"Deadlift: Week of the Games Day 3"

2010 CF Games Masters Event 2: 1RM Deadlift

Strength WOD:

Deadlift
1/1/1/1/1

Checkout WOD immediately after:

2010 CF Games Affiliate Cup Team Event 2

Affiliate WOD 2

For Max Reps: 

1 Min Max Reps Deadlift (265#/175#)
1 Min Rest
1 Min Max Reps Pistols (alternating leg)
1 Min Rest
1 Min Row For Max Calories

Results

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Adriana screaming her way to a PR:

Adriana DL PR 

27 people went into the box today to attempt a 1 rep max (1RM) deadlift. All 27 hit a new PR! How cool is that? Chest bumps and high fives! I tried to get pics of everyone’s PR lift but couldn’t be everywhere at once. My apologies for those who I didn’t get a picture of. That just means you get to PR again next time!

New box Deadlift records: Mark B. with a lift of 465# and Lucy with a lift of 243#

Pics of Deadlift Mania 2010:

   

Notes:

Congrats to Pat who this past weekend rode the 200 mile STP (Seattle to Portland) bike race in only 1 day with a time under 12 hours! Pretty amazing considering around 90% of the 10,000 riders take two days to complete it with an overnight stop. Pat told me today he owed it to CrossFit!

The 2010 CrossFit Games are here!

4 Rounds for Time:

50m Walking Lunges
50 Sit-ups

Today, Saturday and Monday we are closed! We are at the 2010 CrossFit Games!

We are in LA watching the Games at the Home Depot Center. Stay tuned for updates and check the Games site for the latest. Also you can watch a live feed on the right hand side of this page.

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Saturday 7/17 WOD: 10am at Swenson Park (over in Deer Park off Snoqualmie Parkway and Swenson Dr.) Curtis will be leading a team WOD. Show up and have some fun! Meet on the basketball court. Post to comments or let Curtis know if you are in!

Max Effort Day

Max Effort Day (Choose a minimum of 4):

Row 500m Max Effort
Run 400m Max Effort
Row 1000m Max Effort 
Standing Box Jump Max Height (Scale up to hit max height)
Dead Hang Pull-ups Max Reps
Pull-ups Max Reps 
Kettlebell Swings Max Reps (53#/35#)
Double-Unders Max Reps
Push-ups Max Reps
Max Plank Hold for Time
Muscle-Ups Max Reps
Handstand Push-ups Max Reps
Handstand Hold for Time
*Rest as needed between max effort exercises

** Extra Credit: Learn to rope climb

Results

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“Moving On Up” with Rob:

 
Rob Max Box Jump

Previous Max Effort Results (10/10/09)

Rona Rope Climb Jana Rope Climb

Jeremy Box Jump Joe 1st Rope Climb

Just another manic Fun-day! Some days you just need to know what you can do if you go all out and see how many reps you can get or how fast you can go. Today you had to pick at least 4 from the list and go for it. All of you hit a PR and displayed some mad skills!

Use these as mini-benchmarks for setting goals and getting stronger. Use the row and run times for helping learn your pace for going hard and fast. Then pick a date and break the new PR’s you set today!

Lucy fitting in time for a WOD while in Maui last week:

Lucy_Maui Run_WOD

Notes:

Friday, Saturday and Monday we are closed! We are at the 2010 CrossFit Games!

Saturday 7/17 WOD: 10am at Swenson Park (over in Deer Park off Snoqualmie Parkway and Swenson Dr.) Curtis will be leading a team WOD. Show up and have some fun! Meet on the basketball court. Post to comments or let Curtis know if you are in!

"Gwen"

For Load:

15-12-9 reps of 
Clean and Jerk

Rules:

  1. Choose a weight
  2. Touch and Go only at the floor; no dumping
  3. No Re-grip allowed
  4. Rest only off the ground and as needed between sets 
  5. Use same load each set to be RX’d

Results

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A Couple of Jerks:

Jenna_Push Jerk Sean_Push Jerk

This is an old WOD from the main site that has made numerous appearances over the years. It is traditionally supposed to include squat cleans over power cleans, but like Grace and Isabel the several posts I found never clearly specify squat for power so for our purposes it’s any type of clean and push jerk or split jerk. Maybe next time this will be squat clean and jerks only.

