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Chris-STL · 11-14-2007, 06:08 AM

Soooo I was planning on a lunch workout today, but then I saw Crossfit's WOD.
"Linda"
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps of the triplet:
Deadlift: 1 1/2 body weight
Bench press: body weight
Clean: 3/4 body weight
Set up three bars and storm through for time.

Brutal! Not sure I can do a 2 workout day and still pull that off. Maybe I will go in and just mess around a bit.

Lost Dog · 11-14-2007, 07:16 AM

Jeez. So, you do your workout AND a Crossfit workout? I'm slow, apparently.

liftintexas · 11-14-2007, 07:42 AM

quite the overachiever ... wow

Chris-STL · 11-14-2007, 07:59 AM

I try to do a lunch workout 3-4 days a week. Its only like 20 min, 4 exercises, 2 supersets. Then I do crossfit 5 nights a week.

Usually it isn't bad. It only gets hairy when I have a heavy weight type workout to do on crossfit.

Chris-STL · 11-14-2007, 06:17 PM

Well, no biggy on the lunch workout today. I had a meeting run late, and another one just after lunch, so I just passed it up. Now to try to tackle this monster....

Crossfit!

Warmup (uh...no)
"Linda"
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps of the triplet:
Deadlift: 1 1/2 body weight (305lbs)
Bench press: body weight (205lbs)
Clean: 3/4 body weight (155lbs)

Set up three bars and storm through for time.

Ok, I don't have 3 Olympic bars at home. I have 2 and an ezcurl bar. So rather than unload weights, I'm going to try to DL with the EZ, since that was the only one of the 3 that didn't just feel completely awkward. Hope this works!

Time: 52:17

My clean form just sucks, so I ended up just power cleaning most of the clean's.Even with this change I had to take very frequent breaks.

Ya know, for the last week or so, almost every workout I feel is the worst (from a pain angle) workout I've ever done. Reminds me of a movie...

Peter Gibbons: So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.
Dr. Swanson: What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Dr. Swanson: Wow, that's messed up.

Mahler · 11-14-2007, 06:23 PM

You are one sick s.o.b. Chris. Brutal, to say the least.

Lost Dog · 11-14-2007, 06:24 PM

Chris-STL · 11-14-2007, 06:38 PM

yeah, it was pretty much the worse thing I've ever done with weights.

uh....in a good way!

RacerBill · 11-14-2007, 07:48 PM

Nice work getting through Linda. That's one insane workout.

pjb923 · 11-14-2007, 07:50 PM

I have to agree with what has been said already. That workout looks brutal.

mel · 11-14-2007, 09:00 PM

I left the house and went to w.o. at the gym instead so I didn't have to hear him torture himself. I was shocked when I got back and he was still going. Wow.

mel

Lost Dog · 11-14-2007, 11:36 PM

You've inspired me. Just wish I could do the pressing. At least this way you haven't kicked my ass...

Simon C · 11-15-2007, 05:00 AM

Your workouts and weekly timetable is insane!(in a good way)

\"linda\", \"cindy\", etc... - Torture sounds like the right word to me

great work ethic, you must be making great progress!

Chris-STL · 11-15-2007, 05:19 AM

Thanks guys! I just wish I was lighter. I was reading some of the times that other people had and they were much better. However most of them were like 150-175lbs or they had to fudge the weight on one of their lifts.

Roland: On almost all of these, if you can do the lift 1 time, you can get through it. It's really a slog (as you can tell by my 52 min) but you just do what you can, then sit there till you have recovered enough to do 1 or 2 more. Mentally its a trial, but you will get through it.

You know whats weird about these workouts though? Often times you actually get BETTER as the rounds go on. A Couple examples:

The Bench press yesterday. I got 6 on the first set before I had to break, 7 on the second, then got 8 on the third. From there on out I got all the required reps without breaking.

Dips 2 days ago were the same. On the first round I got 12 before a rest, followed by 10,8,6,10,10,10 on the following rounds.

UpNorth · 11-15-2007, 05:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Chris-STL

Ya know, for the last week or so, almost every workout I feel is the worst (from a pain angle) workout I've ever done.

They don't call that workout 3-Bars of Death for nothing

. Great job!

Chris-STL · 11-15-2007, 07:15 AM

This is kinda big, but should give you some motivation and an idea what this workout is like.

She really slogs through the pressing. only getting 1 rep at a time near the end before needing rest.

T-Runner · 11-15-2007, 07:55 AM

Good Lord.

Twisted. Sick and twisted.

I like it. Keep up the good work. Your log is motivating, both because of the progress you've made and because of what you're willing to subject yourself to. Nice job.

Chris-STL · 11-15-2007, 02:51 PM

sick and twisted? I like it!

Found this on the crossfit site today. Posted by Dan Puckett.

Lovely Linda

At ten it's a breeze--the set rushes past.
At nine you suspect that you did ten too fast.
At eight a gorilla climbs up on your back.
At seven you warm up your next heart attack.
Then six kicks your ass around till you see stars.
At five you growl, "Hey, I'm still using those bars!"
At four you sweat blood and lose all of your hair.
Three isn't bad, but by now you don't care.
Because now you push harder through two and through one
For the chance at a half-decent time when you're done.
Then you lie of the floor, drip sweat by the cup,
And praise lovely Linda. Try not to throw up.