus when we test again. (Except cleans. I'm pissed that I had to give them up for a while.) I've noticed that I am needing a lot more sleep lately. I worked out on Saturday and then hibernated the rest of the weekend.

I almost spit my coffee all over.. Mixed grip and a fat bar for cleaning.. LMAO!

I almost think they did this video as a joke on purpose.. people really cant be this dumb.

I beat my old max on deadlift today during my workout. I'm pretty happy with my progress during this program.

It has to be fake, right????

Just in the preview shot there's 4 plates on each side of the bar. That's ****ing heavy. Even if they're 25's that's still a lot of a soft bodied chick.

The class I've been taking has helped me quite a bit too.

It's basically 1 month of hypertrophy, 1 week deload, 1 month of endurance lifting, 1 week deload, 1 month of power/strength....

I started during the endurance phase, which ruined me. I was doing the Rippatoe Starting Strength program for way too long (5x5's) and jumping into a 4x15 program ensured that I slept well. I was literally on the verge of passing out and vomiting all over the place. It felt good. :evil:

Now I'm back to the 2nd power phase and deadlifts have jumped 40lbs since the last go around. This is after being plateaued on Starting Strength for probably 6 months.

That's where we started. I remember commenting that 15 reps was an infuriating # of reps to be doing. I was very happy to move to the hypertrophy phase.

I cut my carbs...didn't eat my own birthday cake. I walk a couple miles a day. I am down a few pounds.

They are 15's.

They look just like the 10 lb bumper plates they have at my crossfit gym.

I think your right. The Gold's near me has a section with bumper plates, and they look almost the same as 45's. I threw some on a curl bar for shits n giggles and was reppin out "225" lol.

Not eating your own cake is some serious dedication, my man. The wifey and I both have bdays in March, we are looking forward to housing a cold stone mint ice cream cake :)