Strength

The month is wrapping up and I will be moving into a Power focused cycle in Nov. and after some thought I decided today that I was going to stick to my macro schedule of 4 week cycles of Strength, Power, and Power/Endurance. I am playing with the idea of doing on-going endurance in the AM, but I know damn well that that is going to be very tough to stick to. My decision about sticking to the macro plan was split because of the up-coming sections for the CrossFit Games. Rumor is, the sectionals are going to be in Feb, which means I don't have a lot of time to build the base I was planning on building before the competition. Normally in a case like this, I would advise the person to adjust the cycles to focus on what's most important to the competition and in this case I believe its strength and power-endurance. After thoughts going back and forth I decided to stick to the original plan and keep building the base. I should do ok compared to most other people but being competitive against a guy like Mikko is going to take a lot more focused time.

Maybe I'm setting myself up for excuses when I don't do so well in compitition and protecting my ego, hard to tell, maybe I'm being wise and thinking of a 2 year strategy and not a 4 month one, hard to tell. Regardless I made a comitment to myself that I'd stick to the plan for all of 2010 and I'm going to stick to that no matter what. CF Games or not.

W/up:
Play around with 1 leg stuff
SLDL
lunges
Step ups
couple rounds, few reps of each, not really counting.

WOD:
4x4 OHS @ 120# (80% of previous 1RM) - Seemed like my new OHS 1RM is now higher, this was pretty light. Hard on the wrist, not so bad on the legs.
Then:
95# OHS 15x
Frog Hop 30ft.
Bear Crawl 30ft.
OH Lunge 45# 30ft.
Bear Crawl 30ft.
3 rounds

I kept time but my goal was to do this fast but not racing speed. I'm trying to adopt something I learned from Mark Twight. He said, racecar divers don't race the car every single time the take it on the track. Or something like that. The idea is that while a stopwatch adds some level of intensity you don't have to race every single time you work out.

My wrists are killing me as I type this!