So much more energy!

Warmup:

• ME
• 8 or 9 kipping pullup attempts(was supposed to be 20 pullups) - I actually made the first 2 - consecutively! - though they still weren't pure kip - i still had to pull the last few inches on both reps,but I wasn't getting even close by rep 8 or 9.
  
• 30 pushups
• 30 air-squats(was supposed to be 40) - i was having a terrible time with form on these - i kept falling backwards,
• 50 partner situps. i was partnered with Suen - we weren't the first to start because i insited on grabbing a mat - but we finished before several other pairs
• timed 400m run either 1:58 or 1:59 - which either meets or beats my prior 400m pr! AND the first part of it was kind of ginger and slow because my ankles really don't like running when i first start - and frequently threaten to send me sprawling but after the 200m turn around (when my ankles were warm and the sun was no longer in my eyes) I managed to pass one girl and nearly pass a second.

WOD:
Four rounds for time of:
Walking lunge 50 meters
Sit-ups, 50 reps

Finisher:
Run 800m

Results:

Round	Lunges	Situps	Round	Elapsed
1	3:20	2:10	5:30	5:30
2	3:58	2:01	5:59	11:29
3	4:00	2:07	6:07	17:36
4	3:38	1:44	5:22	22:58

Comments:
I am very pleased with how this went. I mean - I still hate walking lunges - but now it is far more about balance than strength. My lame-brain balance slowed me down so much today that I still had lots of gas left in the tank at the end of the workout (hence the untimed 800m finisher). The other thing I am extremely pleased about is despite the fact that i was by FAR the slowest walking lunger, I always made up time on the situps, and I actually finished ahead of three other people.

I don't actually remember the last time my energy was this good. After a pretty rocky start, i really feel like the Zone is finally starting to work for me, particularly now that I have pushed my daily block count up to 12. At 11 I was hungry all the time, and consequently, angry and irritable all the time, too.

I've really been working my dead-hang pullups on the bar in our kitchen doorway the past few days. I've never been as close as I am now. I can regularly and repeatedly get my arms past a 90 degree angle from full lockout at the bottom - it's just the last few inches that seem to be eluding me. Daniel suggested that i try jumping to the top, lowering just a little and then pulling back up to the top. That sounds hard - and totally useful - so that is what I will work on for the next few days and see if that helps. I was pretty excited about my two pullups in class today - they were the closest I've come to a real kip yet. and they were consecutive. ha!

Fight Gone Bad!

Still recovering from this cold, with a chest full of phlegm and diminished energy - not to mention feeling somewhat beat up from Grace - I decided to take this one "easy" and just try to set and maintain a 225 pace. It went pretty much according to plan:

Exercise	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Total
Wall Ball	20	20	20	60
SDHP	15	15	15	45
Box Jump	15	15	15	45
Push Press	10	10	15	35
Row	15	15	20	50
TOTAL	75	75	85	235

I was feeling kind of guilty about sandbagging, so pushed for the last couple movements of the last round. Even 40-something points below my PR, this felt pretty challenging, particularly the final round.

Karen

Sleep:
11:45-7:45 Slept very well until cone-head cat started pitching a fit around 7:40. Decided to just get up

Warmup:

• 500m Row - 2:10 - incidentally, my best time ever is 2:07 - and I only really started pushing hard in the last half of the row or so, so I am sure I can do better - though this WAS supposed to be just a warmup,
• ME
• 2 lame kip attempts (still a little winded from the row, i think)
• 1 pullup - ugly but legit. Another kip DH hybrid. I got up pretty far with my kip, but really had to fight for that last 4-6 inches.
  
• 1 headstand. got up on my first try, but completely lost my sense of up and down on the way down and crumpled over to the side. bad dismount.

WOD:
"Karen"
For time:
150 Wallball shots, 20 pound ball
*subbed 10# ball

Results (sets of 10):

Reps	Time	Elapsed	.	Reps	Time	Elapsed
10	1:17	1:17		90*	1:50	12:40
20	1:10	2:27		100	1:27	14:07
30	1:27	3:54		110	1:32	15:39
40	1:28	5:22		120	1:40	17:19
50	1:22	6:44		130	1:26	18:45
60	1:23	8:07		140	1:09	19:54
70	1:17	9:24		150	1:17	21:11
80	1:26	10:50

*stopped for a drink of water

Comments:
Well, it was only a 10# ball, and while I am sure I was good about going low enough for the launch, my knees were all over the place, and, worse, my catching form was atrocious. I cannot seem to catch the ball in such a way as to be able to link 2 together, so I spent a lot of time resetting. But I did 150 wall ball today. And, as Daniel pointed out, it wasn't all that very long ago when I couldn't do any, and it was my goal just to be able to hit that stupid X once. So - there has been plenty of progress here - but there is still a long long road to go before these are anything like decent.

