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What a week! Literally none of you are going to be wanting in this place to smash yourselves, but if you do… NO COMPLAINING about the heat. The big fella can take it away again as fast as it came!
CrossFit Cardiff WoD
For time:
50 - 40 - 30 - 20 - 10 reps of:
GHD sit ups
25 - 20 - 15 - 10 - 5
Handstand press ups
It might be that after over 14 years of writing these blogs I may have finally run out of things to say.
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Deadlift
5 - 5 - 5 - 5 - 5
Heavy straight sets
Specialty
Pull ups
Every minute, on the minute for 10 minutes of:
‘X’ Chest to bar pull-ups / butterfly pull-up practice
B: Complete as many rounds and reps as possible for quality within 10 minutes of:
5 Strict pull ups
10 (perfect) push ups
15 Air squats
C: 3 Sets (within 10 minutes)
5 Strict dips
10 Ring rows
D: 20s on 10s off x 10:
Hollow hold
Just in case your arms aren’t hanging off, here you go;..
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Increasing load each set:
9 - 9 - 9 Strict press
6 - 6 - 6 Push press
3 - 3 - 3 Push Jerk
Specialty
Within 15:00 minutes:
Build to a heavy clean and jerk
Then..
3 rounds, every 90 seconds:
Clean, hang clean, push press + jerk (50%)
Back squat
Build to a heavy 10 rep for the day
Mid-week and over the hill, you are headed violently towards the weekend safe in the knowledge that the Welsh rugby team are entirely safe from receiving a complete battering from anyone.
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Front squat
2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2
Straight sets, every 3 minutes
I bet you didn’t think it would be so hard to put the other foot forward in a split snatch hey?! But then maybe you know there was such a thing as a split snatch!
Don’t worry, tomorrow will be heavy but and leggy, but at least they will both be in a straight line.
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2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2
Back squats
Specialty
Pull ups:
Every minute on the minute for 12 minutes
10 - 20% of 5 minute test
5 Sets
5 Strict chest to bar pull-ups
3 Sets
10 Barbell supine row
10/10 Arnold press
Every minute on the minute for 6 minutes
1. 30s Straight arm GHD
2. 30s GHD hollow hold
The penultimate time this week you get to absolutely smash yourselves into a painful oblivion.
Tomorrow with a little twist, jelly legs is what we want.
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Back squat
1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1
Straight sets.
Lift as close to your 1RM as possible.
Specialty
A: Build to a heavy power snatch
B: 5 Sets
6 Touch and go snatch @70% OR 60/42.5kg
Rest 60s
C: Front squat
5 - 5 - 5
Farmers step up
10 - 10 - 10
Back into the week and going. You’ll have all forgotten about your 1000 step up DOMs and any hang overs! Unless of course you spent Sunday afternoon drinking nothing but wine!
Legends!
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Thruster:
5 - 5 - 5
3 - 3 - 3
1 - 1 - 1
Each set for max load
Specialty
Every minute, on the minute, for 12 minutes:
10 - 20% of 5 minute test
3 Sets
2 Weighted pull ups
Rest 30s
10 Pull-ups
Rest 30s
8 Tempo dumbbell strict press (3s negative)
Rest 2:00
Every minute, on the minute, for 4 minutes:
20s Narrow grip push ups
5 Sets
5 - 10 Strict toes to bar
Rest 60s
Mid-week and ready for a vile strength blasting in order to celebrate. GOOD LUCK JANET!
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16 - 14 - 12 - 10
Front rack walking lunges
Increase weight after each set
After tomorrow’s workout I promise you are going to wish that the gym was closed for a week! Just remember…chestnuts.
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5 Rounds for max load:
12 - 6 - 12
Front Rack Walking Lunge
Front Squat
Front Rack Walking Lunge
Hump day! That’s all i’ve got, I have a motorbike to ride sorry. Not many days are left!
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10 - 10 - 10 - 10 - 10
Back rack walking lunge
5 - 5 - 5 - 5 - 5
Deadlift
Super sets and straight sets
The weekend flys in when you only have to worry about 4 days hey! New subject. Let’s hope this Indian summer is right around the corner!
You’d think after 14 years of writing these blogs every week, I’d have waffled more shit about the weather more often!
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5 Rounds, each for time and load:
Row 500m
1 Snatch
Rest 3 minutes between rounds
Specialty
3 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 3
Clean + 3s pause below knee
6 - 6 - 6 - 6 - 6
Incline bench pres
Build each set
The weekend is nearly upon us! Get yourself ready for some serious chilling, drinking, fitnessing, bronzing, whichever ing’s you decide!
Glutes first though!
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Back rack lunges
8 - 8 - 8 - 8 - 8 - 8
Specialty
2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2
Low hang clean with 5s descent from hip
10 - 10 - 10 - 10 - 10
Incline bench pres
Build each set
A lot of strength, mixed with a cheeky bit of gymnastics, why not!
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3 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 3
Thrusters
2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2
Strict ring muscle ups
Specialty
Bar muscle ups
20 minutes working on a challenging bar muscle up progression.
3 Sets
3 Weighted pull ups
10 Incline bench press
Max strict toes to bar
Happy Birthday Mum! I hope you bring some summer sunshine with your additional year on the planet!
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Within 18 minutes complete as many rounds and reps as possible of:
15/12 Assault bike calories
9 Bar muscle ups
6 Snatches (70/50kg)
Mid-week and following a complete thrashing, let’s be honest. Potentially anyway.
Luckily tomorrow you will all be dry at least, battered legs again but they need to be strong so we’re all good. Summer’s coming after all, and this time it really is!
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For straight sets:
5 - 5 - 5 - 5 - 5
Back squats
The first Friday of the year, but you lot won’t be needing to worry about heading out to get F**KED up hey, too busy being sober in January hey! Getting fit and all that! Perfect weekend ready for some high level smashing!
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For max Load:
3 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 3
Thruster
Every time I have written these so far, I have put in 2023 and had to erase it. I wonder how long that fun will last for?!
About as long as the DOMs you will be feeling after a few days back training!
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Complete as many rounds and reps as possible within 15 minutes of:
20/18 Calorie row
20 Toes to bar
Specialty
A: For 10 rounds, every 30s
1 Hip snatch
Rest 2:00
For 10 rounds, every 30s
1 Hang snatch
Rest 2:00
For 10 rounds, every 30s
1 Snatch
B: 5 - 5 - 5
Overhead squats*
*5s pause at bottom of final rep.
That’s it, the last iteration (other than the beasting you will receive from the hands of Mikey B tomorrow) prior to Xmas day.
Another savage fantastic year of training, it has been an absolute pleasure! Roll on 2024!
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Front rack walking lunge
8 - 8 - 8 - 8 - 8
Increase load per set
Okay so there’s nothing I can do to polish a 💩… I also can’t do a lot about how much tomorrow’s workout is going to suck!
Sorry…
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For 5 rounds, complete as many rounds and reps as possible within 3 minutes of:
5 Thrusters
7 Hang power cleans
10 Sumo deadlift high pull
Barbell: 40/30kg
Rest for 1 min between rounds
Here we are, the last week before Xmas and I have the privilege of ensuring that your last exposure prior to the restful day is completely savage!
Yeeeeesss!
Enjoy day one of “hell week”! 😉😉🤣
CrossFit Cardiff WoD
4 Rounds for time of:
25 GHD sit ups
5 Bar muscle ups
25/20 Calorie row
5 Bar muscle ups
