Scaling:
This couplet is meant to be heavy and high skill. Reduce the load and modify the muscle-up to keep this one under 10 minutes. Elite athletes will be closer to 5 minutes or less.
3 rounds for time of:
Row 500 meters
15 ring dips
5 bar muscle-ups
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Goal: Upper-body endurance. Aim to finish in 10-14 minutes.
If you are efficient at a high volume of unbroken ring dips and bar muscle-ups, this workout is going to be about the row. Other athletes will be limited by upper-body endurance. The row and the ring dips will compound, making the bar muscle-ups more difficult, so technique is key to staying efficient.
Aim for a hard effort on the row, finishing between 1:45 and 2:05. Aim for a consistent rep scheme on the ring dips whether that's unbroken, 10 and 5, or 3 sets of 5, and an unbroken effort on the bar muscle-ups.
Scaling:
Intermediate option:
3 rounds for time of:
Row 500 meters
10 band-assisted strict ring dips
5 jumping bar muscle-ups
Beginner athletes may struggle on the dips. Scale the difficulty so you can complete sets of 5 at the start. Jumping pull-ups should be difficult enough that you feel yourself pull your chin over the bar rather than just jumping.
Resources:
Rowing Technique
The Ring Dip
The Bar Muscle-up
Jumping Bar Muscle-Up Progression
Jumping Bar Muscle-Ups for Intermediate Athletes
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Scaling:
If muscle-ups and double-unders are not yet developed, intensity is less important than facilitating practice and technical refinement. If you are proficient with muscle-ups and double-unders, attempt to finish quickly with minimal breaks.
Intermediate Option:
For time:
5 muscle-ups with minimal kip
50 double-unders
4 muscle-ups with minimal kip
40 double-unders
3 muscle-ups with minimal kip
30 double-unders
2 muscle-ups with minimal kip
20 double-unders
1 muscle-ups with minimal kip
10 double-unders
Beginner Option:
For time:
10 muscle-ups on low rings
50 single-unders
8 muscle-ups on low rings
40 single-unders
6 muscle-ups on low rings
30 single-unders
4 muscle-ups on low rings
20 single-unders
2 muscle-ups on low rings
10 single-unders
Scaling:
Modify the muscle-ups to pull and push exercises that challenge you without causing you to hit failure. Newer athletes should reduce the overall volume of this workout.
Guest Programmer – Rob Lawson
April 30-May 12, 2024
For time:
800-meter run
30 burpee bar muscle-ups
800-meter run
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Scaling:
Thirty bar muscle-ups for time is a well-known benchmark. Today, we’ll add a burpee to each bar muscle-up and sandwich them between 800-meter runs. This is a nice progression from the burpee pull-ups we saw on 240430.
The burpee bar muscle-up is a forgotten tool when developing bar muscle-up capacity because effectively, you’re doing 30 single bar muscle-ups. The first bar muscle-up of a set is arguably the hardest, as when you come down from the top of the first rep, you can naturally generate more swing and a bigger kip into consecutive reps. Today, the goal is to make that first bar muscle-up a little easier by practicing it 30 times.
The first 800-meter run should raise the heart rate, and the burpee will cause core fatigue and pushing redundancy with the bar muscle-up, so this workout does get grimy. The burpee quickly becomes a mental test of making sure you keep moving. Finishing with the run means we can let loose and push the pace — aim to finish the last 800 meters faster than the first.
A great goal is to complete this workout in sub-15 minutes, and those who really want to push can aim for the 10-minute mark.
Intermediate option:
For time:
600-meter run
30 burpee jumping bar muscle-ups
600-meter run
*Use a pull-up bar that is elbow height when your arms are overhead.
Beginner option:
For time:
400-meter run
20 burpee low-ring muscle-up transitions
400-meter run
*Perform a burpee, and then a single low-ring muscle-up transition.
Resources:
The Burpee
The Kipping Bar Muscle-up
Burpee Bar Muscle-ups With Heber Cannon
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