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“Barbara”
5 rounds for time, rest 3 minutes between each round:
20 Pullups
30 Pushups
40 Situps
50 Squats
Post times for each round to comments.
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October 6th, 2008 on 8:44 am
Barbara as Rx’d.
5:42, 6:30, 6:29, 6:06, 7:03.
Its two hours later, and I still feel whipped.
October 6th, 2008 on 9:15 am
Scaled: 10 pullups, the rest as RXed
5:30, 6: 50 something, 7:23, 8:something, and 7:10
That’s a tough one. The pushups suck really bad, but I did not break my squats on the last 2 rounds. I feel like I need a nap.
October 6th, 2008 on 10:46 am
JPUs and a lot of knee assisted push-ups (~10 real push-ups in each of rounds 1-4)
6:08, 7:30, 7:28, 7:35, 7:17
October 6th, 2008 on 11:40 am
I have no idea. my fastest round was 3:22 and my longest round was like 6:30-ish as RX’d but the rest was me trying not to barf and ken shouting “ZERO, ZERO, ZERO” while i did pushups.
awesomeeee
October 6th, 2008 on 11:54 am
Did anyone notice the PCFer on the HQ homepage (www.crossfit.com) today? Check out who is in the top group picture
October 6th, 2008 on 12:31 pm
Erika, Whoot Whoot….way to go! I’m sure you did us proud! Welcome to the world of CF L1 Trainer!
Proud to know ya!!!
Jen
October 6th, 2008 on 1:10 pm
OK, so I was thinking of taking today off on account of me not being able to flex my ankle without it feeling like my calf muscle will break in half (running is evil), but knowing that John F got up at 530 this morning to do Barbara of all things has convinced me I should at least do something. maybe heavy squats to make up for all of the muscle I catabolized to finish that race.
October 6th, 2008 on 2:21 pm
Barbara is a *itch !
6:30, 4:00; 5:30
(3 rounds was enuf!)
thanks curtis!
October 6th, 2008 on 4:28 pm
Thanks, Jen! Cert was awesome, I tried to do you proud (esp when Rudy from Alexandria kept yelling “keep it up, Potomac, don’t make me tell Jen on you”) and I’m glad to be back and training at the best.box.ever.
That said, I am taking a rest day today, cause I got my ass kicked HARD this weekend. Bottom to bottom tabata squats are no joke, especially when followed in the same day by a nice dose of Fran.
Erika
October 6th, 2008 on 4:41 pm
Hey Crew,
Today was a strength day for me. I also did my WOD at home in the back yard so I had limited equipment.
All done with 16k KB With both Arms! My left shoulder is a pain in my ass!
3X3 TGU’s
3X3 Side bent presses
1X5 Presses.
I’m so &ucking excited that I was able to move and hold the 16k KB with my left arm. It felt strong. I know it’s going to hurt over the next few days but hey I just pressed a 16k KB with my left arm!!! WHoot!
Everyday that I “Get” to coach at our gym I’m inspired by all your hard work. You all come in and put out 100% thanks to all of you that make me push myself!
It’s feels good to be strong!
Jen
October 6th, 2008 on 7:47 pm
1st: 3:48
2nd: 4:10
3rd: 4:20
4th: don’t remember
5th: 5:16?
Total: 34:49
October 6th, 2008 on 8:20 pm
“Barbara”
5 rounds for time, rest 3 minutes between each round:
20 Pullups (jumping),
30 Pushups (knees),
40 Situps,
50 Squats,
5:46, 6:13, 7:26, 8:16, 7:03.
October 6th, 2008 on 9:17 pm
“Barbara”
5 rounds for time, rest 3 minutes between each round:
20 Pullups (jumping),
30 Pushups (knees after 1rst round),
40 Situps,
50 Squats,
4:11, 4:45, 5:08, 5:18, 6:12
October 6th, 2008 on 9:43 pm
I didn’t write down my times, but the overall time was 38:?? seconds. Thanks to Brian for erasing my last time, not allowing me to have an official time, lol. RX’ed the workout. Kipping pullups, and real pushups
October 6th, 2008 on 9:48 pm
as rx’d
4:00
4:32
5:56
6:30
7:07
Barbara sucks, but even she deserves an embrace.
