Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Bodyweight never felt so heavy

AM and PM group both do the following.

Another bodyweight WOD from Crossfit HQ, as I am unsure if you guys are able to get into the gym or not, and I want to make sure you are getting a workout. We will start hitting up workouts with skills in them next week after I get back to keep an eye on you guys. Hit this one with a high level of intensity, and it will snake bite you. Great workout. As always, form is of the utmost importance. It does no good if you can burn through this workout, and have your form on these exercises be crap. Good form, minimal rest, and push through it like a Viking through a storm. Post times and other ramblings to the comments section.

"Angie" - Crossfit HQ

100 pullups (do strict, then kipping, then jumping in that order. Dont move on to the next degredation of the exercise until you cant do anymore of the prior version)
100 pushups (all strict. Back straight, head up, chest to deck)
100 situps (get anchored for these, and these are SITUPS not CRUNCHES)
100 air squats

For time.

Do not move to another exercise until you have completed all the reps. So its 100 pullups, then 100 pushups, then 100 situps, then 100 air squats. No breaking it up into rounds or sets. Have fun, let me know what you think.

Thought for the day:

“You’ve got to drive the body to the last inch of energy then go on! You gain nothing by just going up to where your body says you’re tired. The body will build and grow only to fit the demands the mind makes upon the lazy body. If all you do is exercise until the body is tired, the body will get lazy and stop a bit shorter every time. You must go to the point of exhaustion, then go on. That way the body figures out, “We’ve got to build up more strength if that crazy mind is going to drive this hard!” If you always quit when you are merely tired, you will never gain. Once you let the body tell the mind when to quit, you are whipped for sure. You can not gain by listening to the body. We can become much stronger if we drive the body. We use about on-tenth of the available strength of our bodies and less than that of our minds.”

-General George Patton

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Killer workout. Simple but very effective. I knocked this one out in 21:56. Upper body was pretty decent but this really burnt my stomach and thighs. Great overall though.

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Lunch: Ham and cheese wrap, Apple, and powerade.
Snack:Cliff Bar
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Anonymous said...

Another great workout. Completed in 22:09. Ran an additional 3 miles prior to workout. Would like to do just a 6 mile run for tommorows workout. Let me know what you think.
Breakfast: Bowl of flaxseed cereal, cup of coffee
Lunch: Ham sandwich, 1/2 bag of chips, bottle of powerade
Dinner: Grilled chicken and buttered noodles.

D. Hill said...

This is a very simple workout. and yet my body hurts so bad right now, but in a good way. i had real trouble with the pull ups. my upper body isnt very strong right now so what i did was put a bench below me and used as little as legs as possible and basically did a self assisted pull up. looking at those "100s" was really intimidating kinda got to my head. but i ended up finishing at 31:47. thanks for the work out Gunny.

Anonymous said...

good workout but i gotta be honest with myself i kinda sandbagged it a little still a killer workout i was just lacking in the motivational department today all in all crossfit is working quite well for me looking forward to tomorrows work out

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