Saturday, April 2, 2016

Saturday April 2, 2016


Pre-Conditioning
EMOM x 5
Seconds 0-50 - Slow Row
Seconds 50-60 - Fast Row
Chad Vaughn Olympic Warm-Up - 2 Rounds
Round One - Empty Barbell or PVC
Round Two - Empty Barbell or 65/45
Complex is as follows:
5 Good Mornings
5 Back Squats
5 Elbow Rotations*
5 Front Rack Strict Presses
5 Overhead Squats
5 Stiff-Legged Deadlifts
5 Front Squats

Mobility
T-Spine Mash
Spend 2:00 on a foam roller working overhead range of motion. Pin the foam roller to the ground with your upper back, and work large sweeping motions with a locked out arm. Work the limits - overhead and down by the waist.
Banded Shoulder Distraction
Spend 1:00 on each shoulder. Loosen up the lats here for a better overhead position.

2016 Masters Qualifiers + 2017 Open Athletes

Skills
1. Clean Skill
On the Minute x 10 - 2 Tall Hang Power Cleans (20-30% of 1RM Clean)    65#
This is a drill used to dial in positioning and speed on the barbell.
Stand tall with the bar and find a small dip, where the bar is just below the hip. Keep your torso vertical, with your shoulders stacked right on top of the hips.
With a fast and aggressive extension of the knees, pull yourself beneath the bar (as opposed to pulling the bar up). Catch just above parallel. Footwork is key on the catch - keep your feet from jumping out wider than your squat stance, and get your hips back and down.
Weight is very light here, with speed and positioning being the focus point.

2. Push Jerk Skill
OTM x Minutes 1-5 - 3 Tall Jerks (20-30% of 1RM Push Jerk)  45#
OTM x Minutes 6-10 - 2 Pausing Push Jerks (30-40% of 1RM Push Jerk)    65#
These two drills will improve our positioning overhead.
On the Tall Power Jerks - Knees locked out, and get as high as you can on your toes. With the bar starting in the front rack position, quickly and aggressively drive yourself beneath the bar into the power catch, or your normal push jerk catch, position. Fast elbow lockout is a must here - be aggressive with your punch out. This builds speed beneath the bar on the push jerk. 
On the Pausing Push Jerks, pause for a full second on both the dip, and the catch, of the push jerk. This gets us comfortable hitting these key positions in the movement.
1. Clean and Jerk
6 Sets, On the 90 second:
Power Clean + Power Clean + Push Jerk
Set 1 - 65%   165
Set 2 - 70%    180
Set 3 - 75%    195
Set 4 - 70%    180
Set 5 - 75%    195
Set 6 - 80%    205

Here is our chance to confirm the movement patterns we trained in our skill portion today. Key focus points:
1. Speed of your third pull on the cleans (speed beneath the bar), into a strong power catch position with the elbows fast and high.
2. Aggressive punch out on the jerk.
2. Conditioning
If you don't have a team available to you, do this workout solo:
75 Calorie Bike, 60 Calorie Row, 45 Box Jumps, 30 CJ, 5 Rope Climbs
16:23      clean and jerks were brutal  took a long time. Might have pushed toonhardon the row
3. Midline
2 "Supersets" of:
20 GHD Sit-Ups
30 Hip Extensions
20 Abmat Sit-Ups
30 Banded Good Mornings
Not for time, but move from movement to movement with a purpose.
​Rest 2:00 between sets.

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Thursday March 31, 2016

A. Snatch Balance
     - Worked up to heavy single - 195#. Felt good
     - EMOM for 10:00 @ 165#

B. 3 Sec. Pause Overhead Squat, 5 sets x 2 reps
     - 175# all sets

C. Power Snatch + Hang Squat Snatch
     - 10 sets. Worked up to 135#

D. 2 sets of
     20 Pull-ups
     30 Push-Ups
     40 Sit-ups
     50 Squats

Pull-ups unbroken first round then 10-10 second round. Butterfly pull-up technique was weak today

Wednesday March 30, 2016

5 Rounds
400M Run
20 DB Snatch @ 45#
15 Burpees

Monday, March 28, 2016

Monday March 28, 2016

10 Rounds of

15 Cal Assault Bike
15 Box Jumps
15 70# KB Swing - Russian

24 minutes. Did this as a recovery piece and stayed at aerobic pace

Sunday, March 27, 2016

Sunday March 27, 2016

Crossfit Open Workout 16.5

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

Thrusters @ 95#
Bar Facing Burpees

Time: 12:11. Big improvement from 2014 (15:13). Pacing made a huge difference. But round of 12 was as miserable as I remembered!! I feel like that round is really the heart of the workout. Another big factor is what pace you're able to maintain on the burpees. The thrusters are actually the "easy" part of the WOD if you know how to break them up!!

Splits

Rd. 1: 9-7-5
2: 8-6-4
3: 8-7
4: 6-6
5: 9
6:6
7:3

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Saturday March 26, 2016

5 Rounds for time

400M Run
15 Bar facing Burpees
15 Sit ups
15 70# KB Swings

About 16 mins or so

Friday March 25, 2016

Did 30 min. AMRAP at work just to get a sweat on....

30:00

30 Cal Row
15 Box Jumps
30 Double Unders
15 Push-Ups
400M Run
15 KB Swings