22 June, 2009

Monday - Day 0173

"Fight Gone Bad" (CrossFit)

In this workout you will move from each of 5 stations
after 60 seconds. Count reps at each station. Repeat
for 3 rounds. Add total number of reps for all 3 rounds
for your final score. 60 second rest between rounds.

The stations are:

Wallball shots
SDHPs
Box Jumps
Push-presses
Burpees

(75#, 50#, 30#, or 20# as necessary.)

Compare to:
Day 0117














Seven Habits of Highly Effective Athletes
Weaknesses

“AGE WRINKLES THE BODY. QUITTING WRINKLES THE SOUL."


- DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

4 comments:

Andrea said...

Oooooooooooh. I am going to have to do some major begging in order to attend tonight's class.

I don't want to do "Fight Gone Bad" and because I don't want to do it... I need to do it. Does that make sense? LOL

Andrea said...

Okay now that I read the articles I can comment on that.

As far as Weaknesses, Conditioning is DEFINITELY my weakness. Especially after doing yesterday's burpees. Damn burpees had me sweating from every single pour in my body. It truly did take every single breath I had in order to finish the workout in under 20 minutes. Mind you ... I have a feeling that was probably a 12 minute workout.

Habits of athletes. I can't keep but wondering why bother having a "cheat day"? I look forward to my "cheat days" just to have a that something or somethings I have been denying myself all week. The original purpose of the cheat day was so that I can maintain this proper way of eating and lose weight effectively while training.

To some extent the article contradicts what you have taught us as far as "cheat days" are concerned. Can that "one" day truly affect my performance? I can understand if I "overindulge" (which I tend to do while drinking) but to think that a small piece of carrot cake or a small plate of (insert starch here) will hinder progress seems a bit much.

Please don't bite my head off... just posting for discussion.

Will-I-Am said...

Yep... Fight Gone Bad is calling you. Lol.

Ok, gotcha... Well, once you clearly define your primary weakness you have to attack it. Burpees suck. Point, blank, period. But how do you make them less challenging? Do more burpees! Do them every day! Do them so much that you trick yourself into believing you enjoy them!

And two things about the second article. One, I didn't write it! And two, it doesn't contradict what I've told you...simply based on the fact that none of you are really training for major competition. The article stated that "A little piece of chocolate cake when you are preparing for competition can mean a couple of hundredths of a second added to your 100 metre time or 20 grams of bodyweight too high to make your wrestling weight class." Again, none of you are competitive sprinters or worrying about making a weight class for a wrestling match...so it is unnecessary to go to that extreme for those who are just looking to improve their fitness on a broad and general scale.

Andrea said...

Hey!! Maybe I want to compete!!!! LOL!