It's interesting that my 2nd and my 14th rounds were the best time-wise. Once again, this was a workout where my strength capacity gave out well before my aerobic capacity. I had to stop and rest because I had to wait for my muscles to regenerate the ability to produce force. I rarely felt truly winded. At some point, I'd like to try these with a very light ball - like a beach ball or a basketball or something - just to work on the form of being able to string them together.

Food:
9:00 - 6 oz black coffee
12:25 - cottage cheese w/ non roasted slivered almonds. substandard :-p but still tasty. 12oz coffee w/ 3/4 cup milk
4:40 - 1/2 serving North African CHicken Stew - with Almonds
7:00 - 16 oz milk
8:30 - BBQ Chicken - leg, thigh, back, 1 medium sized yam, 3.4 cup sauteed spinach with walnuts.
9:00 - 1 multiv, 2 glucosamine, 4 omega-3
11:45 - 2 zma

OMG! I got my first pullup!!!!!

So before anything else - HOLY COW I GOT MY FIRST PULL UP TONIGHT!!!!!!!!! kinda took me by surprise during the warmup. It was a funky kip/deadhang hybrid, but i started from hanging, and i got my chin ALL THE WAY OVER THE BAR. Happy DAY!!!! The only sadness is that it was not captured on video. I was working my kip attempts, and got pretty close on one, and decided to see if I could muscle my way up the rest of the way, and I did! I was so surprised. Fortunately, I had witnesses :-)

Ok. Back to our regularly scheduled workout blog.

Warmup: ME, 800m (fell and twisted my ankle a little bit in the last 50 meters - stupid hole in the sidewalk - i had to limp the rest of the way back, but after walking on it a bit, and finishing the warmup, it wasn't really bothering me much any more.), 20 air squats, 20 hip openers, 10 burpees, 1 Pullup(!!!!) a few more pullup attempts, 8 pushups.

WOD:
Complete as many rounds in 20 minutes as you can of:

5 Pull-ups *kip attempts
10 Push-ups
15 Squats

Results:
12 Rounds + 7 pushups (PR by a WHOLE ROUND)

Round	Time	Elapsed
1	40,36,47	2:03
2	1:35	3:38
3	1:40	5:18
4	1:41	6:59
5	1:59	8:58
6	1:48	10:46
7	1:37	12:23
8	2:01	14:24
9	1:41	16:05
10	1:36	17:41
11	1:38	19:19
7 pushups	0:41	20:00

Comments:
I'm super excited. I got a complete extra round in - and I definitely could have gotten a full 12 done if I hadn't wasted a full 30 seconds at the start due to a less than optimal pullup setup.

My pushups actually stayed fairly strong throughout - I was able to keep the rep scheme to 5-3-2 for most rounds. Though starting around round 9 i had to switch it to 4-3-3.

My real weak spot was the pullups. The attempts I managed to knock out were not very pull up like for the first few rounds, and I had to repeat quite a few reps trying to get a little more height out of them. I think the pullup that I did get kinda burned out those muscles for the workout. Not that I'd opt to not have gotten it. Ironically, the attempts started getting a bit better towards the end.

All in all a very good day!

Sleep:
12:05 - 7:55 - was awakened at 2am by wounded cat trying very hard to scratch his wound through his collar, and he just wouldn't stop, so I got out of bed to try to sooth him. After tending to him, watering him, letting the other cat out as long as I was up so Daniel wouldn't have to do it later, and then laying awake in bed for a while it was probably half an hour before I got back to sleep. Made me wish for a bedroom with a door we could lock the cats out of.

Food:
Fasting 10:30pm - 2:30pm
2:30 - coffee 12oz w/ 2/3 cup milk, 2 cups cottage cheese, 4 oz slivered almonds, 2tsp cinnamon., 1 multiv, 2, glucosamine, 4 omega-3
4:00 - 1 oz spiced cashews
8:00 variety of chinese food dishes - veggie mongolian beef, veggie chicken w/ broccoli, veggie mu shu, kung pao veggies, and tried a cashew prawn - it was ok.
11:00 2 zma

Just finish it.

