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WOD – Push press and muscle-ups

Posted by bronick on September 16, 2010
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WOD:
Heavy Push Press 2-2-2-2-2

15-10-5:

  • Shoulder to overhead @ 135
  • Muscle Up’s

RESULTS:
95-115-135-145-155(f)
14:37 @ 115# and subs 2 pullup + 2 ring dips

I’m getting better at the front squat position and I can actually get it to rest on my shoulders. However, still not very comfortable with it and getting back into the full grip above my head and back down to the front rack. So for the metcon I did do the death and I also had to sub the muscle with 2 pullups and 2 ring dips (w/ band) for each 1 muscle up. Let me just say the first round of 15, 30, 30… was brutal.

WOD – Shoulder Press, Push Press, and Box Jumps

Posted by bronick on September 9, 2010
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WOD:
Shoulder Press
3-3-3-3-3

5 Rounds for time of:

  • 10 Push Press (from the floor at 135#’s)
  • 20 Box Jumps

RESULTS:
85-105-125-135(f)-130(f)
8:55 @ 95#, 24″

Did much better today compared to yesterday. While I did opt to scale the weight for the rounds, I was pretty happy that I went with the tall box (24″) and was able to keep up the pace (with Andy, even though he was doing Rx weight). In the past I couldn’t get into a rhythm on the tall box. I do have to say that the 2nd round of push press was A LOT harder after those box jumps.

AMRAP WOD + OLY

Posted by bronick on August 18, 2010
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WOD:
Weighted Ring Dips (Use dumbbells or vest)

Max Rounds in 10 minutes of:

  • Run 200 meters
  • 10 Push Press @ 135#’s
  • 10 Deadlift’s @ 135#’s

Immediately after, 3 (up & back) prowler pushes.

RESULTS:

5 @ 25# db pp, 135# dead

90# prowler, 235# sled, 190# sled

So I hurt my wrist doing the cleans on Monday, but decided to still give the gym a go. Didn’t do much on the ring dips because of this, and also used 25# dumbbells for the push press. The ass-kicker was crazy though… I did one prowler push and decided that bothered my wrist to much, so I grabbed the sled and ran. It was HELLA hard and then I realized why… they weren’t just 45# plates on there… no, as you can see above, one of them (in the middle) was a 100# plate!! So my frist go was 235# before somebody else took a 45 since they wanted to try, making my second one only 190# (aka about my body weight). Crazy.

OLY CLASS:

Full (squat) Clean and Jerk – go for max load….  135# tech

So I debated on whether to do the class or not due to my wrist, however, Billy said give it a go and see what I can do. So I did… and man I am I glad I did. Ok so I didn’t go for max load, but rather worked on technique after Billy pull me aside and gave me a few pointers. In fact, I think I actually got a proper front rack position for the first time!

He pointed out that I was pulling my shoulders back, which means there is no place for the bar to rest and it ends up on check rather than the shoulders. He said to thing about reaching forward with my elbows rather than trying to pull hands back to my shoulders. This made a big difference. Granted I still have some flexibility issues to work on, I felt much better with the positioning for the jerk. He also had me work on readjusting my grip after the clean to get my hands back on the bar by using a little pop.

I only went up to 135# because I didn’t want to tweak my wrist more, but feel like I really got a lot of this session. I gotta start making it to the Monday sessions as well.

WOD – The Jem (aka 2,4, 6, 8…)

Posted by bronick on June 15, 2010
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WOD:

For Time:

  • 2 50 meter tire flip (up and back is one)
  • 4 Prowler Pushes (up and back is one) @ 95#’s
  • 6 Stair assents (up and down is one)
  • 8 50 meter sprints (up and back is one)
  • 10 Shoulder Press @ 95#’s
  • 20 Push Press @ 95#’s
  • 30 Push Jerk’s @ 95#’s
  • 40 KB Swings 1.5 pood
  • 50 Burpees

Done is any order, broken up any way you want… except you MUST finish with the 50 burpees.

RESULTS:
35:53

Jason called this one a “jem”, and it sure was. He did modified the workout to only have 1 prowler push instead of the original 4, as I guess it was a bit much for folks. I started with the KB swings and the only thing I broke up was the push jerks. Here is my workout:

  • 40 KB Swings 1.5 pood
  • 10 Shoulder Press @ 95#’s
  • 8 50 meter sprints (up is one)
  • 6 Stair assents (up and down is one)
  • 20 Push Press @ 95#’s
  • 10 Push Jerk’s @ 95#’s
  • 1 Prowler Pushes @ 95#’s
  • 20 Push Jerk’s @ 95#’s
  • 2 50 meter tire flip
  • 50 Burpees

The push jerk took quite a while as I was only doing sets of 5 at a time and the other one that hit me hard was the sprints. These were actual sprints and not jogs.  Oh, and the burpees at the end sucked!! It definitely was quite the workout and a long one compared to the past few 10min type workouts we had recently… but it was good workout.

