Jan 17 WOD: 21

So I finally bought a gym bag yesterday. I was actually looking to buy a sports bra in the Reebok store but they disappointingly didn't have any in their Eastwood branch. Then I remembered what my friend told me about the cute and not-so-expensive gym bags that Reebok has so I checked them out and ended up getting one!

Here it is, ready for its first WOD

I like the neon yellow lining and the compartments it has. It's big enough to double as a travel bag too (though I personally prefer using backpacks).

Before the WOD, I worked on my favorite goat, the double unders. I got the idea of targeting a certain number everyday from Amie. She said she makes it a point to do 100 DUs a day; I decided to do 50 DUs a day. I should probably do something like add 10 everyday or every week for a challenge.

Anyway. We did 3 different exercises today. We were to do 7 rounds of the following for 21 minutes:

1st min: 2 to 3 towel pull ups
2nd min: 10 kettlebell push press per arm (total of 20 reps)
3rd min: 3 dead lifts

I partnered with Rach and we used an 8 kg kettlebell for the push press and a 135 lb bar for the dead lifts. We had initially used a 105 lb bar but Miggy added 2 15 lb plates in between sets. This is probably the 3rd or 4th time that the coaches have done this (they do it to almost everyone, actually). I guess I should be glad that they know what I'm capable of more than I do.

We completed all 7 rounds and felt great afterward. I got light bruises on my forearms because of the KB press though.

December 26 WOD + dinner

I'd been gluttonously gorging on almost everything I see on the dining table the past couple of days and that made me dread going to the box today. I was expecting a benchmark WOD since CFMNL posted that Libis will be doing "Jumbo Jackie" today. But when I got there we did a running WOD instead. I think it's because the floor was newly painted that's why we had to do the WOD outdoors.

Today was 15 mins AMRAP of:

- 5 kettlebell presses
- 100m run
- 3 tuck jumps
- 100m run
- 3 long jump burpees
- 100m run
- 6 lunges (per side)
- 100m run

The kettlebell press is supposed to be done using one arm but I did a variation using my 2 hands and a 12 kg kettlebell. For the tuck jumps, I couldn't do it right so I just did squat jumps. And even then the coach kept shouting at me, "Squat lower!" Ah, well. I was able to do 3.5 rounds.

From the box, I went to dinner with high school friends plus Neil. We had some good laughs talking about our memories of Tin. Neil took it upon himself to give Christmas gifts to Tin's godchildren, and it makes me want to cry. We miss her. The priest at her funeral mass hit the nail on the head when he said, "We are sad because we know that nobody will love us the way Tintin did."