Tag: Ring Dip

That’s All?

My legs are a little more tired than I expected from the snatches. Got to the gym early and did Crossover Symmetry Activation.

Warm-up

2 Sets

  • 5 StrongFit Tricep Openers (10#)
  • 5 Scap Wall Slides
  • 5 Strict Ring Dips
  • 5 Wall Squats

Gymnastics

3 Cycles

  • 1:00 AMRAP – T2B
  • 2:00 Rest

Did 10-10-6-4 for 30 reps in the first cycle and could feel it was going to get really tough. Only managed 22 and 20 reps in the other two rounds.

Strength

Every 2:30 – 5 Sets

  • 10 Good Mornings (95#)
  • 3 Wall Walks

Ended up being about 1:1 work/rest. Everyone else was doing Pendlay Rows, but I just did them yesterday.

Conditioning

  • 4 Sets
    • 20s Row Sprint
    • 2:40 Rest
  • 5:00 Rest (additional to the last 2:40)
  • 4 Sets
    • 20s Row Sprint
    • 2:40 Rest

Looks easy on paper. It’s not. My meters were 130-130-128-127 and then 129-128-127-126. Should have tried a higher damper setting with the short sprints. I think this came from some OPEX templates.

Going out golfing with Dad and will hit some ROMWOD tonight.

Minty

My outer pecs are sore, but I started feeling it yesterday morning so maybe it was from the front rack carry on Sunday. In for 9am again.

Warm-up

  • Crossover Symmetry Activation
  • 3 Sets
    • 10 Goblet Squats (44#)
    • 15 Hollow Rocks
    • 150m Row

I actually got on the Air Dyne for 2 of the sets and went about 30-35 seconds.

Strength & Gymnastics

E2M – 5 Sets

  • 9 RDL (165#)
  • 30s HS Hold

Did a little extra credit by adding the handstand holds.

5:00 EMOM

  • 8 Ring Rows (feet elevated)

Shoulder still doesn’t like strict pull-ups so I went with the ring rows. Not easy.

Conditioning

6 Rounds

  • 200m Run
  • 15 American Kettlebell Swings (53#)
  • 10 Ring Dips

I always start out running too fast and then slow down a ton. Swings were no issue going unbroken. Haven’t done ring dips in a long time, which were the limiter (along with the run) in this workout. Started 5-5 for 2 sets, then 5-3-2, then 2 sets of 4-3-3, and maybe 6-4 on the last set. Finished in 13:58.

Did Crossover Symmetry Recovery before leaving the gym and will hit some ROMWOD tonight.

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In the evening I decided to hit a max set of unbroken push-ups since Kill Cliff is doing a fundraiser and donating 10¢ per rep to the Navy Seal Foundation.

I could feel the ring dips from this morning in my shoulders right away. Managed to knock out 55 reps before stopping, only 5 shy of my best.

Almost 10, but Sub 40

Coached this morning and then got in my workout after class. Starting the new cycle of gymnastics work.

Skill WOD “Be the Master of your Volume” Week 1 Day 1

Warm-up – 3 Rounds for quality

  • 10 Pass-thrus
  • 10 Bridge Rocks
  • 10 GHD Heel Drives
  • 3 Inchworm Push-ups
  • 10′ Crab Walk (forward & back)

Mobility – 5 Sets

  • 10s Bottom of Ring Dip Hold
  • 1 Skin the Cat (2s pause in hang)

Test Your Max

  • 1 Set of MAX MU
  • 4 Sets @ 60% with 2:00 Rest

Got 9 and barely missed the 10th. Rounded to 5 for the drop sets. Made each set but the last two were close to missing; caught in a super low dip.

Strength Accessory – 5 Sets

  • 5 Strict Ring Dips
  • 5 Ice Cream Makers (banded)

Used the black band. Those were interesting. In the 4th set of ring dips something really weird started to happen in my left shoulder and bicep and then I couldn’t lift my arm until I moved it all around. Nothing like that has ever happened before.

Conditioning

3 Rounds

  • 250m Row
  • 2:00 Rest

Been wanting that sub-40 and got it. Went 39.7, 41.1, and 42.2. Boy do I start to hit a wall in the 2nd half of the rows after that first attempt. Legs start to burn hard, hamstrings feel like they are cramping up, and just can’t push like I want to. I decided on 3 sets before starting, but almost called it quits after setting the PR. Glad I gutted it out.

