12:14 first round:4:30 The question always merits asking: How can light weight be so debilitating? Is it physical or mental? It's 95#! Where did I fail? What did I do right and what did I do wrong? The unknowns to which I allude are why it's so important to do wods such as these, i.e. for self-exploration, to find and exploit obstacles or to be exploited, to learn how to cope with constraints and unknown mental and physical reactions to stress. Furthermore, it is even more important to do these types of wods when less than 100%. Unless you are training for an athletic event and have complete control over the environment life will invariably happen when least expecting it or when at less than 100%. If we can train to be ready for it, we'll be better off when we're not ready. Forget about time and performance and semi finals and such. Go into the red and find the value of just being there. Feel what it feels like to fail and do what it takes to get up and keep going. Again, fitness is just a byproduct of the true nature of this endeavor, that is, self-exploration. This should be the reason we do this type of training.
I finally found a weight in which the squat cleans didnt soak up all of my momentum. An old JTAC buddy of mine has just been stationed at the base here with me so i finally have partner in the gym that wants to do more than bicep curls, bench press, and "supplementation"......like the majority of my contracting buddies. This workout was Awesome! we were smoked!. he is new to crossfit so i showed him the importance of dropping weight, etc. when you are smoked. Which is something that took me a while to get used to once i made the switch.
what is wrong with me lately!?!?! i couldnt figure out how my time was so good in comparison and just realized that we didnt do the "push jerks" in the WOD. i need to stop copying these workouts down at 5:45 am. this was still a great workout only performing 8 of the 9 exercises though.
Your omission of that movement was probably a premonition to what I've been considering but haven't fully realized until yesterday. I will no longer employ wods that require multiple jerks. This is a one rep max movement and doing high rep jerks in oxidative wods does nothing for your one rep max, especially if you aren't training your 1rm. The philosophy about it being a default to the push press is true in a one rep max effort but after going from one to the other and then utilizing this movement on rep 20 or 30 is pointless. The associated muscles are already fatigued. I just don't think the bad habits employed (the fast herky jerky bobbing up and down thing) are worth the benefits. It doesn't even feel right to do so many jerks. The movement doesn't flow as nicely as the pushpress. Good job omitting them. I should've too.
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The question always merits asking: How can light weight be so debilitating? Is it physical or mental? It's 95#! Where did I fail? What did I do right and what did I do wrong? The unknowns to which I allude are why it's so important to do wods such as these, i.e. for self-exploration, to find and exploit obstacles or to be exploited, to learn how to cope with constraints and unknown mental and physical reactions to stress. Furthermore, it is even more important to do these types of wods when less than 100%. Unless you are training for an athletic event and have complete control over the environment life will invariably happen when least expecting it or when at less than 100%. If we can train to be ready for it, we'll be better off when we're not ready. Forget about time and performance and semi finals and such. Go into the red and find the value of just being there. Feel what it feels like to fail and do what it takes to get up and keep going. Again, fitness is just a byproduct of the true nature of this endeavor, that is, self-exploration. This should be the reason we do this type of training.
I finally found a weight in which the squat cleans didnt soak up all of my momentum. An old JTAC buddy of mine has just been stationed at the base here with me so i finally have partner in the gym that wants to do more than bicep curls, bench press, and "supplementation"......like the majority of my contracting buddies. This workout was Awesome! we were smoked!. he is new to crossfit so i showed him the importance of dropping weight, etc. when you are smoked. Which is something that took me a while to get used to once i made the switch.
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Bill: 1st round: 3:08, total time: 7:42
Wes: 1st rnd: 7:40, total: 18:43
we warmed down with some 100m sprints.
thanks for a great smoke fest mike
-bill
what is wrong with me lately!?!?! i couldnt figure out how my time was so good in comparison and just realized that we didnt do the "push jerks" in the WOD. i need to stop copying these workouts down at 5:45 am. this was still a great workout only performing 8 of the 9 exercises though.
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Your omission of that movement was probably a premonition to what I've been considering but haven't fully realized until yesterday. I will no longer employ wods that require multiple jerks. This is a one rep max movement and doing high rep jerks in oxidative wods does nothing for your one rep max, especially if you aren't training your 1rm. The philosophy about it being a default to the push press is true in a one rep max effort but after going from one to the other and then utilizing this movement on rep 20 or 30 is pointless. The associated muscles are already fatigued. I just don't think the bad habits employed (the fast herky jerky bobbing up and down thing) are worth the benefits. It doesn't even feel right to do so many jerks. The movement doesn't flow as nicely as the pushpress. Good job omitting them. I should've too.
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