First of the Month WOD

Choose your order of rounds, for time:

Round A
800m run
24 kb swings
42 pullups

Round B
1000m row
24 deadlifts
42 box jumps

Round C
100 double unders
42 db cleans
24 push ups

Andrew (CBA) 22:06
Dorian (ABC) 26:00
Kimberly 21:45
Lisa 29:45
Mikey 30:09

Recognize the rounds? It's Helen, Christine and some other random MWG combination. Good times. Try it.

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Natural Nonsense!
by Ross Enamait

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to notice that obesity rates have “sky rocketed” in recent years. Like it or not, but much of the world has grown fatter than ever before. Obesity is a growing problem (no pun intended), but we already know that. Identifying the problem doesn’t do much of anything. Yes, we have an obesity problem, but how do we go about fixing it?

I wish there was a simple answer, but when dealing with large populations, it becomes much more complicated...

READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE HERE!

RIDICULUS*

DJ Hyphen sent me this video:

LL Cool J working out with DJ Envy



His trainer has some nice tricks up his sleeve (figuratively speaking as he rocks the bodybuilder tank): KB sumo deadlift high pulls (NO SWINGS?!), "ring" pushups, sledgehammer situps, bungie sprints..

Methinks Mr. Ross Enamait would have a fun time with Mr. Todd Smith and give his current trainer a run for his money.

It's good to see more people leaning towards the HIIT philosophies of exercise. The bodybuilder physique is one society came to idolize because how big and defined someone's muscle could grow. You could watch that person squat huge amounts of weight and bicep curl dumbbells weighing as much as a junior high student. Is that functional? How hard did one have to train and look that way? What does one have to eat? How would I stay looking that way? How long?

Mmm.. fake tans and veins!

If that's your goal, go for it! But if you're a regular joe you might want to think twice about trying THAT route. Long workouts. Strict dieting. Too many supplements. What are your goals? You want to be built bigger? Harder? Better? Faster? Stronger? (c) Daft Punk

If we were robots, we'd never have to workout. But then where's the fun in that?!

If you want to look more athletic (see 10 General Physical Skills) then become more athletic. How? By improving EACH and EVERY one of those skills: strength, endurance, flexibility, stamina, power, speed, agility, coordination, balance and accuracy. That's a lot, I know, but we can tie it together. We improve work capacity over broad and modal domains by using highly varied, if not random, functional movements performed at high intensity. The end result is you being harder, better, faster and stronger. And once you clean up your nutritional habits, you'll look good too. Form follows function, so to look more athletic become more athletic.

* brownie points for those who get it

Today's WOD

3 rds for time:

20 KB Swings, 16kg
15 Pullups
10 Clean & Jerk, 95 lbs
5 Ring Pushups

Post time to comments.

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RossTraining.com just put up a new article on The Homemade Wheel. Click here to read it and check out the video: