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Metabolic Conditioning Movement

Squat Cleans and Pullups then Thrusters and Burpees

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Every 3 minutes for 12 minutes (4 rounds) do

  • 5 x Squat Cleans @ 50kg
  • 5 x Pullups

Then for time do both ascending (1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8) and descending (8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1) ladders of:

  • Ascending: Burpees
  • Descending: Thrusters @ 43kg

Then 5 rounds of 15/30 L-Sits.

Results: Ladders took exactly 8 minutes as I was hoping.

Cleans and Pushups then WB, BJ and Row

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Whole workout taken from CFI WOD on October 12.  Every 3 minutes for 18 minutes (6 rounds) do:

  • 1-1-1-1 Power Cleans, resting 10 seconds between reps
  • 10 x Dynamic Pushups

Then do 3 rounds for time of:

  • 250m Row
  • 20 x Wall Balls
  • 20 x Box Jumps

Results:  Cleans did 50kg-50kg-60kg-60kg-60kg-60kg.   Metcon in: 9:49.  pmeyer finished around 9:40 or so.

Overhead Squats, Deadlifts, Pullups and Wallballs

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Part 1:  For form, do 5 sets of:

  • 5 x Overhead Squats @ 20kg (empty bar)

Part 2:  Not for time do the following 9 sets of Deadlifts.  Rest as needed between sets.

  • 5 x 60kg
  • 5 x 70kg
  • 3 x 75kg
  • 3 x 80kg
  • 2 x 90kg
  • 2 x 100kg
  • 1 x 110kg
  • 1 x 115kg
  • 5 x 90kg

Part 3:  Repeat of a workout I did in April 2014 which was one of the Masters Qualifiers for that year and took 16 minutes. For time do two rounds of:

  • 50 Pullups
  • 50 Wall balls @ 8kg (18lbs)

Results:  Completed the metcon in 15:17