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Workin’ the Clean & Jerk

Needed to work on the C&J but especially the split jerk since I haven’t done them in a while and there is a ladder in the competition next weekend. In at 10am.

Olympic Lifting

5:00 Jerk Footwork Drill

First time doing this and I think it really helped me get a feel for it.

I also did some jerk drills with an empty bar holding it at eye level, up on the toes, then jerking from there.

Jerk Balance

  • 3 @ 95#
  • 3 @ 95#
  • 3 @ 115#
  • 3 @ 115#
  • 3 @ 135#

Felt pretty fast and solid getting under the bar.

Clean Deadlifts

Just a few to warm up.

  • 2 @ 135#
  • 2 @ 155#
  • 2 @ 175#

Clean & Jerk

  • 2 @ 175#
  • 4 sets of 2 @ 185#
  • 1 @ 205#
  • 1 @ 215#
  • 1 @ 225#
  • 1 @ 230# (PR)
  • 1 @ 235# (PR)
  • 1 @ 245# (PR)

I took my time on the doubles, probably resting 2-3 minutes between each set. Then I was going to go EMOM for the singles, planning for 5 lifts. But after hitting 215# I figured it was a good idea to slow down a bit and test my limit. The lifts actually got easier the higher I went. After setting 2 easy PRs I said what the hell and jumped 10# for a final attempt. The clean was so much easier than the 250# I cleaned a couple of weeks ago for a PR.

WOD

2 Rounds

  • 50 DU
  • 300m Run

Wanted a little short one because we’d already been there over an hour and a half. Went 3-47 on DU in the first round, but missed a bunch in the second round and then had Michelle out in front of me, so I sprinted trying to catch up. Finished in 3:37.

Epic Session

My hamstrings are pretty sore from doing the RDLs yesterday. Need to do those more often and pay more attention to the hamstrings. Went it an 10:30 this morning and we had a big group. Best session we’ve ever had.

Warm-up

  • 300m Run
  • 2:00 Jump Rope
  • Stretching

XWOD / OLY

7:00 EMOM

  • 3 Explosive Squat Snatches (95#)

Felt great and really tried to drop under the bar fast.

Strength

OHS

  • 3 @ 135#
  • 3 @ 145#
  • 3 @ 155#
  • 3 @ 165#
  • 3 @ 180# (PR)
  • 3 @ 190# (PR)

Booyah! I just had set a 3RM with 175# about a week and half ago.

Close Grip Bench Press

  • 5 @ 135#
  • 3 @ 165#
  • 3 @ 175#
  • 3 @ 195#
  • 3 @ 205#
  • 3 @ 215#

Still fighting that right arm flaring out, but when I keep it in, it’s money. Matches my 3RM for regular grip bench press, so maybe I’m back on the upward swing.

WOD

Wanted to try the 100s workout from Regionals, but not quite for that long, so we dropped the reps to 50s. Still brutal.

  • 50 Wall Balls (20# MB, 10′ target)
  • 50 C2B Pull-ups
  • 50 Pistols
  • 50 Alternating One-Arm DB Snatches (60# DB)

Did the wall balls as 25-25 without a problem and then did 5 C2B at a time through 20, with one 4 and the rest 3s. Tried to get 6-10 pistols at a time and started doing the foot hold to keep myself from tapping the foot on the ground. Worked well for the first time trying that. Then survived through the snatches. They used 70# at Regionals. My time was 16:28 and I feel pretty good about it, but Froning did 100 reps of each with a heavier dumbbell in just over 19 minutes. Think about how sick that it!

Off to get a massage!

Partner It Up Times 3

Feeling a little sore from yesterday, mostly in my upper chest and shoulder area. Abs are pretty sore from the 150 sit-ups too. Went it at 11am today.

Warm-up

2 Rounds

  • 25 Air Squats
  • 25 HR Push-ups
  • 25 Russian KBS (49# KB)
  • 25 Lunges
  • 25 Star Jumps
  • 25 Zombie Kicks
  • 25 Jumping Jacks
  • 25 High Knees
  • 25 Butt Kicks
  • 25 Mountain Climbers

Nothing like 500 reps to get you warmed up! Finished in under 13:00

WOD

It was a 3 part partner WOD, with each part having a 6:00 time cap. Each partner does the pacing element once and then you switch. Rest the remainder of the six minutes. I worked with Kevin.

