I woke up at 4 this morning to trade emails with the Nom Nom Paleo iPad app development team. We're getting close to the finish line, folks.
After swigging an espresso, I grabbed my gym bag and headed out the door. It was Fun Time.
Strength Skill:
- Weighted Ring Dips (3-3-3-1-1)
Yet another movement I need to practice!
Metcon:
5 rounds for time:
- 9 deadlifts (135# / 95#)
- 6 hang power snatches (135# / 95#)
- 3 overhead squats (135# / 95#)
"We're going for speed," Tim intoned as we scurried off to grab barbells and plates. None of us were going to overhead squat 135 pounds. And frankly, I knew I wasn't even up for the women's RXed weight. I've never managed to snatch over 95 pounds, so there was no way I was going to speedily get through 30 reps at that weight. Seventy-five, I decided.
It was a manageable weight -- heavy enough that I had to set down the bar in the middle of my last few rounds of snatches, but light enough to whip through this workout fairly quickly.
Result: 5:48.
But here's the sad part. One third of this WOD consisted of 30 snatches at 75 pounds. If a workout consisted of just those 30 snatches at that weight, I could crank through them fairly quickly. (Granted, it might look super-ugly, but whatever.)
At 5 p.m. tonight, the second WOD of the 2012 CrossFit Games Open was announced:
As many reps as possible in 10 minutes of:
- 30 snatches (75# / 45#)
- 30 snatches (135# / 75#)
- 30 snatches (165# / 100#)
- Max rep snatches (210# / 120#)
I'm not doing this workout until Saturday, but I already know my score: 30. That is, unless I somehow figure out how to add forty pounds to my snatch PR in the next two-and-a-half days.
