Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Getting tired of that 500m row at the beginning of the training session?  How about working on your jump rope technique instead?  Double-unders are always preferred and there's not a one of us that couldn't use some more experience on singles, doubles, even triples or some of the other crazy variations that can be accomplished with a simple jump rope.  Check out some of the videos on youtube or other online video sites to get some ideas on where you can get better with the rope.  If you are not a good "double-underer", once you finally string 20, 30, 40 or more double-unders together, you'll come to know the benefit of high intensity rope jumping.

Here's the holiday schedule:
  • Wednesday:  6:00am / 8:30am / 6:00pm
  • Thursday:  9:30am / 6:00pm
  • Friday:  6:00am / 9:30am / 5:15pm
  • Saturday:  No training
Monday:  regular schedule resumes.

Times:
6:00am - Coach:  Paul
8:30am - Coach:  Paul
6:00pm - Coach:  Tracy

Prep:
Elevate your heart rate and body temperature!
  • Row, ride, run or rope.
  • Keep moving until the coach begins the session.
  • DS/BM
  • Wrists
  • P/S/P/C
  • Achilles/Leg swing
  • Shoulders (PVC or bands)
  • GM (stretch)
Tabata timing:
  1. Mtn. hopper
  2. Push-up
  3. Front squat
  4. KBS
  5. Seated twist
  6. SDHP
  7. KB clean (left)
  8. KB clean (right)
Skill review / enhancement / instruction:
  • Clean and Jerk
Test:
  • Row 2000m for time
Pull-up strength:
  • Riding pull-ups, 10 min. (ride as fast as you can without using the arms)
Strength:
This is ripped off from the folks over at Bridger CrossFit (who ripped it off from the CF Open Sectionals last year).  Loads of fun.  :)

AMRepsAP 5 minutes:

  • Clean (full squat required)
  • Jerk (overhead anyhow)
    • 165#/110#

One rep for the clean, and rep for the overhead, but you must complete a overhead before moving on to your next clean.  If you fail the overhead, you may power clean the bar to get it back to the rack position, and then overhead from there.  You don’t get any points for a power clean.

Advice from Bridger:

"Scale this workout so that you are unlikely to fail a rep…but it is still heavy.  You’re not quite sure if you can do all your reps without failing, but you’re hoping you can.  If you can barely clean 165# (men) and 110# (women) then you should most likely scale.  Another guide would be to go for between 60-75% of your 1RM.  I know that’s a wide range, but pick a weight depending on how your form tends to hold up against the clock.

Stamina:
  • See above.
Stretch / Mobility
 

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