Tag: Double Under

1 Open WOD Left

Yesterday my hands ached from the ring work. Got a great night of sleep and felt good this morning.

Warm-up

  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • Shoulder Stretching
  • Power Cleans
    • 5×45#
    • 5×95#
    • 3×135#

Conditioning

CrossFit Open Workout 11.5 – 20:00 AMRAP

  • 5 Power Cleans (145#)
  • 10 T2B
  • 15 Wall Balls (20#, 10′)

There were only 2 Open workouts I haven’t done and this was one of them, so now only 11.4 is left to try. Did all singles on the cleans, toes to bar were 4-3-3 every round except an unbroken 7 to finish, and unbroken every round for wall balls (hurt). Saw that around 10 rounds was the 90th percentile on BTWB and was ahead of that pace through 5 rounds, but slowing down. Started to take some 5-10 second breathers in between movements through the second half of the workout, which cost me. Ended up with 9 rounds plus the cleans and 7 of the T2B. Probably could have gone 5-5 on the T2B and saved a lot of time. Grinder of a workout though.

Midline

6 Sets

  • 4 Good Mornings
  • 4 Evil Wheels

Did 2 sets with each weight of 145-155-165#. Tried out something new for the evil wheels and I liked it. Makes it more like the ab roller devices, adding a stability element since the plate wants to roll one to the sides a little.

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Skill Conditioning

8 Rounds (Tabata)

  • 20s Double Unders
  • 10s Rest

Had 2 misses, but managed a new PR (by 6 reps) with 286 dubs. Three hundo should be possible if I can get rid of the misses.

End of the Cycle

In at 10am this morning to finish out this cycle of the Rowing WOD and then shift focus to gymnastics. Moved around, did some bottom squat holding and pass-thrus to warm-up. Nothing crazy.

Rowing WOD Week 17 Session 2

10:00 AMRAP

  • Buy-in: 50 Burpees over the rower
  • MAX distance Row

First 25 burpees were done in about 1:05 and finished off the 50 in 2:44. Was pulling before the 7:00 minute mark. Legs just had nothing left after those jumps back and forth. Was struggling just to keep it under 2:00/500m. Was able to pick up the pace in the last minute or so. Make it 1,829 meters. There was some foot transition practice programmed too but I skipped it.

Looking forward to starting the gymnastics focus on Monday. Why not test something else? 🙂

Weighted Pull-up

A couple of guys at work had done a max weight pull-ups a couple of months ago and it sounded like fun for today. I went 25-35-53-62-70-75-80#.

Conditioning

4 Rounds

  • 2 Legless Rope Climbs (13′)
  • 8 Shuttle Runs (54′)
  • 40 DU

Felt like doing something else and have been wanting to climb the rope. Didn’t even set the clock, just did work. All successful climbs, but had to take some rest between reps. Missed once in the 3rd set of dubs.

15k

Legs still feeling smoked from that workout yesterday. I woke up to piss in the middle of the night and my left knee did not feel good. Threw on an Ace wrap for the wrest of the night and seemed to be ok when I woke up. Went in for the 9am class.

Warm-up

  • 2:00 Bottom Squat Hold
  • 3 Rounds
    • 5 Strict Pull-ups
    • 10 Push-ups
    • 15 Air Squats

Strength: Front Squats

  • 10×45#
  • 6×135#
  • 3×185#
  • 3×215#
  • 3×235#
  • 3×255#
  • 3×265#
  • 3×285#

Felt good. Wore a belt for the last 3 or 4 sets.

Conditioning

10:00 AMRAP

  • 40 Double Unders
  • 5 Thrusters (95#)
  • 5 Push Press (95#)

Took a little breather between the rope and bar. Kept all barbell reps unbroken. Finished 7 rounds + 38 dubs.

6 sets

  • 30s Row
  • Rest as needed

Was still out of breath from the metcon in the first round so slowly ramped up each set. My meters were 154-161-165-169-174-179.

Wasn’t sure if I’d end up going back in the evening to finished out rowing for the week, but I did.

