7.18.12
by Craig
Steve gets his overhead squat on.
CROSSFIT
Deadlift 3-3-3
then…
5 rounds for time of:
5 Deadlifts (275/185)
10 Burpees
BOOTCAMP
For Time:
800 m Run
50 Double Unders
50 Sit-ups
400 m Run
40 Double Unders
40 Sit-ups
200 m Run
30 Double Unders
30 Sit-ups
100 m Run
20 Double Unders
20 Sit-ups
50 m Run
10 Double Unders
10 Sit-ups
BARBELL CLUB
2 Rounds (for quality)
15 Handstand Kick-ups
15 Toes-to-Rings
15 Wall Balls (35#/20#)
Then…
“Grace” (with anything but a barbell. i.e. log, keg, sandbag, db, kb. Get Creative.)
30 Ground-to-Overheads (135#/95#)
Then…
2 min AMRAP
Snatch Balance (45#/33#)
JULY CHALLENGE: 31 day Burpee Challenge x3! DAY 18. If you’ve miss days you must make up the burpees in order to complete the challenge. You can do this from home or at the gym and reps done in workouts count towards the day’s total.
REMINDERS:
- Sign up for 31 Heroes!
Mon & Wed: 4:30-6pm
Tues &Thurs: 4:30-6pm
Friday: NONE
Sat-Sun: 10-12
Interesting article about Brian Shaw, currently claimed to be the world’s strongest man.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/07/23/120723fa_fact_bilger?currentPage=all
I feel the need to address a question that has come up a lot since it got warm out, as it seems a bunch of us that once knew the answer have forgotten…that question being:
“Why does that guy with the gargoyle on his shirt turn LEFT out the door?”
Let me tell you a story…
Back in 2008, right after the gym opened, we didn’t run all that often because the old gym had a treacherous set of stairs, and Craig and Eddie were concerned about keeping the injuries to a minimum, as I’m pretty sure their insurance policy only covered ice and bandaids. We’d do park workouts to get runs in and occasionally, we’d take a random jog around the building.
When the “new” gym opened, we started running with more regularity, making both right and left turns out the door depending on who was in the lead and which way the wind was blowing — until the day a group of us went right, ran 3/4 of a lap, and almost got hit from behind coming around the northwest corner of the building. We decided after the incident that a big part of the blame landed squarely on us. Why? The north side of the gym doesn’t have a sidewalk, so we had to run in the street…and we ran with traffic, rather than against it. The driver probably wasn’t paying attention to these guys dodging the parked van in the loading bay, and in turn, the runners couldn’t see (or hear) the car coming, especially being close to collapse near the end of a hard WoD.
As any second grade nerd that hardly pays attention in gym class can tell you, running with the traffic is, well, dumb. Ride with traffic, run against it. You can see the cars, and they are more likely to see you. With limited space to run on the north side of the building; and trucks, cones, boxes, and puking recent fundamentals grads to dodge, it’s a whole lot safer and more fun when you run against traffic by making a LEFT out the door.
Thx.
MC
Thanks for posting this, I’ve always felt more comfortable running counter-clockwise when doing 400m runs but only went with the class because that was what we were told to do and I was wary of colliding with other runners. But you have a better chance of walking away from that than colliding with an auto.
Mike Carr for mayor!!! Sound advice kids.
Didn’t we start turning right after the construction forced the shortening of the run to the 200m blue line and back? It seems we were trying to avoid falling debris that was already landing on cars. I still notice a lot of peeps turn left and right.
DJG, thanks for the vote! I love that you still troll the comments here.
I think we should just follow the common knowledge that “Left is right and right is wrong”.
Also, after being the bulldozer that leveled a fundamentals student a few weeks ago I can speak from experience in saying that it would be nice to just go with the flow moving forward.