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Headed back to the gym at 4pm. Warmed up with 3 sets of 8 Reverse Hypers using 210#.

Strength – Back Squat

  • 10×45#
  • 6×135
  • 3×225
  • 3×255
  • 3×285
  • 3×315
  • 3×335
  • 3×350 (PR)

Wore my belt for the last 3 sets. My goal heading in was to get 350 and it was solid. A few weeks ago doing a double with 353 got loose, so really happy. Most 1 rep max calculator formulas put me at over 370 now. Getting there!

Midline

  • 100 Sit-ups

Been awhile. Was on a solid pace but the last 30 reps got rough. Managed a 1 second PR with 2:58.

Wanted to get in a solid day of work with a storm coming through. I do not plan on leaving the house tomorrow except to take out the trash. Will probably do some active recovery.

Closing Out Week 3

Bumped up the muscle-up focused workout a day this week so that I could get an extra day in between before the pull-ups.

Skill WOD (Hustle & Flow) Week 3 Day 3

Warm-up

My shoulder has been bothering me a little bit since the handstand push-up workout so it’s time to get back in the habit of using the Crossover Symmetry bands more often. Did the Activation protocol.

3 sets

  • 5 Bar Work
    (Hold and pause 2 sec at each position with no form breaks and no momentum)

    • Dead Hang
    • Lat Active Hollow
    • Tight Arch
  • 1 Skin the Cat
  • 7 Straddle V-ups
  • 10s GHD Hanging Bridge Stretch

Skill A – 4 Supersets

  • 1 Ring Swing + Pull-up w/ swing + MU
  • 2 Box Hip Kip Drill
  • 3 Banded Hip Drill

We hadn’t been doing the first thing quite right. You’re supposed to hold in the top of the pull-up, do a swing from there, and then transition into the muscle-up. Was really weird on my first 2 attempts but got the hang of of it then.

Skill Test – 3 sets

1 rep of complex is:

  • MU + 2 Strict Ring Dips (after the MU dip lockout)

First two sets are 3 reps of the complex and then the 3rd set is for max reps. I got 6 reps on the max set again like last week. Felt similar when I got to that last one.

Strength Accessory – 3 sets

  • 3 Lower to Hold Front Lever on Box

Yep, pretty sure I’ll never be able to hold a front lever.

Bonus Complex

  • Set 1: 3 Strict Ring Pull-up + 3 Toes to Rings + 4 MU
  • Set 2: 3+3+5
  • Sets 3+: Keep adding 1 MU until failure

We were messed up on these too. Didn’t know the pull-ups were supposed to be strict, which makes quite a bit difference in fatiguing those pulling muscles. Felt good in the first set. Then 5th rep in the second set was rough. Managed to get 4 in the final set. Hopefully muscle-ups, when we don’t fatigue with other movements, are going to be feeling really easy soon.

I’m on vacation until the 4th now. Hopefully I’ll make more time for conditioning.

Gettin’ Gymnastics Volume

Woke up feeling a little beat from the PRs last night. Low to middle are of my back being the stiffest. Not the area where I’ve had my issues though, so that’s good. In at 11am to close out the 2nd week of the cycle.

Skill WOD (Hustle & Flow) Week 2 Day 3

Warm-up

3 sets

  • 5 Bar Work
    (Hold and pause 2 sec at each position with no form breaks and no momentum)

    • Dead Hang
    • Lat Active Hollow
    • Tight Arch
  • 1 Skin the Cat
  • 7 Straddle V-ups
  • 10s GHD Hanging Bridge Stretch

Skin the cats really stretch out that shoulder area.

Skill A – 4 Supersets

  • 1 Ring Swing + Pull-up w/ swing + MU
  • 2 Box Hip Kip Drill
  • 3 Banded Hip Drill

Felt a little better with the complex this week though I start swinging back with the pull-up and it messes up my kip a little. Didn’t feel as good with the box drill. Maybe I didn’t have the heights of things set right. The banded drill was better though.

Skill Test – 3 sets

1 rep of complex is:

  • MU + 2 Strict Ring Dips (after the MU dip lockout)

First two sets are 3 reps of the complex and then the 3rd set is for max reps. Increased from 5 to 6 on the max set.

Strength Accessory – 3 sets

  • 3 Lower to Hold Front Lever on Box

These are tough and doing 3 compared to 1 was a big difference in fatigue.

