Warrior CrossFit: 19 APR 10

Sunday, April 18, 2010

19 APR 10

OFF DAY.

Yep. That means no working out. None. Zippo. Nada.

For those of you who recently started, you can pick a workout from a day before you began with us. However, if you're going to commit to this website, you're better off taking the time off so you will be fully recharged when things kick off again on Friday.

Everyone who's been chugging at it with us consistently, you need to take a break. You may think you're too tough to need a break, but you'd be wrong. Your body needs the time to heal itself, and you mentally need the time out of the gym. This way you'll come back in ready to train hard for our next cycle instead of getting burned out or feeling beat down.

Use the time to do something productive over the next three days. Get a massage if you can. Spend extra time icing down any problem areas. SLEEP. Update your food journal. Write out a list of goals. Get ahead at work so you don't have excuses about not being able to go to bed on time or give it your all to a workout when we start back up. Hell, eat that piece of cheesecake you've been eyeing in the DFAC if you really want it.

And, here's an interesting technique for tying your shoes that works very well. Who knew?

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Components of Warrior Crossfit Workout

1. Warm-up: Dynamic range of motion and strengthening series that is described on the right hand side of the page below

2. Practice: During this portion we focus on 1 maybe 2 lifts and really focus on perfect form and attaining new strength gains

3. Train: The training portion is the high intensity, all-out effort workout that CrossFit is known for. Your diet, recovery and focus should all be done with maximizing your training in mind. Warrior CrossFit programs its training so that you function well in both anaerobic and aerobic events (Metabolic Conditioning). Most of our training events will last between 4-10 minutes so give everything you've got

4. Post: After getting smoked we cool down with stretching. Usually the partner assisted contract/relax type

Workouts average between 45-60 min total

Off days are Thurdsay and Sunday: 3 on, 1 off; 2 on, 1 off

WARMUP - TO BE COMPLETED PRIOR TO EVERY WORKOUT

This is a linear progression of perfect form. If you can only do one rep perfect, then continue that one perfect rep the rest of the week. Next week you will do two, the following week do three, and so on. After you can do ten perfect reps, then increase the difficulty and/or range of motion.

Jog in Place w/arm swings
Tuck Jumps
Neck Rotations
Shoulder Rotations
Pushups (PERFECT FORM)
Hip Rotations
Hip Swings
Toe Touches
Tuck Jumps
Knee Rotations
Ankle Rotations
Double Unders
Strict Pullups
Knees to Elbows
GHD Situps
Back Extensions
Handstands/Handstand Pushups
Air Squats (PERFECT FORM)
Overhead Squats

10 General Physical Skills

1. Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance - The ability of body systems to gather, process, and deliver oxygen.
2. Stamina - The ability of body systems to process, deliver, store, and utilize energy.
3. Strength - The ability of a muscular unit, or a combination of muscular units, to apply force.
4. Flexibility - The ability to maximize the range of motion at a given joint.
5. Power - The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units, to apply maximum force in minimum time.
6. Speed - The ability to minimize the time cycle of a repeated movement.
7. Coordination - The ability to combine several distinct movement patterns into a singular distinct movement.
8. Agility - The ability to minimize transition time from one movement pattern to another.
9. Balance - The ability to control the placement of the bodies center of gravity in relation to its support base.
10. Accuracy - The ability to control movement in a given direction or at a given intensity.

World-Class Fitness in 100 Words:

o Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat.
o Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast.
o Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense.
o Regularly learn and play new sports.