Warmup: 5 squats, 10 jumping squats, 5 burpees, 10 KB swings.

WOD:
For Time:

100 Squats
25 Pull-Ups* (Men C2B)
75 Squats
25 KB Swing* 2P/1.5P
25 Pull-Ups (Men C2B)
50 Squats
50 Push-Ups
25 Pull-Ups (Men C2B)
25 Squats
75 Double-Unders*
25 Pull-Ups (Men C2B)

*subs:
pullups - some jumping - whichever box was available, some kip attempts.
KB swings = 1 pood.
DU = 4x single skips

Results:

Exercise	Time	Elapsed
100 Squats	4:50	4:50
25 Pullups	2:01	6:51
75 Squats	4:51	11:42
25 KB Swing	5:10	16:52
25 Pullups	2:14	19:06
50 Squats	3:59	23:05
50 Pushups	6:07	29:12
25 Pullups	7:53*
25 Squats		37:05
300 Skips	4:21	41:26
25 Pullups	5:10	46:36

*I forgot to hit my lap time until I was on skip #60 so 7:53 is the time for 25 pullups, 25 squats and 60 skips.

Comments:
This workout REALLY REALLY sucked. By the time I was done with the second set of squats, my knees were quivering so bad I had a hard time standing. It made the KB swings stupidly hard. It made jumping pullups near impossible. I alternated between kipping attempts and jumping pullups ... there's a funnk click or pop in my back when i do the kip attempts that makes me a little nervous. I actually looked forward to the pushups because it would give my legs a bit of a break. Everything was so so hard with the wobbly knees that I often didn't know whether to laugh or to cry. I did a good bit of both.

I knew going in to the workout that it was going to be brutal. I usually get one intense day of PMS where my hormones rule my reason, and workouts on these days usually bring frustration and tears. Today was not an exception. I tried to do everything I could to mitigate - I made sure I ate sufficiently and regularly throughout the day, and I even managed to get a relatively decent amount of sleep (7h 40m). I was even very nearly on-time to class (only a few minutes late instead of 10). Frequently, historically, I've used the hormonal onslaught as an excuse to do 50%. Today, I was determined to soldier on, and get the damn thing done, regardless of whether the performance was a poor one. I did make a very conscious effort to keep my form as clean as possible, though I suspect it suffered some towards the end.

When class ended I only had 10 pullups left, but there was a yoga class that gets very putout if we go over, so Max kicked us out. That really sent me over the edge, but I pulled myself together, got myself over to the pneumatic gravitron in the weight area, waited for the damn thing to pressurize, and did my last 10 reps. I was NOT going to accept a DNF after all the work I did.

Food:
9:00a 8oz coffee w 3/4 cup milk
11:30 1.25 c small curd cottage cheese w/ 2oz slivered almonds & 1tsp cinnamon
4:00 left over mongolian beef 1.25 cups?
4:30 1 oz spiced cashews
8:10 regular chile verde burrito & 12oz milk

Sleep:
12:27a-8:05am

Better Intensity

Warmup: 800m, ME, 10 Rock n' Rolls, 15 pullup-attempts, KB snatch drills ... forget if there was anything else.

WOD:
For time:

50 Double-unders
2 Pood/1.5 Pood Hang Snatch, 50 reps
50 Clap Push-Ups
50 Double-unders

Subs:
50 DU = 50 tuck jumps (TJ) + 50 skips
snatches: alternating reps 12kg L -> 8kg R
Pushups: "hopping" pushups.

Results:

Exercise	Time	Elapsed
50 Tuck	2:34	2:34
50 Skips	0:50	3:24
50 Snatch	7:07	10:31
25 Hop PU	3:37	14:08
25 Hop PU	4:14	18:22
50 Tuck	3:39	22:01
50 Skips	0:38	22:39

Comments:
When I woke up this morning the worst of my DOMS from the past few days was thankfully gone.

We got to class a few minutes early today - a very rare occurence for me. While I had the room mostly to myself, I decided to try to get some pull-up practice in, but stopped when i couldn't even pull my shoulderblades down my back or get a decent kip going. So I got some jump roping in instead which helped me pre-warmup a bit. However, the run still felt really sluggish.