  • Pace: 500m Row
  • MAX Wall Balls (20# MB, 10′ target

Stupid screen on the rower turned off right before we started, so I did a bunch of extra distance. We got 105 reps, with Kevin getting 54 and me 51. I did mine in sets of 25 and 26. Kevin whooped my ass on the rower as usual. I think I kept around a 2:00/500m pace.

  • Pace: 600m Run
  • MAX Clean & Jerks (115#)

I got 28 in around 2:50 and then Kevin got 18 more for a total of 46.

  • Pace: 0.75 mile Air Dyne
  • MAX Sit-ups

I started us off with 68 sit-ups for a total of 130. Not sure I needed a bunch more sit-ups after 150 yesterday and already having a sore core.

Good workout!

Memorial Day “Murph” 2013

Best day of the year to be at a CrossFit box. At Survival Fitness we beer and grill all day after doing the WOD. Great times with great friends.

“Murph”

  • 1 Mile Run
  • 100 Pull-ups
  • 200 Push-ups
  • 300 Air Squats
  • 1 Mile Run

* Break up the 100-200-300 however you like. Most everyone does 20 “Cindy” rounds, which are 5-10-15.

Not everyone is pictured since this was taken a couple of hours after the WOD.
Not everyone is pictured since this was taken a couple of hours after the WOD.

Last year I finished in 44:26, so I was looking to demolish that time this year. My goal was to get the runs done in a combined 16 minutes and do each “Cindy” round in under a minute, to get me a time of about 35:00.

Went out faster than planned in the first mile, running with Michelle and Kevin, taking just over 7 minutes. I did my first 10 rounds of Cindy in sub-1:00 pace, but the push-ups and squats started to slow me down in the 2nd half. Headed out the door for the run at around 31:00. About a 1/4 mile in, my back started to cramp up, which has never happened before. At that point it turned into a battle to hit sub 40. Thankfully my back eased up in the 2nd half of the mile. Then Michelle came out and sprinted the end of the run in with me for a nice push.

Finished in 39:41, a PR by over four and a half minutes! I’ll take it. My goal was pretty ambitious. Now it’s time for beer and brats!

Max Test Week

Since the 6 week squat program ended last week, it’s a good week to do some max effort lifts. In at 10am with a bigger group of folks than we’ve had lately.

Warm-up

  • 400m Run
  • PVC Pass-thrus
  • Hip flexor stretch

Strength

Back Squats

  • 5 @ 45#
  • 5 @ 135#
  • 3 @ 225#
  • 2 @ 275#
  • 1 @ 300#
  • 1 @ 320# (PR)
  • 1 @ 315# (we messed up, thinking it was 325#)
  • 1 @ 325# (PR)

That’s a 10# PR. I’ll take it. My ability to do more volume has really increased with the program too.

Weighted Pull-ups

5×3 E2M – I used 25#, 30#, 35#, 44#, and 49#.

OLY

I did 6 sets of 2 snatch deadlifts, using 185# with wrist straps. I really wanted to work on rising with my hips and back at the same time instead of my hips first like I tend to do in my Olympic lifts.

WOD

3 Rounds (Road Circuit, so keep a low heart rate)

  • 1m Russian KBS (35# KB)
  • 1m Jump Rope
  • 1m Box Jumps, Step down (14″)
  • 1m Air Dyne
  • 1m Hang Clean & Press (25# DBs)
  • 1m Ball Slams (15#)
  • 1m Rest

Was supposed to be 5 rounds, but I was there long enough and suggested we cut it short.

Track WOD

Tonight, we had 18 of us show up to do a workout at a local high school track.

Warm-up

  • 100m Run
  • 100m Run Backwards
  • 100m Run
  • 100m Run Backwards
  • High Knees, Butt Kicks, Power Skip, Samson Stretches, Carioca

WOD

Teams of 3, so that you rest while the other 2 people run.

  • 1x 400m
  • 2x 200m
  • 3x 100m
  • 2x 50m

Only 3/4 of a mile, but all fast paced. Good stuff.

WOD in the Park

Survival Fitness was hosting a USAW cert this weekend so I volunteered to run some out-of-the-box WODs. Saturday was an a local park with some stuff a grabbed from the gym.

Warm-up

Jog around a football field, so probably about 300-400m.

WOD

We teamed up in 3s.
20:00

  • 30m/30m Bear crawl then lunge back (Pace setter)
  • Sandbag Get-ups
  • KB Figure 8s

The combination of bear crawls and lunges was as brutal as I expected.

Finisher

Kept the same teams and did a relay.

