I can actually do that!
But less than me… 
Dude, some of your weights are starting to look reasonable in pounds.
And with all this CrossFit stuff, I’m starting to picture @kleinhound when I read this log.
Do you feel like this is a decent way to build size or strength? I’ve always struggled to see a progression. It seems like a great way to maintain muscle, burn fat, and improve conditioning. All good things.
I think it’s a passable way to being strength and size if you’re a relative beginner. There’s no way i’d build strength or size over the medium to long term on this style of training. Just too much variation to take anything past a certain point.
It should be enough to maintain most of my strength with the few additional sessions I’m doing, and I don’t think I’ll lose size, but I certainly won’t progress.
This is basically a break to work on my piss poor fitness and have a bit of fun in the gym.
I am much better at muscle ups now though which is nice.
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I thought it’d be good to have a phase of CF as a break from other training. My problems with actually doing it are my injuries (risk vs reward) and lack of skills.
Maybe I’ll figure out a way to do my own thing within my abilities. But I must admit that it’s so different from everything I’ve known that I struggle to put it together.
I can guarantee you that I’ll feel motivated after watching the Games this year. It happens every time.
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Indeed, though when you realise absolutely none of the top competitors will follow the WOD workouts, and will train lifts more specifically, it stops being as effective ha.
Injury risk is real though, especially with the plethora of technical moves like the oly lifts. They can absolutely be done safely, but 4 individual sessions in a month, if you attend them all, and then ok do a 1rm, is asking for pain
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Makes me think of the Four Seasons of Lifting,
Autumn : bodybuilding
Winter : powerlifting
Spring : metabolic conditioning or Olympic lifting
Summer : track and field
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Nice idea actually. Unless that means I have to do running in the summer?
Nah, it’s more emphasis on sprints, jumps and throws. CT has a great breakdown on his site.
That I can get onboard with
I think my body naturally does a “seasons of training”. It tells me it’s angry about something so I change what I’m doing LOL!
Track work can be awesome. I’m not talking distance runs. I don’t sprints less than or equal to 400m. Med Ball throws outside feel awesome. I used to go to the track three times a week for a group fitness class that my wife ran. It was great. We’d do a serious warm up and then knock out our conditioning work (running) in 12 minutes. I’d go to the weight room after that. I miss those days but it was before we had kids. Can’t spend the whole evening working out anymore.
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It’s more about emphasising speed and agility. Search four seasons of lifting on thibarmy. Part two outlines the track and field portion.
A very crude distillment would be combining the pressing with throwing stuff as a complex and and jumping and sprinting while reducing (not eliminating) lower body strength work.
I believe the seasonal approach is what I’ll adopt when I feel I’ve made enough progress in size and strength to feel less urgency about “fixing” it.
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Preach
CrossFit Week 6 session 2
Heavy clean complex
Power clean + full clean + hang clean.
60 x (1+1+1)
70 x (1+1+1)
80 x (1+1+1)
90 x (1+1+1)
100 x (1+1+1)
110 x (1+1+1)
Not grounding between the full clean and the hang clean was the hardest part of the complex, a lot of weight to catch on your thighs. Mine are a little bruised.
Heavy Grace
30 reps for time
Clean and press - 70kg
4:20 could have gone faster but working in a pair meant forced rest.
Bulgarian ring dips
BW x 25,15
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I’ve heard dems just work on skill/fitness not stupid shit outside of competition lol.
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A lot of Olympic lifts, running, rowing, swimming and generic strength work. And funnily enough they train each of those elements specifically and in pretty conventional ways, rather than supersetting 100m swims with snatches and handstand push-ups.
Event specific skills closer to events.
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I dunno how being good at a lot of shit became doing a lot of stupid shit tbh
I get the impression they are trying to change that, the box training is definitely more structured now and less random, but if you want the games to be interesting 
CrossFit week 6 session 3
12 x emom
Banded pushup x 12 - 2" band
10 x strict ttb
16 cal row
12 x emom
Weighted plank 30s - 10kg
KB paused Pendlay Row x 15 - 20kg
15 Cal airdyne bike
Brutal
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It’s the result of Dave Castro wanting to see the best competitors fail.
“Oh, so and so has won four out of five events? Let’s see them walk on their hands after climbing a peg board.”
Just load up the bar enough and they will lol