Tuesday

240507

Workout of the Day

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Guest Programmer – Rob Lawson
April 30-May 12, 2024

For time:
800-meter run
30 burpee bar muscle-ups
800-meter run

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Scaling:
Thirty bar muscle-ups for time is a well-known benchmark. Today, we’ll add a burpee to each bar muscle-up and sandwich them between 800-meter runs. This is a nice progression from the burpee pull-ups we saw on 240430.

The burpee bar muscle-up is a forgotten tool when developing bar muscle-up capacity because effectively, you’re doing 30 single bar muscle-ups. The first bar muscle-up of a set is arguably the hardest, as when you come down from the top of the first rep, you can naturally generate more swing and a bigger kip into consecutive reps. Today, the goal is to make that first bar muscle-up a little easier by practicing it 30 times.

The first 800-meter run should raise the heart rate, and the burpee will cause core fatigue and pushing redundancy with the bar muscle-up, so this workout does get grimy. The burpee quickly becomes a mental test of making sure you keep moving. Finishing with the run means we can let loose and push the pace — aim to finish the last 800 meters faster than the first.

A great goal is to complete this workout in sub-15 minutes, and those who really want to push can aim for the 10-minute mark.

Intermediate option:
For time:
600-meter run
30 burpee jumping bar muscle-ups
600-meter run
*Use a pull-up bar that is elbow height when your arms are overhead.

Beginner option:
For time:
400-meter run
20 burpee low-ring muscle-up transitions
400-meter run
*Perform a burpee, and then a single low-ring muscle-up transition.

Resources:
The Burpee
The Kipping Bar Muscle-up
Burpee Bar Muscle-ups With Heber Cannon
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James Gentile
May 25th, 2024 at 7:15 pm
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Completed 5/25 instead of that days WOD. rxd in the garage gym. Runs were 900m due to garage location.


17:04


about 3 mins per 10 BBMU.

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Derek Eason
May 22nd, 2024 at 12:11 am
Commented on: 240507

Rx 11:27



*With the 4:30pm Crew at my Affiliate!


-Those Burpee Bar Muscle-ups are an interesting challenge. Tough to push the pace!

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Manchild Manchild
May 21st, 2024 at 11:37 pm
Commented on: 240507

600m runs


24:29 (got cramp in right lower calf after first 200m, so walked most of the run; burpee MUs went well)

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Kurt Hunt
May 17th, 2024 at 10:34 pm
Commented on: 240507

16:40


Slow on the runs. Heavy squat workout before.

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Matthew Moran
May 14th, 2024 at 11:47 am
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15:53

burpee strict pullups, bar just within reach at standing

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Jesse Montagnino
May 10th, 2024 at 11:04 pm
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19:59

2k assaultbike

30 bar muscle ups

2k assaultbike

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Douglas London
May 10th, 2024 at 12:26 pm
Commented on: 240507

13:35 with 20 ring MU transitions (on 240507)

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Ralph Keeley
May 10th, 2024 at 6:30 am
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M/38/6’/174#


16:45 Rx

(4:20/13:00)


Deo gratias

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Mike Munsee
May 10th, 2024 at 3:38 am
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M 53/195/6’

Scaled the burpee bar muscle ups to burpee pull ups.

13:41

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Lee Robinson
May 9th, 2024 at 6:27 pm
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14:12 Rxd

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Lee Robinson
May 9th, 2024 at 6:27 pm
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14:12 RXD

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Christy Carr
May 9th, 2024 at 2:28 pm
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run on treadmill

30 burpee pull-ups

14:58

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Sim Jemmett
May 8th, 2024 at 7:26 pm
Commented on: 240507

15:30rx

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Shiley Johnson
May 8th, 2024 at 7:15 pm
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22:30


Modified to 30 strict pull ups and 30 chest level muscle ups from a half squat rack. Not sure if it was the best modifier, but happy to feedback.


