Friday, August 22, 2008

Friday

"Helen"

Three rounds for time:
Run 400 meters
1.5 pood Kettlebell X 21 swings (or 55 pound dumbbell swing)
12 Pull-ups

Here's some average data courtesy of the crossfit main site:

median all (509 reporting): 10:40
median women (38 reporting): 12:11

Top Male Time = 7:10
Top Female Time = 8:43

I'm going to try something new on the KB/DB swings, by grabbing the weighted end of the DB. Feel free to experiment with this, see if you like the workout more than gripping the handle/shaft of the DB.

Mike adds: Compare to 7/22/08 workout; on that date, we did as many rounds of Helen as possible in 20 minutes (one caveat being the KB swings were with 45#, not 55#). Try to "beat" your per round time from 7/22.

5 comments:

djahern said...

David: 12:07

I really think the treadmill kills your time on this WOD, unfortuanetly we don't have the facility here to run this outside yet. Someday...

djahern said...

Forgot to mention....

Steve-O finished posing for his picture in order to come back and hammer Helen in 11:47 (subbed 40# DB)

BP said...

Brandon: 9:59

I agree with David on the treadmill, I had it maxed out for the first 400m and I think I could have gone faster if i had been on a track, but i did slow it down to 12mph for the last two rounds.

Mike Earl said...

Mike: 12:44

BP, you must have been running hard! I have a lot of work to do...

djahern said...

BP: Way to rise above the pack and beat the median posting time for men...continue to raise that bar.

Mix: Your perfomrances are solid man, nothing to worry about. Obviously we want to keep getting better (all of us have far to go), but I have been very impressed thus far man.