An appetizer of Squats


Brian Hack | 10/15/2012 | 21

Strength

High Bar Back Squat 5×5

WOD

AMRAP 8:

2 Muscle Ups (Scale is 6 Dips/6 Pull Ups)
10 KB Swings (24kg/16kg)
20 Double Unders

21 comments for “An appetizer of Squats

  1. damien says:

    It must be my birthday

  2. Kyle Rose says:

    I’m about to find out how many muscle ups I can do in a workout. Woot!

    • Kyle Rose says:

      And the answer is: 1. Heh.

      HBBS: 165#. Stopped after 4 reps of 175#, because my adductor was feeling a bit wonky.

      WOD: 3+5 (pullups and ring dips). Too much wasted time: after my first muscle up I spent about a minute trying to get the next one. Bah. It seemed so easy in practice. 🙂

      Thanks to some suggestions from Yosh and Damien, I have some refinements to make to the technique, so we’ll see how that works out next time. In practice.

  3. Matt VK says:

    Hello Everyone,
    In order to reach our goals we must have a plan and stick to it. Knowing what progress we have made and how close to our goals we are keeps us focused.
    If any of you are like me, you can’t always remember what your PR’s are or what weight you typically work with on certain exercises. Maybe you did a hero workout early in the summer and the workout comes up again such as ‘Badger’ on Friday, but you can’t remember what time you completed this in previously. I often find myself searching through my notebook or my phone for these results.
    As a solution to my own disorganization I have put together a spreadsheet designed to help any crossfit’er to track and organize their progress. This document is designed with space to record results from each of the Strength/Skill exercises, ‘Ladies’ benchmark WODS, as well as the Hero WODS. This is something that I have put together in Google-doc format and would like to share this with all of my fellow Somerville Crossfitters that drive and motivate me.

    For any of you that are interested, send me an email titled ‘Crossfit Spreadsheet’ and I will forward the document along. I hope this helps any of you towards reaching your goals.

    My email is: matthew.vankleeck@gmail.com

  4. Danimal says:

    Thanks, Matt! This is awesome! I owe you a beer next time!

  5. Shorty says:

    Split Jerk (Did HBBS yesterday): 175# x2

    WOD: 3+11 (w/C2B pull ups and ring dips)

    Much tougher than anticipated. Also, had a bit of a case of the missing double unders this morning. Great job 5:30am!

  6. Cal says:

    I also did HBBS yesterday, so I also split jerked today: 105#x2, 115#x1. Consistently inconsistent at 115. hooray.

    WOD: 3+3 (chest to bar and ring dips). Lots of shoulder fun today.

  7. Renee says:

    HBBS = 145# PR

    WOD = 3 + 62… ya 10 SU’s away from 4. Lame
    Scaling included: 6 blue banded pull ups and 6 no-band ring dips, Single unders

    Fun morning! Until I realized super glue wasn’t going to put my mirror back on and I needed to stay home and wait for JN Phillips auto-glass instead of go to work today.

  8. Danimal says:

    HBBS: 245# (matches my 5-rep PR)

    WOD: 4 + 8 (single unders, scaled muscle ups)

    Note: I found it more difficult to do butterfly chest-to-bar pullups than with the kipping variety…

  9. cmliu says:

    back from 1 week hiatus. missed you all. i feel sooo much better, though; i was sickin’ pretty gross last week.

    HBBS: 165#. i’m one of those weirdos that prefers this to low-back.

    WOD: 3x + 6 pullups @ blue band on pull ups, red band on ring dips, 16kg kettlebell, and double-unders. october goal squelched.

    • Renee says:

      your jump rope makes the coolest whooshing noise when you double under. It’s very super-heroish

      • cmliu says:

        nike adjustable speed rope from city sports — i’d recommend it! and you can make it as “short people” as you want 🙂

  10. Kate says:

    Last week was my 6 month Crossfit anniversary. Woo!

    In less exciting news, this was my most frustrating WOD in those 6 months (4 + 38)

    I went into this WOD thinking I would dominate, but I feel like I failed big time.

    Double unders were super inconsistent. (15 in a row for a couple sets and then singles/doubles/triples for the other sets.)

    This all boils down to practicing double unders before practice starts. I also need to work on dips so I can take my muscle ups on the bar up to the rings.

    Next time we do double unders, I am wearing a diaper. I honestly cannot control the pee leaks. (TMI?)

  11. Brian says:

    HBBS: 255# New 5 rep PR

    WOD: 4+11 In the same boat as Kyle with the Muscle Ups. I got the 2 for the first round, and then couldn’t find them again after that so switched to pullups/dips.

    Kate, I love the TMI sharing…keep it coming!

  12. damien says:

    HBBS: 255# 5 Rep PR

    WOD: 5+11 Rx, Grip went to hell on this one, but still fun. I got a fever, and the only prescription is more muscle ups.

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