Metcon / 'So sorry! Jiu Jitsu please, not judo'

Still debating whether to kill off this blog or not.

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps for time

60kg power cleans
pull ups

13:15

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http://ejmas.com

Some excellent articles here on the early days of asian martial arts in the west, among other things.

Particularly http://ejmas.com/jcs/jcsart_angier_0501.htm

Don Angier appears to be one of those rarest of things- a westerner who calls himself headmaster of a koryu japanese martial art ... And he really is.

Thruster Hitler / Power Bias WOD

This isn't going to make much sense unless you know what a thruster is, and that some critics of CrossFit don't rate them very highly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyL_jIZodiM

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Power Cleans

3-3-3

All at 80kg (bodyweight)

Then as many rounds as possible in ten minutes of

5 front squats 70kg
10 pull ups
15 push ups

4 rounds flat.

Kettlebell workouts

Been slack on the old blog, but I'm not sure what to do with it, to be honest. I may knock it on the head.

Yesterday-

3 minutes mashup of kettlebell snatches, swings (both 16kg) and air squats for max reps, 1 minute rest ... repeat 3 times

Today-

21-15-9
21-15-9
21-15-9
kettlebell swings 16kg
pushups

16:45

:)

Moderate suckage

AMRAP 20 Mins

250m row
10 burpees
10 ring dips

4 rounds plus four burpees

Happy enough considering ring dips are one of my weak areas. Good chance to work on them and squeeze in a bit of metcon work too.

Heavy Thrusters
1-1-1-1-1

65, 70, 72.5, 75, 77.5(f)

Dropped into the bottom of the 77.5 and stalled coming up on the press as a result.

21-15-9 for time

burpee box jumps

24kg kettlebell swings

6.12

Whew ... The box jumps sucked about as much as I expected, and I slowed to a crawl on the last nine without quite coming to a stop. The 24kg swings helped my time in that I was able to complete these mostly unbroken. Did this with Jeff and he came in at around the 6.40 mark. I more or less zoned out and wasn't conscious of competing with him because I was too focused on things like getting my breath and not hitting the box as I dropped down on the burpees, but nevertheless it was nice to have someone alongside me in the trenches.

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Jean Claude on challenging Steven Seagal to go outside for a fight at a party at Sylvester Stallone's house in 1997

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-U5L0QPkrE

In case you haven't seen Jean Claude's movie 'JCVD' you should... Some say it's his best work in 15 years.

3 rounds for time

30 32kg kettlbell swings
15 strict pull-ups

17:36

The pull-ups were the thing that slowed me down, although there is a lot of work in moving a 32kg kettlebell.

13 Calorie Row
13 Box Jumps (24")
13 Sit Ups
13 Weighted Walking Lunges (10kg Dumbbell each arm)
13 Medicine Ball Cleans (must break parallel each clean)
13 Pull Ups
13 Kettlebell Swings (24Kg)
13 Knees to Elbows
13 Dumbbell Push Presses, 20Kg
13 Burpees
13 Thrusters (45Kg Bar)
13 Double Unders
13 Ring Dips

12:16