Workout of the Day:
Back squat, 1 rep
Shoulder Press, 1 rep
Deadlift, 1 rep
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How active are your parents? Do you think you could get them to CrossFit?
Are there a limit to the number of reps you can do for a score to be legit? Or can you just keep adding weight til you cant do it anymore
Colm
From the linked pdf – “The CrossFit Total is the sum of the best of three attempts at the squat, the press, and the deadlift” so warm up, and then make three attempts at the squat, then the press, then the dead. It can become quite tactical as well. Do I up the weight a lot and try to improve my score, or do I keep it safe and guarantee my score.
140 squat, 60 press and 140 deadlift = 340
Got squashed under the bar doing a 142.5 squat, forgot to dump the bar off.
100 squat, 42 press and 110 deadlift. Pretty happy with squat and deadlift given a month ago i’d never done either of them before.
So on today’s topic, I actually tried to get my mom to crossfit when I was back in the states. Around the time her father died she got onto a big health kick and really wanted to start exercising. She’d never been to a gym in her life so I offered to be her ‘personal trainer’.
At first she was open minded, and really gave it a go. After a while (maybe a month) she started telling me that I grunted too loud and that you don’t need to push yourself anywhere near as hard as I do to get results. Two months in she started with the ‘do I have to?’ jokes when I’d call her to go to the gym. Within three months she started missing days and by the end of month three I got tired of hounding her and told her there was no need to make excuses, just show up if you want to. For the last four months I worked out alone.
I realized that there is a reason that she had never been to a gym before in her life and it is far too late to change that. It was really sad and frustrating and I tried everything-good cop, bad cop complements, cajoling, pestering, encouragement, nothing worked.
BS 120kg / 125kg / 127.5kg (new PR)
SP 57.5kg (F) / 55kg / Pass (running out of time)
DL 140kg / 145kg / 147.5kg (new PR)
Mainly I’m just happy not to have fucked up the back squat component. “Black Wednesday” had me running scared. Deadlift felt good, I think I could pull 150kg but my back is flattening out at 145kg so probably not with good form. Press crap as ever, but I’m working on it.
Dan:
BS 90(te)-100(te)-110(te)
SP 50-55(f)-52.5
DL 100(te)-120-130
Lee:
BS 100/110(f)/105
SP 45/47.5/50(f)
DL 105(f)/95/100
Rob:
BS 140/150(f)/145
SP 55/65(tf)/65(f)
DL 150/160/170 (ugly but strong!)
Ruairi:
BS 120-125-127.5(f) – Sorry Dawg!
SP 57.5(f)-55-Pass
DL 140-145-147.5
Shane H:
BS 95-100(ftu)-100(f)
SP 37.5-40-42.5(f)
DL 90-P-P
Shane O:
BS 80(tf)-80(tf)-80
SP 40-42.5-45(tf)
DL 80-90-100
Notation
f=failure
tf=technical failure (push press instead of strict pressure)
ftu-f* this up
te=too easy!
Damn, you’re right Colm- I screwed up that BS score!
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