The rock n' rolls felt good. I actually really love this warmup exercise - it definitely loosens up my perpetually tight hips and hamstrings. I also tried a couple of the reverse burpee motions (basically jump/kipping to a standing position from lying on your back) that Ev said helped her figure out the kip And then I really surprised myself with 15 really decent pullup attempts in 3 sets 8-5-2. I managed to get a really good kip going - I just don't have the strength to complete the pull. Max actually said (half-jokingly) that maybe doing some work on the stupid pull down machine might actually help me. For all I know it actually might. I wish resistance bands weren't so difficult to get in and out of ... I can't really imagine using them on either the BIW or the GWPC pullup bars in a WOD. But maybe I could use them at home ...

Anyway. the WOD:

It was hard.

Max decided the sub for DU would be 50 Tuck jumps plus 50 skips instead of the usual 50 tuck jumps - which suck plenty all on their own. I was somewhat taken aback that he felt he needed to make the sub harder. In reality 50 single skips is nothin. I think I did them in two sets the first round and continuously unbroken for the second. The tuck jumps were still ridiculously hard. I am just not a bouncy or springy person. In the second round I saw some people doing TJ-little hop-TJ-little hop (like doing DU-skip-DU-skip) instead of the TJ-land-reset-TJ-land-reset that I was doing, and I decided to try it. Although my second time was slower than my first, I think it made it easier to string TJ together. Although aerobic capacity took a bigger hit that way too - which might be why it took a little longer - i had to keep stopping to catch my breath.

The snatches were a little dissapointing. I had this movement dialed like 1-2 months ago. But I haven't done them since then, and whatever I had figured out has gone away again, although they were definitely feeling a bit smoother somewhere in the middle after I warmed up but before i got really tired out. I opted to use the 12kg on my left and the 8kg on the right because these were supposed to be HEAVY and not particularly fast. Unfortunately I can't really stabilize the 12kg with my right arm, but the 8kg is a little lighter than I'd like. I started with my left and did as many as I could before my form started to get scary - somewhere between 5 & 8. Then I moved to the R and got to 15 total snatches, at which point I decided to do 10 per side, regardless.

The timing for the hopping pushups is in two segmentsonly because i accidentally hit the lap button on my watch when I collapsed after #25 - I was just lucky it was right in the middle.

I was pretty quickly reduced to only being able to do these 2 at a time, but I did hopping pushups for the whole 50 pushups.

Overall I think my intensity was better that it has been recently, and that's something to be happy about.

(I started this post on saturday and got through the paragraph about the snatches. Now it is tuesday and I just want to get this post finished ... so that explains the abrupt switch from verbose to terse.)

Cindy

Warmup: 600-800m power walking to the gym with heavy gym bag, purse, lunch bags and an umbrella. Otherwise - not much because I was late. THere was 90 seconds of hollow rocking - and that was ROUGH - especially since my abs JUST stopped being sore from the knees to chest we did on Saturday.

WOD:
Cindy
Complete as many rounds in 20 minutes as you can of:
5 Pull-ups
10 Push-ups
15 Squats

Results:
10 Rounds + 7 pushups - no watch malfunctions!

Round	Time	Elapsed
1	1:23	1:23
2	1:30	2:53
3	1:43	4:36
4	1:53	6:29
5	2:34*	9:03
6	1:29*	10:32
7	2:24	12:56
8	2:09	15:05
9	2:14	17:19
10	1:47	19:06
7 pushups	0:54	20:00

*I forgot to hit the time until a couple pushups into the next round so round 5 is long and round 6 is short.

Comments:
Ok - here is why I love having this blog. I finished this workout, and thought. Meh. I've done better - this really wasn't that great. I get home, I check my last score, and find out that at the very least I matched my PR, or possibly exceeded it by an entire round (there were round counting difficulties last time - though looking at the math, i probably matched my performance from last time). So - hardly the 'less-than-stellar' performace I thought it to be, and I know for sure that this time, my form on all exercises was a heck of a lot better.

For the pullups, I was jumping from a lower box(the second smallest), so my pull-ups had to have a lot more pull in them, and there were a couple rounds where i repeated my last rep to make sure i got my chin to the bar. Therefore, in general, they took a bit longer than last time. Last time, the pullups were much more of a perfunctory: jump up 5 times and get on to the pushups.

