Tag: Bar Muscle-up

17.2 Redo & More

Rested yesterday so I could redo today. Could have probably even retried yesterday, though my shoulders were a little tight. In at 12:30.

Warm-up

  • 500m Row
  • Banded shoulder stretching
  • PVC passes
  • Reverse Hyper Heel Drives
  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • Air Squats
  • Dead hang
  • 2:30 Airdyne

CrossFit Games Open Workout 17.2

12:00 AMRAP

  • 2 Rounds
    • 50′ Weighted Walking Lunge (2×50# DBs)
    • 16 Toes-to-bars
    • 8 DB Power Cleans (2×50# DBs)
  • 2 Rounds
    • 50′ Weighted Walking Lunge
    • 16 Bar Muscle-ups
    • 8 DB Power Cleans
  • Every 5-foot interval of the 50″ (25″ out and back), represents 1 rep of the lunge.

With my first attempt not affecting grip at all I knew bigger and fewer sets would buy me some time. I did 6-5-5 on both rounds of T2B, 6-2 on 2 sets of cleans, and all 8 cleans to lock in the tiebreak round. I wanted to go right into the lunges after that 8, but needed a breather so set them down.

Remembered to have my knee sleeves pulled up before the workout today. I also taped my thumbs ahead of time so there was no stop halfway through the last set of lunges. Still kept muscle-ups in sets of 2 because I thought triples would be too risky. I tried to shorten the rest a bit between the sets. I did do a triple right at the end, but more importantly no misses today. Over the weekend I had thought about trying to finish that first round of muscle-ups with 3-3 to save another 20-30 seconds, but I completely forgot.

Bought myself almost an extra minute, which paid off, allowing me to get through 5 more muscle-ups for a score of 121 with a tiebreak of 8:50.

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Michelle kept all my splits again. Nice to see I slowly kept gaining ground throughout. Initial lunges were the same, but then I was ahead of pace by 10-14, 9-19-25, 19-35-46, and 47 seconds. I guess I was more methodical on my lunges (probably gathering my feet more, which is slower) and was definitely focussing more on breathing during them. I also didn’t stretch out to get over the line on any of the rounds. The first round of muscle-ups took me 3:08 today compared to 3:22, which was a little surprising considering I should have been more tired from going faster.

The challenge of the redo is actually pretty fun. One of my friends cracked a beer after his 2nd muscle-up and then got 3 more. LOL I love the Open!

Since my volume was extremely light Thursday-Saturday and I’m heading out of town for most of the week, I wanted to get in some lifting and barbell work. Went back to the gym at 4:30 to judge Bryan and workout.

Back Squat

Missed out on the 5×3 @ 80% yesterday, so definitely wanted to squat today. If I go 2 weeks without squatting it’s no fun the next time.

  • 10×45#
  • 6×135
  • 3×205
  • 3×255
  • 3×285
  • 3×305
  • 3×315

Back was getting a little tender so didn’t push it. Haven’t had that on the bar in awhile anyway.

Bench Press

  • 10×45#
  • 10×95
  • 10×135
  • 10×165
  • 2x10x185

Bryan started benching while I was still squatted so I worked in and then was done with the squats by the heavy sets.

Conditioning

7 Rounds

  • 5 Power Snatch (135#)
  • 35 DU

Wanted to hit a barbell metcon for sure. Did all singles on the snatches. Missed too many dubs. It felt and looked like my rope’s shape was getting messed up. Maybe it’s time for a new cable. Finished in 9:20.

Figured out Bar Muscle-up Cycling

Oh by my low back is all kinds of sore and so is my upper back between my shoulder blades. Legs were tired last night but feel fine today. Ass is a bit sore. Went to the gym at 3 with Bryan.

Warm-up

  • Shoulder stretching and body twisting
  • 1,000m Row
  • 17.1 Movement Testing

I tried out some efficiency changes for both movements which should make up a lot of time. I wasted so many seconds when I did the workout.

Weightlifting

2 Hang power Snatch + 3 OHS

  • 2 sets 45#
  • 2 sets 95
  • 115
  • 135
  • 145
  • 155
  • 165

Programmed as snatch + 2 hang snatch + 3 OHS, but I wasn’t pulling from the ground and didn’t want to drop into the squat. Hell, I was going to completely skip this portion but decided to adjust it.

Strength – Back Squat

  • 5×45#
  • 5×135
  • 5×205
  • 5×245
  • 3x5x265

Supposed to be 3×5 @ 75%, which would be 285 on my estimated max, but with my back to tight I scaled it back.

