Last week of April! We’ll be ending with a bang like always!!! We have a lot of just good plain solid work this week as we get ready for our next cycle…. STRENGTH!!!
But first, let’s take a quick at what we’ve accomplished throughout this cycle…
| What a month April was! Our main focus was building to the Oly 1-Rep re-tests. The tail end of the Oly Cycle saw some heavy complexes AND some barbell heavy workouts and Benchmarks that highlighted all the Oly Work we have been practicing! The end of the month finished off with some HUGE highlights, the main being the retest of the 1-Rep Heavy Snatch and Clean and Jerk. All the work we put in over the past 8 weeks paid dividends and they came out the other side looking strong and hopefully gaining a greater understanding for the Oly lifts. Congratulations to everyone who PR’ed!!! You are inspiring!!! We also saw some barbell heavy Benchmarks such as Ava, Cloudkicker, and an all time fan favorite: D.T. (this week 😉) The final week of April we will have “off” from any heavy lifting to give everyone’s CNS time to recover because come 5/2 we will be diving into our new strength cycle! Let’s switch gears and talk about this new cycle and everything else May has in store for us! As we transition into May we start off with our new strength cycle: the Wendler 5-3-1! For those new or experienced with Wendler, all should get excited to experience the strength gains that this simple and effective cycle brings to the table! We will be working up to a heavy 1-Rep Deadlift, Back Squat, and Bench Press! We will also see 2 ab finishers per week continue to build the strong core that we need for these heavy lifts! On top of starting our Wendler Cycle we have another HUGE Benchmark workout to tackle this month…Murph! (It’ll be here before you know it 🙂) To help prep everyone we will be adding some extra credit Murph prep that can be done outside of class. This will involve a split day of conditioning and bodyweight movements and a day that combines the two to get accustomed to the volume. We will also be programming at least one workout per week leading up to Murph that will have higher volume running or bodyweight movements. To round out the month we have a few retests: Punch Out and California Love, but we will also see a “remixed” version of the workout called “California Dreamin” so keep an eye out for a fun change! This is going to be a jam packed month so hold on and strap in for the ride! May/June Strength Cycle Week 1 (5/2-5/8) – Heavy 1-Rep Tests (Use 90% as Training Max) Week 2 (5/9-5/15) – 1×5 @65% – 75% – 85% Week 3 (5/16-5/22) – 1×3 @70% – 80% – 90% Week 4 (5/23-5/29) – 1×5 @75% – 1×3 @85% – 1×1+ @95% Week 5 (5/30-6/5) – 1×5 @65% – 75% – 85% (Increase Training Max) Week 6 (6/6-6/12) – 1×3 @70% – 80% – 90% (Add 5-10lbs) Week 7 (6/13-6/19) – 1×5 @75% – 1×3 @85% – 1×1+ @95% Week 8 (6/20-6/26) – 1×5 @40% – 1×5 @50% – 1×5 @60% Week 9 (6/27-7/3) – Heavy 1-Rep Retests Weekly May Commitments Test 1-Rep Heavy Back Squat/ Deadlift/ Bench Press (2) Ab Finishers Weekly (2) Days of “Extra Credit” Murph Prep (Yupp!!! You know it’s coming…) 😉 (1) New or Classic Named Workout (1) Optional Partner Workout Weekly (Saturdays) May Benchmarks 1-Rep Heavy Back Squat/ Deadlift / Bench Press California Love & California Dreamin Punch Out |
Announcements:
Spring Gear Order
Spring gear order is closed and we will be bringing your items to the gym as soon as we have them in hand. Typical timing is 2-4 weeks.
Thank you all for the orders! You’ll all be looking sharp for sure! 😉
Four-tified
Four-tified will be held on Saturday, May 7th 2022.
This are really starting to heat up with this! If you want to get on a team sign up now. Registration closes this week!!!
Please use the below link to get registered today!
four-tified2022.wodifyarena.com
| FOUR-TIFIED 2022This is it! Our second 4-person team CrossFit Competition! Teams of 4 (Male, Male, Female, Female) Two Divisions: RX and Scaled Divisions 4 Workouts Registration is limited to the first 40 Teams! Deadline to register is April 27, 2022 –or– when 40 teams are registered. Sign up before April 20 to be guaranteed a T-Shirt. THERE WILL BE AMAZING PRIZES!!!! img widgetfour-tified2022.wodifyarena.com |
Here are the lifts of the week:
Monday – METCON
Tuesday – C&J “DT”
Wednesday – WOD
Thursday – WOD
Friday – Thruster
Saturday – WOD
Sunday – Open Gym
