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who dat who dat.. signed up for tomorrow coach, I will be adjusting the wod as to not kill my knee. but now that I can walk I can certainly swing a kettle bell do some toes to bar and maybe a ffew pull ups and push ups. See the 6 am crew tomorrow. perhaps a bit premature but I can’t wait anymore.
The Long Awaited Return!
Burpees! Burpees! Burpees! Burpees! I have to admit I had dreams about Burpees all last night. My arms are tired from doing so many dream Burpees.
Remind me: When are we doing the Games WODs? I know it’s been posted 20 times, but I forgot anyway. I want to make sure I don’t do too many dream burpees before then.
Friday and sundays.
LOL! It *was* an exhausting dream!
I dreamed about burpees too. And strangely enough, you were in my dream Kurt. I’m sorry for stealing from you. 😛
One comment from yesterdays quick finishing wod, which I loved. One of the common faults in the clean is having the bar too far away from you and not over mid-foot. I think everyone has heard me yell about this. In weightlifting you want that bar over mid foot, always.
Often this is accompianied with dropped hips andshoulders behind the bar. This reduces the tension (and use of) the hamstrings in the movement. The knee angle is too closed. The bar path is all over the place. And the result is a difficult clean.
But we were doing snatches at low weights and high speeds. Again we had problems keeping the bar over mid foot and close to the body (but with light weights you can get away with this). What was more troublesome was the high hips and the completely horizontal back angle. This results in a pull off the floor that is a straightlegged deadlift and all lower back (read: no extension of the leg). The quads were not put to use.
This was probably the result of two factors 1) the ghd sit ups which fatigued some of the quad muscles 2) inflexibility with the wide grip of the snatch. The second issue can be solved by simply letting your toes point slightly outward and your knees to track slightly outward in the set up. Your back and your snatch will thank you.
You can pull so much more weight, more easily when the bar starts above your laces!!
being that my quads are sore and not my back, I’m going to assume I had this right. not to mention my adductors, obliques, upper trapz, sterno, and mid delts, are sore too. nothing crazy, i shall survive!
…hamstrings and calves too…lol….I’ve been out for a while. i feel everything.
Burpees
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