WOD – Back Squats + Metcon

Posted by bronick on June 1, 2010
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New gym location…. its HUGE!

WOD:
Back Squat 12-10-8
These should be at a moderately heavy to heavy load, you should have to work your ass off to get all of the reps.

5 Rounds for Time of:

  • 10 Push Press @ 135#’s
  • 7 Burpees
  • 3 Box Jumps @ 30″ (please use the Rogue bumpers to put on top, the red one’s slip)

RESULTS:

Back squats –  185, 205, 215
Metcon – 10:55 @ 95#

Was pretty happy with the back squats for not doing them in a while. I tried to work the technique Karo had recommended. As for the metcon, as usual… my wrist wasn’t happy :-( Burpees after the push press was not fun. Eventually I started to get the bar to rest on my shoulders/chest which helped. Man I really need to get back in shape… I missed the sub-ten mark.

WOD – 25 of this and that and everything…

Posted by bronick on May 11, 2010
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WOD:
Hold the plank position for max time

2 rounds for time of:

  • 25 Box jump, 24 inch box
  • 25 Kettlebell swings, 1 pood
  • 25 steps Walking Lunge
  • 25 Knees to elbows
  • 25 Hip Extensions
  • 25 Push press, 45 pounds

However every 2 minutes you must complete 5 burpees until you have accomplished the 2 rounds.

Results:
Plank – 1:44
Rounds – 21:06

Definitely could tell that I haven’t worked out in about 2 weeks and have been eating like crap… as I really almost meet pukie during the workout. It was a rough workout, but I’m glad I made it in today. Now I need to get my eating back on track, however, that might wait until next week once I get back form visiting some family this weekend.

Oh, and I suck at plank. As a comparison, the longest was 6min I think.

WOD – Front Squats + metcon

Posted by bronick on March 24, 2010
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WOD:
Front Squat 1-1-1-1-1

Max rounds in 5 minutes of:

  • Push Press 5 Reps @ 95#
  • Back Squat 5 reps @ 95#

Rest 1 minute and repeat for a total of 3 rounds

RESULTS:
Front Squats: 135×5, 185, 225, 275 (PR)
Metcon: 6, 5+2, 5+3

I really need to work on my wrist issues. Its a catch 22 for the push press (and jerk and thruster)… I can’t get the bar to rest on my shoulders due to my wrists/shoulder flexibility, and not resting on my shoulders puts a lot of extra stress on my wrists. I’d say I probably spent around a minute doing the squats and the rest of the time doing the push press… dropping the bar ever 2-3 reps :-(

But that aside I was rather happy with the squats today. The last time I did heavy front squats ban in Jan (post), I PRed at 255… today I skipped over that and went straight to 275 keeping up with Karo!! WOOT!!! I stopped there, but Karo went on to hit 300.

WOD – 100×2

Posted by bronick on March 9, 2010
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WOD:

Perform 100 Push Press @ 45#
Here’s the catch: Every minute on the minute perform 4 Knees to elbows

Immediately after perform 100 Jumping Air Squats
Here’s the catch: Every minute on the minute perform 4 Mountain Climber steps

Results:
Did some thruster technique work.

Metcon – 9:48

Surprisingly not to bad.

WOD – Weekly Challenge

Posted by bronick on February 17, 2010
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WOD – part 1


Behind the back push press 3-3-3…caution: please be very very careful on the way back down on your neck, absorb the load! More on this tomorrow
Push Press 3-3-3


WOD – part 2

Recover, then perform our Workout of the Week!!!!
500 meter row followed by
5 rounds for time of:
    • 10 Wall Ball Shots 20# 14#
    • 10 Power Snatches @ 95#/ 65#
    Then finish with a 500 meter row!
    Results
    Front push press – 115, 125, 145
    back push press – 105, 115, 125
    Metcon (Challenge of the week) – 20:12
    Was hoping to finish under 20, but just missed it. Did pretty good on the snatch, but it was the wallballs where I felt it. And that last row finished me off… and thus it was a good workout. Definitly a lot better than yesterday.