It’s been a while since I’ve benched anything, so I was a little iffy on the weight to use. I ended up doing 5 rounds with a weight that was probably a little light.
“Lynne”
Five rounds for max reps of:
115# bench press
Pull-ups (kipping - since my strict p/u’s suck and I assume these are the standard anyway.)
15-10
11-6
8-7
7-8
9-6 (grabbed a spotter and felt safer knocking these out, should have had one the whole time, next time)
I wonder why I couldn’t do more pullups/pushups in R2? Is it just my complete lack of endurance? I don’t know how else to explain the huge drop in numbers from R1 to R2 & R3.
Lobo:
You no kidding followed GD’s directions and went to failure in rd1. So, 2 minutes rest was in all likelihood completely inadequate recovery to accomplish similar numbers in future rounds. Try to up your rest between rounds next time to see how that goes.
Warmup: Day 13 of 100 - 13 pushups, 13 unanchored situps, 13 prisoner squats (still unbroken sets), drive to nearby park and pace out 25m to confirm mapmyrun.com’s estimate.
3 rounds of
25m walking lunges
25m broad jumps (they were more like bunny hops in the end)
200m walk/run
3:02 - 4:50 - 7:54, total of 15:46
I went in believing I could tough out the RX level, but after 25m of walking lunges, I decided there’s no shame in scaling this one, especially after a bad night’s sleep. A good thing too, or I’d have ended up with a 30+ minute workout. I noticed I landed pretty hard on the broad jumps and tried to bend my knees on impact. After my quads complained, I decided my knees could suffer the jarring impacts this time.
Looking forward to doing Lynne tomorrow, but I’m seeing differing opinions on how much you can rest in broken sets. Since my max bench was 205# a few weeks ago, I’ll shoot for 175# (though I did that for 10 reps in the same workout).
Question: This will be my 4th Lynne and as my weight has decreased my pull-ups have increased, but my BP reps on sets 3-5 are up and down with less weight… would that bother anyone? I neen to go back and figure my power output for each WOD I guess… yuk math
Big Red:
Yeah, it would bother me. But, Lynne really isn’t a power output WOD though. The point here is completely different - I think it’s more to drive muscular endurance than Metabolic Conditioning. You are really doing multiple high-rep sets, and your rest between rounds should be adequate to support a decent amount of recovery to allow that to be repeated within say 10-15% (purely my opinion here) consistency from one round to the next or rest is likely inadequate. Kind of like inadequate rest in a ME lifting scenario…
To really analyze what’s causing your BP stick, I think you need to look at rest between rounds, impact of increased pull-ups on endurance, what you have or haven’t done to impact your BP endurance, any change in BP weight as a % of BW as your BW decreased etc…. (nutrition, sleep, previous WODs impacts, blah blah blah….)
20 hip extensions
10 K2E
10 dips
Knee PT
Hamstring heaven, 15 each leg
Kipping practice
Fran
21-15-9
95# thrusters (7-7-7, 5-5-5, 3-6: tried to limit breaks between sets to 5, 10, or 15 “eccentric” breaths, the later in the game the more I had to breathe)
Assisted pullups (bands on sixth pin)
8:27
Did this with a buddy and I got about 45 to 60 extra seconds of extra rest before the last round of pullups while I waited for him to finish his. Did not include that rest in my time.
Last time with Fran (Nov.) I did 12-9-6 85# thrusters and assisted PU (rx’d reps) with bands on the 8th pin. Time was 4:11 I think.
First time with Rx’d weight and reps on the thrusters. Was kind of dreading this but it turned out not as bad as I thought. So it was just “normally” bad. Pleased with that at least. Wish I could make better progress on pullups. My elbow is not hurting so much when I do them but I don’t think my dead hang max has improved much if at all since summer. Hmm. Probably time to test that assumption.
Three rounds for time of:
Walking lunge, 50 meters
Standing broad-jump, 100 meters
Run 200 meters
14:10. I can barely raise my toes now. The muscles in my shins (whatever they’re called) are extremely fatigued, I’m assuming from the broad jumps. Odd feeling as it’s keeping me from walking normal.
GD and company,
I apologize for putting my post before your scaling…
I was so desperate to get back and post that I did not noticed my offense
unti I came back into the page now…
No offense taken. We are happy to see posts like that. A couple of years ago we were getting ten posts asking scaling questions and saying things like “This looks fun” before the scaling went up. We were deluged by emails from new folks who simply couldn’t find the scaling, as it was sometimes not even on the first page. Since there is no option for me to insert the scaling post before the other posting Metric came up with the standard first post.
