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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Back from vacay - first week of Froning Programming

I'm back from 6 nights of non-stop alcohol and 8 meals per day w/ dessert at breakfast, lunch, and both dinners.  Bermuda was great.  While on the beach and looking at the ocean, I did two wods...really fun.  Worked-out ~4 times while on the cruise.

Back to training in my driveway...

I've decided to experiment w/ the strength training program that Rich Froning Jr. goes by (or at least this is what he says he went by in the lead-up to the cf games last year; granted, Froning works out all day long so I'm not trying to say that by doing this I am doing exactly what Froning does to train - I'm just trying to mimic him to the best of my knowledge of what his programming is like because...why the hell not...he's Rich Froning).  His schedule for strength is as follows:
Monday: Squat
Tuesday: Press
Wednesday: Deadlift
Thursday: Press
Friday: Squat
Throughout the week: Clean heavy twice, Snatch heavy twice.

My workout week begins on Tuesday and ends on Sunday; so: Squat Tuesday, Press Wednesday, Deadlift Thursday, Press Saturday, Squat Sunday, and clean/snatch throughout the week when I'm feeling good. 

It's on the high-end as far as volume goes, especially trying to throw in cleans and snatches two times per week, and still doing metcons (Froning makes up metcons as he goes, he doesn't plan them out for the week...I'm gonna do the same and try to hit a metcon which focuses on a lighter weight of the lift that I did on that particular day; I'll call on crossfitbethesda; crossfit mainsite; crossfit mayhem; cffb and other cf sites to devise metcons and keep me on my toes).  As far as addressing my volume concerns, I figure if I program something like "3 squat cleans every minute on the minute at 115 lbs. for 15 minutes" then I'm 1 out of 2 for the weekly cleans, and I've satisfied my squat for the day.  I'm not sure if that's how Froning tallies it, but that's how I'm gonna count it. 

Tuesday
Morning wod - 20 minutes. Run 30 seconds, Walk 30 seconds (oh yeah, Froning does a lot of interval rowing/running/airdyne).
Night wod (strength) - 3 squat cleans at 115 lbs. on the minute for 15 minutes (squat cleans satisfy 1 of 2 heavy cleans for the week, and my squat for the day)
then...
AMRAP 8 minutes
5 squat cleans at 95 lbs.
10 pushups
15 double unders  (really slowed me down)
total - 2 rounds and 11 double unders
note: didn't really care that the double unders slowed me down so much because the 15 minutes of squat cleans were a good enough workout on their own.  I really love the "every minute on the minute" type-wod for lifts.

2 comments:

  1. Wait, so say you're doing squats on monday. What squats are you doing? at what weight and how many reps?

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  2. will rotate between ohs, lowbar, highbar, and front depending on how i'm feeling...or squat cleans, like I did yesterday. weight and reps, tbd.

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