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jean vergnaud
May 8th, 2024 at 2:52 pm
Commented on: 240507

15:50 Rx

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Mathieu Lacoste
May 8th, 2024 at 12:56 pm
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Jumping bar MU (bar to wrist)

sub 800m runs for 32x 25m shuttle runs


14:50


m/35/5’11’’/185

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Coastie Nick
May 8th, 2024 at 4:30 am
Commented on: 240507

Rx’d : 15:12

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Matt Huston
May 8th, 2024 at 2:22 am
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m 62 5'11" 180#


Tues 5.7 @ globo


1k row 3:54

~ 45 sec walk n rest to bar

30 burpee jumping bar muscleups to smith bar, 4th slot from top

~ 1 min walk rest to rower

1k row 3:56

Total: ~ 16 mins


( Been rowing lots lately. Those are the only 2 < 4:00 1K rows recently. )


5 min rest then DLs, a sort of hack on 050724 5x5 DLs:


Started with sets of 5 and went until couldn't


5’s @135 155 175 185 205 225 245#

3’s @ 255#

2 @ 265#


( Ancient PR of 335 DL, would be happy to get back to 300, so this was a good session )


Inner thigh machine x 8 - 60, 70, 80# (yea, I know, a machine...)

Slanted gob squat x 10 - 18kg kbs

Medial glutes raise - 39 reps in 30 secs

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Brock Vale
May 8th, 2024 at 2:03 am
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12:59 RX

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Dan M
May 7th, 2024 at 11:38 pm
Commented on: 240507

14:18

1000m row

30 burpee pull-ups

1000m row

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Kevin Owen
May 7th, 2024 at 11:37 pm
Commented on: 240507

Beginner: 12:40. 1k run 5:25

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Troy Bruun
May 7th, 2024 at 10:30 pm
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12:50


800m Run

30 Burpee Jumping Bar MU

800m Run


GWU: Running WU Drills/400m Jog


SPWU: Burpee WU

Ring MU Transition Drills/Jumping Bar MU Pract&WU


Cool Down: Banded Lats/Pigeon

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Lincoln Kerger
May 7th, 2024 at 10:56 pm

Awesome!

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Kyle Lynch
May 7th, 2024 at 10:25 pm
Commented on: 240507

For time:

48 Cal Bike

20 burpee low-ring muscle-up transitions

48 Cal Bike


TT: 11:54

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Ym Thia
May 7th, 2024 at 10:15 pm
Commented on: 240507

Scaled

13,40

800m run

30 burpees pull ups

800m run

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Alexander Camacho
May 7th, 2024 at 10:04 pm
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Athlete 1

63” 171lb


Scaled


For Time:


800m Run

30 Burpee Pull Up

800m Run


Score:

11:48

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Tassio De Souza
May 7th, 2024 at 9:30 pm
Commented on: 240507

15:20 - Rx'd

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Sam K
May 7th, 2024 at 9:19 pm
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Rx

Outside 77F w/100% humidity 🥵

Runs in the neighborhood

We were in line until after the 20th rep when I fell apart

18:48


Son(16)

Same runs, BBMU were a burpee on the ground step to board about 2' high to make them low-bar(about mouth height)x30

17:14

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Hunter Ferrell
May 7th, 2024 at 8:31 pm
Commented on: 240507

I have a question for y’all. I have a workout coming up on Thursday as part of the murph training plan. I’m not sure exactly what it means. Here is the workout:


AMRAP 10:

3-6-9-12 … etc.

Knees-to-armpits

1-2-3-4 … etc.

Wall walks (halfway up the wall)


does this mean that I’m doing a 10 minute AMRAP and each round I'm increasing reps on knees to armpits by 3 and the wall walks by 1?


or does this mean that I’m doing 3 reps for knees to armpits every round and 1 rep for wall walks every round?

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Mike Andridge
May 7th, 2024 at 9:17 pm

Hunter---the first one.