Rowing WOD Week 16 Session 2

  • 3 Rounds
    • 300 Calorie Row
    • 4:00 Rest
  • 5:00 Rest
  • 10 Rounds
    • 3 Burpees over the Rower
    • 1 Calorie Row

The plan I wrote on the board was to go at 19-21-23 s/m and try for 950-980-1010 cal/hour. I stuck with the stroke rates, but after setting on the rower for nearly 20 minutes straight, the 2nd and 3rd round just couldn’t pick up the pace as much as I hoped for.

Rounds

  1. 18:51 @ 19 s/m for 4,637 meters at a pace of 954 cal/hr
  2. 18:30 @ 21 s/m for 4,595 meters at a pace of 971 cal/hr
  3. 18:20 @ 23 s/m for 4,571 meters at a pace of 980 cal/hr

The 10 round transition practice is dumb if you ask me. Unless you’re a high level competitor it’s not worth it. But I did it anyway. There is no good way to setup the rower for rounds with that, so I basically just did 3 pulls each time so that I wouldn’t could the rollover calorie or two you get from the previous round. I kind of lost track of rounds so might have done some extra. Who knows? Who cares? Not me. Time was 4:13 and monitor said 453 meters, but that’s 10 rounds of rollover.

I wasn’t too excited when there was rowing programmed this morning knowing what I had in store tonight or tomorrow. Ended up being over 15,000 meters total for the day. Surprisingly I feel pretty good.

Next week is supposed to be the last week of this cycle and then I’m going to be done with the rowing. Will be shifting a focus to gymnastics work leading up to the Open. Endurance with chest-to-bar pull-ups and handstand push-ups hurt me in 2 of the workouts in the 2015 Open

Liftoff

Tonight we got together to do the CrossFit Liftoff event for fun. Alex lifted, while Bryan and I did all 3 parts.

Warm-up

  • 3×8 Reverse Hyper (140#)
  • Crossover Symmetry Activation
  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • Ring Hang

Snatch

  • 3 Muscle Snatch + 3 Snatch Press + 3 OHS
    • 45#
    • 75#
    • 95#
  • All full snatches unless noted
    • 3×115#
    • 2×135#
    • 1×145#
    • 1×155#
    • 1×165#
    • 1×175#
    • 1×185#
    • Fail 195#
    • 1×195# Power
    • 1×205# Power
    • Fail 4×210#

Was feeling light going up, then 175# started to feel some of the weight off the ground. Got in my head with 195 so then powered the next rep. Powered 205# and told myself I had to drop under the rest if I wanted to be able to make some bigger numbers. Was getting under them no problem just couldn’t keep the bar back. Need to put more time into working on them.

Clean & Jerk

  • 3×135#
  • 2×165#
  • 2×185#
  • 1×205#
  • 1×225#
  • 1×235#
  • 1×245#
  • 1×255#
  • 1×265# (PR)
  • 1×270# (PR)

Cleans were scary. I haven’t done any big numbers in awhile other than the 255# clean during the Team Series. Back seemed to hold up well though. Jerks felt pretty good and that’s usually where my head gets me out of it. They said the bar was flying up. I’ll take the 6# PR and no misses. 🙂 Again though, need to spend more time on the lifts now that I’m healthy.

That was a fun bro sesh. Been far too long since we did that.

Conditioning

12:00 AMRAP

  • 3 Snatch (135#)
  • 6 C&J (135#)
  • 9 C2B Pull-ups
  • 54 Double Unders

Did all single snatch and clean & jerk the entire workout. Did 5-4 C2B in the first round, then 3-3-3 for 3 rounds, and convinced myself singles at the end, when I had just over 30 seconds left, would be faster. After 4 singles I finished with a triple. Wish I had tried for 3-3-3 again. Oh well. Finished with 4 rounds plus the snatches, clean & jerks, and 7 of the chest to bar pull-ups. Good workout!

4 Plates

My lats were a little sore this morning. Maybe from the presses or burpees? Don’t remember rowing every making me sore. Was up and to the 9am class.

