Yummy Pancakes

I usually have some delicious (nearly zone) pancakes before I go to the saturday workout. They almost came back for a friendly little visit after this one. Colin, however, seemed to be having a great time.



3 Rounds for time

1 min of each of the following:

Jumping Pullups
Pushups
Box Jumps (24")
Situps
Burpees

Scores:

135+108+116 = 359

Attacking Weakness

Started up with some ring drills. Moved on to olympic lift drills. Finished with my 3 favorite movements of all time: thrusters, burpees, and knees to elbows. This all played out as follows:

(1) On the Rings

Skin the Cat
Straight body inverted hang
Inverted pull-ups
Back lever (attempts)
Support
Push-ups

(2) Olympic lift drills

5 X 3 snatch balance (95 lbs)

(3) Working UNBROKEN sets

15, 10, 8 thrusters (95 lbs)
15, 15, 15 burpees
15, 12, 10 KTE

Comments:

I took several minutes between all attempts in workouts (1) and (2). The point was to develop skills more than it was to get a crazy workout. Does this seem like a reasonable way of doing things?

Under the Bar

I didn't get a real focused olympic lifting session in yesterday, nor did I do any other kind of WOD so I am counting it as a rest day. I more than made up for it today:

(1)

Snatch to overhead squat: 45, 65, 95, 115
Clean to front squat: 115, 145
Clean and jerk: 145, 145
Clean: 95, 95, 95, 95

(2)

Using a 1.5 pood KB

75 KB swings
25 burpees
50 KB swings
50 burpees

Time: 21:35

(3)

5 x 5 false grip ring pull-ups

(4)

Watch the Lakers come back from 20 to win game 1. It was a good night.

I really need to work on getting under the bar on my olympic lifts. I feel fairly comfortable power cleaning and power snatching but when it comes down to heavy loads I'm gonna need to start pulling myself under the bar instead of pulling the bar over me. I think a lot of my problem is fear and lack of confidence... I don't trust my front squat or my overhead squat to catch heavy loads. I suppose this simply means that I should front squat and overhead squat more often. Any other drills out there that I should try out to improve this weakness?

The KB-burpee circuit was meant to mimic the rowing-burpee workout on the crossfit website a couple of days ago. While I think I stumbled upon a fun combo, nothing hurts quite like rowing does. Also, I originally intended to do a third round of 25 swings and 75 burpees but I called it because I am a pansy. My body and mind are exhausted but I do wish I did that third round...