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Hunter Ferrell
May 8th, 2024 at 7:26 pm

Thank you @Mike Andridge

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Benjamin Installé
May 7th, 2024 at 8:14 pm
Commented on: 240507

Scaled

14,23

1,600m assaut bike

30 burpees/chin to bar

1,600m assault bike

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Kevin Hager
May 7th, 2024 at 8:13 pm
Commented on: 240507

Scale:


10 cal row

30 Burpee Pull Ups

10 cal row


7:00

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Hunter Ferrell
May 7th, 2024 at 8:09 pm
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M / 5’7 / 21 / 195


*6 WEEK MURPH TRAINING - Week 4/6 - Workout 2/5*


4 rounds for time:

Run 800 meters

– Rest 3:00 between rounds.

TIMES 

Round 1 - 4:00 (7.5mph - 2% incline) 

Round 2 - 3:50 (7.8mph - 2% incline) 

Round 3 - 3:45 (8mph - 2% incline) 

Round 4 - 3:35 (8.5mph - 2% incline)


Skill Work

3 sets:

1:00 plank hold

30 Russian twists


  • Finish each run in 3:00-4:00.
  • Score is the total time to complete all 4 rounds.
  • Adjust the distance of the run to hit the stimulus of the workout.
  • Run substitutions: 800/1,000-meter row, 1,600/2,000-meter C2 bike, 1,750/2,500-meter Echo or Assault bike.
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Jonathan Elmore
May 7th, 2024 at 7:56 pm
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15:28 jumping MU burpees

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Lincoln Kerger
May 7th, 2024 at 9:35 pm

Solid!

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Brian Louchis
May 7th, 2024 at 7:08 pm
Commented on: 240507

18:45

Subbed 1 burpee+ 2x strict pull-ups per BBMU

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William Wallis
May 7th, 2024 at 6:43 pm
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23:25 Rx.

Got my first muscle-up while warming up so decided to attempt it Rx. Only had to redo one of the 30, but they were all SLOW.

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Favo K
May 7th, 2024 at 7:25 pm

Congratulations! That's awesome!

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Jonathan Elmore
May 7th, 2024 at 7:53 pm

Crazy! Congrats!

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Rob Lawson
May 7th, 2024 at 8:21 pm

Congrats on the muscle up 🔥

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Mike Andridge
May 7th, 2024 at 9:20 pm

Congrats!

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Lincoln Kerger
May 7th, 2024 at 9:36 pm

Great stuff!

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Mario Cruz
May 7th, 2024 at 6:37 pm
Commented on: 240507

15:46 intermediate

Should had run a little faster 🫤

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Christian Weast
May 7th, 2024 at 6:13 pm
Commented on: 240507

14:50 expert mode 💪🏻

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Lincoln Kerger
May 7th, 2024 at 7:15 pm

Great job!

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Chris Jordan
May 7th, 2024 at 6:10 pm
Commented on: 240507

Did this outside at the park so had to go Intermediate on the side of the monkey bars, hogging it from the kids lol.


intermediate

14:40

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Chris Jordan
May 7th, 2024 at 6:11 pm

Also, pre-WOD did a 5k - 26:34 (PR)

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Lincoln Kerger
May 7th, 2024 at 7:15 pm

Nice work and congrats!

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Jay Rinaldi
May 7th, 2024 at 5:01 pm
Commented on: 240507

20:24

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Jim Rix
May 7th, 2024 at 4:58 pm
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1000m row (4:28, 59 cals)

4 rounds of

12 burpees

12 pull-ups

12 ring dips

500m row (2:16, 29 cals)

22:00


61/5’8”/156

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Lincoln Kerger
May 7th, 2024 at 5:40 pm

Nice subs Jim!

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Nicholas King
May 7th, 2024 at 4:53 pm
Commented on: 240507

For time:

800-meter run

30 burpee pull-ups

30 baby muscle-ups

800-meter run


16:06


Outdoors at Hästhagens IP

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Jon Wilson
May 7th, 2024 at 4:42 pm
Commented on: 240507

No run

9:54

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Lincoln Kerger
May 7th, 2024 at 4:26 pm
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Scaled with some Maxton prep added in.

