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WOD – Bench Press + AMRAP

Posted by bronick on June 17, 2010
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WOD:
Bench Press
5-5-5-5-5

As many rounds as possible in 10 minutes of:

  • 10 Jumping Pull Ups (wrist at the height of the bar)
  • 15 Push Ups
  • 20 Box Jumps 20″

RESULTS:
135-135-145-150-155
5 + 10 pullups & 12 pushups

I was debating on doing the back squats again instead of the bench press, but I must have done something to my back yesterday as during KB swings in the warm up it started bothering me. So I decided, better save than sorry and went with the bench press…. and was outside… Sun’s out Guns out as Jason said ;-)

As for the met-con, I actually liked this one… aside from having to do pushups after the bench press, it went pretty well. With the shorter box I am able to get into a rhythm and go pretty quickly. Same with the pullups. But those pushups…. ugh. It was like 1,2,3,4,5,..6,7,……8,……..9,….. etc……………… But I eventually made it through them.

WOD – Bench, Bear, Row

Posted by bronick on April 16, 2010
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WOD:

Bench Press: do a ton of reps (20-50) at body weight or what you can handle. Then…

  • 3 cycles of: Bear Complex @ 135# (power clean to front squat to push jerk to back squat to back jerk back down to the floor)
  • Immediately after Row 250 meters or 50 double unders if the rowers are all used up.

Repeat this for a total of 5 rounds. The bar does not drop at all during the bear complex.

RESULTS:
155×7, 135×11, 135×9
16:33 @ 95#

Went too heavy on the benchpress and as for the metcon…. This was not a good workout for me. That front rack position again.  During the 2nd round, I started the complex 8 times. I would fail on the front squat or the jerk. After that I gave up on trying to get the bar to rest on my chest and just held it in front of me. As much as that sucks and is bad form… I could complete the work. Needless to say, my wrists where pretty dead after this one.

WOD Linda

Posted by bronick on August 12, 2009
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Went in for the noon class today because I’ll be working late…

WOD
Linda: 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps of…
Deadlift (1 1/2 body weight)
Bench Press (body weight)
Clean (3/4 body weight)

Results
Did as team workout (we had 3 members: 2 male, 1 female):
155 reps Deadlift (225#)
155 reps Bench Press (115#/95#)
155 reps Squat Clean (105#/95#)
… 39:30

Rather than just follow a pattern like 10-9-8-etc, we just did what we could… I felt like we did way way to many reps and Jason seemed to agree that we seem to take way longer than it should have. But we finished! As a team we finished up the beach press rather easily, but took forever on the squat cleans.

My squat clean is getting much better, but still hurts my wrist a bit depending on how I catch the bar. Bench and Dead where both pretty good. All and all, I’m pretty sure I’ll be nice & sore tomorrow ;-)