rx'drobot

Don't linger in bad jobs, relationships, or other situations. Get off your butt and work out, you won't only look better... you'll feel better too.

As someone who is very all or nothing with most things in life, this is refreshing to hear.

Recently, deadlifts and backquats top my list

I grew up in CT up by Bradley Airport but now I work down in North Haven. I drive around the state regularly and wouldn't mind meeting up.

Mechanical design engineer here, currently working on aerospace components but I have a strong background in automation and robotics development. I find CrossFit and healthy eating to be the right balance to my day job (desk job).

12/8/12 - Christmas Throwdown Results WOD 1 - 10 Min AMRAP - 12 KB Swings (1) - 50 Single Unders - 12 Jumping Pullups Reps 348 WOD 2 - Clean Ladder Starting at 95# Max Weight 175# WOD 3 - 8 Min AMRAP - 5 Thruster [75#] - 10 Box Jumps [20"] - 15 Hand Release Pushups (Knees) Reps 153 Put me in 16/18 of those who showed up for the men's scaled division. After ~15 weeks of training after not working out for six years at all I should be happy with the results, however I find that it just motivates me to continue to work hard. The competitiveness in me won't let me settle for this.

Like anything in life I believe it only requires two basic things: Inspiration and Determination, everything else is a factor of these two.

12/5/12 - Taking it Easy this week, Competition Saturday Skill BackSquat – 1×20 [135#] no rest WOD - 20 Minutes OTMEM First 10 Minutes Even Minutes - 15 Air Sqauts Odd Minutes – 10 Pushups Second 10 Even Minutes – 10 Abmat Situps Odd Minutes - 10 Pullups My new recipe for the week was pulled buffalo chicken. 3 Chicken brests, half an onion diced, 90% of a bottle of buffalo wing sauce and a crock pot for the day while I was at work. It came out awesome and made enough for a bunch of meals, I guess I should try pulled pork next.

Crispy is its left alone, a little chewy if its wrapped around another food item (chicken, dates, pork chops, etc.)

12/3/12 - Running out of Time Well I'm back after a long weekend volunteering as a Judge for a robotics competition, it was great to see a bunch of my fellow college alumni, but now its back to the grind for a week. This Saturday is the Christmas Throwdown at my box, I am competing, I just hope I'm in good enough shape to not come in last place in the scaled division. Skill - 5x5 Clean and Jerks 95#, 105#, 115#, 125#, 125# WOD - 10 Min AMRAP - 3 shoulder to overhead [105#] - 6 squat cleans [105#] - 12 hand-release push-ups Completed 3(3,3,0)

How are you all doing? After a long weekend volunteering and hanging out with my fellow college alumni, I broke my eating habits more than I want to admit. Now I only have a few days to clean things up and get ready for the Christmas Throwdown CrossFit competition that I am going to on Saturday.

11/28/12 - Lift more, Jump More Skill - 5x5 Deadlifts 15 @ 175# 5 @ 195# 5 @ 215# WOD - "Annie Get your Gun" 50-40-30-20-10 Double Unders (x3 Single Unders) Sit-ups *10 Pistols in between rounds I had to do single unders for this one, I get mix in a double under but I have not been able to string them together more then two yet. Keep pushing. Finished in 11:20

Keep up the good work, increasing stamina isn't as easy as I thought when I first started working out again. Lots of running, and CrossFit type workouts with a fast pace (box jumps, kettlebells, burpees, rowing, 400m runs) really helped alot.

11/27/12 - When does this get Easier? Never. Thats the way it should be. Another intense workout, they must be trying to program Thanksgiving out of us, I am okay with it. Skill/Strength - 40 Strict Pull ups Stated without band, then used a green band to finish, sets of 2 at a time. Warm Up 3 200m row 3 Planks WOD -250m Row (Completed 750m) -25 Wall Balls (Completed 65 @ 16#) -25 Power Cleans (Completed 75 @ 95#) Spent a good amount of time practicing D.U.s during the warmup, practice, practice, practice.

11/26/12 - Back to the Grind, and Happy to Be 5 Sets for Time - 10 situps - 5 pushups - 10 air squats Time to Complete: 3:35 Then we did CrossFit Total Backsquat 225# Strictpress 85# Deadlift 275# Total 585# Then 4 Min AMRAP KB swings 35# 108 reps completed Apparently this was the welcome back from vacation workout.