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Hey Matt,
Thanks for thinking I have something good enough to say to link to me. I didn’t actually know you read my blog until now. I see that you have been commenting on my blog for a while now. Sorry for not replying – Is there a way that I can be alerted when someone comments?
About 2 of your comments:
1. I really like the idea of only captains and coaches talking. Making it known that one can talk to the coach beforehand with suggestions will make them actually think about what they want to contribute. As much as I would like to talk in the circle, if by giving up my right I could censor the “We keep getting broken!”s, it would be well worth it.
2. I dont really know what was wrong with the thrusters. I would really like to go to a crossfit gym to get a trainer to look at my form. When I did Fran it must have been mostly a front squat followed by a shoulder press with little transfer of energy.
Lastly, thanks for your well organized, well thought out blog. Yours is an excellent example of a tool players can actually learn from. I have gained a lot from your writing.
Stephen,
On other people’s blogs, you can check the “e-mail follow-up comments to _______” to get e-mails every time a thread updates.
On your own blog, there’s an option under “comments” in the “settings” tab that allows you to set a “Comment Notification Email,” which is what I use for my blog.
Couple it with a gmail filter for the address the emails come from and you have a nice convenient way of filtering your comments as they come in and keeping track of discussion in a timely fashion (instead of forgetting to check for a week or more and completely losing it).
Re: 1), Like I said, it’s hard to change. It really takes a commitment from everyone but especially your team’s most vocal leaders to set an example. Definitely a process.
Re: 2), If you’ve done OH pressing with a dip, you should be able to just exaggerate that dip into a full squat without too much trouble. I’d imagine that your squatting technique is losing tension at the bottom, causing you to “stick” down there and miss out on a lot of the momentum you can transfer to the OH press on the way up. Really think about keeping your butt/hips engaged throughout the whole movement and explode upwards with full force as you lift.
Thanks, the comment option will be really helpful.
One thing I noticed about my thrusters was that I was sitting down onto a box where CFs do it on balls or without support. Without support at the bottom I got the “bounce” out of the hamstrings and glutes making it more explosive and the whole movement easier overall.
Do you scale the metcon workouts to get similar times as the big dogs or do you do everything as RX’d and just accept times 3x what some people are posting? Im undecided – obviously a 20min fran is not the same type of workout as a 4 minute fran.
I started off scaling. My view is if you have to take breaks every minute or two, you’re missing the point of the conditioning. If you get to that point at the end, that’s one thing, but right off the bat is probably a bad sign.
I’d rather scale down too much and get a good pump from the workouts than scale up and turn it into a strength workout (I do those on other days). Try and find the balance between conditioning and strength–generally I use DOMS to gauge. It’s an inexact science, so it pays to repeat a handful of workouts in the early goings to try and zero in on what you want/need.
Not currently practicing (not since summer ’07, really), so I can’t give you my current state…but generally speaking, I scale. I’m much smaller and lighter than your prototypical CF’er (5’8″, 135…well, 130 these days) so I can justify it.