friday “conditioning” session

Friday afternoon, Robert Novy-Marx, who is probably my oldest friend, and also an independent CrossFitter, endurance athlete, and general badass, joined me for a crazy workout.

Warm-Up: 400 meter jog. Mobility.

Thrusters: 10 x 45 / 5 x 95

WOD: ‘Litinov’ Thrusters. 10 rounds of “max rep” Thrusters @ 135#, followed immediately by a 40 meter sprint, on timed 3 minute intervals.

Robert would do his Thrusters and take off on the sprint, then I would do mine and sprint, and so we wended our way through the workout in just under 27 minutes. Brutal. Robert did about twice as many Thrusters as I did, even though he is a few inches shorter and weighs more than 20 lbs less than me. Such is life. He is also better at math than me.

Result: 6 (PR!), 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4 (fail on 5), 4, 4, 4 (47 reps). Fun workout. Very physically challenging.

Turns out that my previous 5 rep Thruster max was 125, so, on paper, I have a new 6 rep max. Since I did 47 reps at my “5 rep max” in one workout… I guess it’s time to shoot for a new Thruster PR. It should be more like 155.