Month: March 2020

 

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SKILL

Tabata L-Seat

The Tabata interval is 8 rounds of 20 seconds on and 10 seconds off for a total of 4 minutes. In L-Seat we will be sitting on the floor with legs straight and elevated.  The most difficult standard is to hold the legs in the air for the full 20 seconds with your hands on the ground beyond your knees. Putting your hands farther in front of your body will make the movement more difficult.  Most athletes will find this standard very challenging. Scale by bringing your hands back closer to your body.

WOD

5 rounds of

30 seconds of thrusters 95/65 lb
60 seconds rest
30 seconds of snatches 95/65 lb
60 seconds rest

Workout notes

Today’s workout has a little different flavor than what we are used to with a longer rest period than what we most frequently use.  You will have five opportunities to work on both snatches and thrusters. In this skill work we are looking to work on intensity so the barbell should be lighter side.  Assuming you have mastered the mechanics of both movements your goal should be to complete one large set of unbroken repetitions in each movement across all five rounds.  Use a weight you can move quickly and efficiently for both. Ideally you choose a weight you can perform a full thirty seconds of reps in one set when you are fresh.  That means close to  fifteen reps in both movements for the average individual.

SKILL

EMOM for 10 Minutes

1 Hang squat snatch from below the knees + 1 Hang squat snatch from above the knees

Today’s skill work is positional snatch work. That means we’ll focus primarily on technique with a light to moderate load.  If you tackle this correctly you should never miss because the load is too heavy.  We’ll start by deadlifting the bar with a snatch grip and lowering the bar to below the knee caps. From there drive the bar upwards and drop under the bar recieving it in your deepest squat. Stand up and perform another lift after lowering the bar to above the knee caps.  This is meant to be a complex so settle in with your hook grip and hang on to the bar for both reps. If the squat snatch isn’t happening today practice by catching in the power position but work on getting as deep into a squat as you are able.

WOD

AMRAP in 10 Minutes
20 Dumbbell sit-ups (hold at chest) 50/35 lb
10 Left arm overhead walking lunge steps 50/35 lb
10 Right arm overhead walking lunge steps 50/35 lb

WORKOUT NOTES

We’re pairing a weighted sit-up with the difficult one arm overhead walking lunge. The one arm overhead walking lunge will require you to carry a heavy load overhead with one arm while keeping your elbow straight and stacked above your shoulder.  Focus on keeping your overhead arm and torso perpendicular to the floor and move through the full range of motion with your legs.  If shoulder mobility is an issue consider using a kettlebell held overhead or a dumbbell held at the chest. For the sit-ups our benchmark is going to be holding the dumbbell at your chest which is much harder than a standard sit-up!  You are adding load and removing momentum created by throwing your arms forward.

Skill

Power clean
1-1-1-1-1

We’re tackling a simple weightlifting movement in today’s skill work.  We’ll lift without a clock to allow you plenty of time to rest and recover should you decide to work up to a strong effort power clean.  You can use this opportunity to add some weight to what you normally lift so long as your mechanics are consistent.  Start by pulling the bar off of the floor with the hips low and your chest up.  After the bar passes your knees, aggressively open the hips to create vertical drive on the bar.  Quickly drop into a partial squat while you drive your elbows up to receive the bar at the shoulders prior to standing up.   Try to hit each position in the lift rather than yanking the bar off of the floor just to hit a heavy number.  If you are new to the power clean keep the load in the light to moderate range rather than increasing to max effort.

WOD

10 Rounds of 30 seconds at each station.

Burpees
Rest
Kettlebell swings 32/24 kg
Rest

Workout notes

Today’s workout pairs two classic movements in a long duration interval format.  If you want a challenge for this workout look no further.  Before the call of 3,2,1… go, take a quick assessment of your fitness level and estimate what numbers you could hold for each of the thirty second rounds.  Fast burpees will net you 10+ reps per round and most of us will top out at 12-13 reps of kettlebell swings.  The challenge is to pick a difficult yet sustainable number of reps and hold that for all ten rounds. In the end we’ll score this by the total number of reps you complete after all ten rounds are finished.

Skill

EMOM for 10 Minutes
Straight set of Chest-to-bar or chin over bar pull-ups

For this skill work you will be working on maintaining a set of kipping pull-ups for 10 rounds(:30 seconds max). If you are new to the skill you should be working the cadence and timing of your swing so you can link repetitions together.  That usually means working on small sets of 2-5 for each round and performing chin over bar pull-ups rather than the more difficult chest to bar pull-ups. Leave yourself plenty of rest so you can lower the intensity and keep this as skill work.   If you are still working on building the strength to support kipping swings and pull-ups work for about 30 seconds performing jumping pull-ups with a slow lower down. If you are able to string together 10 or so c-kip pull-ups talk to a coach about learning the butterfly pull-up!

WOD

AMRAP in 15 Minutes
10 Strict Press 95/65 lb
20 Front Squat 95/65 lb
10 Strict press 95/65 lb
200M Run

WORKOUT NOTES

Today’s workout has three different movements combined into a format that should give you an opportunity to build capacity in several different domains.  Each round has a total of 20 strict presses and 20 front squats.  Your capacity with the strict press should determine your load for the workout.  Without the assistance of the core/legs to drive the bar upward the difficulty of pressing overhead increases by a great deal.  We’ll break up the 20 presses into two sets of 10 with 20 front squats in between. The benchmark load is light for both movements so you should be able to complete each movement in 1-2 sets with your chosen weight.  Break up the rounds as needed but ideally you should be able to perform 10 presses and 20 squats unbroken when you are fresh with your chosen weight.  Use the 200 meter run as a bit of recovery but push hard to get back in the gym as quick as possible once you have recovered.

Skill

Two rounds of Tabata alternating between movements

Arch Hold
Hollow Hold

The Tabata interval is 8 rounds of 20 seconds on and 10 seconds off for a total of 4 minutes.  Today we’re performing  two rounds of tabata so our skill work will be eight minutes long.   Alternating movements every round will give you eight opportunities at each movement.  Do your best to keep the intensity high during each interval and attempt your best hollow or arch position in each round.  Focus on maintaining a rigid core and focus on creating flexion or extension with your torso and not just bending at the hips or raising your legs up.

WOD

AMRAP in 20 Minutes

50 Double unders
35 Push-ups
20 Weighted step ups 50/35 lb 24/20″

Workout notes

Today’s workout is a fairly simple longer duration triplet.  Making appropriate scaling choices will be important to keep you moving through this AMRAP. Starting with double unders the first scaling option would be to decrease the set size to something that is challenging but also repeatable under fatigue. A set of 50 unbroken will take around 30 seconds so you will want to choose a number that will have you working here for around a minute.  If you don’t have double unders yet you can complete 50 singles with a double under attempt every 10 reps. Think about giving the drag ropes a try if you are a double under master! Push-ups can be scaled as usual to your knees or on a box.  If you’ve been working from your knees for awhile now and are knocking out large sets make sure to give box push-ups a try or do some reps from your toes and some from your knees to up the difficulty. For the weighted step ups you will choose one dumbbell to hold however you choose.