225/235/250/255×1/255×1
So I thought the 250 was a 245 but Jack gave me a “bonus” weight on the right side. So 250 it was. 255 was kind of disappointing because it felt harder than it should have been, given my 275 1RM, but still satisfying PRs on the 3RM. (I think my 3RM previous PR was 225..that might be a 5RM actually.)
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HT: Policies of Fear
This whole pressure to keep people paying their mortgages creates some really ugly situations and really is destroying people’s lives and their financial future. Look at this one from the above article:
Unfortunately for Sam and Chris, the housing market began to collapse in 2007. Though they still owe about $560,000 on their home, it is now only worth $187,000. A similar house around the corner from Sam and Chris recently listed for $179,000, which, with a modest 5% down, would translate to a total monthly payment of less than $1200 per month – as compared to the $4300 that they currently pay. They could rent a similar house in the neighborhood for about $1000.
Assuming they intend to stay in their home ten years, Sam and Chris would save approximately $340,000 by walking away, including a monthly savings of at least $1700 on rent verses mortgage payments, even after factoring in the mortgage interest tax reduction. The financial gain for Sam and Chris from walking away would be even more substantial if they took their monthly savings and put it into an investment account. If they stay in their home on the other hand, it will take Sam and Chris over 60 years just to recover their equity – assuming, of course, that they live that long, the market in Salinas has indeed hit bottom, and their home appreciates at the historical appreciation rate of 3.5%.
They face a choice of either 60 years to get out from under this debt monster, or they can default and spend two years building their credit back up.
assuming one had otherwise good credit, and continues to meet other credit obligations, one can have a good credit rating again – meaning above 660 – within two years after a foreclosure
Why do they not just walk away and start renting? It’s a big fraud that people are being told that it’s somehow immoral to walk away, and that they must sit for sixty years under this debt monster.
Mish just posted a really interesting article detailing the social pressure which prevents people from walking away. It is interesting that “society” claims that homeowners need to act “morally” and keep their “promise to pay” above and beyonds of the term of the contract that they signed, but “society” makes no such claims on the lenders.
Everyone must walk away. Seriously. It’s the only way the excess debt will get flushed out of the system and the economy can recover. Walk away, default the excess debt, and then rebuild. Otherwise we will just drag on forever and have multiple lost decades, like Japan.
3 Rounds For Time of:
Row 500m
12 Deadlifts, Bodyweight (150#)
21 Box Jumps (20″)
13:17, rx’d.
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Forgot to post Sunday’s WOD
push presses were bad today, I really need to take some time off to let my arms recover here.
95/115/105/105/95
skipped the accessory wod.
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Double-under for 2 minutes
Sit-up for 2 minutes
Double-under for 90 seconds
Sit-up for 90 seconds
Double-under for 1-minute
Sit-up for 1-minute
Double-under for 30 seconds
Sit-up for 30 seconds
du 42/19/11/13
su 43/25/24/15
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Mid Hang Clean
1-1-1-1-1
Accessory Work
WU: Clean Technique Work
PWOD: Tabata Row
Cleans today were suck. my arms were still wiped from climbing on tuesday I guess so when I caught the bar at any weight over 85 my forearms felt tweaked and I bailed. grrr. So I did a bunch of sets of five at 65/75/85..
Tabata row went much better
722
97/93/94/87/86/85/84/92
s/m was at about 33-36 throughout
I was able to get under 1:40 for all rounds except the last one, the last round I made 1:40 but wasn’t able to break it.
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Max Unbroken Double Unders
Athletes will have a 12 minute window to go for a max set of Doubles. There is no limit on number of attempts, rest as needed.
Post top 3 sets to comments.
5-3-3
The first half of the 12 minutes I worked a double/single/single PR (there has to be a better word for this.) Hit 22, which was good.
Then for the second half I worked on linking them together. Was shocked when I got two, but then was able to get three consistently. Managed five once, felt a lot smoother than my first 2 earlier in the wod.
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WU 45×5/95×5/135×3/185×1/225×1
x1:
255/265/275pr/280f/280f
those last 280s were hard. first i think i went too deep into the hole, couldn’t get out. second time I was on the way up, driving through the hips, but lost my back. I feel like if I focused on my back that would have been good, but I was using up all my focus on driving through the hips I had nothing left to focus on the back to keep my chest up.
4 pound pr, satisfactory.
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WOD 10.14.09
8 Mid Hang Power Cleans, 115/75
10 Push-Ups
12 Box Jumps
Complete as many rounds of the triplet in 4 minutes as possible followed by a 2 minute rest interval. Today’s workout is 3 rounds.
workout today: hard. my cleans felt really good though. Noticed very clearly when my elbows weren’t fast enough and focused on getting the hip non muted.
2+5
2
2
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