I am only posting this link because its unusually late for them to have not posted the actual scaling. hopefully, I have not crossed the line here. In the future, do not do what I have done here. Posting a link to the previous scaling was taking a significant risk.
I’ll be doing this tomorrow, but I’d like to get some advice on this. My gym doesn’t have barbells. My options are to do these on a Smith machine, using dumbbells or to load up an EZ curl bar. I did the sumo deadlift highpulls with dumbbells, so that is what I plan on using. However, the heaviest DB’s at my gym are 70 lbs.
Lots of overtraining symptoms, took 2 days off, thought I could scale this and get out of my funk. Right back to lingering weak-kneed, jittery feeling.
If anyone knows of good overtraining threads and wants to send link via PM or wherever, I’ll take it. Think my body’s trying to tell me something. I’m barely making it up stairs without shaking. (no, I didn’t just quit drinking - I’m not a quitter).
Hey casalingo. My experience with overtraining is that you need to rest well, eat well, rest some more, get plenty of sleep, rest, repeat, then take a break and rest some. I would start with a week of rest at least myself, two days wouldn’t cut it for me…
Take care, and remember, it’s not more training what makes you strong. It’s adequate recovery after training. Hope this is of some help…
Right again, and well-said. Jumpdog advised me to ‘take a few days’ for recovery when I started whining on Saturday. I think he meant a week, like he took and came back feeling better, but I took him literally, then decreased that by a day because I have a hard time laying off. It snowballs - inadequate recovery, don’t sleep as well then don’t feel like eating right then think you have to hit it hard to stop feeling like a slug, then things start to break. Send me mean smileys if you see me posting hard workouts the rest of the week. Thanks.
“Cindy”
Complete as many rounds in 20 minutes as you can of:
5 Pull-ups
10 Push-ups
15 Squats
15 rounds. 2 rounds off my personal best, but 3 rounds better than the last time i did this wod.
also did Day 10 (10+7 for yesterday=17) of hspu’s for my personal quest to get better at these. I’ve added hspu’s, double unders, knees to elbows and burpees to my warmups since these are all OGRE’s for me. they are all slowly getting better/easier for me, especially the hspu’s.
10 min. stationary bike
CFWU (stretch, squats, sit-ups, supermans, 70# dips, and KPUs 5/5/5)
135#x5
155/175/195/205/215/215/220F
The 215 tied my PR from the last CFT. I was able to get 220 up my thighs, but I didn’t reach full extension.
My kipping pull-ups are all over the place (physically). I was doing better a few weeks ago, but now any form I had seems shot. The first 2-3 seem OK, but then I seem to be pulling up with my arms from behind the bar instead of letting the kipping motion propel me up. As I push away at the top I seem to hold with my arms/biceps instead of swinging from the shoulders. Maybe time for another CF training session…