Conditioning

20:00 AMRAP

  • 20 Walking Lunges
  • 15 cal Row
  • 4 Bar Muscle-ups

Made some adjustments since it was too cold to run outside and no Assault Bikes. Did MU on the bar so I could try dropping back to the bottom of the dip before pushing away from the bar into the next rep. My goal was to do 2 sets of 2 each round so I could work on this. Took me a few rounds to work out a few things, like rotating hands at different points, etc. Really paid off though. I’ve never felt better with the transition. I did wear grips too, which needed some adjustments because they tend to really grip the bar when chalked up. I even did all 4 unbroken in my last set. We didn’t have an official count, but it was either 7 (most likely) or 8 full rounds plus 16 lunges. We didn’t push anything hard just kept moving. Felt good. I feel 10x more comfortable now if bar muscle-ups are in the Open.

Gymnastics Strength

10:00 EMOM (alt)

  • 15 Ring Push-ups
  • 7 Ring Rows

I still suck at ring rows.

Adjustments

Didn’t have a great time trying to sleep last night, but my back isn’t as bad as it’s been some other times. I was still able to roll over in bed relatively well. I did do e-stim and ice both last night and this morning. Made it to the gym at 10am.

Warm-up

7 Rounds (Strict “Cindy”)

  • 5 Strict *Chin-ups/Pull-ups
  • 10 Push-ups
  • 15 Air Squats

I switched every round, which came out to 4 rounds of chin-ups and 3 rounds of pull-ups.

Gymnastics

Yesterday I skipped out on what was supposed to be an EMOM up to 40 total muscle-ups, so wanted to get in some volume today. Decided to try bar muscle-ups, which I haven’t done in a long time.

  • E30S – 5 Rounds
    • 2 Bar Muscle-ups
  • E30S – 20 Rounds
    • 1 Bar Muscle-up

I had on my grips, but they turned out to be too grippy with as much chalk as I had on them. I still struggle stringing these together because I overgrip the bar on the swing down and do this weird thing with my knees up. After 5 sets I took off the grips and switched to singles. No problems getting up there, I just need to work on stringing them together and improving my kip cycle. As a comparison, two years ago I did 21 doubles going 45 seconds without failure. I had been working on the movement more back then though.

Conditioning

6 Sets

  • 400m Run Row
  • 1:1 Work/Rest

I fucked up looking at my average pace instead of time, so ended up taking an extra 20 seconds of rest each round. Whoops! My times were 1:21.4, 1:21.4, 1:21.3, 1:21.3, 1:21, and 1:18.8 with 500m/pace averages all under 1:42.

21-18-15-12-9-6-3

  • Assault Bike cals Weighted Step-ups (20”, 20# DBs)
  • Bar-facing Burpees

This was programmed with a 12 minute time cap and then do max reps 225# deadlift in the remaining time. Yeah…right! Took me 13:24 and pretty sure if we had an Assault Bike it would have taken me even longer. I picked step-ups at a substitute because I wanted something that would fatigue the legs similar to an air bike. It did the trick because the jumps over the bar were a lot tougher and never stopping on the step-ups kept the heart rate up.

Actually felt ok for me compared to what I remember 16.5 feeling like with the thrusters instead of step-ups. Kind of curious what I’d do in that workout now, but I don’t care to find out. Just like I said after doing it as 14.5, I never want to do that workout again. 🙂

That completes 5 weeks of the Hybrid Performance Method program and I’m still loving it. Thinking back on this week I did 86 (40 strict) handstand push-ups, 153 toes-to-bars, 60 (30 ring & 30 bar) muscle-ups, 174 bar-facing burpees, 140 push-ups, and 35 strict pull/chin-ups. My gymnastics should be better for the Open than they’ve ever been.

More Hanging

More goddamn gymnastics in 16.3! I thought for sure we’d see a break from it. I’m not surprised by the bar muscle-up being added this year though. Having to do single C2B in week one used up a lot of my time in the workout, but bar muscle-ups singles may pace me out better over the course of this one. Trying to make the best of my injury limitation. 🙂 If I average 30 seconds on snatches and 30 seconds on bar muscle-ups (plus transition time), 6 rounds seems like a good goal and 7 being something I’d be thrilled with. I’m just not sure how the muscle-ups are going to feel on my shoulder. I’ve only done 1 in the last 2-3 months.

Warm-up

  • 1,000m Row
  • Crossover Symmetry Activation
  • GHD Heel Drives
  • Bar Taps
  • 5 Muscle Snatch (45#)
  • 3 Power Snatch (75#)

I did a couple of muscle-ups trying to see if I could string them together. I think I could have gotten through it, but why risk it and I’m pretty sure I would have ripped by the end even with the gymnastics grips on. Once this shoulder heals I need to figure out what to do with my grip because I can feel it starting to tear when I swing down, even on a first set.

