Saturday, 21 May 2011

Thursday 19/5/11

morning wod..
pre wod: strength.
7x1 front squat
40/60/70/80/90/100'fail'/95kg pr

Wod:
3 rounds of
9 clean and press 60kg
15 pullups
21 box jumps 24"
time=11:31


Arvo wod..
Amrap 15 of
5 muscle ups
5 oh squat 50kg
300m row
total = 3 rounds (9points)


evening wod..
gymnastics

Today was full on. But i enjoyed it all and will have more days like this in the future. For the pre wod in the morning we used 10kg kb's on either end of the barbell for the first 5 sets, then replaced them with bumpers for the last 2. This use of kb's suspended on bands made the front squat much more challenging and fun. Even the slightest movement would send the barbell shifting violently from side to side. Great to mix up a pretty standard exercise like that. I set a new pr on the front squat '95kg' after missing 100 (too keen!).
The Morning wod was very good aswell, a mixture of strength, gymnastics and monostructural, the cornerstones of crossfit.

The afternoon workout consisted of 3 exercises that i have not had much exposure to in a wod before..saying that, i really liked this workout and gave me more confidence in my muscle up ability. I set a pr of 5 consecutive m-ups in the first set. the oh squats felt good and i took the rowing a little easy.

Challenge Stadium holds a gymnastics class every Tuesday and Thursday night, which unfortunately sells out rather quick! The class was heaps of fun and dabbled in various skills including the beam (sucked so bad at balancing on these!) some handstand and mat gymnastics like capoeira and even got to pull off some backflips into the foam pit! Going to keep doing these classes and im confident that it will greatly improve skills in the various attributes of fitness: strength, balance, coordination, muscular endurance. With a bit of practice maybe even be able to pull off some of these bar skillz!

Thursday, 19 May 2011

wod 18/5/11

Pre-WOD:
400m overhead carry with keg (roughly 30kg)

WOD:
AMRAP 16
200m med ball carry run 9kg
10 pull-ups
5 med ball squat cleans 9kg
total = 7/4

Post-WOD:
Tabata med ball crossovers 9kg =147

tuesday 17/5/11

Morning wod:
5 sets of 100m sprints
90 sec rest inbetween
(was going for 10 sets but jack suffered a 2nd degree strain in his hamstring 'ouch' during the fifth set.)

then

Netball semifinals!

Monday, 16 May 2011

wod 16/5/11

Pre-WOD:
1 effort max pull-ups
'28' (cant quite link butterfly yet)

WOD:
9 rounds for time of:
5 thrusters 45kg
10 ring push-ups
15 double-unders
time=16:53

Post-WOD:
Tabata side plank

Sunday, 15 May 2011

Outdoor Training Facility

This sunday Jack and myself made the short trip to Range Of Motion's 'OTF' in Brigadoon. Needless to say it was a fun filled morning complete with Amraps galore of serious grunt work.Who would have thought lifting rocks could be so fun! We were exposed to various testing stimuli including tyre flips, keg ground to over head, sledge hammer swings and a makeshift yoke that swung like crazy with the slightest tilt. We finished the epic event with a barbecue feast and headed home absolutely buggered. A big thankyou to Dan Williams and all the ROM crew for organising the event and welcoming us to your place, looking forward to training with you guys again.
If you would like some exposure to this kind of training and wish to participate in some unique and fun workouts i recommend heading to the OTF or ROM's new site at Lord's, Subiaco.
http://www.rangeofmotion.net.au/
http://www.rangeofmotion.net.au/exercise/otf


WOD..
6 x six minute AMRAPs. 12 minutes rest after each. Every exercise of the couplet you complete will give you one point (eg: 3 tyre flips = 1 point). Your score for the complete WOD is your total points after all six minute AMRAPS.
total points=24

3 x tyre flips
50m sandbag carry

 
10m lateral wall traverse
6 x atlas stone shoulder

6 x keg ground to overhead
50m hill wheelbarrow push

4 x keg load
50m yoke walk

4 x burpee vault sandbag load
5m sledge hammer strike for distance

2 x tree branch climb overs
8 x rock deadlift


I was given the great honour of being awarded the 'Awesomness Trophy' for being totally awesome! and possibly for sucking so bad at the sandbag to shoulder..


'ISABEL'

Probably My favorite wod,
ive been wanting to do Isabel for a while now (that sounds naughty).
had to scale it to 50kg instead of the rx 60kg. considering my pr is 60kg for a snatch im pretty happy with my time, will be repeating this workout in the near future with heavier weight and hopefully will be able to see a marked improvement.

30 reps for time of:
Snatch 50kg (rx 60kg)
time=6:50


Saturday, 14 May 2011

Thursday 12/5/11

Pre-WOD:
6 x 3 squat cleans
20/40/50/60/70/70kg

WOD:
8 rounds for time -
4 squat cleans
6 pull-ups
8 pistols
time=13:31

Post-WOD:
500m row for time=1:40.6