Niall's Weblog

Man this log is way overdue. I’ve been super busy since leaving my job at Metaweb, taking a short break, and starting up at Snaptic. While I was on my break between jobs, I got a few days of awesome, tough hiking in at Henry Coe State Park and some solid training too. I’m about [...]

Another week, another bunch of training. After last week’s CrossFit Sectionals NorCal Training Log 2010 #1, this one was a bit better. Mainly because I got over my cold. However, some stuff was really tough. Here’s what I did: Monday 2010-01-11 WOD: 30 muscle-ups for time. I could only manage to do eight – which [...]

In my last post on my CrossFit Sectionals NorCal Training Log I talked about why I was doing the sectionals, my goals, etc. That was a little over one week ago, and since then I’ve been working out pretty hard. Here’s what I’ve done: Saturday 2010-01-02 Training at home. Four rounds for time: 30 Kettlebell [...]

I’ve signed up as an athlete in the CrossFit Games 2010 Sectionals NorCal. I’d consider myself an intermediate level CrossFitter at this point – able to complete all the WODs in a reasonable time – but certainly nothing compared to the guys at the top. Why I’m doing the Sectionals Great Team Mostly, I’m going [...]

Back in Febuary 2009, I got my set of gymnastics rings from Ringtraining.com [affiliate link]. That was at the time when I started thinking that I would like to be able to do a muscle-up. Some of you may remember my post on strength training with gymnastics rings. For those of you who aren’t familiar [...]