{"id":556,"date":"2009-05-18T21:02:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T21:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2010-03-17T21:09:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:09:17","slug":"why-crossfit-is-bad-for-your-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/why-crossfit-is-bad-for-your-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Crossfit is bad for your Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week was a relatively normal week: I left home on Monday morning for the working week away, went shopping Monday night for food for the week, went to work Tuesday, went to the gym Tuesday evening\u2026 all pretty normal. Until that is, on Wednesday morning I spotted something that was decidedly NOT normal!<\/strong><\/p>\n

My neck normally looks like this:<\/p>\n\"Colin\n

But on Wednesday morning whilst shaving, I noticed it instead looking like this:<\/p>\n\"Colin\n

Where the hell did that hickey come from?!?<\/strong> I couldn\u2019t believe, what\u2019s more I didn\u2019t think my wife would believe it either! I go away for 5 days on business and come home with a mystery love bite on my neck, this I\u2019m reliably lead to believe, is just not the done thing. This was seriously bad news in it\u2019s own right, but even more so because I had no idea how it had happened<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After some thought and no small amount of panic, I came to the inescapable conclusion, that it was Crossfit\u2019s fault<\/strong>. You see on Tuesday I\u2019d been to the gym. Now I don\u2019t actually follow the Workout of the Day (WOD) from the main Crossfit.com site, instead I do the previous day\u2019s WOD from Crossfit Manchester<\/a>, my regular gym back home. I do this because it guarantees an hours workout, it helps me to keep in touch with the members of the gym whilst I\u2019m away, and I get an element of competition because I can see what weight \/ time my peers have done.<\/p>\n

As it happens, the workout I should have done at Aspire Fitness<\/strong> (my Cardiff gym, more on them another day, I still owe them a setting the record straight post for erroneously calling them a \u201cglobo gym\u201d, my bad) was this:<\/p>\n

Deadlift: 5 – 5 – 5<\/p>\n

Then 7 Rounds of:
\n– Run 200m
\n– 15 Wall Ball
\n– 10 Pull Ups
\n– 5 Push Press, 55kg
\n– Rest 1 min<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But I’d done heavy deadlifts the last time I was there, and they don\u2019t quite have the setup for things like wall balls. So instead I did this<\/strong> from the Crossfit Manchester WOD the Thursday before, which was:<\/p>\n

Clean and Jerk: Doubles<\/p>\n

Then:
\n– Run 860m
\n– 3 Rounds of;
\n— 5 Knees to Elbows
\n— 10 KB Swing
\n— 15 Box Jump
\n– Run 860m<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There was my love biting culprit: the clean and jerk doubles<\/strong>. I\u2019d worked up to 85kg and was getting pretty tired. I made a last effort for a 90kg double, I got the first one but it was an effort, I repositioned my grip on the bar, I set myself, I pulled for all I was worth, the bar was faster than the eye:<\/p>\n\"Colin\n

But I was trying too hard, was off balance, my legs were tired, I twisted slightly, over pulled, dropped under and promptly smacked myself in the neck<\/strong> with 90kg (200lbs) of Olympic Weightlifting bar! Not surprisingly, I didn\u2019t make the clean and tried not to gag as I threw the bar away.
\nStill 85kg was respectable and I moved on to the rest of the workout.<\/p>\n

You can see how it\u2019s easily done, the above mid-clean photo was actually taken this weekend at Crossfit Manchester doing power cleans followed by front squats, here\u2019s the bottom of the front squat position<\/strong>, which is where I would have been receiving the flying bar at the bottom of the clean (there’s 85kg on the bar in the pic):<\/p>\n\"Colin\n

And so there you have it. Doing Crossfit = <\/strong>doing clean & jerks with heavy weights = getting tired = hitting yourself in the neck = bursting a blood vessel = a dodgy looking bruise <\/strong>which gets you into trouble with the missus when you get home from a week away! Actually to be fair, I didn’t really get into trouble, well at least I don’t think so, yet….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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