Defeating Peter Egyed

This is Peter Egyed. He is a CrossFit Games athlete and the owner of CrossFit Fury. CrossFit Fury is were the competition was held last weekend. He is competing with me at my home gym of CrossFit Flagstaff on December 3rd. It is my goal to defeat him. Its probably not going to workout for me, but I'm going to give it everything I have. I will make sure that every workout that I will give it everything I have and leave everything on the floor. When it comes to accomplishing goals, no amount of effort is too much. As I said before, I will not be able to defeat Peter Egyed. But I am going to keep training like I can. Who knows? Maybe in a few years I will accomplish this goal. First things first. Grapplers Quest on November 19th, I'm taking home the belt in the absolute (open weight) division.

Here Is A Few More Pics From The Comp

 Discussing weight stripping techniques with my friend and teammate Ryland

 Chalking up my hands before the workout.

The start position

 After the clean in the rack position

 The finished jerk.

After 6 minutes of clean and jerking my brains out!

Second Vid From The Furious Fundraiser

Here is the link for the second video of the comp last weekend. Whats happening is, they are figuring out the 3rd and final workout of the day with the "Hopper" method. This is when they have all of the movements in a box and they randomly pick them out. This workout was so brutal that the owner of the gym, CrossFit Games athlete Peter Egyed was apologizing for the movements coming out of the hopper! Click the link and enjoy the video!


                                                          http://vimeo.com/31123239

A Vid From The Furious Fundraiser

Hey everybody! Here is a link to a video from the Furious Fundraiser so you can get a better idea of what it was like. I am not responsible for the music or any language that may be present =D Click the link and enjoy!

                                                            http://vimeo.com/31087196

The Furious Fundraiser Competition

Hey everybody. The Furious Fundraiser was easily one of the funnest experiences I have ever had! It was a blast from beginning to end. We started that morning off by waking up at 5:30 a.m. so we could have enough time to make our "Rich Froning Food" which is just a tub of peanut butter and jelly. By tub, I mean a jar and a half of peanut butter and one jar of jelly. Let me tell you, my friend Ryland and I are 2 very capable individuals. But getting peanut butter out of a jar with a plastic spoon at 5:30 in the morning must have been a sight to see to say the least. After fighting pb&j for the better part of 20 minutes, we walk next door to meet the team at Cracker Barrel for breakfast.

We got to CrossFit Fury at 7:30 for registration. Once we got our numbers and heat assignments, the team picked our spot in the gym to start warming up. The First heat was off the line for the 2 mile obstacle course at 8 a.m., and I was up 7 minutes later in the 7th heat. As soon as the guy said 3, 2... I got easily one of the biggest adrenalin dumps I've ever had!  ...1, Go! Our heat takes off and I'm doing everything I can to not blow myself out in the first 200 meters! I settled into a pace that was somewhat uncomfortable, but it was a pace I knew I could keep for a majority of the 2 mile course. The first obstacle was hay bail hurdles. Once we got past that, it was about half a mile to where we had to pick up the sand bags. The men had to carry the sand bags (I would guess about 20 - 30 lbs.) up and over to hills which was probably about 200 meters or so. Then we ran to up to a dead end street where we had to do 10 "jump over log burpees". Afterwards we had to run back to the hills to carry those infernal sand bags that were immediately followed by balance beams that we had to walk on. Then it was the home stretch back to the gym. I was pretty exhausted at that point but I was able to keep my pace for the last 1/2 mile to the finish line. I was pretty excited to almost be done when I turned the corner and saw those hay bail hurdles from the beginning of the race. I had forgotten all about those things, and to be honest, I didn't thing I was going to make it over them. Thankfully I finished without incident at 18:27. At this point I knew I had a lot of ground to make up in the second workout if I wanted to make it to the 3rd one.

We had about 2 hours of rest between the run and the second workout which was as much ground to overhead that you could accumulate in 6 minutes.  The trick was you had to lift 4 (132, 154, 176, and 198 lbs.) different amounts of weight at least once before you stuck with a weight that you were comfortable with. The bar started with 132 on it. As soon as he said go, I added all of the weight on and failed my first lift. I tried again and got it, then stripped the weight of. I did my 4 lifts at each weight, then promptly went to town with 132 lbs. The last minute of this workout was one of the longest minutes of my life! I wanted to make the cut to get to the 3rd workout so bad! I fought all the way through to the last second and immediately fell to a heap on the floor. I was completely exhausted and I had nothing left. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough and I didn't make the cut. 

I'm not disappointed by my performance by any means. I left it all out there in both workouts. I just simply wasn't strong enough. I have a lot of work to do and I'm really looking forward to doing it. This was a great learning experience for me. My next competition will be Grapplers Quest on November 19th and then I have another CrossFit comp at my home gym on December 3rd. Thanks for the support everybody, 3 weeks of training for Grapplers Quest!

