So I've slacked hard on my blog for about a month or two now. I had high hopes and expectations for my garage gym and then for my blog. Hoping that by the end of the summer i'd have somethin like 10 guys a day wanting to come over and crossfit every day and a bunch of followers on my blog posting comments and their own posts and discussions about the days workouts.....well not so much. So my high hopes quickly diminished and I got discouraged and let the blog go by the wayside during my summer training. In the meantime i trained for and competed in a crossfit competition in Memphis, the Faction Games. It was a 2 day event with about 120+ competitors across 4 categories, mens and womens advanced and beginners. I competed in the mens advanced, there were 56 of us, and finished in a strong 19th. After the games i took about a week of, let my body recover and ate a little more relaxed than normal.
Now for the sad news.. my (old) landlord, which obviously doesnt have a heart or soul, notified me and my other 2 roomates that he and his new wife were moving into the house we currently lived in and he wanted us out by September 1st. I got the news on August 7th after my 2nd workout in the Memphis competition. So my beautiful setup which seemed perfect, that i had in my 2 car garage at the house is no longer. I've had to pack everything up and move out. I moved in with my girlfriend in Franklin so for the next 5 months until i find a place in murfreesboro again i have all my training stuff in her spare bedroom. (except the 300lb lifting platform, tractor tire, and 116lb stone) I will still be able to do all the barbell lifts, some rowing and bodyweight stuff in the apartment but no intense WOD's involving jumping or dropping the weights. Luckily i'm fortunate enough to have a job at a Crossfit Affiliate and I can workout at work whenever i want..
MOVING FORWARD: Now i'll get into why i'm getting back to my blog. I have new inspiration for training since this whole move. i've realized i dont have the conveince of a full crossfit gym in my backyard anymore, so my time spent workout out now needs to have a specific reason and be worthwhile. Not just doing another workout to do it, but to work on certain aspects of my fitness and further improve on all of it.
So here's what my blog will consist of, at least for now.
1. My daily training
2. where i got the workout from (if it were from a friend, i'll post their time/loads)
3. Where i do the workout and how i felt doing it.
4. Comparison to previous benchmarks if the daily WOD is a benchmark i've done before.
What I'm not going to be worrying about is, if anyone else is following my blog, or if i'm recruiting new people to crossfit. If this does happen however, I will be very happy, but for now I'll just let my blog be an electronic source of my daily training. Follow it if you'd like, check in on it once a month or never, get workout idea's or challenge yourself to my workouts, and please if you do one of them, post and let me know how you liked it, or how you did.
I've decided to try my best to follow the Optimum Performance Training blog created by James Fitzgerald, a.k.a. OPT, out of Canada. He's been a crossfit games competitor i believe every year of the games, and is very educated and knowledgeable in exercise physiology, training techniques and the bodies adaptations to training. Also I'm planning on working on a heavy squat once every week, and an Olympic lift once a week specifically....Train Hard, and don't lose focus,ever! -korey
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