Tuesday
Feb162010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 For Time:
95lbs for Power Cleans and Push Press
10 Ring Dips
2 Power Clean and Push Press
9 Ring Dips
4 Power Clean and Push Press
8 Ring Dips
6 Power Clean and Push Press
7 Ring Dips
8 Power Clean and Push Press
6 Ring Dips
10 Power Clean and Push Press
5 Ring Dips
12 Power Clean and Push Press
4 Ring Dips
14 Power Clean and Push Press
3 Ring Dips
16 Power Clean and Push Press
2 Ring Dips
18 Power Clean and Push Press
1 Ring Dip
20 Power Clean and Push Press
Reader Comments (5)
OhhOoooohhhhh Sad I missed Monday WOD...however TUES look AWESOME!!!!! Why do i have to have days off and miss the FUN!?!
Brutal. Sweated it out with Krista this morning. Once again, she showed her natural ability in weight lifting. Nice work, Krista! We scaled the power cleans to hanging power cleans taking us just over 20 minutes. A few rounds in the movements clicked for me and a rhythm set in, hopefully, welding in some good neurolgical pathways...Form, form, form. It was psychologically bruising for the dips to be going down, getting easier, to then turn around and get slammed by the increasing PC/PP. Highly recommended.
By John Gilson, of AgainFaster.com
The contention, like most that endure, made perfect sense. Get too strong, and your endurance will suffer. Too much endurance, and your strength will drop. You can’t have everything.
Fortunately, perfect sense and reality do not always occupy the same space, their neat relationship thrown askew by the inexorable march of athletic evolution.
The fact that we missed: previous feats of athleticism will always be surpassed. Sprinters will sprint faster, lifters will lift more. Quarterbacks will throw more accurately, batters will hit more home runs. CrossFitters will get stronger and faster.
Perfect sense and reality do not always occupy the same space, their neat relationship thrown askew by the inexorable march of athletic evolution.
Once, we said that developing the capacity of a novice across a variety of physical disciplines would create the fittest men and women on the planet. Unavoidably, we’re being forced to remove the word “novice” from this definition; it no longer applies. Our fittest are not novices, but legitimate contenders in nearly every arena.
For the first time, we’re seeing the strong, the fast, the enduring, occupying the same space. The guy with the 5-minute mile is deadlifting 500 pounds. He’s putting out half a horsepower for ten straight minutes. He’s jumping four feet in the air. He’s running eighty miles. He is world class; his accomplishments are not a compromise.
Simultaneously, we are seeing adaption to imposed demand that does not follow traditional pathways. Now, the strongest are not the largest, the fastest not the most waiflike. Strength is achieved through increased neurological efficiency rather than mass. Speed is achieved by getting stronger, not running more. Athletes are borne from variety rather than specificity, exhibiting unheard of strength-to-bodyweight ratios.
We are throwing training on its ear, and this is just the beginning. This discipline is in its infancy, still far from widespread, still the province of few. There may come a day when our definition of fitness is not a compromise, when we no longer sacrifice mastery in one domain for competency in many, instead choosing mastery in all.
That day has started to dawn.
Perfect sense and reality do not always occupy the same space. I love that. Reality, to a large degree, seems only limited to our ability to let go of our own self proclaimed limitations, physical, behavioral, or mental, and acknowledge that there is always more unknown than there is known. There is always room to surprise ourselves. Over and over and over, again.
Brutal and challenging with the increase/decrease between movements. Definitely gotta find a rhythm with the mind and body. I just have to thank my dad for bike riding across town, over to my house, early this morning, to watch my kids, so I could go to Crossfit. What a great dad. (my hubby is still out of town).
I hope to recruit him sometime in the future.....