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Hello over 50 CFers, Been doing crossfit type workouts for a couple of years but a shoulder injury kept me from some of the overhead lifts. I saw on another thread that some young bucks have got 20 rounds while doing "Cindy", I did 19 plus 5 pull ups this morning at age 52, I think i can get 22 next shot in a couple of months. What about my fellow 50+ crossfitters?

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Mark 19 is the most I have ever hit
Welcome Martha Alden and Mark
1/2/12
someone wrote a 10,000 Burpee challenge on the board for 2012, so what's 40 Burpees a day, I'm in 61 today with burpees in the WOD

box squat 3@135 3@185 1@225 1@245
back squat 3 x max in :45 6@225 5@225 5@225
good mornings 3x10 with 10 burpees between sets

WOD 6:00 AMRAP
5 burpees
3 thrusters @ 95

6 rounds 1 burpee

post 24 kg KB swings
HD pushups
pullups

m/57/180

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welcome mark and martha.

tom don't put your self down. none of what you do is silly. just keep doing what you are doing for your self and the rest of it will fall into place.



interesting case in point here. for new years eve this year i took my wife to a concert by a canadian group from the '70s and '80s (april wine) there were only about 300 people at the show and we seemed to be right about in the middle for age. yesterday morning while talking about the show we both said we could not believe how many people (80-85%) were fat and out of shape. it made both of us realize how important being active is now more so than ever before.

tonite

"harvest of sorrow"

1000 m row

21-15-9
100 lbs per side farmers lift
20 lb wall ball

1000 m row

15:46

then

9-11-8-8-(max) 21 push ups with 60 second rest between sets.

glad my shoulder was holding up through the pushups with no real issues

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Weekly Deadlift
PR 285# single typical 5's leading up 225, 245 and 265
My goal is in sight 315# about 10 weeks, since i will be away from the gym for 3 weeks this month.

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[QUOTE=Cliff Miller;1019559]welcome mark and martha.

tom don't put your self down. none of what you do is silly. just keep doing what you are doing for your self and the rest of it will fall into place.
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Mark yea I think 19 rounds is very good. I usually do 10 or 15 minutes on Cindy to keep the pace fast for me. I may have hit 6 and 9 rounds (15m).


Cliff your right I need to talk positive about this stuff, my major change has been consistency has been much better in the last 3 months.

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[B]Hi Folks and Happy New Year to All![/B]
Been down with a severe herniated disc since April. Took a month off for treatment and did bodyweight exercises all summer. Since the summer I have been doing TRX workouts and mixed in some crossfit WODs.

I am now planning to do only scaled crossfit WODs for the month of January and depending on how it goes plow full speed ahead in February.

Did a scaled Fran yesterday: 65 lbs Thrusters 6:51

Really protecting my lower back. Well its a start. Good to be back with all of you! Have a great New Year!

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12/31/11 Hidalgo

Warmup: Row 500m, jump rope, air squats, Abmat situps, shoulder mobility, assisted pullups

Workout: Hidalgo (Pack -)
Run 1 mile
Rest 2 minutes (forgot)
45# squat cleans X 20 reps
20 box jumps, 20”
20 walking lunge w 25# plate
20 box jumps, 20”
45# squat cleans X 20 reps
Rest 2 minutes (forgot)
Run 1 mile
27:19

Cash out: L-sit, tuck sit

Was so excited by my 7:30 mile that I forgot to take the 2 minute rest but it was a great workout. RIP Hidalgo.

01/01/12

Today everything hurt my shoulder except jumping rope and situps so that’s all I did.

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01/03/12 Run and Squats

Warmup: Row 500m, jump rope, shoulder mobility, Abmat situps, air squats

Workout:
Run 0.25 miles (8:00 pace) between squats
Back squats X 5 reps - 95, 135, 175, 195, 205 X 5 reps

Skills: Box squats 135# X 5 X 2 sets. Shoulder physical therapy

Did not time the workout. Monitoring what my shoulder could handle during the squats.

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1/3 WOD

3 Rounds for Time:
21 Overhead Squats (95#/65#)
15 Kettlebell Swings
9 Deadhang Pullups

12:03 @ 75# OHS/1.5 pood. Uncharacteristically for me I played it smart and went lighter on the OHS due to the 2-week layoff over the holiday. Even at the lighter weight, this was a metcon burner. Had to break everything up into sets except the first 15 kb swings, and ended up doing dead hang pull ups in sets of 2 with a little squirming to get up.

Started with two minutes max situps, and got 62. This is only six off my best, so I'll take it and be glad the layoff and cruise/vacation food didn't take a bigger toll.

Great to be back!

Claw