CrossFit Open 16.3

7:00 AMRAP

  • 10 Power Snatches (75#)
  • 3 Bar Muscle-ups

16-3-splitsIt went really well with the singles. Much better than expected. I was able to drop straight down from the top so didn’t have to move much. I had a nice steady pace on the snatches with no problem going unbroken every round. I took a split second pause at the top and opened up my grip on every rep. That worked so well and my grip was fine throughout, where the other guys’ grips were smoked. I barely had enough energy left to just fly on that final set of snatches. Made it through 6 rounds plus 8 snatches with a tiebreaker of 6:39. Happy. 🙂

With the exception of round 1 my splits were a lot more consistent than I expected. Round 1 is going to be lower, since you don’t have a transition from the the top of the last bar muscle-up, to drop, and get to your barbell. Measured in seconds my rounds were 52-66-68-73-70-70, so only one was over the 70 second average needed to get 6 rounds and, other than the first, they varied by only 7 seconds. That might be the best pacing I’ve ever done.

We had a great atmosphere in the gym with Jason, Bryan, and I battling it out. I thought Bryan had lapped me because he was doing all of his muscle-ups unbroken, but I guess he was just a bit ahead of me. I almost caught him on my final sprint, but was 1 rep shy. Then we got to see Michelle and Jess get their first muscle-ups, with it finally clicking for Michelle and then she got 4 more in the workout. Probably the funnest Open workout I’ve been a part of. This will be a neat one to retest once my shoulder is better.

 

On to next week…

 

More Ripping

Feeling some fatigue from yesterday’s WOD. In at 10am for gymnastics work.

Skill WOD Hustle & Flow Week 2 Day 1

Warm-up

3 sets

  • 5 Bar taps – tight
  • 5 Bar taps – dynamic
  • 7 V-ups
  • 10 Pass-thrus
  • 7 GHD Heel Drives
  • 10 Bridge Rocks

Shoulder Activation

  • 3 sets: 3 Scap Elevators + 3 Strict Pull-ups
  • 1 set: 1+1

Superset

5 Sets

  • 5 Butterfly Box Drill Circular Rotations
  • 1 Stop Strict Pull-up + 3 Pull-ups (butterfly drill)
  • 5 C2B Pull-ups

Skill Test

  • 3 Pull-ups + 3 C2B + 3 Pull-ups + 3 C2B
  • 2:00 Rest
  • 2 sets
    • 70% MAX C2B
    • 90s Rest

Did sets of 14 C2B last week, so increased to 15s this week. Got both sets.

Strength Accessory

3 Supersets

  • 15s Underhand grip chin hang
  • 8 Supinated Bar Rows

Learned that we don’t have to do the bar rows with a supinated grip. Just refers to the body position. Much better.

Bonus Complex

  • Set 1: 2 Strict Pull-ups + 2 Strict C2B + 3 K2E + 3 T2B + 3 Bar MU
  • Set 2: 2+2+3+3, drop then 3
  • Set 3: 2+2+3+3, drop then 2

Ripped both hands. 😦 My left hand ripped under the pinky and my right hand actually ripped under my leather grips! I need to figure out something to work on these bar muscle-ups smarter because this is not working for me. Ripping is an injury and I usually pride myself on doing as much as I can to prevent rips.

Wanted to get in some squats so a quick garage session after 5.

Strength

Safety Squat Bar w/ 3 second pauses

  • 10×65#
  • 6×135
  • 3×185
  • 3×205
  • 3×225
  • 3×235
  • 3×245
  • 3×255
  • 3×265
  • 3×275

Wore lifting shoes but no belt at all so I could get a lot of time under tension for my low back. Felt good about my drive out of the hole and no mini bounce to get going. Just 3 months ago a triple with 295 and a belt but no pause was a struggle.

3-Part Metcon

Got a solid night of sleep, which I needed after that rowing workout.

Warm-up

  • Crossover Symmetry Activation
  • 2×10 Reverse Hyper (210#)
  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • Agility Ladder Drills
  • Hang Power Snatch
    • 5×45#
    • 3×75#
    • 3×95#

Conditioning

  • 200m Run
  • 10 Hang Power Snatch (115#)
  • 5 Bar Muscle-ups
  • 4:00 Rest
  • 20 Back Squats (115#)
  • 400m Run
  • 20 Back Squats (115#)
  • 4:00 Rest
  • 5 Bar Muscle-ups
  • 10 Hang Power Snatch (115#)
  • 200m Run

Couple of sprint type sections sandwiched around a little grind with the squats. I went 6-4 on both sets of snatches but looking back wish I would have held on to the bar. 3-2 the first time with the MU, then all 5 unbroken in the final part. Squats were unbroken both sets. My work times were 2:16 – 3:47 – 2:25 so I finished everything at 16:28 on the clock. The rest was long enough to allow for a good push going into each part.

