When we see squats programmed in a workout the first thing we usually think is that it’s going to be tough on our legs. As you may already know, and we’ll see again Wednesday, squats, and front squats in particular tax the entire body. Everything from the hips up will get worked as you maintain a front rack position to execute each rep. For this reason, pairing front squats with just about any upper body gymnastics movement can get surprisingly nasty. Tomorrow they’re paired with “the holy grail of CrossFit movements.” If you’ve got muscle-ups you’ll get to test them. If you don’t you’ll get to experience how front squats impact your pull-ups and dips.
August 24, 2011
Strength: Bench Press 3-3-3-3-3
WOD:
4 Muscle-ups
10 Front Squats (60kg/45kg)
3 Muscle-ups
10 Front Squats
2 Muscle-ups
10 Front Squats
1 Muscle-up
10 Front Squats
*Scale muscle-ups to 4 pull-ups and 4 dips for each muscle-up.
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BP – 105kg (110kg X 2)
WOD – 4:48 Rx – that last muscle up was hard!
nice work, shane!
Wow, great job!
Thank you.
Traveling WOD @ CrossFit Impavidus in Ashburn, VA
Diane (21-15-9 Deadlifts @ 225#, HSPUs)
6/29/11 – 17:56 with green banded HSPU contraption
Today – 8:50 with purple banded HSPU contraption
Pleasantly surprised at this progress. In a little over a month and a half, I took over 9 minutes off my time, and used less resistance (making it harder) for my HSPUs. Last time, I remember struggling with the HSPUs quite a bit. This time was not so bad.
nice, scott! that’s awesome!
Great job Scott!
BP: 91kg
WOD: 5:53 Rx.
My first WOD with muscle-ups that I was able to Rx. Feels good.
You’ve been working hard on them Dan. Great job!
super cool dan. great to see!
That’s great work Dan!
bench: 33kg. i haven’t benched since march 23rd and i haven’t made much progress. this is NOT my best lift
wod: 12:38 with half red banded dips and 35kg. i’m jealous of everyone who can do muscle ups!
Quite the taxing workout. In the middle of round 1, I didn’t know how I could get through 4 rounds… but, of course, I did.
12:58 WOD — purple band on pull-ups and dips… still recovering from shoulder slip… one step forward, a few back, one step forward… Still going..
Bench: 80 kg
WOD: 15:32 (struggled through the front squats at 60kg…my nemesis).
Bench: 80kg (happy with that)
wod: 14:21 w/pull ups and dips.
That was more than surprisingly taxing. Front squats deteriorated as the wod went along. My feet were going too wide during my squat cleans. Definitely something to work on. Thanks for the advice Yosh. Also, struggled too much with dips today.
Bench: 70KG (up 10 KG since the last time I benched)
WOD: 10:21 with 60KG front squats and 2 red bands for dips
I’ll get those muscle ups sooner or later. Nemesis or not, I loved seeing Kevin throw the 5kg plates on over the 15kg’s he had and get after it, good work.
LOL. I need to keep up with you Sam (ha).
BP: 120KG – 2 reps at 122KG
WOD: 11:21 – dead hangs and ring dips
BP: 27kg (29kg x 1)
WOD: 10:37 with a lot of scaling (1 purple and 1 red band for pull-ups, 1 1/2 red band for dips, 25kg front squats). I was pretty happy that I only had to break up the first set of pull-ups and ring dips).
BP: 90kg, 100kg x2
WOD: 5:35 Rx — first time I got MUs in a WOD! Thx CFF.