Becoming body weight strong is something I haven't really thought of while doing CrossFit. I've always taken the WOD suggested or created and taken the weight "as is". If I were to do Grace (30 x Clean & Jerks @ 135 lbs) weighing in at 220 lbs myself next to a 180 lbs guy ... how is it fair that he has to do 75% of his body weight where I have to do only 61% of mine? Should I not have to do 165 lbs to equal his percentage of BW?
It didn't really surface until yesterday's WOD with Kelly Hansen and Mike McCune - two strong individuals who weigh in the vicinity of 165 - 180 pounds. We all pushed each other to finish the "Rookie v Veteran" WOD posted here yesterday - had a blast!!!
They struggled on the last two/three rounds of 95# Thrusters but were extremely strong on the other exercises. I had little trouble with the thrusters and ended up finishing about 50 seconds faster than both. But had I increased the thruster weight to 115 lbs (which is the same % of weight for my BW), would I have finished slower?!? That would indicate they are more body weight strong than I am ... and I can't have that now, can I!?! Awesome job to the both of them ... I aspire to be as strong as both of them!!
What are your thoughts? Why do we use the weight prescribed and not increase/decrease to our BW accordingly? Or is the reason to stay the same related to the distance one has to travel ... there is more than 1 component to having "Power" (force x distance / time)?
100 Day Burpee Challenge:
Day 32:
Burpee Buy-In: 528
Burpees Remaining: 4,522
Today's WOD:
Skills Work/Testing:
Pick something you feel is your weakness and test yourself. Weak at rowing, go for a PR in 1K Row or maybe see how many double unders you can do before missing.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
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Pretty Good Posts coming from the CF.com site when I posed the same questions ...
"In CrossFit we strive to complete a wide variety of tasks across varying amounts of time. In life the tasks presented may be moving loads in a particular manner, or moving our selves in a particular manner. Life gives us arbitrary loads and arbitrary ways to move our body.
For example, a boulder does not care how much you weigh. It is just a load, and if there comes a situation where you need to lift it, then you just need to lift it regardless of who you are. Power clean perhaps is the best way. A wall does not care how high it is for a 225# guy to climb it. It is just an obstacle, and if you have to climb it, then you must find an effective way to do so. Jumping muscle-up is probably the best way.
Thus we must train for the unknowable. The man/woman who is able to do nearly every task better and faster than anyone else, even the arbitrary tasks, is the fittest person alive."
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