Front Squats then Dips, Thrusters, KB Swings and DUs

Four rounds of the following with a heavy working weight:

  • 6 x Pause Front Squats (pause for a count of 1-2 second at bottom)
  • Rest 3 minutes

Then AMRAP in 15 minutes of

  • 9 x Dips
  • 15 x Thruster @ 45lbs
  • 21 x Kettlebell Swings
  • 28 x Double Unders

Results:  Did the Front Squats with 135lbs.  For the Metcon did 4 rounds plus 38 reps (9 dips, 15 thrusters, 14 KB Swings).

Row and Thrusters, then Box Jumps and Dips

Warm up with 200 Double Unders, then work on Ring Muscle Ups and Handstands.

Shortened version of the CFI workout from 22 September 2016:

Complete as many rounds and reps as possible in 7 minutes of:

  • Row 250 Meters
  • 10 x Thrusters (95/65 lbs)

Rest 7 minutes

Complete as many rounds and reps as possible in 7 minutes of:

  • 20 x Box Jumps (24″/20″)
  • 10 x Ring Dips

Results:  Success on all fronts.  For the warm up got in 105 unbroken double unders, then got my first muscle up (then proceeded to do 5 more, including 2 in a row) and was able to hold a handstand for around 5 seconds.  For the metcon, in the first part, I got 2 rounds plus 250m row and 5 Thrusters, for the second part got 3 rounds plus 20 box jumps and 5 ring dips.

Front Squats and Pullups then Burpees, Wall Balls, Toes to Bar and DUs


Every 4 minutes for 24 minutes do Front Squats

  • 6 x 50kg/110lbs
  • 6 x 120lbs
  • 4 x 130lbs
  • 4 x 140lbs
  • 2 x 150lbs
  • 2 x 160lbs

Between each set do 3 reps weighted pullups @ 25lbs

EMOM for 24 minutes (6 sets of each)

  • min1: 30s Burpees
  • min2: 30s WBs
  • min3: 30s Toes to Bar
  • min4: 30s DUs

Results:  After so many reps lost count.   Just kept going and going…

Presses then Wallballs and T2B

Every 4 minutes for 20 minutes do:

  • 1-1-1-1-1 x Push Press @ 105lbs/50kg, rest with bar in front rack for 5-10 seconds between reps
  • Rest 30 seconds
  • Max Reps Strict Pullups

Then do AMRAP in 7 minutes of:

  • 10 x Toes to Bar
  • 10 x Wall Balls

Results:  The “rest” between reps worked well to give time to concentrate on the push press.  Pullups: 12-8-8-7-6.  For the AMRAP did 4 rounds plus 10 Wall Balls and 5 T2B,

Crossfit321 Vacation WOD

Dropped into Crossfit321 in Topsham (Brunswick), Maine and this was the workout.  Sam was a member of this Crossfit for a while while at Bowdoin…

Not for time do 3 rounds of Bench Press with the following rep scheme:

  • 5 x @ 65% of 1 RM
  • 3 x @ 75%
  • Max Reps @ 85%

Then for time do:

  • Row 2k
  • 50 x Burpees
  • 50 x Pullups
  • 50 x Hand Release Pushups

Results:  This is a great holiday upper body workout.  Need to come up with the equivalent lower body workout.  Max effort bench ended up with 3 reps at 180lbs/80kg.  Metcon in 20:22.