For time

With 20# Plate Carrier

680m run (landmark to landmark and back)

30 Burpee + strict pull-up

680m run

12:09


Didn't have a bar low enough to do the intermediate scale and not confident my left elbow will weather bar dips as a sub today. Could have done 800m runs but I figured wearing the plate carrier would slow me and add the extra effort of the longer run anyway.

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Mike Andridge
May 7th, 2024 at 4:38 pm

Well done Lincoln. Fast.

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Jim Rix
May 7th, 2024 at 5:02 pm

Didn’t slow you too much! Nice time.

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Favo K
May 7th, 2024 at 7:27 pm

That's a great time especially with extra weight

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Annie Bridegroom
May 7th, 2024 at 3:42 pm
Commented on: 240507

18:56 Rx

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Samuel Angelo
May 7th, 2024 at 3:24 pm
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14:40 RX

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Lincoln Kerger
May 7th, 2024 at 4:28 pm

Awesome!

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Jim Rix
May 7th, 2024 at 5:02 pm

That’s moving! Nice job.

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Amedeo Alessio Cerea
May 7th, 2024 at 3:20 pm
Commented on: 240507

Rx: 18:15

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Stacey Thompkins
May 7th, 2024 at 2:32 pm
Commented on: 240507

M/49/6'2"/185#


Modified burpee MU's to 53# DxKB burpee Ben Grimm's the rest as rx'd

18:17

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Michael Arko
May 7th, 2024 at 2:32 pm
Commented on: 240507

800m run - 30 burpees chest-to-bar pull-ups - 800m run

16:00

Not fast

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Rodolfo Oliveira
May 7th, 2024 at 2:15 pm
Commented on: 240507

Time: 16’ 10” RX

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Lincoln Kerger
May 7th, 2024 at 4:28 pm

Good work!

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Charles Meyers
May 7th, 2024 at 1:21 pm
Commented on: 240507

Beginner option:

For time: 11:58

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Favo K
May 7th, 2024 at 1:08 pm
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Modified:

1000 m row-C2 damper accidentally left @ 9

60 burpee jumping C2B

1000 m row -damper @ 6

17:31

F:55-59

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Steven Thunander
May 7th, 2024 at 12:23 pm
Commented on: 240507

Globo wod: subs for runs are 1000m row or 55 calories assault or echo bike. If you are using a conventional treadmill use a slight incline. If your pullup bar isn't suitable for bar muscleups due to height, pullup bar type or something over it sub 60 burpee chest to bar pullups or 60 burpee to strict pullups.

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Brandon Maguire
May 7th, 2024 at 12:10 pm
Commented on: 240507

15:05 rx


Last 800m run was not fun

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Favo K
May 7th, 2024 at 1:19 pm

Maybe not but great time with MUs too

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Lincoln Kerger
May 7th, 2024 at 4:27 pm

Great job!

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Daniel Alletto
May 7th, 2024 at 11:24 am
Commented on: 240507

800 meter run (3:40)

30 burpee C2B

800 meter run (3:12)


13:50


37 yo male 235 lbs

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Favo K
May 7th, 2024 at 1:12 pm

Fast!

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Ki deok Park
May 7th, 2024 at 11:07 am
Commented on: 240507

800-meter run

30 burpee C2B+DIP

800-meter run

21:19

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Jaime Arevalo
May 7th, 2024 at 11:01 am
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Scaled 19:35


For time:

800-meter run

30 devil press 2x db 25 lbs

800-meter run

30 devil press 2x db 25 lbs

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Favo K
May 7th, 2024 at 1:16 pm

Good sub with the devil press; have to remember that next time

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Luis Oliveira
May 7th, 2024 at 10:42 am
Commented on: 240507

16:22 on a manual curved treadmill

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Lincoln Kerger
May 7th, 2024 at 4:27 pm

Well done!