Bonus Complex

  • Set 1: 3 Ring Pull-up + 3 Toes to Rings + 4 MU
  • Set 2: 3+3+5
  • Sets 3+: Keep adding 1 MU until failure

Went for #6 on the 3rd set and squeezed it out. Caught myself in a super low ring dip, but a rep is a rep. Maybe next week if I get those first 3 sets I’ll go for a 4th.

Some nice increases from the first week and without having to figure out that first skill section we finished up in just under an hour. My shoulders still feel wrecked after all that though. I wore my leather grips for everything but the warm-up and no further damage to my hands. I just don’t have the grip problem on the rings like I do with bar muscle-ups.

Conditioning

Bryan and I jumped on the rowers for 10 minutes. Went 2,535 meters. Didn’t get into a good rhythm until the final 90 seconds.

Mighty Muscle-ups

Didn’t get much sleep trying to watch CJ’s session in the American Open last night, though the feed cut out for me so I completely missed all of the clean & jerks. Got some upper body feels from all of the snatching yesterday and legs feel a little tired. In at 9am for the first muscle-up day of the gymnastics program.

Skill WOD (Hustle & Flow) Week 1 Day 3

Warm-up

3 sets

  • 5 Bar Work
    (Hold and pause 2 sec at each position with no form breaks and no momentum)

    • Dead Hang
    • Lat Active Hollow
    • Tight Arch
  • 1 Skin the Cat
  • 7 Straddle V-ups
  • 10s GHD Hanging Bridge Stretch

Thought it would be harder than it was to do all of that holding on the bar in one set. Wasn’t bad. Straddle v-ups are very awkward.

Skill A – 4 Supersets

  • 1 Ring Swing + Pull-up w/ swing + MU
  • 2 Box Hip Kip Drill
  • 3 Banded Hip Drill

First set of the complex was odd, but got the hang of it and smoothed out the transition from pull-up into muscle for the rest of the sets. Wasted a bunch of time setting up for this part and figuring out what to do. The banded drill programmed didn’t work worth a shit for us so we did the Gymnastics WOD version. with a band through the rings.

Skill Test – 3 sets

1 rep of complex is:

  • MU + 2 Strict Ring Dips (after the MU dip lockout)

First two sets are 3 reps of the complex and then the 3rd set is for max reps. I got 5 on my max set. Those dips add up!

Strength Accessory – 3 sets

  • Lower to Hold (3s) Front Lever on Box

Completely missed that we were supposed to do 3 of these each set. I thought it was “too easy” in the sense that it wasn’t a lot of work. Pretty sure I’ll never be able to hold an actual front lever in my life, but the strength transfer should help other stuff and I’m guessing that’s the idea.

Bonus Complex

  • Set 1: 3 Ring Pull-up + 3 Toes to Rings + 4 MU
  • Set 2: 3+3+5
  • Sets 3+: Keep adding 1 MU until failure

I wasn’t real confident going into this after only getting 5 in the skill test and already feeling pretty smoked in my shoulders and arms. But I got sets 1 and 2 done and got 5 muscle-ups again is the 3rd set.

Grip Width

In for the 9am this morning. Was looking forward to getting in a “normal” workout after the first 3 days of this week.

Warm-up

  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • Shoulder Hang Stretching
  • Banded Shoulder OH Stretch
  • Overhead Squat
    • 4×45#
    • 4×75#
    • 4×95#
    • 4×115#

Did the OHS with my progressing grip width. Getting better and better.

Strength & Gymnastics

12:00 EMOM (alt)

  • 4 OHS (135#)
  • 6 Strict Ring Dips

The last knurl ring was in between my middle and ring fingers, which is probably about halfway between my jerk and snatch grips. I know I wouldn’t have been able to do 6 sets like that a month or two ago.

Conditioning

5 Rounds

  • 3 Curtis P (75#)
  • 6 Push Press (75#)
  • 10 Lateral Bar Hops

Kept it light so I could try to go unbroken. Made it, but another 10 or 20# would have definitely meant breaking at some point with the barbell. Lateral hops were a quick rest from holding the weight. Finished in 3:56.

3 Rounds NFT

  • 30/30m Prowler Sprint (High, 135#)
  • 200m Run

Went lighter than usual and tried to keep it explosive.