Warmup

  • 3×10 Reverse Hyper (140#)
  • Pass thrus
  • Air Squats
  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • Jumping Jacks

Strength – Deadlift

  • 10×45#
  • 6×155#
  • 6×225#
  • 3×265#
  • 3×305#
  • 3×335#
  • 3×365#
  • 3×385#
  • 3×405#

I haven’t had 4 plates on the bar since sometime before May. Felt ok, but didn’t want to push it.

Conditioning

  • 21-15-9 American KBS (53#)
  • 21-15-9 Goblet Squats (53#)
  • 30 DU

Good little burner. I went with American swings today since it wasn’t high reps. Unbroken on the weighted movements, but my dubs were shitty again today. Missed in the first set at 25 and missed 2-3 times in the second set, but got the last one unbroken. Finished in 4:17.

Accessory

5 Sets

  • 10/10 Kroc Rows (70#)
  • 5 Strict C2B Pull-ups

Why do the Kroc rows never seem to get easier? I sweat like a pig during them. Kind of a nasty combo with pull-ups. I’m going to try to do all strict pull-ups during accessory work or even weighted ones.

Wall Ball Squats

Woke up again! Went to the 9am.

Warm-up

  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • Ring OH Stretch
  • 10 Good Mornings (15#)
  • 10 Back Squats (15#)
  • Calf Stretch
  • 10 OHS (15#)

Strength: Overhead Squats

3-3-X-1 Tempo

  • 3×45#
  • 3×95#
  • 3×115#
  • 3×135#
  • 3×155#
  • 3×175#

The closer grips are feeling better and better. Empty bar with a jerk (or even closer grip) is no issue now.

Conditioning

10:00 AMRAP

  • 5x
    • Wall Ball (20#, 10′)
    • Goblet Squat (20#)
  • 15 Russian Kettlebell Swings (70#)
  • 30 Double Unders

The double squat wall balls (not 2-for-1s) were a little confusing. I think I did an extra squat on the 5th “rep” a few times. Kept a pretty steady pace. Missed a few times on dubs. Finished 6 rounds plus the wall ball squats and swings. Picked up the rope but didn’t have time to get any.

Accessory

5 Rounds

  • 10 Decline Push-ups (16″)
  • 6 Ring Rows

All unbroken sets and unbelievably no struggle.

Back to the gym around 6pm

Rowing WOD Week 13 Session 2 – Engine

  • 300 cals at 20s/m
  • 5:00 Rest
  • 200 cals at 22
  • 4:00 Rest
  • 100 cals at 24
  • 3:00 Rest
  • 50 cals for time

Results:

  • 18:40 – 4,616m – 962cal/hr
  • 12:14 – 3,057m – 979cal/hr
  • 5:54 – 1,509m – 1009cal/hr
  • 1:32 – 537m – 1847cal/hr

The distances all include some run off after finishing since there isn’t a way to set a calorie workout on the Concept 2. Total comes to 9,710 meters for the session. In the 50 calorie row I started out holding over 2,000cal/hr through 30 but the burn started to kick in and I was losing power. Not sure why I didn’t think to kick in for a sprint in the last 10 calories or so like I would try to in a distance sprint. Felt pretty smoked after that but would have been a decent 500m time after having spent 36+ minutes on the rower.

Fun Garage Sesh

Slept in again. Out to the garage around 11.

Weightlifting

  • 5 Squat Snatch + 5 Snatch Press (45#)
  • 4 Squat Snatch + 4 Snatch Press (75#)
  • 3 Squat Snatch + 3 Snatch Press (95#)
  • 2 Squat Snatch (115#)
  • 2 Squat Snatch (135#)
  • 1 Squat Snatch (155#)
  • 1 Squat Snatch (165#)
  • 10:00 EMOM
    • 5:00 – 1 Squat Snatch (175#)
    • 5:00 – 1 Squat Snatch (185#)

Planned all 10 minutes at 175# but it was feeling pretty good, so after 3 I decided I’d bump it up for the back end. Got a little iffy on the last couple with 185#, but no misses = a good day. I miss doing stuff like this.

