The Hubbard Workout of the Week: Special Guest

The Hubbard Workout of the Week 10: Special Guest! from Stephen Hubbard on Vimeo.

Stephen and Ben do:

As Many Rounds As Possible in 15 minutes:
5 Deadlifts
5 Pullups
5 Box Jumps
5 Dips

The SHubbard Workout of the Week # 5 Heavy Lifts: Crossfit Total

The SHubbard Workout of the Week 10/18 CFT from Stephen Hubbard on Vimeo.
Stephen tests his Crossfit Total

Shoulder press: 125 (new PR)
Back Squat: 260 (new PR)
Deadlift: 340 (new PR)

Total: 725

Thanks to Choppa for filming


What do you think you could Max on these lifts?  Well, go out and do it then!

The Shubbard Workout of the Week # 3 C&Js

The SHubbard Workout of the Week 10/3/10 30 C&Js from Stephen Hubbard on Vimeo.
Stephen does "Grace" which is a workout consisting simply of 30 Clean and Jerks for time.

He chose 90lb and got 3:15 so that was probably too light.

The SHubbard Workout of the Week # 4

The SHubbard Workout of the Week 10/12/10 Pullup/Frontsquat Ladder from Stephen Hubbard on Vimeo.
Do 1 Pull Up and 1 Front Squat the first minute, do 2 of each the second minute, 3 in the third and so on...

You get to rest between the last front squat of a round and the beginning of the next minute.

Post your weight squatted and your score.

(Stephen used 90lbs and got through 11 Rounds + 8 Pull Ups.)





Now this was a hard workout! My arms and back are still sore 2 days latter.

The SHubbard Workout of the Week #2

The SHubbard Workout of the Week 9/30 from Stephen Hubbard on Vimeo.

4 Rounds for time:
8 GHD Situps
8 GHD Back Extensions
8 Burpees
8 Pull Ups

My Time: 7:24



Whata you think guys? I think I am getting the hang of this video editing thing. Also, Im a big fan of this new Kid Cudi song.



Post your time to the comments.

The SHubbard Workout of the Week #1

The SHubbard Workout of the Week September 21 2010 from Stephen Hubbard on Vimeo.

Stephen does:



5 Rounds of:

5 Deadlifts (150lb)

5 Push Jerks (90lb)

5 Pull Ups

5 Box Jumps (24inch box)



My time: 5:06

Post your time to the comments section.

Whata you think blogosphere? Do the workout and post your times.

Crossfiting Movements

2009 Crossfit Games

I am feeling good about my recent Crossfiting. One the things that I felt was odd when I started (and I assume is a big initial back off for many potential Crossfit newbies) was the that there were so many different movements that needed learning and practicing - at least with leg extention machines, you don't have to be worried about form. Overhead squats, kipping pullups, muscle ups... who has time to learn that stuff? It all seems like a heck of a lot of initial investment - I certainly understand why someone, epecially someone that is not that interested or dedicated to training, might decide to stick to their "gym routine" because its simpler.

But I have been realizing that just as the physics/kinimatics part of Crossfit (P=F*d/t) turns on the nerd in me, the multible new movements turns on the mountain climber in me (Why did I climb that mountain? Because it was there.) Each movement presents its own challange to be mastered with practice and then is always scalable meaning that no matter how good you are at a movement, you can always just go faster or do more weight. Yes, the leg extention allows you to add as much weight as you like, but in addition to not requiring any practice to be able to do the movement, it encorporates none of the flexibility, balance, coordination, accuracy, and agility required to proform things such as Snatches.

Well I've been into Crossfit for at least a year now and I feel that I am am finally focusing MORE on improvement then on practicing technique: I've got the kipping pullups (sort of) and the snatch and the box jumps and the the presses and the row and the deadlifts. I need work on my double unders and handstand pushups and have yet to do a muscle up cause I don't have rings, but I am really able to attack a workout now. Its not as though all the time spent working on form is not working out, doing anything requiring flexibility, balance, coordination, accuracy, and agility is working toward fitness, its just that now that I feel like I have most of the movements under control, I can really make some gains in Power.

Here is what I have done recently:

7 1ROM Max. Deadlifts:
235 245 265 285 295 310Fail 300 New PR

Grace - first time ever doing it as Rx'd
30 135# Clean&Jerk
19:20

4 Rounds - After 10k bike ride
5 95# SumoDeadlift - Highpull
5 95# Push-Press
5 Pullups
6:11

Clean&jerk PR: 145
Snatch PR: 110
1K Row Pr: 3:29


With the aquired ability to do all these cool movements, I feel able to program workouts for myself that allow me to work on my weaknesses and produce maximum power. The body's feelin' good.

Fran

The Crossfit WOD is Fran. I want to do it as RX'ed. Gotta build up the balls first (gotta take my lab final beforehand)

Anyone want to join me?

http://media.crossfit.com/cf-video/CrossFit_SpealFran205.mov