Thursday night we practiced the butterfly pull up. This is the new “standard” pull up in CrossFit.
It took me six months to learn the kipping pull up, the old standard. I can do it, but it has never been easy. Now I’m supposed to learn this? At my age? Puleeeeeze!
There’s considerable debate among those outside CrossFit [...]
Hillari, Miranda, Jamie, Kristin, Lynn, and Melissa do FRAN!!
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Murph:
For time:
1 mile Run
100 Pull-ups
200 Push-ups
300 Squats
1 mile Run
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Today’s warmup was the overhead press:
5-5-3-3-1-1-1
My weights:
75-85-95-105-110-115-125 (new PR!!!)
125lbs may not seem all that heavy, considering that one of the younger 20-something guys was pressing 250lbs, but it was a new PR, which is the only thing that counts for me!
Mark Rippetoe: Press Review
Wordkout of the day:
3 rounds for time of:
9 snatches 105#
1 rope climb 15ft [...]
…and that was after we did heavy squats.
This was my 3rd time doing the Russian Squat Challenge. This time it was 2 set of 2 reps at my 1 rep max of 225lbs. Some of the younger guys were going all out for the squat, but I’ve got to pace myself. I might have gone a [...]