I wish I had set the camera better so I could get the full bar path. It looks like it gets out a few inches from the starting point, but pretty good for not working on it in months.

Conditioning – “Flight Simulator”

5-10-15-20-25-30-35-40-45-50-45-40-35-30-25-20-15-10-5

  • Unbroken Double Unders

I’ve been wanting to test this one out for a while since I haven’t done it in more than 2 years. Perfect day for it. Went all the way up with no misses. Started taking breaks after sets around 30 or 35. On the way back down I missed once on the 40 and twice on the 30. Cruised home with no rest when I got to 25. Finished in 9:30 which is a PR by 4:05!!

That was a fun session.

Went to the chiropractor at 5 and then to the 5:30 class at CFi.

Warm-up

  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • 400m Run
  • PVC Pass-thrus
  • PVC Good Mornings
  • Air Squats

Strength – Deadlift

  • 10×45#
  • 5×155#
  • 5×225#
  • 3×265#
  • 3×295#
  • 3×325#
  • 3×355#
  • 3×375#
  • 3×395#

Haven’t really pushed the weight with deadlifts in months. Wore my belt for the last 4-5 sets and figured I’d see how it felt. I survived.

Conditioning

  • 100 Wall Balls (20#, 10′)
  • EMOM – 5 Burpees

Also known as Wall Ball Kalsu I guess. First minute was free for all wall ballin’ this time, compared to starting with burpees back in March, when I did 5:54. My minutes ended with 28-45-62-80, so I had to bust my ass with 20 reps left in the final minute. I usually get 10 reps in a Tabata round so I knew it was possible, especially if I was already descending into the squats as the ball hit my hands. The 100th rep was in the air as time hit 5:00 so that was good enough for me. 🙂 My rep counts during burpee minutes were 2-3 reps higher than that version we did earlier in the year.

Accessory

3 Sets

  • 14/14 Kroc Rows (70#)
  • 14 Ring Push-ups (feet on short box since rings were up about 6-8 inches.)

14 Kroc rows at a time is rough if you’re trying to keep a solid back position. I was sweating more from these than the metcon.

GLBRT at Steel Courage

Strategizing?
Strategizing?

Up early and headed down to Chesaning for the GLBRT (Great Lake Bay Regional Throwdown) at CrossFit Steel Courage. Bryan and I teamed up and we also had Michelle and Jess team up.

Event #1

8:00 AMRAP

  • 10 Pull-Ups
  • 20 Wall Balls (20#, 10′)
  • 30 Double Unders

We alternated movements the whole way. We both messed up way too much on our dubs, which sucked. In practice we had done 8+24 in 10:00, not having the correct time. Today we got 6+29, so our practice was better and we even made sure to have the wall ball picked up and ready today which we didn’t do in practice. We placed 8th in this. Should have been a good one for us. Meh!

Workout #2

  • Part A
    • 20 Clean & Jerks (85/115)
    • 20 Clean & Jerks (95/135)
    • 20 Clean & Jerks (105/155)
  • Part B
    • 2:00 MAX Deadlifts (145/205)

We had recently done the Grace thing in the Team Series, so didn’t practice this one at all. We decided to go a little more than pacing and push it by doing 7-7-6 on the first two weights and were hoping for 5-5-5-5 on the 155# bar. Well, we got the first 5-5 and then it fell apart having to go with 5 doubles. We finished at 3:55 and then got 59 deadlifts. They subtracted a second from your score for every rep of the deadlifts, so our “time” was 2:56, good for 6th place.

Workout #3

  • 21-15-9 (1 person on each movement)
    • OHS (65/95)
    • Box Jumps (20/24)
  • 45 Toes to Bar (1 person working)
  • 9-15-21 (1 person on each movement)
    • Thrusters (65/95)
    • Burpees

This one is kind of confusing, but basically both movements are being worked on at the same time in the first and last part, but nobody can start the set of the next number until the set before is done.

