Deadlifts, Clappers, Sprints

You know, most of my friends think I am a little whacky about this stuff. How can you get so fired up about some workout you just did? How can that pain be fun?

I have become more and more infatuated with the WOD's on the CrossFit Football site. Yeah, yeah, I played college football (years ago), I should like them, right??? For years and years after college, I was a bodybuilder, doing bodybuilder type training, NOT CrossFit. These workouts take me back, make me want to hit the 7 man, makes me smell the wet grass during the early morning practice at fall camp, makes me want to taste dirt, makes me want to smash someone in the mouth (in a football kinda way)!!

Today we lined up a deadlift based WOD, no name for it, but it was off the CFFB site from some time ago:

6 rounds

3 deadlift - 315lbs

5 clapping pushups

40 yard sprint

We train at a corporate GLOBO. We have access to a pretty large aerobic room, and at the time we usually do our WODs, the room is not filled with spandex clad fitness "guru's" bouncing around, yelling WOOO! and listening to John Cougar Mellancamp. It's filled with CrossFitters getting their WOD on. We usually use that room to warm up, and will also use it for bear crawls, walking lunges, jumping rope, etc. Today we used it to do the 40 yard sprints. One length of the room is about 10 yards, so we went up and back twice, making it like a suicide, touch the floor at each turn.

I was so fired up and 'in the WOD moment' that I ended up doing 7 rounds, I wanted to keep going, I don't know why, something just triggered in my head to go, go, go, hit it, hit it, hit it!!!

6 rounds: 6:06

[I took a few seconds to rest, then I realized I couldn't remember exactly how many rounds I did, so I said, **** it, I am hitting another one!!!! BRING IT.

7 rounds: 7:16

Today was a good day.