Showing posts with label muscle up. Show all posts
Showing posts with label muscle up. Show all posts

Thursday, 27 January 2011

Death by

L.o.C.
take something overhead.

Death by pullup or pressup or even muscle up.

Thursday, 14 October 2010

Main pagin'

50 wall ball
10 muscle ups
40 wall ball
8 muscle ups
30 wall ball
6 muscle ups
20 wall ball
4 muscle ups
10 wall ball
2 muscle

some scaling was necessary.
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Monday, 20 September 2010

The new Girl

Botw
"Amanda"
9,7,5
Muscle up
Snatch.

It must be said, this new Girl benchmark was heavily scaled, movements reduced, scaled but also rep range increased. Those without a 60 kg/40kg snatch or full muscle up had rep ranges increased to 12/9/6.

Amanda was the first workout of this years Crossfit Games, and was a fitting tribute to an athlete appreciated and remembered by many in our community.

http://amandaredmiller.blogspot.com/
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Sunday, 5 September 2010

Back, front or box.

Squat-back front or box.
3,3,3,3,3.

3 muscle up
10 box jump
15 kettlebell swing
x3.

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Thursday, 5 August 2010

Train your weakness.

Skillset day.

We have movements we like and movements that are "less popular", movements that are technical, require greater endeavour, greater flexibility and often just practice.

Wods included:
Full cleans and ring dips 21/15/ 9 aka "Elizabeth"

5 cleans, 5 pullups, run 100 amrap 12.
3 hspu, 5 cleans run 100 amrap 12.
5 muscle ups, 5 push jerk amrap 12.
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010

7,15,30

7 muscle ups
15 kettlebell swings
30 box jumps
x3
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Monday, 19 April 2010

Trainer wod

50 double unders
7 muscle ups
10 hang power cleans
x3
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Saturday, 2 January 2010

Muscle up club

Karl and Anton both joined the muscle up club between Christmas and New Year-Much festive awesomeness! Thats four more people in the muscle up club in three weeks-fantastic work!
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Thursday, 17 December 2009

2,4,8 for 20

"Nate"
2 muscle ups
4 handstand pressups
8 kettlebell swings
amrap 20 mins.

There hasn't been a lot of chat on these blogs as of late, and as a result the workouts may have looked less scalable as a result, it's true that some of our guys have now got regular muscle ups and I'm very proud of the fitness that they've acheived using CrossFit. However a lot of the work we do is still very scaled as people have different abilities and so we tailor the workout to the individual.
Some of the guys today did their muscle ups with knees on the floor using the legs to assist the movement, some jumping to the top of the rings and then doing a negative dip. The handstand pressups were scaled to use abmats to reduce the depth, or alternately using boxes to take some of the weight away, likewise the swing weight was varied to the individual.
All of these scalings are valid, and are part of the pathway of developing a better fitness.
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Thursday, 9 July 2009

Nate

Possibly one of the barriers that CrossFit faces is that people look at the workouts and cannot begin to fathom actually how to do the workouts. We look here at "Nate" a heroes wod, and see 2 muscle ups, 4 handstand pressups, and 8 32 kg kettlebell swings for as many rounds as possible for twenty minutes.
The issues we face with the wod is what elements of the workout to scale, according to the ability of the client whilst still maintaining the intensity.
The further issue is that the muscle up is a major gymnastic movement, comprising of a pullup and a dip performed on the rings, and is, in itself a major achievement for most CrossFitters.
We would scale this, ordinarily with a ratio of 4 to 1. 4 pullups and 4 dips as the equilavalent to 1 muscle up.
Using this theory we would see the the wod as:
4 pullups
4 dips
4 handstand pressups, again scaled, as we see in the first and second pictures, using a box or walking up the wall to aid the movement.
8 swings.
The question that this form of scaling raises is that is the intensity of the wod comprised, would it be better to drop a movement of the wod and introduce a monostrutural element in order to maintain intensity, again this depends on the abilities of the client and the level of intensity we wish for.
For some it would prove constructive, for other less so.
Alex did it pretty much as RX'd.


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