7/8 & 7/9
Rest Days
Rested on Wednesday and Thursday. Thursday right after I taught the morning classes we packed up, hopped in the car and headed for Aromas! It took about 5 hours, then the team met up for dinner around 7pm.
At dinner we spent an hour going over the workouts, deciding which of the 8 of us who had been training would be on the team—as we can only officially have 6—and deciding who should do which workout. Once we decided who was on which workout, we then talked through each workout to come up with our strategy.
Now that we’ve finished the first day of competition I can say that the thoughtfulness we put into all these decisions definitely made a difference! Once of the judges even complemented us after our 2nd workout, saying we were one of the most efficient teams he’d seen all day when it came to working together smoothly. Yay Ocho!
These were the rules and workouts…
General Affiliate Cup Rules
1. Each workout will be performed by two men and two women from the team.
2. If the team signed up more than the four athletes, they can assign a different set of two men and two women for each workout.
3. The movement standards are typical HQ unless otherwise stated.
4. Each team will be ranked according to their time or score relative to the other teams for that workout. Their final score for the workout will be equal to their rank.
5. The five teams with the lowest score after all three workouts will compete on Sunday in the final workout.
6. Teams will benefit from strategies that consider the relative strengths of their athletes, particularly in terms of the work/rest demands of different positions in the workouts.
Stadium Workout
30 Wallballs (20lbs/14lbs)
Row 300m
30 Box jumps (24”)
30 KB swings (24kg/16kg)
30 DB Push press / Push jerk (40lbs/25lb)
30 Deadlifts (225lbs/135lbs)
Rules:
1. The wallballs are performed one athlete at a time, starting with the women. When all four athletes have completed the wallballs, they move on together as a team.
2. The middle four drills are then performed together in “Annie R U Ok?” format, meaning all four team members start at different stations at the same time. They rotate in the order listed once all four athletes have completed the rowing and reps. When all four athletes have completed all four drills, they move together to the deadlifts.
3. The barbell will be pre-loaded with 225lbs. Both men will perform 30 deadlifts each, and then the team will be responsible for removing 90lbs. Both women will then perform 30 deadlifts each, and the clock stops.
4. There is a 20min cap on this workout.
Hill Workout
2500m (approximately) Hill run relay
Rules:
1. The first athlete will run one lap (approximately 500m) carrying a short piece of PVC.
2. At the completion of the lap, there will be a well marked transition area in which to pass the PVC to the second athlete, who runs one lap with the PVC.
3. This repeats until all four athletes have run one lap with the PVC.
4. The team then runs one final lap together.
5. The clock is stopped when the last athlete crosses the finish line holding the PVC. If the last athlete to cross the line isn’t carrying the PVC, the clock stops when that athlete grabs the PVC.
6. There is a 20min cap on this workout.
North Pad Workout
3-rep Overhead Squat plus
Max total pull-ups in 3 attempts
Rules:
1. Each team will have 20min to record the above efforts for all four athletes.
2. Each team will have one pull-up bar, one barbell, one rack, four 45lb bumpers, two 25lb bumpers, two 15lb bumpers, two 10lb bumpers, and four 2.5lb plates.
3. In any order, all four athletes must perform exactly three sets of max pull-ups. Pull-ups are standard ROM, and will be judged by middle of the neck reaching the height of the bar.
4. All four athletes perform the heaviest 3-rep overhead squat possible (as many attempts as they want within the 20min time limit).
5. The greatest successful loads lifted by each athlete are tallied, and added to the total reps for the 12 sets of pull-ups performed to become the team score.
6. The team with the highest score wins.
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