Tuesday 06112019

On today’s deadlifts, we are pulling from a deficit. Standing on plates is the aim today, challenging our position off the floor. In regards to percentage, is it our aim to stay on the lighter side if this is a newer movement to us. On all repetitions, let’s SET the bar back to the floor (avoid touch and go).

Recall that a meter row is a pace setter. We aren’t going to stop on a row. But we very well may on the burpees and box jumps if we push here too hard. The goal here is to minimize the amount of time not working – to achieve that, this row should be ~5-10 seconds slower than your 2K pace. What’s more important here is getting off the rower and immediately moving with a purpose to start our burpees.

These are burpees to a target. Focus on the breathing burpee cadence and force air in. If we push too aggressively on these, we lose our ability to cycle through the box jumps. We cannot tax ourselves out here. We need to remain composed so that we can preserve our agility on the box.

Unless we have a limitation, let’s jump up each burpee today for the training benefit. There will be days where we want to move towards the step-up burpee, but today, let’s hold ourselves to the jump up.

On the farmers carry, we are looking to fast-pace-shuffle this distance. A walking pace during “Body Armor” sets is appropriate, allowing us to go heavier, but we have the opposite aim today. Let’s move on these carries, to the tune of at the slowest, shuffling. This again likely means the weights need to be lighter. In terms of equipment, athlete’s choice – dumbbells, kettlebells, or torpedos.

On the sled pull, we are facing away from the sled, connected via straps or a harness. Same aim here as well – we want to fast pace this drag to the tune of fast-pace-shuffling if we can with the weight.