Mon, Nov 24th

Workout of the Day:
Planche Progression
5 holds at your stage of the progression. Record total time

then
100 Squats
5 Push Presses
75 Squats
10 Push Presses
50 Squats
15 Push Presses
25 Squats
20 Push Presses

Post times to comments.

Previous Planche work:

November 11th
October 22nd
September 10th

One week of photos and this is the only usable picture I have of Pixie. Say, does anyone notice that shade of Green ain’t quite the same as the logo on the site?

“Going Overhead with Adrian Bozman Part 2: The Push Press”, CrossFit Journal Preview – video [wmv] [mov]

Riddles Galore (Answers tomorrow)

1 EINSTEIN’S RIDDLE

Here is one only for the bravest of you. Einstein said that 98% of the world would NOT be able to solve this puzzle. Can you? The trick is to be patient and to pay attention to the details.

There are 5 houses in 5 different colours in a row. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage. Clues:

1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
5. The green house’s owner drinks coffee.
6. The owner who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The owner living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The owner who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who drinks water.

The question is: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

2 IF THEY AREN’T TWINS, HOW CAN THIS BE?

Two children are born to the same mother, at exactly the same time on the same day in the same year and yet they are not twins. How?

3 WHO IS IN THE PHOTOGRAPH?

I am staring at a photo of someone. I don’t have any brothers or sisters and yet that man’s father is my father’s son. Who am I looking at?

4 ONE WAY STREET

A young guy who has just started learning to drive went down a one way street but didn’t break the law. Why?

5 WHY?

Why can’t a man living in London be buried in Paris?

6 APPLES

If there are three apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?

7 HOW FAR?

How far can you run into the woods?

8 THE MISSING DINNER PLATE

Two men sit down to dinner, each with his own son but there are only 3 plates and each person has his own. Can you work out how?

9 MAGIC NUMBER

Think of any number. Add 7 to it. Subtract 2. Subtract your original number. Multiply this by 4. Subtract 2. You will always get 18. Why?

11 WHY THE THANK YOU?

A guy walks into a bar and asks for a glass of iced water. The barman immediately pulls out a gun and points it at the man. The man then says “thank you so much” and leaves the bar. Why?

12 WHY DOESN’T THE KING DIE?

A king and one of his knights order a gin and tonic from the bar. Unknown to them, the drink has been poisoned. The King gulps his down in one go and has a bit of a tummy ache but nothing more. The knight sips his slowly but dies a few hours later. Why didn’t the king die?

13 WHO GETS THE MONEY?

An old man wanted to leave all of his money to one of his three sons, but he didn’t know which one he should give it to. He gave each of them a few coins and told them to buy something that would be able to fill their living room. The first man bought straw, but there was not enough to fill the room. The second bought some sticks, but they still did not fill the room. The third man bought two things that filled the room, so he obtained his father’s fortune. What were the two things that the man bought?

14 A SHOOTING INCIDENT

A woman shoots her husband and then holds him under water for over 5 minutes before hanging him up. However, a few minutes later they both go out and celebrate their anniversary. How can this be so?

15 WHAT IS THE PLAN?

Two inmates are locked in a cell. There is a window that isn’t barred but it is high up in the cell. No matter what they try to stand on they cannot reach the window. Then one of them decides to try and tunnel out. They give up tunnelling because it is taking them too long. Finally, one of them manages to work out how to escape. What is the plan?

16 WHY DID THE SHIP SINK?

One fine sunny morning a ship was in the harbour when all of a sudden it started to skin. There was nothing wrong with the ship and the weather conditions were calm yet there it sank, right in front of everyone. Why?

17 THE ARK

How many of each type of animal did Moses take on the Ark?

18 THE PARROT

A woman went to a pet shop to buy a parrot. Inside the pet shop there was a parrot with a sign on its cage that said “Parrot repeats everything it hears”. Great thought the woman, so she bought the parrot and for two weeks she spoke to it constantly and yet the parrot didn’t utter a word. She returned the parrot to the shop but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot. How can this be?

19 AGE REVERSALS

The ages of a father and son add up to 66. The father’s age is the son’s age reversed.
How old could they be? (NB there are 3 possible solutions).

20 THE LONGER WORD

What 7 letter word becomes longer when the third letter is removed?

21 WHAT AM I?

I am the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end and the end of every place. What am I?

22 WHAT IS THE COMMON WORD?

What common English word will describe a person or thing as not being found in any place and yet with no changes other than a space between syllables, will correctly describe that person or thing as being actually present at this very moment?

23 WHAT IS THE NINE LETTER WORD?

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word – from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

24 WHAT POSITION?

You are running a race and you overtake the second person, what position are you in?

25 MATH MADNESS

Take 1000, then add 40, then add 1000, then add 30, then add 1000, then add 20, then add 1000, then add 10. What is the answer?

26 HOW MANY F’S?

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

How many F’s can you see in the above statement?

27 MORE MATHS MADNESS

Divide 30 by a half and then add ten. What is the answer?

28 MEDICATION

A doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every half hour. How long would the pills last?

29 COUNTING SHEEP

A farmer has 17 sheep, all but 9 of them die. How many does he have left?

30 INCORRECT PRONUNCIATION

There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?

31 SNAIL PACE

A snail is at the bottom of a 20 meters deep pit. Every day the snail climbs 5 meters upwards, but at night it slides 4 meters back downwards. How many days will it take the snail to reach the top of the pit?

32 HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?

Jack is standing behind Jill but Jill is standing behind Jack. How?

33 WHAT IS IT?

The poor have it, the rich want it, but if you eat it you will die. What is it?

34 HOW MANY RUNGS ARE UNDERWATER?

A boat has a ladder that has six rungs; each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at its highest, how many rungs are under water?

35 DIGGING A HOLE

If it takes 3 people to dig a hole, how many does it take to dig half a hole?

36 DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS?

What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?

37 ANOTHER RIDDLE

What has 4 legs but only 1 foot

38 THE LONGEST WORD

Of all the words in the English language, which word is longest?

39 HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO BOIL EGGS?

If it takes 10 minutes to boil an egg, how long does it take to boil a dozen eggs?

40 IDENTIFY THE FRUIT

What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

41 THE FIRST PLANET

Which was the first planet to be discovered?

42 THE SHORTER WORD

What common English word becomes shorter when you add two letters?

43 THE 4TH OF JULY

Do they have the Fourth of July in France?

44 CAN YOU HOLD IT?

What can you hold without touching it?

45 ODDS AND EVENS

How can you make the number seven even?

46 ANOTHER RIDDLE

If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don’t have it. What is it?

47 WHAT IS ITS NAME?

What is it that is so fragile you can break it just by saying its name?

48 BULBS

There are 3 switches in the room you are in and in the next room there are 3 bulbs, all of which are off. Each of the 3 switches is connected to one of the 3 bulbs but you cannot see which one. You are allowed to enter the room with the bulbs only once. How can you work out which switch belongs to which bulb?

49 THE BALL

How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come back to you, even if it doesn’t hit anything, there is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it?

50 WHERE IS THE MISSING POUND?

Three young men check into a hotel. They pay £30 in total to the manager and go off to the room. The manager finds out that the room rate is actually only £25 and gives £5 back to the hotel assistant to return to the men. On the way the assistant decides that as it would be too difficult to split £5 between 3, he would keep £2 and give £1 to each guy. So now each guy has paid £10 to begin with and got back £1 so have paid £9 each, the hotel assistant has £2 making the total £29. Where is the missing £1?