Fun With Bodyweight
We’ve been having a lot of Unusual Fun With Unusual Toys this week, but for this Friday wrapup we’re going to have fun with nothing at all but our own bodies!
Bodyweight exercises are just great, and they don’t have to be simple (or the boring stuff you get from your standard glossy magazine article). We can really push the limits of our strength, engagement, cardio, and endurance with just our own bodies and gravity for resistance, even in a CrossFit context.
It’s also important to note that even though this is all stuff that – in theory – you could do at home by yourself, part of the reason CFSV is such a special place is that when you’re here you have programming to help structure the work (i.e. we make you do the thing) and you have our expertise to help scale these bodyweight movements for your own current strength and Range of Motion capabilities, with an eye towards increasing both. “I can’t do that?” There’s no such thing. You can’t do it YET. We’ll help you get there.
During the Strength work today, we’re going to be looking at a whole lot of scales for single-leg squats, which are just excellent for strength and mobility training when you don’t have any equipment available. I’ll even show you how to scale them so that you can build this strength when you don’t have any gadgets available to help! We’ll be supersetting that work with Handstand practice, which is just awesome at core engagement and shoulder strength building.
For the workout, it’s 12 minutes of Fun With Bodyweight at higher speed – including some CFSV-favorite Wall Climbs and the classic Pull-up. How many rounds can you get today?
STRENGTH:
Pistols (and their assorted scales), 5 sets of 5 reps each leg
Superset with Handstand Work
WOD:
AMRAP 12
3 Wall Climbs
6 Pullups
10 Jumping Lunges