Tag: 2015 CrossFit Team Series

Wrapped Up

Didn’t sleep worth a shit and woke up with my wrists feeling like they had deep bruises from the velcro straps of the leather grips I wore for the T2B. That went away in the afternoon though and I actually felt pretty good. We got going around 5:30 again.

Warm-up

  • 2×8 Reverse Hyper (160#)
  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • Various Clean + a few front squats (45-95-155-185-205-225-235#)

Team Series Event #7 – 20:00

  • 7-rep-max front squat (from the ground)

Having to take it from the ground added a new element. Did a clean and extra squat with 245# to see how it felt. Then knocked out all my reps with 255# and called it a day. Our entire team was done in less than 10 minutes. My back was starting to feel it during those reps and I didn’t want to get hurt with another event and a partner competition tomorrow morning. Satisfied. Our team total was 795#.

Team Series Event #6

As a relay in the order M1-M2-F1-F2, each athlete completes:

  • 30 deadlifts (185/135 lb.)
  • 30-calorie row
  • 30 overhead squats (95/65 lb.)

Bryan went first with a 4:30, I got a 4:37, Jess 6:25, and Michelle 4:23. I did 18 deadlifts, dropped to rotate my hands, and picked the bar right back up. Was averaging about 1,600 cal/hr on the rower, and did my OHS in 3 sets of 10. Those were rough from rep 1. My upper body was shaking all over the place, probably from all the work we did yesterday. Total team time of 19:55.

Doing the Team Series was a lot of fun and a good challenge. Definitely some workouts that took us out of our comfort zone and things we wouldn’t come up with. Now off early in the morning to Chesaning for the local throwdown we call the GLBRT (Great Lakes Bay Regional Throwdown).

Shoulder Carnage

Feeling good again today, so glad the head cold moved through quickly. In around 5:30 to get half of the Team Series workouts done.

Warm-up

  • 3×8 Reverse Hypers (160#)
  • Crossover Symmetry Activation
  • Muscle Snatches

Team Series #5

  • Karen: 150 Wall Balls
  • Grace: 30 C&J
  • Diane: 21-15-9 Deadlifts & HSPU
  • Randy: 75 Snatches (75#)

Each person on the team does one benchmark. I got to do my first Randy. Went 15-10-10-7-8-8-5-6-6. After 25 my shoulders felt like they were going to explode. Took me 5:01 in the splits (and 4:57 by video) but sure didn’t feel like that long. Our total time was 20:49 with splits of 5:47, 8:41, and 15:48.

Team Series #8

  • 200 toes-to-bars, while 2 teammates hold loaded barbells overhead
  • 200 shoulder-to-overheads (135/95 lb.), while 2 teammates hang from the pull-up bar

Horrible! For T2B I think I did 4 sets of 10 and then maybe 7 and 7, maybe? Not sure. We finished those at 7:41 and literally took about a minute to peel off wraps and shit before we started on the S2OH reps. We paired up doing 5 and 5 the whole way and then switched with the hangers. Just kept moving. Hanging wasn’t a big deal, especially using a mixed grip. We finished at 17:23.

Shoulders are absolutely destroyed! Events 6 & 7 tomorrow.

Team Series Week 1

Got in the final two workouts in the evening.

Warm-up

  • 3×10 Reverse Hyper (210#)
  • Bottom Squat Holds
  • Shoulder Stretching

Team Series Event 1

  • Females complete:
    • 100 double-unders, each
    • 75-calorie row, total
    • 50 dumbbell step-ups, total (30# DBs, 20″)
  • Then, males complete the same with (45# DBs, 24″)

I went unbroken on my dubs, pulled 40 cals at about 1,800 cal/hr, and we alternated in the step-ups with 8-10-7 each. Michelle and Jess finished at 11:11 and we were done at 18:34.

Team Series Event 3

42-30-18 (30:00 time cap)

  • Muscle-ups, with static deadlift hold
  • 350-lb. partner deadlifts

* The 45-lb. barbell must be loaded with 135 lb. on one side and 170 lb. on the other side.

* Each person must complete a rep during each round

Jess and I paired up on the bar. Brian and I did 10 rounds on the muscle-ups, each doing a double, then Michelle or Jess would make an attempt if they wanted to. They didn’t get any muscle-ups so we finished with 40 reps well before the time cap.

Week 1 in the books. Next one in about a month. It’s been something different and fun to do these workouts.

Team Series Event 2

More team series tonight.

Warm-up

  • 3×8 Reverse Hyper (210#)
  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • 5 Shoulder Press (45#)
  • 5 C&J (95#)

Team Series Event 2

As FF and MM pairs, 20:00 AMRAP

  • 30 C&J (females)
  • 30 C&J (males)
  • 30 C&J (females)
  • 30 C&J (males)
  • Etc.

Switch athletes after every 5 reps and increase the weight of the barbell after each set of 30 reps.

Females use 95, 105, 125, 145, 155, 165#

Males use 135, 155, 185, 225, 245, 265#

We were flying through until Jess tweaked her back when the girls were 8 reps into  125#. She’s coming back from a pretty scary tweak so smart to stop before really getting hurt. So our score was a 128 with a tiebreak of 8:39. There was still 9:53 on the clock when we stopped. Bryan and I flew through those first two Graces in 1:41 and 1:51.

After making sure Jess was ok, Michelle, Bryan, and I continued on alternating sets of 5 with our 125# and 185# bars. Then I think Michelle went with 135#. We put ours up to 225# and I knocked out 5 singles. Have never tried that and really needed to think about what I was doing after the first rep or two, but continued doing power clean & push jerks. Got in one more rep after they did some.

Team of 3

The 3 of use decided to whip up a version of Event 1 to try out.

  • 100 DU (each, going one at a time)
  • 150 Row calories (total, doing 25 at a time)
  • 105 Weighted Step-ups (total, 5 at a time with 30/45# DBs and 20/24″ box)

Took us 15:13 I think. Was a really good workout. Michelle started, getting 100 unbroken dubs for the first time, Bryan went next and got in a PR of 80-some unbroken during his hundy, then I went 3rd and got mine unbroken too. Kept the same order throughout.

Legs are going to feel tired tomorrow.

Team Series Event 4

Was planning a rest day but we had an opening to get in a workout for the CrossFit Team Series. I didn’t do a whole lot to warm-up. Some bottom squat holds, some stretching, and a few thrusters.

15:00 AMRAP

  • Male 1 and Female 1 each perform:
    • 5 thrusters (95/65#)
    • 5 chest-to-bar pull-ups
  • Then, Male 2 and Female 2 each perform:
    • 10 thrusters
    • 10 chest-to-bar pull-ups
  • Then, Male 1 and Female 1 each perform:
    • 15 thrusters
    • 15 chest-to-bar pull-ups
  • Then, Male 2 and Female 2 each perform:
    • 20 thrusters
    • 20 chest-to-bar pull-ups
  • Etc., following the same pattern

Michelle and Bryan went first with the 5s and then Jess and I with the 10s. We ended up 4 reps shy of finishing the sets of 30 for a total of 416 reps.

Wasn’t as bad as we were expecting because you got a lot of rest when the other pair was going. I think I went 10, 10-10, and 9-8-7-6 on my thrusters. The sets of 20 and 30 C2B sucked!

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3 more workouts to go…