Day 1 of the Burpee Challenge: 1 Burpee
October 6th, 2008 on 9:52 pm
Before I begin my colorful excuses, just FYI we had 41 people run through Barbara today - just want to say BZ to all those folks, because as was mentioned previously, this is a monster bitch of a workout. If you showed up today, you have a nice pair of jeuvos.
If this day was a kids show, the characters would be:
Mr. Radius Ulner
Princess CNS (for Central Nervous System)
Brian, a Crossfitter on the mend
The Count
Oscar
Mr. Puke Pucket
Scene 1 - a Crossfit Gym
Mr. Radius Ulner: So Brian, you’ve take two weeks off because of severe tendonitis in both elbows, what is the WOD.
Brian: Barbara.
Princess CNS: Oh my! Should you really do Barbara on a two week break. You’re going to fry yourself.
The Count: That’s 700 total reps, ah-ah-ah!
Oscar: Holy fuckballs, this is going to suck.
Brian: No, I’ll do it anyway
Mr. Puke Bucket: Oh, I’ll be seeing your ass soon muthatrucker.
End Scene.
Reality reared its ugly head, the pushups destroyed me:
Rd 1 3:26 as rx’d
Rd 2 4:58 as rx’d
Rd 3 6:55 as rx’d
Rd 4 9:18 (pushups on the knees for 25/wall pushups 15/Sharon in grave fear of being puked on)
Rd 5 5:47 (pushups on the wall)
October 6th, 2008 on 9:55 pm
Ahhhh, and I did day 1 of the burpee challenge, which I am way pissed everybody got on the bandwagon for this. I may start a no-burpees challenge in protest. Who can go 100 days without doing any burpees? I will not do 1 burpee tomorrow, then I will not do 2 burpees the day after that. I’m going to start a revolution baby!
October 6th, 2008 on 10:09 pm
Wish I could say I did it as RX’d, but I did jumping pullups and knee pushups after the first round. Don’t remember my times. Just remember the pain.
I felt pretty dizzy afterwards. That can’t be good…
Props to everybody who did it!
October 6th, 2008 on 10:41 pm
I hate this workout. Seriously. It sucks.
I am embarrassingly bad at sit-ups. It’s one thing to be bad at push-ups or not do fast squats. But sit-ups? They’re like a kids exercise. It took me 90 seconds to complete 20 pull-ups and 30 push-ups. It went on to take me 2 minutes to finish the sit-ups.
I wanted to keep all my times under 5 minutes. I’m nothing if not consistent.
All time between 3 and 5 minutes (slowest was like 4:52). Four of them were in the 4 minute range I think.
October 6th, 2008 on 10:44 pm
Hey, great job tonight guys. Like Brian said, Barbara is one monster bitch of a workout and y’all all have some juevos for coming out tonight and finishing. I’m constantly impressed by the drive and dedication of our athletes. You guys rock.
October 6th, 2008 on 10:45 pm
Yeah, that last one was from me….and apparently I can’t spell my own name.
Erika
October 6th, 2008 on 10:48 pm
Excellent story, Brian. I thought for sure you and Mr. Puke bucket were going to exchange a few words.
Aaron. Thanks a lot for telling us today was start of Burpee day, jerk lol. Does it count if I do one on my room?…………………………………………………. 0k, I did one. Burpee day 1 complete.
October 6th, 2008 on 10:48 pm
P.S- Barbara is a whore and I hate her.
October 6th, 2008 on 11:45 pm
Yowzers.
5 rounds for time, rest 3 minutes between each round:
20 Pullups
30 Pushups
40 Situps
50 Squats
4:25, 5:00, 5:54, 5:40, 4:45
Total: 37:45
All straight up as RXd.
So yes, I still suck at pushups- by far the longest and most difficult part of each round for me. And now I can add situps to the mix of things I also suck at. It’s interesting how much your abs play into the kipping pullup. After the first round, I only broke up pullups was because my abs were on fire.
+ 1 burpee
October 7th, 2008 on 10:06 am
I don’t even know what my times were but suffice to say, I will jump on the “Barbara is a dirty whore” bandwagon. Ugh. 45mins total I think? Even didn’t help lessen the dizziness. Had to switch to apu’s by round 3. By round 4, my head has pounding.
October 7th, 2008 on 12:31 pm
Approximate times:
4:30 as rx’d
5:20 as rx’d
9:30 as rx’d
9:50 (a few jumping pullups, knees on the pushups, and a big fat ‘F’ mid-way through the squats)
NO ROUND 5
Total: Crap