I did this WOD once in my garage and not as RX’d as I adjusted the weight. My notes from this said “Massive Suck! Makes Grace seem easy. Fought like Hell each set to not give up.” Reading that strangely made me want to program it in. Then I started it today and reached ten reps and thought “Oh shit, why did I program this in?”

Special thanks to Jeremy D. for running the 7pm class tonight. We owe you!

Thursday is Funday! We will be choosing from several exercises and movements for a bunch of max efforts. Bring long socks too if you want to learn how to climb the rope. 

Notes:

No 6am Class and note that Friday, Saturday and Monday we are closed! We are at the 2010 CrossFit Games!

Saturday 7/17 WOD: 10am at Swenson Park (over in Deer Park off Snoqualmie Parkway and Swenson Dr.) Curtis will be leading a team WOD. Show up and have some fun! Meet on the basketball court. Post to comments or let Curtis know if you are in!

Moe is on vacation in CA and has been dropping in at Mike’s Gym for Oly LIfting workouts. She also met up with Coach Burgener (CrossFit Olympic Lifting and USA Weightlifting Coach). Too cool!

Moe and Coach Burgener

"Dead Frogger"

7 Rounds for Time:

7 Deadlift (225#/135#)
80 ft. Broad Jumps
14 Ring Push-ups

Results

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Froggers, Deadlifts and Kangaroos:

Frogger_Katie


Deadlifts
 
  
Kangaroo_Whitney

This fun WOD is courtesy of Jeremy, Kim and Mark from The Compound Crew aka Garage Gym Gone Wild!

Playing frogger is always a gasser for almost everyone except those of you who are natural kangaroos. Speaking of, if you missed the 7pm class then you missed Whitney (part of the lululemon Bellevue crew that dropped in tonight) displaying superhuman or kangaroo like jumping skills. Let’s just say she can cover 80 ft. in about the time it takes most to go 40 ft. After she let me make a fool of myself demonstrating broad jumps to the class she quickly displayed why she was a competitive broad jumper. See pic above. Covering 40ft. in 5 hops is pretty impressive when combining that with deadlifts and push-ups. I was able to quickly catch a short video of her mad hops (below).

Whitney during the WOD:

  

Notes:

Max Effort day on Thursday! Choose from several movements and skills and go for broke to get a max number of reps, max height, or max time. We will also cover rope climbing basics so bring your long socks!

  • No 6am classes this week and next Tues.! (Thurs. 7/15 and Tues. 7/20)
  • Closed completely on Fri. 7/16, Sat. 7/17 and Mon. 7/19
  • On those days that we are closed completely we will be at the CrossFit Games. We will post some WOD’s for you all to do either at home or get together outside the box or at a local park. 

Curtis volunteered to get a group together Saturday to do a WOD so if you are interested post a reply. You can bet it won’t include stretching or jumping…

"Daniel"

For Time:

400m Run
50 Pull-ups
21 Thrusters (95#/65#)
800m Run
21 Thrusters (95#/65#)
50 Pull-ups 
400m Run

Results

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In honor of Army SFC Daniel Crabtree who was KIA in Al Kut, Iraq on Thursday, June 8th, 2006. 


Mish_Thruster lockout

This WOD is a Hero WOD, dedicated to a fallen soldier, airman, marine, firefighter or law enforcement officer, and each of them CrossFitters that died in the line of duty. Every rep today was in honor of a soldier who died for our country. As painful as this workout is it’s nothing compared to the pain his loved ones must endure everyday. Honor our heroes by giving your best and remembering their sacrifice each and every rep. It’s the least we can do…

100th WOD Club_M Abs

Notes:

Amanda earned her first callous tear tonight after 100 pull-ups!