Wall Ballin’

We finally were able to get in our end of the year golf tournament yesterday. Long day on the course playing 27 holes. Was pretty exhausted last night and slept in this morning, so went to the 4:30 class.

Warm-up

  • 3×10 Reverse Hyper (210#)
  • Bottom Squat Hold

Strength: Front Squats (22X0 Tempo)

  • 6×45#
  • 4×135#
  • 2×185#
  • 2×205#
  • 2×225#
  • 2×235#
  • 2×245#
  • 2×255#

Gymnastics

4 Sets

  • 7 Ring Rows
  • 1 Muscle-up
  • 4 Ring Dips (strict, after MU)

Conditioning

  • 4:00 AMRAP
    • 5 Power Snatch (115#)
    • 5 Burpees Over the Bar
    • 10 Wall Balls (20#, 10′)
  • 2:00 Rest
  • 2:00 AMRAP
    • Wall Balls (20#, 10′)

Went unbroken on all movements in the 4 minutes with touch-n-go snatches. Finished 3 rounds plus 2 more snatches. Glad I decided to go with 115 because 95 would have been too easy. Good challenge. Went with sets of 32 and 17 for the wall balls, with rep #50 in the air as time ran out, so only 49!

Turtle Wins

I can still feel some soreness in my quads with pressure. Must be from Monday’s wall balls. Was up early and in to the gym before the 9am class to get in rowing. Walked 18 holes yesterday.

Warm-up

2 Rounds

  • 15 Reverse Hypers (210#)
  • 1:00 Air Dyne (AD2)

Rowing Power Intervals

  • 1:00 @ 24 s/m
  • 2:00 Rest
  • 1:00 @ 26
  • 2:00 Rest
  • 1:00 @ 28
  • 2:00 Rest
  • 1:00 28+ (must be rowing full length)
  • 2:00 Rest
  • 1:00 Flat-out (full length not required)
  • 15:00 Rest then repeat

It feels like I’ve been shown a map to a secret treasure. Rowing for stroke rate is extremely calming! When I had to go for 28+ and flat-out it was very stressful. The smoothest intervals for me were 26 s/m by far. I was hitting the number and staying locked in for a good portion of those minutes. I went a total of 1,541 meters the first time through and 1,547 the second. Again, pretty happy with the pace changes as stroke rate increased.

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Back for the 4:30 class, especially since I’m golfing the next 3 days so not sure what workouts I’ll get in.

Warm-up

  • 3×10 Reverse Hypers (160#)
  • Banded Rack Position stretch
  • Calf Stretch
  • Bottom Squat Hold

Strength

Front Squats

  • 10×45#
  • 6×135#
  • 3×205#
  • 3×235#
  • 3×255#
  • 3×265#
  • 3×275#

Didn’t wear lifting shoes. Put the belt on with 235# and above. Haven’t been under this much since the last back tweak I did on vacation. Far below what I should be able to do for a triple. Wasn’t easy either.

Accessory

5 Sets

  • 10/10 Kroc Rows (70# KB)
  • 6 Strict Ring Dips

Conditioning

  • 7-5-3-1 Bear Complex (95#)
  • 200m Run

I was out of breath after the first 7 bear complexes, so each run was sloooow. Couldn’t even push it hard on the final run. Did each set of bears unbroken. Took me 7:06. Wish Michelle or Bryan had been doing it so I had someone to chase on the runs. Was too easy to bitch out with no one near me.

Home From the Games

What an awesome time at the CrossFit Games! I’d definitely make the trip again.

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Haven’t done anything since last Wednesday morning before flying out. Slept in this morning, so made it for the 4:30 class.

Strength

Shoulder Press

  • 10×45#
  • 5×95#
  • 3×115#
  • 2×135#
  • 2×145#
  • 1×155#
  • 1×165#
  • 1×172.5#
  • F @ 177.5# (PR attempt)
  • 1×175# (PR match)

I’ll take it! Missed lower than this a couple of weeks ago or maybe it was even last week.

Accessory

5 Sets

  • 8 Ring Rows (Feet on box)
  • 5 Ring Dips (strict)
  • 20 Russian KBS (53-62-70-70-70#)

Sweating my ass off!

Conditioning

8:00 AMRAP

  • 5 Clusters (75#)
  • 8 Push-ups
  • 30 DU

Kept it light so I could keep them unbroken. Still got winded like crazy. Finished 6 rounds plus 5 more reps.