FIRE-BREATHER!!!

Something amazing happened today. I nailed the one-armed handstand. Appropriate too, because today’s my two-month Crossfit anniversary. I didn’t just wobble on it, I can hold it for a good 15 seconds. When I first did it, I couldn’t believe that I was doing it. So I did it again for longer. Then again for longer. Than I ran home and made my husband take pictures:

And I thought today was going to be a bad day. I rowed 2K in 8:55, and felt sluggish. I did my warm-up and overhead squats five sets of five 65 pounds. These are getting easier. I have gotten into the habit of super-setting with a pull-up, which is also getting easier. Then I attempted two rep, multiple set big load back squats, but 135 felt too heavy, so I ended up doing two rep sets of 95-135-135-125-125. I superset knees-to-elbows, of which I can now do four in a row, after not being able to do these at all.

I also tried something new today, which was the Crossfit-style back extension, using a exercise ball and a bar. These are much harder than the machine at the gym, so I only did three sets of 16-8-8 and my hamstrings were burning afterwords. When I came home, I did three sets of 10 wall balls with my new homemade 20# medicine ball. The Great Stuff worked well, but I need to make some more incisions and fill it up with more. Optimally, I’d like a corona of Great Stuff around the sand, because where we put in the Great Stuff is the only place that the ball actually bounces. So I just tossed it up into the air and caught it, coming down into a squat on an empty cat litter container.

One-armed handstand…! *shakes head in disbelief*