Last time, i had to resort to knee pushups for the full last round or two to get it in under the wire. This time, I did not. I had a few knee pushups sprinkled through the sets when I tried to eke out a last rep before resting and just didn't have the juice to get back up, but on the whole, all pushups were full ROM. Last time My sets were generally 4-2-2-1. This time, they were generally 5-3-2.

I think my squats generally took a bit longer this time because I was trying very consciously to have good form and good depth, and if my knees were wobbling or i wasn't getting deep enough I'd stop and take breath and reset, instead of just continuing with half-assed reps.

So, all in all, I'm much more pleased with how I did tonight than I thought I would be. I don't mind having the same round time since I was making a conscious effort to be deliberate about good form, and while I was moving at a pretty good clip, I know there's room in there to go faster and be better once I have my form nailed.

Back in action (if somewhat gingerly)

Warmup: run 800m, ME, kb swings, situps, supermen, ktc

WOD:
Five rounds for time of:
2 pood Kettlebell swings, 25 reps (8kg KB)
25 Sit-ups
25 Supermans
25 Knees to Elbows (knee raises as close as possible to chest)

Results:

Round	Swing	Situps	Super	KTE	Round	Elapsed
1	1:22	1:26	1:07	4:26	8:22	8:22
2	1:39	1:02	1:26	5:09	9:16	17:38
3	1:32	1:04	1:05	4:01	7:42	25:20
4	1:14	1:22	1:09	2:27	6:12	31:32
5	1:18	1:22	0:48	2:56	6:24	37:56

Comments:
I guess I am officially recovered from my cold. Too bad I tweaked my back as a welcome back present :-p I don't think it's "Injured" just a little strained.

The first couple rounds of this were slow mostly because i was just feeling out what my back would accept. I was able to pick up the pace at the end when it was thoroughly warmed up ... although I'm afraid i might pay a price for my enthusiasm ... I was also using an extremely light kettlebell to make sure my back didn't get unnecessarily abused.

I forgot to hit the timer between the situps and the supermen in the first round until i was about 6 supermen in, so those two times are a little skewed.

The KTE (or knees to chest, in my case) were definitely the biggest limiting factor. My grip kept failing - in addition to my core muscles just giving out. I think the height I was able to get my knees was a bit negatively impacted by my back. I think I've had better ROM on them in the past.

Mostly it was just really nice to complete 100% of a workout. Tomorrow is a lot of KB SDHP, and I might have to go light with those as well, which is sad, becuse i really like them. We'll see how I feel in the morning.

not 100% yet - more like ... 30%

Warmup: was late and missed the warmup

WOD:

"Kelly"

Five rounds for time of:
Run 400 meters
30 Box jump, 24 inch box/20 inch box (*step up)
30 Wall ball shots, 20 pound ball/14 pound ball (*10# ball)

Results:

Round	Run	Box Jump	Wall Ball	Total
1-400m	2:50	1:44	2:08	6:44
2-200m	1:37	1:32	2:46	12:39
3-200m	1:38	2:02	2:16	18:36

Comments:

The cold is definitely not quite gone. I decided to do 50% volume after running perhaps my slowest 400m ever to start. Ok - that might be a slight exaggeration - but it was the slowest one in recent memory. Even at 50% volume i was very quickly feeling lightheaded and weak, and I decided to call it a night after round 3. I figured it wasn't worth pushing through and setting my recovery back just to prove a point.

So - 3/5 of 50% = 30% of the total workout. Yee Haw. I take some solace in considering that despite my weakened state, my wallballs were still significantly better than they were when i first started. Although, even using the 10# ball I still can't string them together.

Still - it was good to be doing ... something.

Something Cindy Style

Warmup: Run 800m, situps, pushups, squats, pullups, etc.

WOD:
AMPAP* in 20 minutes

5 Push-Up
10 Sit-Up
15 Jump Squats

Results: 11 Rounds

Round	Time
1	1:46
2	2:17
3	1:52
4	1:49
5	1:37
6	1:50
7	1:50
8	1:42
9	1:53
10	1:50
11	1:40
Total	20:06

Comments:
This went ... relatively well. Except for the "sucking at jump squats" part. It took me about two rounds, and Max critiquing my lousy squat form, to realize that I am (currently) incapable of landing with my feet in the right position to re-squat after the jump, so once I quit trying and just reset my feet after every jump, my form and my ROM (though not my speed) improved greatly.

