Saturday had a great feeling about it this week; the first Crossfit London BBQ was to happen straight after my Saturday session. I was really looking forward to seeing everyone in a more social setting. But before we got there we had to experience the incredible load dead lifts can place on your system. The Deadlift has been described as the king of strength lifts. It is incredibly versatile from eye popping 1 rep max efforts to mind torturing high rep schemes, it can simply work everything.
So we started with some fun and games a warm up playing silly relay races. Absolutely nothing wrong with warming up while having a good laugh and you cannot beat a bit of competition to spur you on.
We then looked at the Deadlift and all its variations; examined and discussed how you can improve your Deadlift by training it in many different ways. Grip, stance, range of motion was all discussed and tried. I seriously encourage you to make this an essential part of your strength program.
Then on to the WOD, a 15 minute max rep task. Five minutes of body weight dead lifts, followed by five minutes of press-ups finishing with five minutes of pull-ups. You add your totals for a score. I scored 195 and felt my hamstrings for over two days!
It was amazing how the dead lifts just sapped your system making the subsequent movements incredibly hard. Take a look at Trevor for the proof!
A big well done to Warren with an awesome score.
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The deadlifts just sap evrthing out of you making the press-ups somewhat of an ordeal! Great work-out though simple effective and awfull, loved it!!