Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Hello everyone! I can’t seem to find the consistency to post regularly here. I have kept the workouts going and I am not sure if they are were they should be but I don’t really care right now. I have started to work on the programming for September and beyond. For one thing, I need to expose myself to more than one workout a day often. Second, I have a pet peeve of people not improving on Olympic lifts or high skill movements.

I am excited about the new changes to our programming. I have been wanting to expose the group to different programming methods but haven’t really had the chance to. It is going to take a lot of work on my part to get this thing in place and executed correctly but I have all of August to do so. I still have to run it by Joe but I am excited about it. It may or may not stick over the long haul but it will help in a number of things, including getting everyone exposed to the skill movements more often.

It will also give our advanced athletes a process by which to get stronger and improve their game immensely. To give you kind of a tidbit on what this new programming consists of. Metcons remain 3 days on, 1 day off but now a new element is added. Strength will be addressed in a 2 days on, 2 days off schedule. As you can see, this will be very tough for me to bring together on a daily basis, in terms of making the WOD co-exist optimally with strength movements, but I am up to the challenge and believe that the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages. More to come…………..

Today’s WOD
As many rounds in 20 minutes
10 Full Snatches, 110 pounds
5 Push Balls, 20 pound ball
10 Kettle Bell Swings, 2 pood
5 Thrusters, 132 pounds

Rounds: 4 plus 3 snatches (sucks)