{"id":50,"date":"2007-05-30T15:22:37","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T15:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/30\/im-a-well-rounded-beginner\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T17:15:28","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T17:15:28","slug":"im-a-well-rounded-beginner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/30\/im-a-well-rounded-beginner\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m a Well Rounded Beginner!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did it, finally, I ran a mile today in 8:35, well within my 9 minute target!!! \ud83d\ude00 That was the last exercise I had to do to attain Level 1 on the Crossfit Athletic Skills Levels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When I started Crossfit on 1st Feb 2007, I gave myself 4 months to get Level 1, and an ambitious 8 further months to attain level 2. 4 months is up in 2 days time: 1st June, so I just made it! Actually, I got every exercise except the mile<\/a> 2 months ago. But that’s the point behind the skill levels, they are generalist in nature so expose your weaknesses, and it sure exposed mine!<\/p>\n

I’m totally chuffed at getting this 9 minute mile, as I’ve been working on it for a month now. Our normal Crossfit workout starts with a 400m run round the building, but for the last month I’ve been doing a double lap, just to get some extra running practice in and get used to the pain in my calves. Bare in mind that 3 months ago I couldn’t even do that double lap without stopping to catch my breath!<\/p>\n

Now I have Crossfit Athletic Skill Level 2<\/a> to look forward to, when I can call myself an “Intermediate Athlete” and just 8 months to do it. Remember to come back on the 1st Feb 2008 and see if I’ve done it. \ud83d\ude09 My job for the next few weeks now is going to be to go down the list to see what I can do already. I’ll have to check my Crossfit stats, but I know I can already do these:<\/p>\n

– 1 x bodyweight squat
\n– 1 1\/2 x bodyweight deadlift
\n– 1\/2 x bodyweight military press
\n– 1 minute handstand hold<\/p>\n

I reckon I’m close to getting these, but haven’t tried:<\/p>\n

– 100 free squats
\n– 30 press ups
\n– 400m run in 1:34 mins
\n– 3\/4 x bodyweight power clean (Have squat cleaned more than this)
\n– 15 hanging knees to elbows
\n– 500m row in 1:45 (Personal best is 1:46)
\n– 18 inch vertical jump
\n– 20 pull ups (I did 15 yesterday)
\n– 30 second L-Sit (my record is 27 seconds)
\n– 2000m row in 7:30 (I’ve got to take 30secs of my previous best of 2 months ago, that might be harder than it sounds)<\/p>\n

I have no idea about these:<\/p>\n

– 1 x bodyweight bench press
\n– 20 foot climb, 1 trip
\n– 30 v-ups
\n– Kettle Bell Snatch @ 30 each arm men 24kg women 16kg
\n– 1 pull up with 1\/3 x bodyweight
\n– 1\/2 x bodyweight power snatch<\/p>\n

But these are going to be very hard<\/strong> to do in 8 months!<\/p>\n

– 45 of 1\/2 x bodyweight thrusters – This is shockingly hard!
\n– 800m run in 3:20
\n– 20 dips
\n– 1 dip with 1\/3 x bodyweight
\n– 1 Muscle up, hahahah!
\n– “Helen”: 3 rounds for time – 400m run, 21 kb swings, 12 pullups, in 11:30 (I did a personal best of 13:28 just last week).
\n– 1 Mile run in 7 minutes!!! Oh sweet mercy!<\/p>\n

Either way, it’s going to be fun. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did it, finally, I ran a mile today in 8:35, well within my 9 minute target!!! \ud83d\ude00 That was the last exercise I had to do to attain Level 1 on the Crossfit Athletic Skills Levels. When I started Crossfit on 1st Feb 2007, I gave myself 4 months to get Level 1, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crossfit","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}