Pulling your own weight and then some

Posted on August 30, 2009 by Allison Bojarski

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Sunday 090830
Weighted pull-ups 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 reps
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Your weighted pull-ups don’t have to be this heavy, but it’s great if they are. (Extra credit if you can identify this Black Boxer and at which (old) location of the Black Box he’s doing his weighted pull-ups.)

  • http://allisonbojarski.tumblr.com Allison Bojarski

    How to scale today’s WOD, from the CrossFit BrandX forums:
    Big Dawgs-Pack-Puppies
    If you can do a pull up do the above workout. Even if you can only add 5 pounds it will be good for you.
    If you cannot do any pull ups do 5 rounds of 5 beginner pull ups or 5 rounds of 5 assisted pull ups using as little resistance as possible.

  • Hari

    Friday Rest Day Dinner (Location Not Yet Determined)
    In so Far (4):
    Hari, Jai, Lt. Gabe, Torch
    Who else is in?

  • Mike

    70, 90, 100, 110f, 110, 120f, 120f
    very close on 120. Will get that and hopefully more next time.
    (35,34)

  • Annie

    Hari – I’m in for dinner! Also rsvping for Elise. She is going to be in New York next weekend.

  • Tim

    45
    50
    70
    70
    70
    fail
    70
    75

  • Levi

    45, 70, 80, 90, 100, 102.5, 80

  • Tony

    25, 35, 44, 45, 55, 65F, 60
    (23,17)

  • kj

    Blue band – 3 in-a-row
    Two purple “strings” – 3 in-a-row
    One purple “string” – 5 singles
    Deadhang? Fail.
    There are some seriously strong people at the box. Nice work guys!

  • Hari

    55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 82(f)
    (68,54), (55, 42), (39, 31)

  • Rickke

    That’s Zach in the photo. Pretty impressive to watch him pull up 135# today.
    @ BBB
    I’ll use my extra credit and to get off the hook and say I was uninspired by this WOD. I just put on the 30# vest and did max reps for 7 sets. Best set was 5 reps I think. I do it for real next time.
    Then I did some random stuff:
    2 rounds slosh pipe walking lunges with 1 min handstand holds (Kurt’s cash out)
    bench press 5-5-5 [95-115-135(4)]
    3 rounds of 5 ring push-ups, 10 toes to bar, 15 double unders

  • Davi

    First time with this WOD.
    I would like to say that I was greatly inspired by this WOD, especially after more than a week of doing basically nothing with my body except crutching around and one day of rolling around in the sand plus the occasional arm balance at the ocean’s edge.
    I executed the WOD at my doorway rigged pull-up bar and with a profound hope that I would not end up with my body or any breakable household objects in a shattered mess on the floor.
    Weights are based on the bathroom scale as I’m doing this from home. I’m wearing my roboboot and I can’t be bothered to figure out how much I weigh with or without the roboboot right now.
    When I last stepped on the scale sans boot a few days ago I was 132.
    The basic weight containing device is a backpack.
    1) 11 (boombox, notebook, wallet, shirt whatever else is in my backpack)
    2) 28.5 (minus the boombox, plus ice cream maker bucket, giant cheap bottle of wine, 2-liter bottle of diet coke, an old shotput, a hair dryer, and a bottle of laundry detergent)
    3) 28.5 (same as above…getting worried about the ice cream maker and am in search of smaller, heavy household objects)
    4) 32 (minus the shirt, detergent, hair dryer, and ice cream maker, plus joyce carol oates book, iron nautical star, clarinet in case)
    5) 32 (failed to get chin over the bar)
    6-7-8 (oops) as above, but minus the wine and diet coke —-> I’m a little afraid they are going to fall out of my bag anyway —-> one set of three

  • Zach Singer

    I’ve been told I have stumpy arms. Cool. Me and my stumpy arms like this WOD. Old PR was 126#
    90#
    100#
    115#
    120#
    125#
    130#
    135# – PR
    Felt like I maybe had a pound or two more. Next time.

  • Craig_Cinci

    Haven’t posted in a while since I’ve been traveling for work:
    8/24 – Mary – 10 rds + 7 PU
    8/25 – AMRAP w/ Thrusters, HPC & SDLHP – 11 rds
    8/27 – 100 Burpees – 8:43
    8/28 – OHS – 185, 205, 225, 235, 245
    8/29 – Pwr Snatch, Run WOD – 17:57
    8/30 – Wtd PU – 70, 90, 95, 100, 105(f), 105, 107.5
    My metcons are still pretty shitty. Please no comments on my running times.
    In the USVI most of next week for client meetings. Beach workouts here I come!

  • Mike M

    hotel wod:
    100 double unders
    80 squats
    60 sit ups
    40 lunges
    20 burpees
    time 8:19…

  • Davi

    Re Rest Day Dinner:
    the invitation still stands for another weekend, but it turns out that an old friend is celebrating her birthday on Friday night and I’d very much like to attend.
    So, another weekend, please chime in if you’re down for some potluck action!
    In the meantime, I am having an artstravaganza barter party on Sunday. So if you’re free and interested, let me know!
    It will be lots of creative fun and tasty food and drink.

  • Jeffrey B.

    18.5, 41.5, 56.5, 66.5, 76.5, 86,5 (F), 76.5, 86,5 (F), 76.5

  • Lisa

    Was nowhere near a pullup bar today – ran some miles then went to the beach. However, my beach reading was ‘Starting Strength’ so I worked on my squats with a driftwood ‘bar.’ The sand was useful as I could use my footprints to use variety of stance width and foot angle.
    Davi, I LOVE your creative method of doing the WOD. From doing heavy backpack training I know what it is like to pile everything and the kitchen sink into a pack to get the desired weight :)

  • Jai

    I, too, love Davi’s improv. Awesome! I went for the purple string again today. I can get up if I kip, and I’ve got nothing from a dead hang. So still working on that. Also, because I’m a jackass, couldn’t resist doing one arm pull-ups. With the green band, swinging around like a nutcase. Fun.

  • Brett_nyc

    bwt 215lbs, heaviest I’ve ever been
    56 lbs
    81
    91 fail
    91
    101 with a chicken neck
    101 fail
    81
    56
    cashout: One arm power snatches
    75×3 each side
    85×3
    95×3
    105×3

  • Davi

    all pull-ups dead hang

  • Reagan

    55-65-75-90-100-100-105f
    Black Box (182,182)