Dead lifts and box jumps…and that is just the beginning!

If you didn’t know, Nate Harris won his first combat Jiu Jitsu fight on Sunday, May 19th boy rear naked choke iIn the first round! If you await to read more about that go to the Undisputed Fitness website and read the bold forum today. Yay Nate!!!! We are so proud of and impressed by you!!!

Nate Harris with the 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu Crew!!!!

Buy ins and EMOMs

Tuesday

All levels
Buy in:
50 body weight back squat (From floor- clean and press to back)
6 minute rest
Every minute, on the minute, for 20 minutes:
Odd minutes- 5 thrusters 135/95
Even minutes- 10 knees to elbows

Beginner
Buy in:
75 air squats
6 minute rest
Every minute, on the minute, for 20 minutes:
Odd minutes: 95/65
Even minutes: 10 knees to elbows

SwingLungeSquatSprint- all in a days work.

Monday
Rkb swing practice
3 sets of 20 to fix bottom and top position.

3 rds
50 rkb swings 16/24
40 walking lunges(step deep so you push off the front foot heel to stand)
30 air squats
200 mtr sprint.

Swing your partner!!!!

Also, our previous coach Jenna Rios is competing in the CrossFit Games Regionals this weekend as well!!! It is rumored to be streaming live!!! GOOOOOO JENNA!! We are super proud of you too!!!

DT

“DT“

Five rounds for time of:
155 pound Deadlift, 12 reps
155 pound Hang power clean, 9 reps
155 pound Push jerk, 6 reps

In honor of USAF SSgt Timothy P. Davis, 28, who was killed on Feburary, 20 2009 supporting operations in OEF when his vehicle was struck by an IED. Timothy is survived by his wife Megan and one-year old son T.J.

Yay, handstand push ups!

Today you get to spend ample time practicing the ever impressive skill of the handstand push up. Which brings me to a good reminder- our kipping handstand push up seminar is on June 8th! But before that we’ll be going over the kipping muscle up on May 25th. Both at 11am. Make sure to sign up for both- or if you can only make one, you can just do that one.

I will say, we saw huge improvements in everyone who came to the kipping pull up seminar this past Saturday. Not to mention it’s a good time! Learning and laughing; it’s how we do.

Thursday

Int/Adv
A) Handstand push up- eccentrics accumulate 35 perfect reps with as slow a tempo as possible with full range of motion
B) 4 rounds
7 Burpees as fast as possible
20 Push presses as fast as possible 45/35
Rest 3 min
C) 4 rounds
7 Unbroken chest to bar chin ups
Row :20 – 100%

All levels
Handstand push up review
20 minutes working on Handstand push up
Then…
4 rounds of:
20 Strict dumb bell presses
15 Plate jumps
10 Box jumps
5 Strict pull ups

Tempo, tempo, tempo…

So this week’s programming has a lot to do with tempo. We are experimenting with known movements but with different timing or different range of motion. Constantly varied… Always learning!!

Wednesday
All Levels
Back squat
5,4,3,2 tempo:20×1, (meaning 2sec on the negative movement, 0sec pause at the bottom,x=explode up, 1 sec pause at the top)
Rest :20
Max effort push-up (tempo:22×1)
..then
5 rounds
45 second row@95%
Rest appx 2min

Beginner
Hang power clean review
15 minute hang power clean review

8 minute am rap
6 db hpc
7 db front squats
200 meter run

Rest 3minutes

8 min amrap
8 burpees
10 wall balls
12 mountain climbers

If you are confused about all of that…come to class, that is why you have a coach. If you are I treated in taking a bit more time to learn the skills…come to the 4:30 beginner class!!
If you have questions…feel free to ask here, in the comments…

Learning to run.

If I ran a 5k 3 months ago, we could estimate that my time would be roughly that of the time it takes an above average marathoner to run the New York City marathon. Running is something that I could never really do or enjoy at all. For one, I have some of the worst ADD ever. Any kind of monotonous activity is torture for me. (Part of why I love CrossFit so much – constantly varied!) What’s more than that, though, is the fact that at about the 800 meter mark, my lower back completely seizes up and makes it hard to move my legs at all, let alone do anything resembling running.  Unfortunately, this affliction was not exclusive to running, but happened with any lower body movements. (I can’t tell you how awesome the deadlift/box jump combo or wall balls are for me.)

In WOD’s, it’s a little bit more manageable though; there’s usually different movements or rests in there to give it a break, as opposed to running which is just constant. The part I found interesting is that it only happens in the workout; 5 minutes after I finish, it’s completely fine. Needless to say, even after deciding that I wanted to make my life 100% about health and athleticism and trying to take that as far as I can, I haven’t excitedly jumped on any opportunities involving extracurricular running.

It got to the point, though, where it was affecting my workouts that I had to go see someone. So I went to a physical therapist that everyone who has ever been to calls a miracle worker. I was informed that my back trouble actually stems from my feet and the fact that my toes point out and my feet fall in when I walk which then in turn leads to all kinds of flexibility issues in my legs and thighs. I was given stretches to do and instruction to be conscious of how I walk. Despite my stretching and consciously pointing my toes straight while walking as much as I could (which is a REALLY weird feeling), it felt as though it was getting worse rather than better and the frustration was growing with it.

