Wednesday 8.3.11
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Teams of 2
One person runs through the entire workout, then tags their partner who does the entire workout. We will put individual and team times up.
21-15-9
Deadlifts 275/185
Box Jump 30/24
Post total time.
Lindsay Elliot at the flag football game
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Beach wod this Sunday! we will be meeting at the gym at 8:00am and leaving by 8:30 to go to the dunes! Details on the beach wod to come…
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During one of my posts last week, we had a question from Robby, Carl and I pulled the question off and answered it, we thought we would share it with you guys.
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Fantastic post B (as usual). Robb Wolf and Opt harp on this a lot. I think if there is a weakness to Crossfit (especially the current main site workouts) it’s a lack of focusing on training. This past year I basically did the work out thing and I was able to make a tremendous amount of progress. However, I think it’s now time for me to move to training to get better at Olympic lifting, gymnastics, strength, and endurance (not all at the same time of course). But there’s a dilemma. The problem with training is that I’d have to give up the group CFSB Wods for a long time (2 to 3 months) to really get better at any one of these skills (like Molly did when she was doing the Olympic lifts or like Abell does for strength.) For instance if I want to seriously get better at Olympic lifting I can’t just come in and do 3 or 4 CFSB WODs a week. While the the CFSB WODs are great for working out, I don’t think you and Carl intend them to be for training which is perfectly fine because they’re meant to accommodate people with lots of different goals. However, I love coming to the group WODs and hanging out with everyone.
So if I come to the group WODS I can work out but not train, but if I train seriously I’ll have to work out by myself sometime when there’s not a group WOD going on. Can you think of any way out of this dilemma? For instance if I wanted to really focus on getting better at Olympic lifting for two to three months would there be a way to 1) come to the group workouts 2) seriously focus on olympic lifting?
In other news, I’m doing my first WOD in a month tomorrow at Crossfit Werk (the only Crossfit in Berlin). Melanie and I are both going. That Reebok Crossfit video that Tara posted on Facebook contains 8 or 9 shots of Crossfit Werk. It’s the building towards the beginning of the video with red bricks and a ladder in front.
I’ve basically been without Internet for the past week, but it finally came back on in time to follow Nick at the Games.
I miss everyone a bunch and I can’t wait to get back.
July 29, 2011 at 1:36 pm
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Response from Carl,
Since it seems you just want to get more techincal at these skills and not become solely an olympic lifter or an endurance athlete my solution would be to break the year of into quarters and tackle a discipline 3 months at a time. One quarter could be spent getting techinical at olympic lifts by doing burgner warm up, skill transfer movements, training the different pulls of the movement you are weak at. The next quarter could be spent tackling a handful of gymnastic skills. And quarters 3 and 4 could be whatever disciplinse you feel you need work on i.e endurance technique (rowing technique, pose method, double unders), kettlebell , etc. And like I said since it seems you are just wanting to become more techincal I don’t necessarily see the need to switch to catalyst for a few months, Crossfit Football for a few months, then Endurance. Although they would be good resources to get inspiration for technique work.
If able you would just come in 30-45 minutes prior to class and do your drills and skills and then join the class for your workout. Use your skill time to get more technical and then use the class workouts to build your work capacity. This way you can get both worlds, technical work and group workout setting.
Every quarter I would have a few days where you do some of the previous quarters skills just so you try to avoid getting rusty on them.
I do feel for the strength part that is something that can’t just be tackled quarters at a time. At least from strength development side not necessarily the technical side. I would try to find some program you would be able to follow whether it is Starting Strength, Wendler, Crossfit Football SWODs (which the amatuer program is SS).
I know this may seem like a lot, but as in Brandon’s post we have now crossed over into the training part and are no longer on the just working out side.
Hope this helps,
Carl
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Nice email exchange. Good comments. For Beyond the whiteboard purposes, and so I can get more sweet offers on discount prescription drugs:
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August 3, 2011 at 9:39 am
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August 3, 2011 at 3:07 pm