Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Tabata Squats + Death by Push-ups

Skill Work
Reviewed the Press > Push Press > Push Jerk progression using unloaded barbells.
Encouraged athletes to begin incorporating the pushes and jerks in their strength training.
For example:
1.  Add some reps of push-press and/or push-jerk into their sets of overhead press, or
2.  Add a push-jerk to the first rep of each set of powercleans.

Strength
3 x 5's of ...
  - squats (back or front), SOHP (adding reps of push press and push jerk), barbell rows
  - powercleans (full or hang), deadlifts, benchpress

MetCon #1
Tabata Air Squats
4 min AMRAP of...
20 secs on, 10 secs off (8 rounds total)

Q: "Coach, do you want us to go fast or to maintain good form?"
A: "Yes!"

Monday
BH 13, 13, 13, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12 = 99
KZ 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 14, 14, 15 = 118
LP 13, 12, 13, 12, 10, 10, 9, 9 = 88
SS 16, 17, 17, 17, 17, 16, 16, 16 = 132
RD 20, 18, 17, 16, 16, 16, 16, 15 = 134

Tuesday
BB 18, 16, 16, 16, 16, 15, 15, 15 = 127
KE 14, 13, 13, 12, 11, 11, 12, 12 = 98
BH 13, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14 = 111
KD 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 13, 13 = 116

Then...

Metcon #2
Death by Push-ups
Do 1 push-up, then...
every 20 secs do another set, adding one repetition each time.  I.e., 1, 2, 3, 4, ...
The workout ends when you cannot complete the assigned reps before the next round begins.

Monday:  Everyone  did modified push-ups, rounds on 0:30
BH 12's + 8 = 86
KZ 12's + 7 = 85
LP 12's + 4 = 82
SS 12's + 10 = 88

Tuesday:  Everyone did STRICT push-ups, rounds on 0:20
DF 8's + 3 = 39
BB 7's + 5 = 33
KD 7's + 5 = 33
KE 11's + 3 = 64
BH 10's + 3 = 58

1 comment:

  1. Dang! Y'all did strict push-ups? Wow! Nice!!!

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