Fri

Jul 5

Balls & Strikes

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Workout

Back Squat

Heavy Set of 20 

* Look To Beat Attempt From 6/28/24 

"Balls & Strikes" 

On the 3:00 x 5 Rounds: 

10 Wallballs

30 AbMat Sit-ups 

10 Wallballs 

Max Calorie Row 

Medicine Ball: (20/14) 

* Score Lowest Round of Calories 

KG | (9/6)

Open-Games

On the 3:00 x 5 Rounds: 

15 Wallballs

15 GHD Sit-ups

15 Wallballs 

Max Calorie Row 

• Medicine Ball: @wallball(30/20) 

• Score: Lowest Round of Row Calories

For the Coach

Resource Drive

Workout Overview

Stimulus

We're moving at a close to fast and furious pace throughout this conditioning piece, making it potent for the legs and the lungs. If we want to give ourselves an opportunity to accumulate calories, we've gotta lean in and minimize transition time. 

Scoring

Score | Lowest round of calories.

Movements

Wallball | Unbroken sets for all rounds, about :30 per set.
Sit up | less than 1:15
Row | aiming to have 1:00 on the rower each time

Strategies

The One | Teaching Focus

Grip the ground
In our squats we want to target a  grip and twist of ground with the feet. This will create an arch in the midfoot and recruit the muscles of the posterior chain as athletes squat.

Modifications

WALLBALLS

  • Reduce Reps/Loading/Target
  • Medball Front Squat/Thruster
  • Single Dumbbell Thrusters
  • Empty Barbell Thrusters
  • 15 Air Squats

SIT-UPS

  • Reduce Reps
  • Hollow Rocks

CALORIE ROW

  • Sub Ski/Bike Erg/Air Run/Assault/Echo

Logistics

There is no rest in this workout, so be sure athletes know to get off the rower a few seconds early in order to start their next round.  
You can start a second group 0:90 behind the first if your class is short on equipment. 

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)

(3-9 minutes)

General Flow 0:20 each

  • Grab Medballs
  • Pigeon (right)
  • Pigeon (left)
  • Childs pose
  • Downward + upward dogs
  • Bootstraps + reach overhead
  • Tall Plank hold
  • Tempo push ups
  • Alternating lunge + reach overhead
  • Hollow rocks
  • Air squats
  • Sit ups
  • MB deadlift
  • MB front squat
  • MB shoulder press
  • MB thruster
  • Wallballs

Specific Warm-Up
(9-21 minutes)

(9-21 minutes)

Row | tell, show, do, check

  • Teach pause at back and reset 
  • Legs stay straight until hands reach ankles on reset 
  • :30 slow row 
  • Focus on the reset sequence 
  • :45 moderate row
  • Focus on smooth reset while maintaining the legs straight until the hands reach the ankles. 
  • :30 workout effort row

Back Squat | tell, show, do, check

  • Establish stance, grip, & set-up 
  • Feet shoulder width apart
  • Bar on traps with full grip on bar 
  • Arms pressing into bar 
  • Stomach squeezed 
  • 5 Goodmornings
  • Focus on gripping the ground with the foot throughout 
  • 3 Cued back squats
  • “Squat and hold” 
  • Focus on gripping the ground with the foot throughout 
  • 3 Cued back squats
  • “Squat and hold” 
  • Focus on an upright torso in the squat 
  • Cue athletes to press up into the bar with the arms to control the load
  • Move to rack & teach sound un-rack and re-rack 

Strength
(21-33 minutes)

(21-33 minutes)

  • 10:00 window 
  • Builds based on coach or athlete discretion
  • Transition to part 2

Primer
(33-39 minutes)

(33-39 minutes)

Practice Round

  • 5 Wallballs
  • 10 Sit-ups
  • :30 Row for Calories

Break

Workout adjustments if needed

Workout
(39-55 minutes)

(39-54 minutes)

Look For

  • Wallballs | Efficiency with the leg drive, and controlled breathing. 
  • Sit ups | Consistent movement to complete reps in 1:15 or less. 
  • Row | Sequence of pull.  Leg drive, hips open, pull the arms.

Post Workout Clean Up & Chat (54-60)

Accessory Work

Gun Show

A) 8x8 Strict Dips (Rest 30 Seconds) 

B) 100 Banded Biceps Curls  

* Finish All 3 Sets of (A) Before Advancing To (B)

Additional Elements

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