Thursday, September 9, 2010

Timed Sets -

Killer Day =)



Buy in:
  • jump rope - white manila
  • 2:30 straight - to Aerosmith - walk this way

WOD:
  • Push Press (16kg)
  • 5 rounds
  • 30/30 for 2:00 w/ 1:00 off
  • 8 RPM
** last 2 rounds 4th rep on left side - hard!
** thankful for the 1:00 rest!

  • Swing (16kg/14kg)
  • 4 rounds
  • 30/30 for 3:00 w/ :30 off
  • 2 rounds with the 16kg
  • 2 rounds with the 14kg
 ** swings were good/challenging

  • Squat (14kg)
  • NONSTOP 5:00
  • all racked squats 
  • 1 minute r: 8 RPM
  • 1 minute l:  7 RPM
  • 1 minute r:  6 RPM
  • 1 minute l:  6 RPM
  • :30r/:30l:    5 RPM
** happy just to get through this one!

cash out:
  • lay on floor in a puddle of sweat for 2 min
  • drink lots of water!!

NOTES:
**HARD day, but Great!!
** could have stopped after the swings and it still would have been a great workout! the squats were icing on the cake!
**learning/still working on slowing it down and working the time. today was a great lesson in that =)
** looking forward to doing this again next week!

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Variety Day

Buy in:
  • 1 pullup- 5 pushups
  • 2 pullups - 10 pushups
  • 3 pullups - 15 pushups
  • 2 pullups -10 pushups
  • 1 pullup - 5 pushups

WOD:
  • 3X5 Deadlift (115#)

cash out:
  • 3X5l/5r suitcase deadlift (24kg)
  • 2X10 kte

NOTES:
** happy with my deadlift form.
** wanted to increase weight each set for the deadlift, but only had 4 hours sleep last night, so kept it at sets across.- better safe than sorry

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Timed Sets

Buy in:
  • TGU
  • 12kg
  • 3l then 3r

WOD:
  • Clean (14kg)
  • 5:00 on, 1:00 off
  • 4:00 on, 1:00 off
** took it nice and slow- good amount of time- rounds, didn't go to failure


  • 1/2 Snatch (14kg)
  • 4 rounds
  • :30/:30 for 3:00, :30 off
  • 8-10rpm
** looked good, slow and steady, was able to concentrate on form


  • Bottoms Up Clean
  • 2 rounds
  • :30/:30 for 3:00, :30 off
  • round 1: 12kg 10rpm
  • round 2:  8kg  12rpm
** had to drop to the 8kg- left side with the 12kg, at the top of the clean, last 2 reps- tipping over.- grip was going  by now on the left.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Timed Sets

Buy in:
  • 2 easy rounds of Cindy:
  • 5 pullups
  • 10 pushups
  • 15 squats

WOD:
  • Clean and Squat (14kg)
  • 2 rounds
  • 30/30 for 3:00 w/ :30 off
  • 8 rpm
** really tough exercise! 3 minutes on is hard!

  • Press/Push Press (12kg)
  • NONSTOP 5:00, rest 1:00
  • 10 RPM 
** all presses NO push presses
** this was NOT easy, definitely challenging, but I felt I could have gone 1-2 more minutes....
** not sure why I stopped..?? maybe mentally I was done......

  • Swing
  • 4 rounds
  • :30/:30 for 3:00 w/ :30 off
  • round 1: 16kg
  • round 2: 14kg
  • rounds 3 & 4: 12kg
  • 36 RPM
* wanted to go back to the 14kg for round 4, but couldn't do it! grip issues, and I read my printed out notes-" don't force it with a heavy bell". - good advise! 
 

Friday, September 3, 2010

Timed Sets

1/2 Snatch day! =)

Buy in:
  • jump rope - white manila
  • 3 rounds
  • 1 min. on/ 30 seconds off

WOD:
  • 1/2 Snatch (12kg)
  • total 9 rounds:
  • first 2 rounds:
  • :30/:30 for 3 minutes, 1 minute rest
  • next 7 rounds:
  • :30/:30 for 3 minutes, :30 seconds rest


NOTES:
** for the first 5 rounds held steady at 6-7 snatches each 30 seconds

** round 6-9 purposely slowed down to 6 each 30 seconds
** form looked SO purty!!
** NO HAND ISSUES!! =)
** when slowing down the exercise, working the time not numbers, I feel my form is MUCH better.
** total time 1/2 snatches: 32 minutes
** total 1/2 snatches: 344

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Timed Sets

Buy in:
  • TGU
  • 12kg
  • 3l/3r

WOD:
  • Push Press (16kg)
  • was supposed to do:
    30/30 for 1 min, 1 min rest- 5 rounds
  • DID:
  • 30/30 for 2 min. 1 min. rest
  • 3 rounds
  • ** didn't mean to, did it wrong- not happy
  • 5l/5r consistently 
 
  •  Swings (16kg)
  • 4 rounds
  • 30/30 for 2 min., 30 seconds rest
  • 18/18 pace  

  • Squats - racked (14kg)
  • 30/30 for 1 min, 1 min. rest
  • all rounds: 5l/5r, except one round 5r/4l


NOTES:
* tough workout - squats were the hardest
* Really bummed about doing the push presses wrong!!
 

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Variety Day

Buy in:
  • jumprope - white manila
  • round 1: 1 min jumprope/ 30 seconds rest
  • rounds 2&3: 1:30 min.jumprope/ 30 seconds rest

WOD:
  • 3X5 Deadlift - 115#
  • 3-4 min. rest between sets

cash out:
  • 10 minutes
  • 5 rounds
  • jumprope in 30/30 intervals for 10 minutes, performing the pullups or pushups in the rest intervals:
  • 30 seconds jump rope
  • a set of pullups (2)
  • 30 seconds jump rope
  • a set of  pushups (5)

* the cash out was a variation of THIS WORKOUT from the DFSB