  • Each person did a sandbag run, sprint back, KB run, sprint back, going one-at-a-time
  • All sprint over to the sandbag and KB
  • Standing back-to-back-to-back, pass sandbag around the circle 25 times in each direction.
  • All sprint back to the start
  • Each person did a sandbag run, sprint back, KB run, sprint back, going one-at-a-time

Lots of fun!

From the Blocks

Went in at 10:30 to do some Olympic lifting work.

Warm-up

  • 300m Run
  • PVC Pass-thrus
  • 10/10 Leg Swings (F-B, S-S)

OLY

Kevin had some of his jerk blocks in, so I used them to do hang snatches and cleans. It was great work and made some progress in reaching extension, especially in the snatch.

Snatch

I did a double at 95#, 2 singles at 95#, 2 singles at 105#, 6 singles at 115#, and 3 singles at 125#. Triple extension was feeling the best it ever has. Here’s a video of one of the 125# lifts. I get too high off the ground, but everything else is a big improvement.

Clean

I did 2 doubles at 135#, 3 doubles at 155#, and then 6 singles at 175#. Didn’t feel as good as the snatches, that’s for sure. I have a bigger tendency to cave my knees in on the clean and wasn’t getting the greatest hip extension. Here’s a lift at 175#.

Really took my time on the lifts and probably spent more than an hour working them. Need to do this more often.

Headed back around 6:30pm to open gym for some extra work.

Strength

Seated Good Mornings

  • 5 @ 95#
  • 5 @ 115#
  • 5 @ 135#
  • 5 @ 155#

Not so sure these were a good idea today, but oh well.

WOD

7:00 AMRAP

  • 10 Push-ups
  • 10 Pistols
  • 10 T2B

Quick little metcon to throw in a few things we haven’t worked in over a week. The pistols were brutal, especially without wearing my OLY shoes. My quads were on fire after round 1. I finished 5 complete rounds and then got 6 push-ups.

“Nancy Grace”

Went golfing and walked 18 holes yesterday for the first time since getting back from Arizona. Was nice to have a day away from the gym. Went in at 10am this morning and trained with Kevin, Monica, and Kinde.

Warm-up

  • 500m Row
  • PVC Pass-thrus
  • 2 Rounds of “Cindy” with strict pull-ups

Strength

The end of squat week 5, one more to go. Front squats today. Warmed up with 5 @ 95# and 3 @ 135#.

  • 5 @ 185#
  • 5 @ 200#
  • 4 @ 215#
  • 4 @ 230
  • 3 @ 240
  • 5 @ 200

Felt really solid today.

Midline

3 Rounds

  • 10 Evil Wheels
  • 20s Ring L-sit (knees up)
  • 30 Russian Twists (35# KB)

Brutal!

OLY

6:00 EMOM

  • 1 Hang Snatch (95#)
  • 2 Snatch Balance (95#)

I missed on the first snatch, but felt pretty good with my technique after that.

WOD

“Nancy Grace”
5 Rounds

  • 15 OHS (95#)
  • 6 C&J (95#)
  • 400m Run

One benchmark girl isn’t enough, right? Pretty rough on the wrists after the previous work. Did 10-5 each round on OHS and had to fight for it. All C&J were unbroken. Running got progressively slower. Finished in 20:42.

On Short Rest

In at 10am on short rest after doing 8pm last night. Trained with Kevin and Monica.

Warm-up

  • 500m Row
  • PVC Pass-thrus

This has become my go-to warm-up when doing our own programming. Need to start switching it up some.

Strength

10:00 EMOM

  • Evens: 5 Weighted Dips
  • Odds: 5 Weighted Pull-ups

I went 20-25-25-30-35 on dips and 20-20-20-20-25 on pull-ups. The pull-ups were a real struggle today.

10:00 E2M

  • 4 Clean High Pulls
  • 6 Pendlay Rows

I stuck with 135# throughout and tried to work on some technique during the high pulls.

OLY

10:00 EMOM

  • High Hang Squat Clean
  • Hang Squat Clean
  • Squat Clean
  • Split Jerk

This was pretty brutal doing the 4 reps every minute. Not much rest time. I used 135# for the first set, then 145# for 4 sets, 155# for 3 sets, and finished with 2 sets at 165#.

WOD

5 Rounds

  • 8 HSPU
  • 12 American KBS (53#)
  • 400m Run

Went unbroken on everything, but my running kind of sucked after the 2nd round. Finished in 12:01.

Planning to take a rest day tomorrow and go golfing as long as the weather is nice.