“Barbara” kicked me in the… A Crossfit Fave

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I feel like this cat towards Barbara!

Good old Barbara.  She’s one of the Crossfit ladies and she’s a mean one… If you’ve ever had the pleasure to meet this little one, she’ll mess with your head.  She’ll make you feel like you are an all-star at first, then slowly she shows her true colors.  Minute by minute, round after round, she runs you into the ground.

I don’t like you, Barbara, and frankly my dear, I just don’t give a damn who knows it!

Alright, enough of my complaining.  Barbara is a traditional Crossfit timed-goal workout.  It incorporates pull-ups, push-ups, sit-ups and air squats for 5 rounds, broken up by 3-minute rests between rounds.  Here’s the format:

5 Rounds for time of the following exercises:

• 20 x Pull-ups
• 30 x Push-ups
• 40 x Sit-ups
• 50 x Air Squats

3-minutes rest between rounds.

Add up all your round times for total work-out time.

My times this evening (and Barbara is still laughing at me) were:

• Round 1:  2:59
• Round 2: 3:38
• Round 3: 5:40
• Round 4: 7:33
• Round 5: 6:47 (I smoked the squats and situps on this one…)

Total Time of 26:42

Give it a rip and post times to comments.