Comments on: Saturday 1/09/09 http://dccrossfit.com/2010/01/saturday-4/ Forging a Community of Fitness Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:06:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: flip http://dccrossfit.com/2010/01/saturday-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1004 flip Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:55:54 +0000 http://dccrossfit.com/?p=1551#comment-1004 bolt that sucker down, we don't need to give crossfit a bad rep as something that is dangerous to senior citizens haha. bolt that sucker down, we don’t need to give crossfit a bad rep as something that is dangerous to senior citizens haha.

]]> By: Ed http://dccrossfit.com/2010/01/saturday-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1001 Ed Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:50:32 +0000 http://dccrossfit.com/?p=1551#comment-1001 Found this on Crossfit Message board (Gotta love Google) Man-Maker (As done with one dumbbell): Squat with one hand on a dumbbell that is on the floor and one directly on the floor Kick to pushup position Do a pushup Next, while still in the pushup position, row the hand with the dumbbell up to your chest (Displace your torso position as little as possible. Actually, you will want to adjust your leg base by widening your feet first) then put it back down. Then, jump feet back up to squat, and set your back for a clean Clean the dumbbell. Press the dumbbell overhead. "That is ONE" = The most frightening words in CrossFit. Or this website has pics with 2 dumbells: http://www.gymjones.com/schedule.php?date=20051123 So I assume this is correct...cuz it looks like it sucks- so it must be true! ___________________________________________________________________ OK, I got a few minutes, so let me tell you about my WOD last night: It sucked. Actually I sucked at it. I lost the ability to Clean- not so much ‘lost it’ but lost the rhythm where I fire my hips and need to work on it. - don’t know if I over trained my hips and back during the past few WODs. I guess if you combine them with running in the AM, then walking around for 15 hours in the freezing assed cold climbing up and down vehicles, wearing 60 pounds of gear all combined has simply smoked my hips and they no longer care about doing what I want under a load- now I can barbell clean fine, but any weight more than 2x 25 lb plates total and I look like a mental patient on a see saw, so I need to try to get in for some coaching as I used the crossfit website demo vid’s but I don’t see where I am screwing up… Anywho, for the KTE’s, I DO NOT recommend doing them in a free standing pull up stand that isn’t bolted to the floor…by the 4th set, I was swinging a bit (couldn’t swing far because of the pads for leg lifts and I was trying to maintain control) but I managed to swing my big Portuguese/Italian rear end for like rep 17 and must have swung out a bit far because I could feel the stand begin to tip forward and I had few options other than hold on and wait for gravity- since I am no Bart Conner, I knew that no fancy release, tuck, flip and stick of the landing was possible at this stage of my life (mainly because of the aforementioned large rear) I let gravity and fate take over and as my legs stretched to the floor and hit the ground before the thing toppled too far forward (it got about 20 degrees), I casually stood on my tip toes and gently lowered it while looking across from me at the senior citizen on the press machine have the color return to her face and for her to start breathing because make no doubt, had that thing gone over, I would have landed on her in a more or less 96 position killing her more of less instantly… so I went and got the manager and we both realized that the stand came free because the nuts were gone and no one checked. .. Found this on Crossfit Message board (Gotta love Google)
Man-Maker (As done with one dumbbell):
Squat with one hand on a dumbbell that is on the floor and one directly on the floor
Kick to pushup position
Do a pushup
Next, while still in the pushup position, row the hand with the dumbbell up to your chest (Displace your torso position as little as possible. Actually, you will want to adjust your leg base by widening your feet first) then put it back down.
Then, jump feet back up to squat, and set your back for a clean
Clean the dumbbell.
Press the dumbbell overhead.
“That is ONE” = The most frightening words in CrossFit.
Or this website has pics with 2 dumbells:
http://www.gymjones.com/schedule.php?date=20051123
So I assume this is correct…cuz it looks like it sucks- so it must be true!
___________________________________________________________________
OK, I got a few minutes, so let me tell you about my WOD last night:
It sucked.
Actually I sucked at it. I lost the ability to Clean- not so much ‘lost it’ but lost the rhythm where I fire my hips and need to work on it. – don’t know if I over trained my hips and back during the past few WODs. I guess if you combine them with running in the AM, then walking around for 15 hours in the freezing assed cold climbing up and down vehicles, wearing 60 pounds of gear all combined has simply smoked my hips and they no longer care about doing what I want under a load- now I can barbell clean fine, but any weight more than 2x 25 lb plates total and I look like a mental patient on a see saw, so I need to try to get in for some coaching as I used the crossfit website demo vid’s but I don’t see where I am screwing up…
Anywho, for the KTE’s, I DO NOT recommend doing them in a free standing pull up stand that isn’t bolted to the floor…by the 4th set, I was swinging a bit (couldn’t swing far because of the pads for leg lifts and I was trying to maintain control) but I managed to swing my big Portuguese/Italian rear end for like rep 17 and must have swung out a bit far because I could feel the stand begin to tip forward and I had few options other than hold on and wait for gravity- since I am no Bart Conner, I knew that no fancy release, tuck, flip and stick of the landing was possible at this stage of my life (mainly because of the aforementioned large rear) I let gravity and fate take over and as my legs stretched to the floor and hit the ground before the thing toppled too far forward (it got about 20 degrees), I casually stood on my tip toes and gently lowered it while looking across from me at the senior citizen on the press machine have the color return to her face and for her to start breathing because make no doubt, had that thing gone over, I would have landed on her in a more or less 96 position killing her more of less instantly… so I went and got the manager and we both realized that the stand came free because the nuts were gone and no one checked. ..

]]> By: Ed http://dccrossfit.com/2010/01/saturday-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1000 Ed Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:00:13 +0000 http://dccrossfit.com/?p=1551#comment-1000 I SOOOOOOO wish I coulda been there with you all...great video clips though, and the kids were awesome! BTW- What is a Dumbell Manmaker? I SOOOOOOO wish I coulda been there with you all…great video clips though, and the kids were awesome!

BTW- What is a Dumbell Manmaker?

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