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Marco Rossi
May 7th, 2024 at 10:31 am
Commented on: 240507

M-43/178/77kg

30 burpees bar muscle up scaled in

30 burpees ring jump muscle up

Time 30’ 24’’

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Mike Andridge
May 7th, 2024 at 10:21 am
Commented on: 240507

Sort of made up yesterday's wod

5 min emom

5 DL @ 185# trap bar handles down

into

800m run (forgot to put on the vest for this run)

then w/20# vest

30 burpee pull ups

800m run

21 min and change

m/54/175

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Lincoln Kerger
May 7th, 2024 at 4:27 pm

Nice Mike!

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Jim Rix
May 7th, 2024 at 4:59 pm

That’s a lotta work. Well done.

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Patrick A
May 7th, 2024 at 7:16 am
Commented on: 240507

scaled to 2/3rds

500m Run

20 Burpee Muscleups

500m Run

25:20

Muscleups felt harder than usual so I had to take long rests in between.

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Chris Sinagoga
May 7th, 2024 at 1:22 am
Commented on: 240507

Champions Club Scaling Notes


RANT

If What is Fitness is the most famous CFJ article of all time, then 20 years ago this month the second-place one was published: Zone Meal Plans. I was about three years into doing CrossFit when I first started the Zone Diet - before that it was a typical high schooler diet of eat anything I could get my hands on. Oddly enough, it wasn't this article, or the Zone book that got me into it: I had read both but was kinda overwhelmed at it for some dumb reason. Nope, it was this video from Pat Sherwood that did it. Boring-ass lunch meat, generic strawberries, and almond butter that could have just as easily been peanut butter. Once I got a visual of how simple this could be, and how it could be built off progressions, I was all-in. A year later Pat delivered the nutrition lecture at my Level-1 and to this day it's tied with Zoe Harcombe at the 2019 Health Conference for the best in-person lecture I've ever experienced at a CrossFit event. I am still on board with the Zone 15 years later. Not too many tweaks either and not much experimenting with other stuff. Just gradually making the food choices more quality as time goes on.


In the last month or so I've finally grown the nuts to tell some of the people I know well and look up to (basketball coaches and parents mostly) that they're fat and I can help them lose 50 pounds... this has gone really well for 5 out of the 6 people I've confronted. One of them ended up losing 7 pounds in a week, but what was interesting is he had a nutritionist question his methods (I told him not to worry about eliminating fried foods yet and just cut out bread, pasta, etc., and she told him fried foods are "bad for you.") As I mentioned above, the thing I love the most about the Zone principles is you can make it work for any kind of food choices, and that's exactly what Issue 21 is about. It simply gives you information from which you can make a choice. There is usually nothing wrong with starting off weighing and measuring whatever you normally eat and maybe make one major cut-out every year or so.


The last thing I'd like to talk about with food is what happens when it goes wrong. One of the worst feelings for me as a coach is when I prescribe something and it doesn't work - especially with food. I used to get worked up like crazy and look for every possible detail I might have missed: maybe we added one too many blocks, or maybe we miscalculated the lean body mass, but recently I've learned to really hold people accountable to consistency. From the article:


We encourage everyone to weigh and measure portions for one week because it is supremely worth the effort, not because it is fun.


If it has been a week or two of balance with no cheats and nothing has changed in terms of weight or performance, then we can start tweaking the blocks. Either way, the most important part of nutrition I've noticed from the last year and change is simply "finding a reason." It seems once people find a reason to care about their food, they'll come to the realization that it's a lifelong journey, a day-to-day, hour-by-hour thing that never stops, and at some point they're gonna find the food combinations and timing that get results.


SCALING QUESTIONS

What parts of the workout is designed to get us fitter at everything and what parts are designed to get us better at CrossFit?

Are you going to go for best overall time and take each station at 75% or do you want to emphasize the intensity at one particular part?

Scale for the time domain or scale for the movement integrity?

Scale the muscle-up for the range of motion or scale for the pulling and pushing?


NEW TO CROSSFIT SCALE

4 rounds for time of:

Run 400 meters

15 push-ups

10 pull-ups

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Lincoln Kerger
May 8th, 2024 at 1:03 am

Thanks for the rant my man, I will have to read up more on that stuff!

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