Fitness-3/29-press/push press/split jerk, "Fitness Tests"

Monday

I came into the gym feeling pretty well rested after taking it very easy Saturday afternoon and all of Sunday. Started with some overhead work, here were my best efforts:

press
-5 x 155

push press
-1 x 205

split jerk
-3 x 240

I felt fairly strong going overhead. Attempted a 6th rep at 155 on the press and missed it but am finally starting to see my press strength improve. The jerks felt like butter and 3 at 240 was no problem. This is exciting.

After the lift, went after some fitness tests, taken from one of the events at the 2010 CrossFit Games Hawaii Sectional. In these tests, you've 1 minute to do the prescribed work and even if you end up having time to do more, you stop once you hit the mark required. In other words, it's pass/fail. If you finish before the minute is up, you've the remainder of the minute plus the next minute to rest before starting the next test. There were 5 tests, so the wod was 9 minutes total since the last rest isn't taken into account because the workout is over:

1) 10 ohd squats @ 135#, score=pass, took me about 20 seconds and felt like I could've gone the whole minute
2) 10 unbroken pistols each leg, score=pass, barely got this one right leg needs work...both legs need work
3) 30 unbroken pull-ups, score=fail, I did 28 and grip was the determining factor
4) 45 unbroken 20 inch box jumps, score=pass, finished around 50 seconds
5) 4 unbroken hspu on parallettes, score=fail, I couldn't get one, the parallettes make for a brutal range of motion

Overall, there weren't really any surprises here. I did think I could get 30 pull-ups so was a bit disappointed I didn't. But next time, I will. And the hspu's on the parallettes is a whole new ball game. I plan to start spending a lot of time on them.