Today’s a great example of a useful pattern: lifting heavy using the same movement in your WOD to help you select an appropriate load. For the hero WOD to be a good stimulus, you’ll want to be challenged to complete this in less than 20 minutes. That means the Deadlift load needs to be heavy! […]
I’m not a fan of “grind culture”, but it is absolutely useful to cultivate the ability to just knuckle down and grind through a tough time. A longish run bookends this 10 round grinder – the movements are nothing fancy, maybe as simple as they come – which doesn’t call for technique or peak short-term […]
The rep scheme today might look a bit weird, but we promise it will work out just fine. In round one, you’ll hit 15 heavy hang power snatches. (We want you to go heavy enough that you have to break these up, but not at “single then rest a minute” heavy.) Coming off that bar, […]
It’s not an olde-timey holdup, it’s just the prescription. For a great candlestick deck squat, you’ll start the same as usual: squat down as low as you can, then roll back onto your butt on the floor. Keep a nice tight tuck in strong spinal flexion and you’ll roll right into your shoulders. Here’s the […]
Look, this was initially meant to be a joke with a Farmer’s Carry reference… then it started to turn into several hundred words about the challenges of urban farming, and then of the challenges of agribusiness economics, and then into global food supply chain inequities… and then I stopped myself, because sometimes you just gotta […]
I swear, there was a time when we had to have an intervention at staff meeting to keep from putting DT in the rotation too often. It’s hard to resist! What a great workout – punchy, demanding, maybe even a little intimidating in the sheer weight of it… but no matter what weight you can […]
