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Workout

"Rhubarb"

5 Rounds For Time: 

40 Sit-ups

30 Push-ups

20 Pull-ups 

1k/900 Meter Bike Erg 

Time Cap: 40 Minutes

AGE GROUP

13-15 & 55+ | Same as Class

Open-Games

4 Rounds: 

1 Minute GHD Sit-ups 

1 Minute Hand Release Push-ups 

1 Minute Rope Climbs (15') 

3 Minute Echo Bike Calories 

Weight Vest: (20/14)

For the Coach

Resource Drive

Workout Overview

Stimulus

For this bodyweight workout, choose rep numbers or variations that allow you to complete each station in 2:00 or less. It's important to stick to this timeframe to hit the intended stimulus.

All Movements: Ensure you are hitting full range of motion for all reps of each movement.

Scoring

Score: Time

Movements

Target Score: 25-40 Minutes 

Stimulus: Lactate Threshold [RPE 5-6]

The One | Teaching Focus

Full Range of Motion & Quality

Our focus today should be on quality throughout all our movements, rather than trying to complete them as fast as we can.  Ensure athletes are choosing an appropriate rep count that allows them to hit time frames, while maintaining quality reps. 

Sit Ups: Both hands touch the ground behind them, shoulders pass the hips at the top. 

Push Ups: Chest touches the ground, arms fully lock out at the top.  No worming or snaking!

Pull Ups: Chin finishes above the bar each rep.

Strategies

There aren't many places to make up time in this workout beyond transitioning quickly. So be intentional as you move from movement to movement. 

Any working set should remain crisp and have quality movement. Don't take any working set to failure. Take a break as soon as you experience a slow rep.

Modifications

SIT-UPS

Reduce Reps
Hollow Rocks
Tuck Crunches

PUSH-UPS

Reduce Reps
Box Push-Ups (Hands Elevated)
Dumbbell Bench Press
Dumbbell Floor Press

PULL-UPS

Reduce Reps
Banded Pull-ups
Ring Rows
Alternating Dumbbell Plank Rows (Renegade Row)

1,000/900 METER BIKE

2:00 Time Cap
400/360m Row
300/270m Ski
1,000/900 Echo Bike
400m Run
2:00 Moderate Effort on Treadmill/Runner
30 Shuttle Runs (1 rep = 10m)

Logistics

The bike should only take 2:00 today, so if athletes need to share start a second wave 3:00 or so minutes behind. 

Lesson Plan
(0-3 minutes)

(0-3 minutes)

Whiteboard Brief

  • Refer to coaches stimulus notes
  • Provide workout overview & stimulus
  • Provide mods & subs overview
  • Ask for injuries & limitations

General Warm-Up
(3-9 minutes)

(3-8 minutes)

General Warm Up

  • 3:00 Bike
  • 0:20 Plank
  • 0:20 Mountain Climbers
  • 0:20 Downward Dog
  • 0:20 Hollow Hold
  • 0:20 Air Squats 
  • 0:20 Dead Hang

Specific Warm-Up
(9-21 minutes)

(8-14 minutes)

Specific Movement Flow

  • 0:20 Knee Push Ups
  • Focus on the athlete's elbow position, we want a 45 degree angle from the body.  Encourage athletes from performing a tricep push up, where the elbows are against the body. 
  • 0:20 Jumping Negative Pull Ups
  • Encourage athletes to descend as slow as they can.
  • 0:20 Tempo Push Ups
  • Look for athletes to keep the midline tight and rigid as they descend. 
  • 0:20 Strict Pull Ups
  • Scale to ring rows or banded if needed.
  • 0:20 Push Ups
  • Put the pieces together, elbows at 45 degrees and midline tight.
  • 0:20 Pull Ups
  • Look for full range of motion, and control. 

Strength
(21-33 minutes)

N/A

Primer
(33-39 minutes)

(14-20 minutes)

Practice Round

  • 10 Sit-ups
  • 7 Push-ups
  • 5 Pull-ups
  • 1:00 Bike

Break

Workout adjustments if needed

Workout
(39-55 minutes)

(20-60 minutes)

Look For

  • All Movements: It is easy today for athletes to overestimate themselves on these movements.  Athletes really need to stick to 2:00 per station in order to finish today's workout.  Athletes can use the first round to see what their rep count needs to look like, giving them a 2:00 cap on each movement. 

Post Workout Clean Up & Chat (60)

Accessory Work

Lactate Threshold

8 Minute Row Calories, 4 Minute Recovery Echo Bike 

6 Minute Row Calories, 3 Minute Recovery Echo Bike

4 Minute Row Calories, 2 Minute Recovery Echo Bike

2 Minute Row Calories, 1 Minute Recovery Echo Bike 

Row: [RPE 5-6]

Bike: [RPE 2-3]

MINDSET

Henry David Thoreau 

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Pursuing your dreams with confidence leads to unexpected success.

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