Jack Move!

I found this on the CrossFit Flagstaff page while I was looking at old posts. Click the link and enjoy!

                                                      http://vimeo.com/9358866

We all struggle. There isn’t a person on the planet who doesn’t wrestle with the mundane and the meaty, the burrs in your sock and the wounds in your side. There are days when you just don’t know how you’re going to make it until lights out and there are weeks when a cloud doesn’t cross the sun. But no matter, we’re all the same, trying to make sense of it all when it feels like you’re trying to thread a needle while wearing mittens.

Adventure, however you define it, is an escape. Sports, they’re a respite. As Kundera wrote, laughter is forgetting. But also, there are lessons, and enlightenment. We find ourselves out there, and who we find is the stronger for it.

Michael, the subject of this achingly inspiring short film by Sean Mullens, has challenges in his day that one can only imagine. But he suits up and paddles out, and in the water finds what we’re all looking for.

“You can transcend. You can get to a place where you’re free,” he says. “Just to be what you were meant to be.”

Amen, brother.

My Sentiments Exactly.

"I am working diligently to change that, one day, one training session, and on week at a time.  Often, I feel like I suck at everything right now, but then there are moments of revelation too.  The victory of those moments far outweigh the daunting reality that I still have so much to work on."  Lindsey Smith is one of the few CrossFit Games athletes that I have had the pleasure to workout with. And she is nothing short of a phenomenal athlete. I saw this link to her blog and these last few sentences really hit home and explain why I train so hard. Below is the link to the rest of the article. Check it out and have a great day!



                                http://crossfitchron.blogspot.com/2011/10/just-want-to-be-me.html

Downhill Slope

Hey everybody! Yesterday was my last hard day of training for the Furious Fundraiser CrossFit Competition this weekend. I'm sore as heck, but I'm feeling really good! I'm going to jog out a 5K today then rest for the rest of the week. I had my first CrossFit competition way back in January and I was significantly less then prepared for it. I ended up placing second to last overall. This result is completely unacceptable to me and I assure you it will never happen again. Since then, I have decided to compete as much as possible. Mainly because, if you stay in shape you never have to get back into shape!  In addition to Grapplers Quest on November 19th, I have signed up for a competition at my home gym of CrossFit Flagstaff on December 3rd! Needless to say, this has been a busy year for me and I'm looking forward to what I will be accomplishing next year. Come Friday I will be doing the "If you look good, you feel good. If you feel good, you fight good." ritual, along with the pack and re pack thing I always do. As always look to my Facebook for updates and thanks for the support!

Last Hard Day

Hey everybody! I had a great workout yesterday! I got a personal record of 10 lbs. on my clean & jerk! I was able to get 215 lbs. over my head! I was able to squat clean 220 but failed on the jerk. Then we did 2 muscle ups 4 hand stand pushups  and 20 walking lunges for 10 minutes. It was a lot of fun. Today I'm going to try and get a run and 2 workouts in. I'll let you guys know how it goes! Below is a link to a video of Chris Spealler. He is the only person to compete in all of the CrossFit Games to date. The amazing thing is, he is the smallest guy out there! He is going to try and put on 10 pounds to get up to 155! He's deadlifted 315 lbs. for 7 reps, thats over double of his body weight!

                                   http://games.crossfit.com/features/videos/speal-2011

Furious Update!

Hey everybody! Once again I apologize for not making any video blogs. I just have to get back into that habit and find the time to do it. I have skipped out on jiu jitsu for the last couple of weeks and have focused primarily on CrossFit for the CrossFit Fury Competition coming up this weekend. I've been training hard and I'm in the taper off faze right now. I'll train hard today and tomorrow and then do a light run and start working on mobility on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday will consist mainly of mobility work and then we head down to Phoenix! Registration is at 7 a.m. and the first of 3 workouts will be at 8 a.m. I'll keep you guys updated the best I can! Thanks for the support!

Slammed!

Hey everybody! Once again I apologize for not posting very often. School is really taking up all of my spare time. Especially anatomy and physiology! It's wrecking me! I'm going to try and do at least 1 video blog a week, if not 2 or 3. I have the CrossFit competition coming up next weekend and I'm really excited about it! Then its time to focus on my Jitsu for a month for Grapplers Quest on the 19th of November. I have decided to compete in the Absolute Division which is open weight. I have been training with heavier guys so I don't foresee any issues as long as they don't get on tome and try to smother me! Also if I win then I get a championship belt instead of a gold medal! Hopefully I will be able to get a video blog up sometime this weekend! Thanks for the support!