I did 21 box jumps, 15 overhead squats, and 9 box jumps, with Bryan doing the opposite movements. We went 12-13-10-10 on the T2B. I did 9 thrusters and he did 9 burpees. Then Bryan did 8 thrusters and I think I only got in 5 burpees; was dying on those. I finished the set of 15 with 7 thrusters and he killed off the burpees. I think we went 5-6-5-5 on the last set of thrusters and I have no idea how we split up the burpees. Finished at 5:59 to destroy the 7:07 we did a week ago. That got us 5th place in the workout. The thrusters actually felt pretty good today compared to our practice, but we used a much different strategy that worked out. Easily the highlight of the day. We were pretty pumped after that improvement and pushing it.

Overall we were the 7th place team. Just didn’t have any high enough finishes for the big points. Wish the first workout would have gone better, but the huge PR on #3 made up for it and then some. Fun day!

Look at that hollow body position!
Look at that hollow body position!

Practice to the Death

Bryan and I wanted to test out a couple of the workouts that we have to do next Saturday in a local partner competition.

Warm-up

  • 2×10 Reverse Hyper (210#)
  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • Shoulder Stretching
  • PVC Pass-thrus

GLBRT Workout #1

10:00 AMRAP

  • 10 Pull-Ups
  • 20 Wall Balls (20#, 10′)
  • 30 Double Unders

Went well. We got 8+24 by alternating every movement. Basically it’s just a wall ball workout. Didn’t realize this was changed to an 8 minute AMRAP, so will be even easier.

GLBRT Workout #3

  • 21-15-9 (1 person on each movement)
    • OHS (95#)
    • Box Jumps (24″)
  • 45 Toes to Bar (1 person working)
  • 9-15-21 (1 person on each movement)
    • Thrusters (95#)
    • Burpees

The 21-15-9 was easy. Not a problem with toes to bar. Set of 9… okay. Then the sets of 15 and 21 = DEATH!! It got nasty in an instant. Took us 7:07.

Accessory

5 Sets

  • 5 GHR (orange band)
  • 20 Alternating DB Curls (30#)

I probably could have gotten without the band looped around my shoulders, but I didn’t want to be struggling so much I did the movement incorrectly.

Pistols Firing

Feeling a little beat up from the high rep workout yesterday.

Warm-up

  • 3 Sets
    • 8 Reverse Hyper (210#)
    • 30 band pulls (red)
  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • OH Stretching
  • C&J
    • 5×45#
    • 5×95#
    • 3×115#
    • 3×135#

Weightlifting

8:00 EMOM

  • 5 C&J (155#)

Trying to get more comfortable with touch-n-go at this weight because I get mental and want to drop it before I need to. I was able to get 6 rounds unbroken, fighting on the last 2 rounds. Then the final 2 rounds I did 3 unbroken and 2 singles. Step in the right direction

Skill

4:00 AMRAP

  • 30 Unbroken DU

I missed on my 30th rep 3 fucking times! My only other 2 misses were on the first rep. Just that little lapse in concentration. I did get 5 unbroken sets in, but should have been 8! Did this about a year ago with 6 unbroken sets.

Strength

18:00 – E90S for 6 sets (alternating every 90s between the movements)

  • 6 Supinated Pendlay Rows (165#)
  • 5 Strict HSPU

Was a grind on the final HSPU every round after all of the C&J, but I got every set done. The rows were a little harder than they should have been.

Conditioning

2 Cycles

  • 2 Rounds
    • 50m Broad Jump
    • 20 Pistols (alt)
  • 2:00 Rest

The first 50 meters of broad jumps weren’t that bad; I was getting good distance. After the pistols the way back was a grind and more like doing bunny hopes. I finished my first cycle in 4:14 and my second in 4:37 for a 10:51 total with the rest included. Happy to be doing pistols again! 😀

My legs are toast after the 132 wall balls yesterday. Probably a recovery day tomorrow.