in 20 minutes, perform as many rounds as possible of:
3 pullups
6 pushups
9 box jumps
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX
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cav 22
andy w 30
trace 11
todd 28
lesko 26
josh 29
caleb 29
j. barrett 34
ryan 39 (6 jumps away from 40)
christian 29
josh 26
mf 18
jb 26
catfish 20
alex 20
meghan 17
Everyone (including our women) did the wod as prescribed.
I had an interesting thought about strategy. We can safely assume the the person who does the most rounds on a workout like this is the most fit but what if he used a strategy to get there? For example, doing two rounds per minute in twenty minutes would equal 40 total rounds. If you finish the two rounds fast enough you can rest until the top of the next minute. Someone asked if using a strategy is really getting the most bang for your buck or if you get as fit. Well the alternative is to sprint out of the gates, which is only possible for so long. This is a beginner's mistake. This is the most common approach to the workout fight gone bad and this is why it is such a miserable experience the first time. Remember that power output and time are inversely related. As one goes up the other goes down. So if you don't take micro rest periods you won't be able to maintain a steady power output and consequently get more rounds out of your twenty minutes. The key, however, is consistency. Ryan used the aforementioned strategy but got behind at one point and had to do four rounds back to back and consequently compromised his power output and couldn't catch up. So to address the question of strategy and benefit. Ryan did more work than everyone else in the same amount of time so if we measure fitness by workload/capacity then he did get the most bang for his buck. We thrive on hard work but there is some validty to working smarter and not harder sometimes even if we deceive our engines into doing more work than our minds can conceptualize. Think about strategy before your next ballslammer.
C ya tomorrow.
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