CrossFit Hackney training program 30/01/17 – 05/02/17 (week 5)
Week 5 of our first 9-12 week program of 2017. BOOM.
It’s week 5 and it’s time to come alive. The sun has made a showing through the crack of the front door at the arch to help lift your souls and then shattered your souls with some cold cold winds. By now you should have settled yourselves into a good routine, have an idea of what’s coming your way in classes and look to move the reps and numbers in a northerly direction. There has been a lot of work thrown at you and you seem to be sucking it all in. There isn’t going to any backing off the gas this week.
This week’s focus
Focus this week is (as always) on working hard smashing some weights but with a special thought to your posture please. One of the, if not the central, tenet of good, beneficial, effective exercise and movement is posture. We all spend far too long at desks and various devices which shortens us into a flexed position and produces tight and weak facial and muscular crosses in the body which are often referred to as cross syndromes. A great deal of the exercise we do has an emphasis on extension movement and if you’re not getting yourselves into good positions because of a tightness or a weakness something will eventually give. As well as a muscular and skeletal breakdown there are also a number of bad health markers associated with poor posture. Some simple rules: 1. Do your stretching and mobility 2. Check your seating position and get up and move around 3. Strengthen and fire weak stretched muscles (glutes and rhomboids) 4. Stretch and fire shortened weak muscles (hip flexors, hamstrings and pecs).
Strength – lifts
We are back to our Deadlifts and OH pressing for strength, the reps have come down again so the weights should be moving up slowly. We are looking for a ME on your last sets this week – if you find yourself doubling your reps you need to look at the earlier sets, are you lifting enough earlier on?
Volume – lifts
Pulls up and squats – we are after some bigger numbers on these days with some ME attempts, when you’re doing these ME please think about the form, don’t force out 2-3 extra dirty reps because you can, good reps are worth double the dirty reps and you’re less likely to get injured and, importantly, you’ll look better doing them.
Breathing / clean days
So there are some longer breathing pieces coming your way and these need to be approached with a slightly different mindset to a good old 3min bash. You need to have an understanding of where your red line limit is. The story of the Hare and the Tortoise always comes to mind when I bang on about pacing and working at a sub maximal level and there is a lesson there for us all. Start as you mean to finish: be efficient and effective.
Breathing / snatch days
As above.
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Monday
Lower body – pull / push (strength) |
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Strong |
Fit |
Warm up / MobilityLunge flow |
Warm up / MobilityLunge flow |
12min E2MOM – 6 setsA. Deadlifts 6×6,6,4,4,4,ME @3010
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12min E2MOM – 6 setsA. Deadlifts 6×7,7,7,5,5,ME @3010
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10min working up the ladder, +1 and +51 thruster – 45/305x DU2x thrusters10x DU |
10min working up the ladder, +1 and +51 thruster – manageable10x singles2x thrusters15x singles |
Tuesday
Upper body – pull / push (volume) |
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Strong |
Fit |
Warm up / MobilityLunge flow |
Warm up / MobilityLunge flow |
8min E2MOM -4 setsA. BW pull ups 4x40sec ME5min – 4 setsB. Negative HSPU 4×3-4 @ 8sec eccentric8min EMOM – 8setsOdd: Dips 4xME @ 3010Even: Horizontal ring rows 4xME @2020 |
8min E2MOM -4 setsA. Negative pull ups 4xME @60105 min practiceME headstand knee to vertical / wall walks / kick ups to HSW holds8min EMOM – 8setsOdd: Dips 4xME @ 3010Even: Horizontal ring rows 4xME @2020 |
For a total of 100 press ups10x Press upsRun 200 mtrs |
For a total of 100 press ups10x Press ups / scalesRun 200 mtrs |
Wednesday
Breathing (cleans) |
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Strong |
Fit |
Warm up / MobilityLunge flow |
Warm up / MobilityLunge flow |
18min E90sec – 8sets
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18min E90sec – 8sets
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3x5mins workouts
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3x5mins workouts
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Thursday – gymnastics
Friday
Lower body – push / pull (volume) |
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Strong |
Fit |
Warm up / Mobility
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Warm up / Mobility
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8min E2MOM – 4sets
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8min E2MOM – 4sets
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19 L 15 L 11 L 7 L 3 L
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19 H 15 H 11 H 7 H 3 H
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Saturday
Upper body – push / pull (strength) |
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Strong |
Fit |
Warm up / Mobility
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Warm up / Mobility
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12min E2MOM – 6 sets
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12min E2MOM – 6 sets
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10min Partner YGIG
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10min Partner YGIG
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Sunday
Breathing (snatch) |
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Strong |
Fit |
Warm up / Mobility
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Warm up / Mobility
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18min E90sec – 8sets
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18min E90sec – 8sets
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3x5mins workouts
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3x5mins workouts
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