Fitness-5/13-row/double-under, muscle-up work

Wednesday WOD-Row/Double-unders

I wanted to get in one more good metcon today before the qualifier this weekend that was light load but high intensity. My body was tired and I was feeling it, but I thought it productive to push the anaerobic threshold one more time before Saturday. I found this workout from the good folks down at Kirkland CrossFit. Row and double-unders are two of my strengths and are relatively low-load so I thought this would be a good one. I will take Thursday and Friday off of metcon work and will use these days for active rest and regeneration in prep for the games. The only skill work I'll be doing is more muscle-up practice. Today's workout was the following for time:

-row 500m
-100 du
-row 750m
-50 du
-row 1000m
-25 du

time=12:10

Not a bad time here but think I could have pushed the row harder. I was amazed at how hard double-unders were after the row. On the set of 100, I only strung off the first 55. Should be able to do the whole 100. I will definitely be keeping this workout in the quiver for a later date. It's a great little metcon.

After the wod, I worked more on muscle-ups but only gave about 10 attempts. My body was tired and it just wasn't going to happen. I'll take Thursday almost completely off to recover a bit and will spend more time on muscle-ups come Friday. My body needs a break. And I always forget that most often, more work doesn't help you improve, rest does.