Both Daniel and Max complimented both my pushup form and my sit-up form. Which was really nice because it's definitely something I'm trying to be really conscious about. I

I also had a realization in the past couple days that I've really been 'half-assing' it for the past several weeks. Things have been super stressful at work, and with the holidays, etc. I've just kept giving myself permission to not put 100% into my workouts. I think this explains why I've been so uninspired to keep up with my blogging: simply maintaining doesn't make interesting reporting. Now, at least I am still working out, still going to class, etc, but it's a slippery slope. I won't make any significant progress just by showing up; I'll only manage to not lose most of what I've already gained.

And here is how awesome Daniel is, and how well he knows me: When I told him that I had come to this realization, and that I wanted to get more focused again, he said that he was glad to hear it because he'd noticed the "sand bagging", but as long as I was still going to class, etc. he hadn't wanted to bring it up with me because he was afraid that it might make me get all stubborn and more "sandbaggy" not less. And he's totally right. It probably would have.

In the same "more focused" vein, I've also decided to cut way back on my bread & starch consumption. I'm switching my standard 'take-to-work' breakfast from a piece of toast with almond butter and cinnamon to cottage cheese with almonds and cinnamon, and I'm skipping the toast with my eggs. I might go so far as to order hamburgers with no bun ... I haven't really decided that yet. Part of the reason is that - aside from all the stupid hidden sugar that lies in just about everything - I don't have any trouble steering clear of sugar, so no the Sugar Challenge really just isn't that challenging (from a craving point of view - from a compliance point of view it's damn near impossible :-P ); regardless, I really feel like I should try to give up something I really want to have in order for it to be a Challenge. But the bigger reason is that I am covetous of Daniel's phenomenal body comp - and the only real difference between what he eats and what I eat (since he prepares 90% of it) are the extra carbs. We'll see how it goes.

More KB Bruises. Ow.

WOD:
Run 800 Meters
21 Kettlbell Press left 1.5p/1.0P
21 Kettlebell Press right 1.5p/1.0P
Run 800 Meters
21 Kettlbell Push-Press left 1.5p/1.0P
21 Kettlebell Push-Press right 1.5p/1.0P
Run 800 Meters
21 Kettlebell Push-Jerk left 1.5p/1.0P
21 Kettlebell Push-Jerk right 1.5p/1.0P

Results:
42:35

Round	Run	rest	Lift
1-Press	5:11	3:12	5:20 (R&L) 8kg
2-Push Press	5:39		3:23(R8kg) 4:21(L12kg)
3-Push Jerk	5:31		3:16(R8kg) 6:29(L12kg)

Comments:
Bleah. I came into this workout tired and hungry - having missed lunch - and just in an all-around foul temper. Doing the workout definitely helped to equalize my mood, but there certainly weren't any performance breakthroughs. I'd say I gave it about 80%.

Re Bruises: In the warmup I was using a light weight, and I practiced a Push-Press a little too forcefully, and the kettlebell jumped very high up and clobbered me on the wrist.

Annie

Warm up: ME, 400m, burgener

WOD:
"Annie"

50-40-30-20-10

Double-Under
Sit-Up

*subbed 4x single skips for DU.

Results:

Round	Rope	Situps	Elapsed Time
200-50	2:40	1:54	4:34
160-40	1:58	1:54	8:26
120-30	1:53	1:30	11:49
80-20	1:08	0:57	13:54
40-10	0:43	0:30	15:07
Total	8:22	6:45

Comments:
This was Friday night's WOD - but we went out to dinner with Daniel's parents on Friday, and since i was so so sore from Murph on Saturday, I just could not even begin to think of trying to get 7,000 pounds over my head, so I elected to do this one instead.

I had some hope that I'd actually be able to get a double under, but after they still elude me, so I opted for the quadruple skips as a modification.

There's not a lot to say about this workout. Mostly I was just glad not to be lifting weights.

It looks like my situps were pretty consistently about 10 every 30 seconds. My abs are a little sore today. In the last couple rounds I managed to get the skips going really fast. I managed to get several sets in the 50-60 skips range.

It's a weird wish, but I wish i had a jump rope that was just handles and no rope but woud click when the imaginary rope would hit the ground based on the movement of the handles. ... And the reason I want such a bizarre thing is that I feel like the main reason I haven't managed to get a double under is that I am having a hard time coordinating the faster spin with the higher jump, and with an actual rope it's very difficult to practice it without actually doing it because the rope keeps getting stopped by my clumsy feet.