In February of this year, we started the 2nd Whole Life Challenge at Undisputed. Much to my delight, the baseline workout included an 800m run. Awesome. Well 800 just so happens to be the breaking point for me so the run itself was fine but all the body weight exercises after it, not so much. Feeling disappointed, frustrated, and a little embarrassed, I decided that this WLC was going to center around LOTS of lower body mobility and getting rid of this damn problem. 90% of the time, my 10 minutes of mobility were dedicated to that. I was making fantastic gains in my hamstring flexibility thanks to lots of inch worms. The only thing that was missing was the actual running itself. I didn’t want to admit that the key to getting better at running might…. actually…. be… to run. That would just be crazy talk.

2 weeks left into the Whole Life Challenge and unexpected opportunity presents itself. About a year ago, the master of our jiu jitsu system, Eddie Bravo, along with the fresh MMA promotion U of MMA, came up with a new sport- Combat Jiu Jitsu. It’s essentially MMA without kickboxing. A grappling match with striking on the ground, but not on the feet. Eddie posts on the forums of the 10th Planet site that they have a card coming up and he needs 10th Planet guys for some combat jiu jitsu matches. Tait sees it and asks if I want to do it. I think about it over night and decide that it would a hell of an experience and would really regret passing it up. So in the first couple days of going over how we’re going to train for it, Tait tells me, “You’re going to run 800m every single day. It will help you cut the weight and get you better at running.” I did not love the sound of that. But it’s fight training; I’m down for anything that will be make me better on fight day.

So I run (“run”) every day. As a warm up. As a cool down. Whenever it dawned at me that I hadn’t run that day, I go run. The finals of the WLC get here and I get to redo the baseline workout. I strategize beforehand that I’m going to take it nice and slow on the run to safe myself for everything after. I get through the whole wod with zero back pain and increase my total score for the workout by 34 reps. I was stoked. I continue to cut weight and run every day. When I can, I grab someone to go with me to make me go faster. Depending on the day, it gets quite a bit easier. I’m able to do the whole 800 without any back pain. Progress, it would seem.

Last week gets here and it’s closer to fight day. I still have some pounds to go. Weigh ins for this are the same day as opposed to the usual day before so I really want to get to weight naturally and not have to sauna very much (if any) out to make weight. I want to push it harder. Go a mile? 2 miles? Nah. I want to run a 5k. I’ve ran one 5K in my life. It was about 3 years ago and my time was 45 minutes and some change due to my constantly having to stop. What better gauge of my progress? I still remember the path we took the last time I take it upon myself to put in my earbuds and go off on my own to conquer this monster over the noon hour. In a perfect scenario in my head, I imagine not stopping the whole time and finishing with a decent time. That’s a perfect scenario, not my actual expectations.

I take off and the first mile is rough, to say the least. There was a good amount of pain, but not where it normally is. My calves and arches start to ache. I fight through it but still have to slow it down to a walk a few times. I welcomed red lights. Mile 2 feels a bit better. Calves and arches are getting pretty warmed up now. Much to my surprise, I realize how far in to the run I am and still don’t have any back pain. This brings a smile to my face and a bigger drive to fight through the leg pain. It’s annoying, but crippling, I tell myself. It’s nothing compared to the back. Push. Keep moving. Pick up the pace now. I get to about a mile left and slow down to a walk one more time and shake my legs out. A mile left and I start to run again. I feel better now than I have the whole run so far. I get excited. I start to think that this thing that has held me back and made me feel like less of an athlete might actually be gone. I might no longer silently curse the people I see running down the sidewalks like they have no idea how to actually move their bodies yet are able to run for miles without ever feeling a fraction of the pain I feel while consciously focusing on proper form. I might actually get excited about running. Whoa. Did I really just think that?

I get to Alameda and St Francis. Home stretch. It looks like the light is going to be red when I get to the intersection so I say to myself, “Ok. One last break and then it’s non stop to the gym.” I get to the intersection and and the light turns green. Alright, no stopping. Faster. Finish it right now and finish better than you started. I make it the gym and look at the time. 34:14. Holy shit. By no means a good time; if I were in a race, I would have probably gotten last place. But ten minutes faster than my last time and, most importantly, 3 MILES AND ZERO BACK PAIN. Wow.

I honestly can’t put into words how huge and exciting this was for me. I was completely resigned to always dreading lower body workouts and running. Something I hated to hear (running every day) turned out to be the thing that completely opened up so many possibilities in the world of my athleticism.

Much like a lot of the lessons we learn in CrossFit; in order to be comfortable in something, we have to embrace going through a lot of discomfort.

Tuesday

All levels
4 sets
Dead lift 3 slow reps (2121)
Rest :20
Max effort strict pull up
Rest :20
Max effort strict dip

Tabata:
Row
Hollow, swimmer kick
Wall Ball
(Not alternating)

Beginner
Dead lift review and dip review
3 sets:
Deads: 5-7 slowwww reps (2 sec up, pause 1 sec/2 sec down, pause 1 sec = 2121)

Tabata
Hollow
Lunge
Push up

Romanian Deadlifts

May 13, 2013Monday
A.)Front Squat ‘Clusters’
3.3.3×5; rest :20sec/rest3min

B.)Snatch grip Romanian DL
8-10×4; rest 2minute
…then rest minimum of 2 minutes and complete…
3rds
20 power cleans 95/65
60 double unders

Kipping seminar tomorrow!

Tomorrow at 11:30am is the first in our kipping seminar series! This session will be on the pull up. If you’re trying to get your first kip, have your first and trying to link them together, or just want to refine your skills, make sure not to miss it!

Saturday Partner WOD

2 rounds for reps with 1 min rest in between.
2 mins max reps of each:
Push press
Box Jump
Kettlebell swing
Goblet squat
Power clean
One person goes for max effort. When they stop, their partner starts. So on and so forth.