Fatbusting: Kirwan's log
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Yeah, it's the 24". I've never been particularly good at them, and this is a workout that if you can do them quick you'll cream the competition. Super kid got an unbelievable 287! And he had about four no reps, so could have done more.<br />
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Still, can only do what you can do. So my target is 180+ for the next go round. -
Starting to get the feeling that I shouldn't repeat these fuckers. Had another crack yesterday and got five less for 175.<br />
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I improved the deadlifts to where I wanted (mostly sets of 10) and that just destroyed my boxjumps around the halfway point. My lower back and hamstrings were on fire, took a good 30mins to recover from that.<br />
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At the five min point I was on target to finish my previous six rounds at around 9mins, so annoyed but at the same time pleased to be sure that 180 was the best I could do.<br />
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So that drops me from 55 to 146 in my Aussie masters section, and have plummeted down to 2000 in the Individual Men (not final placing yet, could get worse!). So please be heavy weights in the next one! -
Still a good effort mate.<br />
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That fella I know of isn't registered and only doing it to push his mate who is registered. Reckons he did 10.5 rounds and his mate missed 11 by a couple of reps. Dunno how many reps that is. Also told me about some chick who had clocked a top score of 420.... That's insane -
[quote name='JK' timestamp='1363579542' post='352835']<br />
Still a good effort mate.<br />
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That fella I know of isn't registered and only doing it to push his mate who is registered. Reckons he did 10.5 rounds and his mate missed 11 by a couple of reps. Dunno how many reps that is. Also told me about some chick who had clocked a top score of 420.... That's insane<br />
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330 is 11 rounds. If he got 328, that would put him at 454th in the world for that workout (46th in Oz), 30 less reps (1 round) less than the guy who won the Crossfit games the last two years in a row.<br />
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I suspect these guys aren't doing this at an affiliate in front of a judge no-reping movements that don't match the standards. If you don't stand up fully on the box, for example, box jumps get a whole lot easier and faster.<br />
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Not saying it isn't possible, but I look at a guy like Darren Ellis, who's one of the top guys in NZ, and he got 322.<br />
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They are going to release the video of the 420 soon (it was done on a military base), can't wait to see how that was even possible! Second place was 383, so got beaten by more than a round. -
That reads back pissier than I meant. We have had an interesting time here with the another local affiliate here, and one of the scores is "interesting". A guy who could barely snatch 45kg in a tournament recently got through 30 x 60kg. Hell of an improvement.<br />
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Lots of false scores being posted in the open too. One guy put up a video and got no-reped all over the show. Took down the video then posted up a affiliate judged score for the same value. It's annoying. -
Its this fella http://games.crossfit.com/athlete/39326
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Jesus, a 2.24 Fran is world class. And I take 50 mins to do a filthy 50, and he takes 16.42.<br />
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Currently in 33rd in Oz, so a few places of regionals (IIRC it's top 30). He must have been training up a storm over the past year and a half. I did a google to see if he went to regionals last year, and found his placings in the 2011 Auckland Games, and he came one place behind the kid I keep banging on about from my gym in the intermediate comp. He would have been around 15 at the time too.<br />
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Had a few Crossfit Newmarketers wander into our gym, seems a good gym from what they say about it (must be hellishly expensive!) -
Kirwan, great work. You can only do what you can do-re box jumps, archilles and dodgy calf muscles. Hope those areas heal.<br />
JK, I clicked on a few other names. WTF? this guy has a pull up MAX of 36<br />
[url="http://games.crossfit.com/athlete/29431"]http://games.crossfi...m/athlete/29431[/url]<br />
and this guy is 60 MAX.<br />
[url="http://games.crossfit.com/athlete/2052"]http://games.crossfit.com/athlete/2052[/url]<br />
Is that dead hang, full pull up, no momentum, no rest? If it is, then I'm embarrassingly weak. -