Amanda 1st Tear

JULY CLOSURE SCHEDULE:

  • No 6am classes this week and next Tues.! (Tues. 7/13, Thurs. 7/15 and Tues. 7/20)
  • Closed completely on Fri. 7/16, Sat. 7/17 and Mon. 7/19
  • On those days that we are closed completely we will be at the CrossFit Games. We will post some WOD’s for you all to do either at home or get together outside the box or at a local park.

Team Radio Shack (Lance Armstrong’s Tour team) has members that use CrossFIt and train at an affiliate in the off-season:

  

"Down and Up"

For Time:

800m Run
30 Med Ball Cleans (20#/14#)
20 Pull-ups
10 Clean and Jerks (115#/75#)
400m Run
10 Clean and Jerks (115#/75#)
20 Pull-ups
30 Med Ball Cleans (20#/14#) 
800m Run

Results

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Clean and Jerk Sequence with Tara:

Tara_Clean and Jerk 1 Tara_Clean and Jerk 2 Tara_Clean and Jerk 3
Tara_Clean and Jerk 4 Tara_Clean and Jerk 5 Tara_Clean and Jerk 6

This morning was a little last minute change on the WOD due to logistics and not wanting to see too large a group crash on the pull-up bars. The original WOD (“Backwards” – one most of you who came in expected since it was on BeyondtheWhiteboard.com) will make an appearance soon but will be during the week when smaller classes can make it manageable. This chipper was more than a good substitute though! 

Want a yummy Paleo dinner? I posted this recipe the other night after we had it with Dallas and Melissa of Whole9. Well it was so good we had it again last night and paired it with a salad of mixed greens, strawberries, blueberries and pine nuts with balsamic and EVOO dressing. 

Whole9 Dinner redux

Notes:

How to Power Clean by Coach Burgener

How Not to Power Clean by Globo Gym Guy

"Diane"

For time:

21-15-9 Reps each of:
Deadlift (225#/135#)
Handstand Push-Up (Head to Floor)

Results

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Fran and the Pike Push-up: 

Pike Push-up

Benchmark day today. Combining handstand push-ups with deadlifts is an interesting combo that hits everything the faster you deadlift. Waiting for the shoulder strength to return becomes a frustrating game after the deadlifts tire you and the HSPU’s start to add up.

Watch the below video for a good low bar back squat. We will be learning those and high bar back squats on Wednesday! Get ready to get down in the hole!

Main Site WOD Demo with Chris Spealler [wmv] [mov]

Tonight after the last WOD Zach (pictured below) did us a huge favor by installing everything necessary to hang another set of rings for muscle-ups, skin the cats, etc. He also did two MU’s after he finished. If you see him give him high fives and chest bumps! The rings rock!

Zach hangs the rings

Notes:

CrossFit Belltown is hosting a nutrition seminar with Todd Widman Wednesday night (tonight!) at 6:30pm. Cost is $10 and I know at least a couple of you are attending as well as The Compound crew. Trust me it’s worth it. Put down the Bon Bon’s and Miller Lite and go!

"Tag Team"

In teams of 2 complete for time:

300 Kettlebell Swings (53#/35#)
Run 400m
* One team member swings while one runs 400m. Tag up after each run.
** Stop once you reach 300 swings, regardless of where the runner is.

Results

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Picture Perfect Swings:

KB Tag Team - 3


KB Tag Team - 2 KB Tag Team - 1

Checkout the Results pic for the quote of the day…

Back to back team WOD’s this weekend. It just seemed right to throw some teams together. “Tag Team” is a WOD we made up awhile back when we stayed overnight at our friends and had limited equipment for putting a WOD together in the morning. Having only a couple kettlebells made this a guys vs. girls match and a great workout for whoever could hit 300 fastest.

A funny thing happened after the WOD today. An impromptu WOD broke out! Nothing like a volunteer 2 a day! Graham wanted a little extra work and Don, Curtis and Jim jumped in. Then pretty much everyone chose to do a little “overkill” after the kettlebell swing tag team with a short 21-15-9 of pull-ups, push-ups, and sit-ups. I guess “Trevor” wasn’t enough…

Notes:

Welcome to Steve, Leia, and Scott (home from WSU for summer break) who finished Elements this past Friday! See you all in class soon!

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