Accessory

2 Rounds NFT

  • 200m Farmer’s Carry (25# bumper in each hand)
  • 50 OH Walking Lunges (50#)

I had to stop for a quick break at about 150m each time on the carry. Did the lunges in 2 sets of 25 both times. I really tried to pull my shoulders down and back holding those plates overhead. Should help with my stability.

Midline

8 Rounds

  • 20s Banana Rolls
  • 20s Rest

You have to picture Tony Horton saying “Superman…. ba-NANA” in your head when you do these. Didn’t feel much fatigue in the core doing these, but rolling around did put some pressure on the hips.

Triple Triple Double

Went to the driving range yesterday and again this morning. Right arm feels a little weird and I wonder if it’s from all of the swings. Did some bottom squat hold and stretching to warm-up.

Midline

8x

  • 20s L-sit (Rings, knees up)
  • 25s Rest

Cut back from the 30 second rest we had 2 weeks ago. Last 2 rounds were a lot of shaking, but made it through. Seems to be improving quickly.

Conditioning

  • 3 Rounds
    • 5 Thrusters (135#)
    • 5 Burpees OTB (lateral)
  • 2:00 Rest
  • 3 Rounds
    • 3 Squat Snatch (155#)
    • 3 Bar Muscle-ups
  • 2:00 Rest
  • 3 Rounds
    • 10 Deadlifts (245#)
    • 10 Box Jumps (30″)

Finished part 1 at 1:36. I actually felt really good during this part, but my heart rate sky-rocketed and I couldn’t recover during the rest. I was fighting it until the end of the workout. Part 2 was much worse than I expected. I’m glad I scaled it back from the original 5 reps of each I had planned early in the week. I knew it was going to be bad when I lost the 2nd snatch in the hole. I missed one in my last round too. Was a little scared about the bar muscle-ups since I haven’t done one since around March. Got the first 2 rounds unbroken without a problem and I think I would have been able to on the last round too, but my hands and the bar were sweaty. It wasn’t worth the risk of slipping and falling on my head, so I did 3 quick singles. Finished at 8:48 on the clock, so it took me 5:12! Had to rest quite a bit between each snatch. In the final part I went 10, 6-4, and 6-4 on the deadlifts, and unbroken on the box jumps, though no rebounding. Finished at 14:57 so part 3 took me 4:09. I wish I had pushed to do all of deadlifts unbroken.

Finisher

  • 100 OH Walking Lunges (45#)

Went outside. I did 26-24-30-20. Breathing got up there again. Rests were pretty long.

Just before 7pm I headed out to the garage. Felt like shoulder pressing for some reason.

  • 10×45#
  • 5×95#
  • 3×115#
  • 2×135#
  • 1×155#
  • 1×165#
  • Fail 172.5#
  • 1×167.5#

Wow, didn’t expect to miss like that after I hit 165# for  double a few weeks ago during a shoulder press, push press, push jerk complex. Must just be fatigue from today’s workout because all of the bench press increased should have translated to a higher shoulder press too. I was lifting barefoot, but I doubt that had anything to do with it. Wore a belt for the last few singles because I have a tendency to over-extend at max weight.


First time using the big washers for fractional.

Red Velvet Experience

Had a cheat night last night. Damn that burger was good and picked up some Oreos when I stopped at the store for milk (only had 2 left to finish the package this morning). Slept in later than usual too, which was nice.

red-velvet-oreos

Warm-up

  • 1,000m Row – 4:23
  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • Stretching

Skill

5 Rounds

  • 30s Bar MU
  • 30s Rest
  • 30s Box Jumps (24″)
  • 30s Rest

I wore gymnastics grips and taped my thumbs so I didn’t have to worry about ripping anything on the bar. I went 6 (5-1), 5 (3-2), 5 (3-2), 5 (3-2), and then 6 unbroken on the bar muscle-ups. Said screw it and went for it on that last round, setting a new unbroken PR. Stayed at the top for a couple of seconds and was going to try for a 7th, but when I got to the bottom with my kip I had nothing left. I couldn’t see the clock for the first couple of sets of box jumps, but turned after that. Got 14-15-17-17-18. No pain in my quad jumping, which is nice. Still can’t do a pistol on the right leg though.