[quote name='Kea' timestamp='1363758756' post='353159']<br />
Kirwan, great work. You can only do what you can do-re box jumps, archilles and dodgy calf muscles. Hope those areas heal.<br />
JK, I clicked on a few other names. WTF? this guy has a pull up MAX of 36<br />
[url="http://games.crossfit.com/athlete/29431"]http://games.crossfi...m/athlete/29431[/url]<br />
and this guy is 60 MAX.<br />
[url="http://games.crossfit.com/athlete/2052"]http://games.crossfit.com/athlete/2052[/url]<br />
[b]Is that dead hang, full pull up, no momentum, no rest? If it is, then I'm embarrassingly wea[/b]k.<br />
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Nah bro, these guys are just on another level from us mere mortals. From your training logs you've got great power/weight - and Kirwan has been knocking out some excellent numbers. But people like Superkid at Kirwan's gym are farking machines - That Froning guy is ridiculous but I've watched a bit of youtube and he trains endlessly, plus his training is often nastier than the actual comp workouts!!<br />
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While there were plenty of more 'traditional' training [size=4]alternatives I wish something in the vein of crossfit was around in my younger days. Competing with yourself and others (especially internationally) is one hell of a drug! Ask Bartman!![/size] -
[quote name='Kea' timestamp='1363758756' post='353159']<br />
Kirwan, great work. You can only do what you can do-re box jumps, archilles and dodgy calf muscles. Hope those areas heal.<br />
JK, I clicked on a few other names. WTF? this guy has a pull up MAX of 36<br />
[url="http://games.crossfit.com/athlete/29431"]http://games.crossfi...m/athlete/29431[/url]<br />
and this guy is 60 MAX.<br />
[url="http://games.crossfit.com/athlete/2052"]http://games.crossfit.com/athlete/2052[/url]<br />
Is that dead hang, full pull up, no momentum, no rest? If it is, then I'm embarrassingly weak.<br />
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Almost certainly kipping. When you get the regional guys though, they are doing multiple dead hangs with 20kg plates hanging off their hips. So the gap won't be too large. -
And 13.3 is in; 12min time cap to AMRAP (yeah right) 150 Wall Balls, 90 Double Unders and 30 Muscle ups.<br />
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We did this as the fourth workout last year and I got 162 (12 DUs). I did a Karen recently (150 WBs) and got 10:45, but have done better in the past. If I can get it closer to 10mins and have two mins to do those DUs I have a good chance of getting 240, as my DUs have improved a lot, I can do sets of 20 pretty comfortable, and when fresh get up to 50 at a time.<br />
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I'll need a good two mins after all those WBs though.<br />
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I don't have a MU yet, so that's not a factor for me. Be good to be able to compare my years progress like this, looking forward to it. This is also a repeatable workout, this is one I improved alot last year on the second go. -
[quote name='JK' timestamp='1363827031' post='353308']<br />
Where do all the names for the workouts like Fran, Grace and Karen come from?<br />
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Based on the content of the workouts they must be some pretty difficult women .<br />
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Glassman started naming the workouts to make it easier to explain the workouts, it's easier to remember a name than the laundry list of movements (and the cynical will say so he could trademark them). His running joke is that anything that leaves you flat on your back, out of breath, wondering the the fuck just happened to me but wanting more deserved to be named after a woman.<br />
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Ok, that was bloody difficult. Improved my score from 162 to 215, getting through 65 of the DUs, so 25 left to go get on Sunday. Which in theory is about 15 seconds of effort, but wow it's hard to jump after the wall balls. <br />
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Took my time for Karen down to 9.37, so over a minute better than last month and first time under 10mins. Really happy with that effort, so only doing it again for fun. -
Yeah that is a massive gain! awesome work
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[quote name='Kirwan' timestamp='1363581519' post='352843']<br />
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They are going to release the video of the 420 soon (it was done on a military base), can't wait to see how that was even possible! Second place was 383, so got beaten by more than a round.<br />
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So I hear the bird who did the 420 get DQ'd due to not meeting the movement standard on the box jumps....doh!
