30 Push Ups – Chest touches the floor on each rep and arms lock out at the top (modify on your knees before you sacrifice form or range of motion)
After – Foam roll lower back and mobilize triceps and upper chest with lacrosse ball or foam roller
WOD #3
Warm Up:
400M run
20 Air Squats
WOD #3
100 Burpees for Time
TIP: Keep a towel and water nearby
They don’t need to be pretty, just set a slow pace and try to keep to it. Think 10 burpees per minute for 10 minutes or 8 burpees per min for 12.5 minutes. Try hard not to go out too fast early, you will gas out. Go slow and steady.
Video for samson stretch, remember to keep your knee over your ankle.
WORKOUT #1
AMRAP-10 (complete As Many Rounds as Possible in 10 Mins) Keep track of rds and reps in partial rounds. Post rounds completed to comments!
15 – Sit-Ups
10 – DB Thrusters – Mens prescribed weight 20#/Women 10# – Scale weight down as needed, but use some weight, don’t scale to zero. 🙂
A Thruster is a combination of a squat with a push press. Here’s a video of correct Thruster Form. Watch before completing, take breaks if needed. Remember initiate the squat in the thruster with your hips, weight in heels, then use your legs to push the weight overhead.
WOD #2
Warm-Up
2 rds of:
10 Burpees
1/2 Mile or 800m run
AMRAP-10 (complete As Many Rounds as Possible in 10 Mins) Keep track of rds and reps in partial rounds. Post rounds completed to comments!
25 Double Unders or fast singles or 2 for 1 singles
One of the important elements of CrossFit is community.
This past weekend The CrossFit community came together to honor the lives of the 19 HotShot firefighters who lost their lives on June 30, 2013 while fighting a fire in Yarnell, AZ.
CrossFit Gyms around the world completed the “Hotshots 19” workout (details below) and raised money 100% of which will go to the families of the fallen firefighters.
My gym CrossFit Diesel in Columbia, MD (http://www.crossfitdiesel.com/) completed the WOD on labor day Monday. Coach Kingwood went with the prescribed weight and finished in 44:39 (yes it was an painful workout). We also raised money at our gym.
I’m not making a plea for anyone to make a donation, just wanted to share this story as this is part of what and who were are in the CrossFit community! To date CrossFit has raised over $225k for the families.
You can view the memorial workout completed at the CrossFit gym where many of the Hotshot 19 worked out, CrossFit’s top athletes in the US attended and competed alongside the families, widowed spouses and friends of the fallen firefighters. I know this story hit home for many of many of us have family and friends who work as firefighters and risk their lives everyday to save others. Our own athlete Ken is a volunteer firefighter in Laurel, MD and my kid brother Calil is also a volunteer firefighter in Delaware.
Dialing up the intensity just a little this week. Be sure to scale reps as needed, take breaks and drink plenty of water.
WOD #1
Half of Cindy
Cindy is one of the original CrossFit “Girls” benchmark workouts. Read more about the CrossFit “Girls” here. Cindy prescribed is an AMRAP-20. If you’re feeling like dialing up the intensity go RX.
Video of crossfit ladies doing a Cindy workout:
Warm Up#: 3-4Min Light Jog
10 Inch Worms
10 Burpees
Half of Cindy – AMRAP-10 (As Many Rds As Possible in 10 Mins)
5 Pull-Ups
10 Push – Ups
15 Air Squats
Or Full Cindy RX’D – Full Cindy is:
AMRAP-20
5 Pull-Ups
10 Push-Ups
15 Air Squats
WOD #2
Warm up
20 Air Squats
20 Jumping Jacks
20 Hollow Body Rockers
Modified ½ Annie
Annie is another of the original CrossFit girls benchmark workouts. Complete Modified Annie and record time. Please modify pull-ups as needed, either reducing the reps, or doing body rows.
½ Annie
25-20-15-10 – 5 reps for time of
Single Under Jump Ropes – Go slow and just jump over the rope.
Sit-Ups (full range of motion, shoulders over the hips at top of movement- Situps not crunches)
Prescribed Annie
50-40-30-20-10 reps, for time of:
Double Under (You can scale to 2 single-unders for every double)