Chubby Racer

I've previously shared some thoughts on crossfit scaling , and I want to revisit that a little bit because I missed something key about scaling that hit home this week. It's not only important to scale the weights so that you're finishing the workout in the correct time domain (i.e. if Fran is taking everyone else 5 minutes, and you 20...you're doing it wrong), it's important to scale the movements properly as well.  All of the "hard" movements in crossfit (handstand pushups, pullups, muscleups, toes to bar, snatch) have several different ways to scale.  Some of these ways are a progression towards the movement that allows you to build the required strength of that movement, and some just attempt to turn that slot in the workout into another little cardio burnout.  A workout I did this week highlighted the need to actually pay attention to which scale you choose for a movement depending on the selected time domain of the workout.  I'll explain If y...

Motorcycle race season approaches, and I still don't really care.  The 600 hasn't been ridden in...8 months? now, and I haven't even bothered to go to the storage locker to put it on the battery tender. The 300 is still fucked.  I'm interested to see if all this crossfit has actually helped me on the bike, but beyond that, I don't really care.  I know I'm still going to be awful, and it gets harder and harder to justify burning the kind of cash racing requires to get dead fucking last over and over.  This year is going to be a decision point as to whether I quit or not. I finally have all my vehicles back.  Driveway seems overfull after being without the truck for so long.  Cobra runs.  Still needs new tires, but I'm still uninterested in coughing up the money for a set.  So it mostly sits...which is about par for the course.  On a related note: fuck thieves. Guitar is going nowhere.  My instructor is pushing me towards learning new ...