Dan – Front Squat
50 x 5 x 5
55 x 5 x 1

Deadlifts
5-5-5-5-5

120kg across

9:36

Hands are punished sideways from days of abuse, so rope was a nice change, good fun. Also ring dips punish…

as Rx’d in 8:17 (PR by a good 4 minutes)

I had to go to my happy place during that last set of cleans. There was a taste of blood in my mouth when I collapsed on the floor afterwards.

The brother put in a fine performance on a scaled version too, I’ll get him to post his time later.

I’d like to be able to press my bodyweight (80kg). Some way off at the moment, but I reckon it’s still an achievable goal.

Will-

You’re right, I can’t do a full handstand press-up, I either do negatives or I do them with a short range of motion. Must add them into the CF warm-up every day (along with ring dips).

But just to hazard a guess I don’t think Ruairi and Dan do Rx’d handstand pushups when they appear in workouts yet, do you guys?

I think a lot of the overhead pressing strength in classical crossfit programming is expected to come from doing them.

Right now, at an 80kg bodyweight I know I can press 77.5kg Haven’t done any 1RM testing in a while, but I’ve recently squatted 140 for 5 and deadlifted 175 for 3, just to throw some more data in the pool..

To use an example, I’m still on my starting strength routine (CF Ocean City is 13 miles away and I’ve only got a bicycle so its World Gym all the way, woo Globo Gym) and my 5RM in the shoulder press is roughly 50kg, its actually 109 lbs but its close enough. Now looking at one of the previous days comments where Ruairi said he did 3-3-3-3-3-3-3 of the shoulder press he was only lifting 48kg at the most. That said Ruairi has a much higher 5RM in the squat than I do (mines 95kg)

Same thing occured with Dan a while back, his work out was 5-5-5-5-5 and he lifted 35kg. I’m just curious as to why the strength of a Crossfitter’s shoulder press is so low when compared to their other lifts.

Even on the main site, there’s a video of Nicole and some guy doing a CFT and the guys squat and deadlift eclipse mine but our shoulder presses are eerily similar. As some of you know, I’m not a big guy so this just seems like a weird imbalance to me. Or maybe I’m imbalanced as I’ve been doing a lot of shoulder work recently (HSPUs, chins, etc.)

Just curious, sorry about the long post!