Sunday, I spent 70 minutes stacking firewood. It was a group effort. I loaded the wheelbarrow and brought wood into the garage. My wife and daughter stacked it. My son would stack when my wife and daughter fell behind, and he'd take wood inside when I fell behind. We worked pretty hard for 70 minutes, but that was all it took us to stack 2 full cords. I was sore after that, and I planned to resume CrossFit on Monday.
On Monday, we started our warm-up with burpees. There are about 4 or 5 movements that worry me the most about returning to CF. Burpees, rope-jumping, sit-ups, planks and box jumps come to mind immediately. Surprisingly, if I didn't push the pace, the burpees went OK. Then, we did some muscle activation work with bands.
After that, it was on to front squats - 7 x 5, with the last set done at max reps. In early March of this year, I hit 305# for a single front squat. Monday, I started at 75 pounds. I did sets at 75, 85, 90, 95, 100, and 95. For my max reps set, I did 10 reps at 85.
Then, the WOD was 15 burpees, 25 slam balls over the shoulder (pick it up and roll/throw it over your shoulder, repeat), 40 box jump overs, 25 slam balls, and 15 burpees. I scaled it by dropping to 10 burpees and doing box step up and overs. It took me just over 8 minutes, but wasn't too bad. I was tired and sore though.
Tuesday, our warm-up was Olympic lifting movements, and I used a 15 # barbell. Most of the class was doing heavier Oly lifting, but I was doing the "fitness" level, which meant deadlifts. I did 10 sets of 5. My goal was to start at 135 and add 10 pounds per set. If all went well, I'd get to 225, but I doubted that would happen. By 165, I was noticing some pinching in my abdomen, related to my surgery, so I went to 185 and stayed there for my last 5 sets. We were supposed to do a 30 second plank between the deadlift sets, but this was uncomfortable, and I skipped it.
The WOD was 3 rounds of 100 single unders, 30 kettlebell swings and 20 ring rows. Rope jumping is still painful, so I subbed 30 air squats, For the kettlebell swings, I did the Russian variety, which has a shorter range of motion. This workout was harder than yesterday for me. First, it was longer, but it was also more aerobically taxing, and I had to stop to catch my breath a few times. I finished in just under 10 minutes.
Today is a planned rest day. I'm going to do a 2 mile walk at lunch, but not much else today. Then, I hope to feel less sore by tomorrow, and we will do CF on Thursday and Friday. Hopefully, I can do 4 scaled workouts per week right up until ski season, without burning out or hurting myself.
I did find myself falling asleep on the couch at 9:00 last night, so I went to bed early and got a solid 9 hours of sleep. Clearly the extra work is reminding my body that it needs to get some good sleep.
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