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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Non-Benchmark Wednesday

Just to throw a wobbly in, our Wednesday WOD was not a benchmark or hero workout but instead it was:

For Time:
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3 Rounds of:
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50 Double Unders
25 Front Squats 42kg (30kg)
20 Toes to bar
15 Push Press 42.5kg (30kg)
10 Burpees
Run 200m
 
I was unsure how to scale this one because it was pretty high volume so I went with:
  • 25 double unders - I didn't want to waste time struggling to get 50 double unders.
  • 15 kg front squat and push press.
  • Knee to chest.  While I can do toes to bar, it is a different story trying to do 3 rounds of 20.
My double unders are either on or off and today was a good day.  I managed to string together quite a few and my first round I did 22 in a row.  Yay for progress!!
 
The whole workout took me 22:54 to complete it which was well under the 30 minute cut off.  With that in mind, I think I scaled perfectly. 


2 comments:

Pip said...

You are an inspiration Michelle! We did the 'chipper' WOD last night, 30 reps of lots of different things, also a 1000m row and a 400m run thrown in, up to 35 mins to complete. When I got to 30 of the overhead squat, I'm ashamed I couldn't even manage the 8kg bar, and had to go to the light weight stick!

Unknown said...

Thanks Pip.

That sounds like a fun workout :/

Our lightest bar is 10 kg and I have a hard time with overhead squats. We have to do 100 tonight and each time we drop the bar we have to do burpees ... I can see a lot of burpees happening for me tonight!