Conditioning

  • 80-60-40-20 DU
  • 20-15-10-5 Burpees
  • 8-6-4-2 Push Jerk (175#)

Going heavy was a fun challenge in this. The set of 8 was bar the worst, but I never dropped the bar. Double unders weren’t as good as I would have liked. Finished in 9:19.

E3M 18:00 (6x)

  • 30s Row @ 100%

Should have set the computer for time intervals to be able to get exact distances, but tried to eyeball it with the time. Went 174-174-173-173-174-181. Being able to get that much more on the end pisses me off because it means I was holding a little back on the first 5 rounds.

Midline

Planks

  • 3:00
  • 2:30
  • 2:00
  • 1:30

Took at least a few minutes to rest between each set. Did them all with straight arms, on my hands.

Failure to Fail

Up a little earlier than normal so I could get in some work before the 9am class.

Warm-up

  • 2,000m Row – 8:13
  • 2×10 Reverse Hyper (210#)

Gymnastics

E45S

  • 2 Bar MU

I set the clock for 20 rounds and planned to go until failure, but never failed, so I did a 21st round when the clock ran out. It was about time for class to start anyway.

After that initial set in the video, I concentrated more on keeping my feet together and I’m constantly battling to trying to fight to keep the system tight.

I did some zombie kicks during warm-up of class and then deadlifts with 155-245-315 each for sets of 4. Mixed in a couple of box jumps too.

XWOD

  • 4-4-4-4-4-4 Deadlift (365#)
  • 2-1-2-1-2-1 Power Step Box Jump (2s-40.5″, 1s-44″)

I hesitated on a few jumps, which is stupid at those heights. Afraid of this damn quad!

Midline

I was behind everyone else coming from the XWOD so only did one weighted plank with 45# for 2:00 instead of the programmed stuff.

Conditioning

8:00 AMRAP

  • 8 Pull-ups
  • 8 American KBS (62#)
  • 16 Step-ups (24″)

All unbroken. Pull-ups were rough on the hands after all of the muscle-ups, but held on and no rips. Step-ups were a little rough on the quad, but I still tried to evenly distribute the reps between the legs. Did 5 full rounds plus 8 pull-ups and 6 swings. Tried to minimize my kip on the pull-ups and keep the system tight. Can always be better.

Double Morning

I’m kind of sore from the good mornings on Monday. Needed the recovery day yesterday, but really wanted to workout in the afternoon. Ready to be back at it today after another solid 9 hours of sleep. In before the 9am class for some extra work.

Warm-up

  • 14:00 Row

Had planned on holding a 5k pace, but decided against it on the drive in. Just had a feeling and it was a good call because I wasn’t feeling it during the row. Kept under a 2:05 pace for 3,369 meters.

Gymnastics

16:00 EMOM alternating

  • 3 Bar MU
  • 12 HR Push-ups

The bar muscle-ups are feeling so easy; I can’t believe it. I guess it worked out well not working on them until I was decent with MU on the rings and my pull-ups improved . I pretty much got to skip that whole phase most people seem to go through, where they get one arm over the bar with a lot of strain on the shoulders and elbows, then fight to pull the rest of their body and other arm over. I’m getting over right into the dip position with no problem. 🙂 Good number of sets too because I took a little piece of skin off my thumb in the last round. Might have to start taping my thumbs or figure out how not to feel that pull on the skin as my body swings back under the bar.

Had a few minutes to rest before class got going.

Weightlifting

C&J

  • 5×45#
  • 3×95#
  • 3×135#
  • 3×155#

I had planned on doing some full cleans and split jerks, but the quad was not feeling up for it after trying them with 95#.

Then we got into the meat of the workout, with a running clock.

10:00 EMOM

  • 3 C&J (175#)

Didn’t try touch-n-go until the last round and got it. Wish I had started out TnG and then switched to singles when I couldn’t hold on to the bar. Will know better for next time.

3:00 Rest

3 Rounds

  • 45s Wall Balls (20#, 10′)
  • 15s Rest

Worst part of the workout, but not terrible by any means. I did 21-20-21 reps. Should have been all 21s but I wasted 2 seconds at the end of the 2nd round because I thought I heard the time differently.

Oh, I wore lifters for the lifts and wall balls.

3:00 Rest

10:00 EMOM

  • 3 Deadlifts (5 sets 275#, 5 sets 295#)
  • 5 Burpees

Wore a belt and went shoeless. Weight felt good so bumped it up for the 2nd half. Kept a pretty good clip on the burpees, doing each round in about 17-18 seconds.

It’s kind of nice having the extra work done already for the day, though I do have to clear the snow out of the driveway at some point since we got another 2-3 inches last night.