Jump rope for two minutes rest for one minute.
Can you continue this for thirty minutes?
This is just twenty minutes of cardiovascular exercise.
Go for it!! If you have considerable jump rope experience,
"double under" for two minutes rest for one.
Anyone who can keep this up for thirty minutes is an extraordinary athlete.
After a warm-up make your first effort a heroic effort on the bike
and record the distance. Take any rest needed and give the best
dumbbell bench-press you can at fifteen reps or less. Again, rest
as long as you want then repeat both efforts. Use the same
weight for each bench press set.
If the first cycling and bench-press effort are true max efforts, then
the second and third efforts are not repeatable no matter how long the rest.
To test the quality of the first efforts and demonstrate the point of the
workout take a LONG break after each couplet.
Keep the rest between cycle effort and bench-press constant for each couplet.
How far can you continue this sequence within one hour?
If you can't do the push-ups, do them from the knees.
If you can't do the pull-ups, do them with half your body weight as assistance.
Rankings are separate for those doing either assisted pull-ups or push-ups from the knees.
Rope climb and do push-ups non-stop for 30 minutes.
The objective here is to climb and push until you can do neither.
Thoroughly exhaust both functions within 30 minutes.
Report the details of the experience both today and the effects tomorrow.
Count the number of trips up the rope (the CrossFit rope is a 13' "shorty")
and the number of push-ups within the half hour. Remember the CrossFit
push-up is a very rigid body, deep, controlled movement.
No cheating on the push-up!!
Find a swimming hole/pool and pound out 15 fast laps!!
Dumbbell deadlift 10 reps
Hang from pull-up bar and slowly curl body until toes touch the bar 15 reps
Dumbell deadlift 8 reps
Hang from pull-up bar and slowly curl body until toes touch the bar 15 reps
Dumbell deadlift 6 reps
Hang from pull-up bar and slowly curl body until toes touch the bar 15 reps
Dumbell deadlift 4 reps
Hang from pull-up bar and slowly curl body until toes touch the bar 15 reps
Dumbell deadlift 2 reps
Hang from pull-up bar and slowly curl body until toes touch the bar 15 reps
Cycle two minutes at high resistance
Cycle two minutes at high RPM
Cycle two minutes at high resistance
Notes:
Increase the deadlift weight each set.
Maintain perfect form or you'll cripple yourself.
Cycle effort is all out; this is not a cruise.
On the bar-toe touch, move in slow motion, i.e, no swing at all.
Today's workout is a simple yet elegant whole body circuit.
Thirty reps of 20 lb. Medicine ball squats.
30 reps assisted pull-ups with 1/2 your body weight as assistance.
Repeat at 25, 20, 15, and 10 reps for a total of five rotations.
Record and report your total time for all five rotations.
FASTEST TIME TAKES IT!
Take a prolonged stretching warm-up and cool-down.
1) "Warm Up": Bike 20 minutes at a warm-up pace.
We are doing three sets of back squats at twenty-one reps each.
Choose a weight that you feel you can handle comfortably for
twenty-one reps of regular back squats. These specialized movements
are tough! Make damned sure you warm-up thoroughly with "air squats"
and stretching first.
2) "Power squat": Lower and rise as quickly as you can while maintaining
PERFECT form. Repeat 20 times.
3) "Bottom to bottom": Lower to full squat position (thighs parallel to floor),
hold for a full ten seconds, rise and immediately upon full extension of hip
and leg return to bottom and hold for ten seconds. Repeat 20 times.
4) "Super slow": Take twenty seconds to reach bottom and twenty seconds
to reach top again. Repeat 20 times.
5) Finally, how long can you maintain a 2:00 min. 500-meter pace average?
Set the rower for "Avg 500 meter pace" and stop and record the time at the
instant you fall under the 2:00 minute average (2:00 for men and 2:10 for women).
Email your squat and row time to [email protected].
On Monday we worked gymnastics/calisthenic movements, on Tuesday we worked
metabolic conditioning with a short, middle, and long distance effort, Wednesday we
worked through some of the classics of weightlifting and weight training. Today we
are taking a day of active rest. If you’ve performed to expectation you’ll welcome the
break. If you know our methods, you'll make an intelligent inference about tomorrow (hint).
The idea here is to engage in some sport or activity at intensity above recreational while
being below our regular training intensity. Don't count your primary sport! This is a
cross-training opportunity. Step outside your normal bounds. Below are some suggestions.
Bicycle Hill Climb
Hoops! (Basketball)
Swimming
Mountain Hike
Rollerblade
Surf Paddle
Handball or racquetball
Tennis