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WOD – Thu, May 8

Intent

Today we are putting a heavy emphasis on upper body! There are many traditional benchmark workouts where “max reps” are demanded of us in 1 set, and today that is our chosen stimulus. With an upper body “horizontal push” and an upper body “vertical pull” there will be a high amount of blood and lactate pooling to those areas. This will explain the “burn” you often associate with training to failure. This is a good feeling as it is needed for the stimulus of building stamina and endurance in any area of the body. You should be selecting loads or scales for the movements so in the first set you are doing 10+ reps and no less than 7+ reps–the more the better. For those not doing movements RX’d this will take good advice from coach and self awareness. We want you to do lots of reps but if you are scaling to something that is easy enough for you to 20 reps, it is too easy. If you are doing RX’d and can go beyond 20, just…keep…going. Today we will be building your future output on those push ups and pull ups that will appear down the road in Murph!

Warm Up (Checkmark)

General: 3:00

30 Seal Jack

200m Run

30 Seal Jack

________

Specific: 12:00

10 banded pass through

:10 supinated dead hang

5 scap pull up

2-5 strict pull up (or ring row/banded pull up)

5-10 kipping swing

5-10 kipping or banded pull up

________

5 hip down push up

5 perfect push up

5 barbell bench press (feet on floor, arch through midback, chest up as high as possible with butt on bench)

3×3 building to a load for strength work

Bench Press (Weight)

(10:00)

Bench Press

Build to a heavy single today.

No risk of failing, this is a primer for the lighter bench press weight you should select for the conditioning.

Conditioning (AMRAP – Reps)

RXConditioning (25:00)

Max reps bench press (185/115lb.)

Rest 1:00

Max reps pull ups (kip/butterfly allowed)

Rest as needed between rounds

5 rounds

Intermediate

Max reps bench press (135/85lb.)

Rest 1:00

Max reps pull ups (banded)

Rest as needed between rounds

5 rounds

Baseline

Max reps bench press (35/15lb.)

Rest 1:00

Max rep ring rows

Rest as needed between rounds

5 rounds

MURPH PREP (AMRAP – Reps)

DEATH BY SQUATS

EMOM for as long as possible

15 Squats

add 5 squats every minute.

Last death by off the week. the goal here also different, we are going for speed on the squat. while hitting our range of motion and standards. squat to a ball is recommended. Try to squat each round as fast as possible, DONT PACE IT

Cool Down (Checkmark)

(7:00)

3×20 Banded face pull or ring face pull

+

:10 pec stretch each arm + :10 lat stretch each after each set

Optional Flow (Checkmark)

*This can be done any day of the week, no coach needed. It is designed for members who are feeling sore and beat up but would like to come into the gym and can have available space to move.

1:00 Bike easy pace

20 Banded row (band attached to rig)

20 Plank shoulder taps (10 each)

1:00 Row easy pace

10 Alternating step back lunge + overhead reach

10-15 Rower hamstring curls

10 Lateral plank rotations (each side)

1:00 no push up burpee (easy pace)

10 Banded pass throughs

15-20 banded pull a part

20 Landmine standing rotations (10 each side)

3 rounds

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