More Data

We spent the last month at Potomac CrossFit doing feats of strength. The hypothesis was that higher levels of limit strength (as measured by heavier weights done at low reps with ample rest) would translate to increased max limit strength, but would also carry over to improved metcon and performance on non strength dominant workouts. Or at least it would not hurt metcon and would allow people to approach doing workouts as RXd.

Since I can do most workouts as RX'd , I took the opportunity to see if I could increase my limit strength without hurting my metcon. I also want it to improve my times on some of the WODs that I can do as RX'd but that feel heavy to me. Grace (30 reps clean and jerk 135lbs for time) will be a perfect test. I haven't done many workouts since we ended feats of strength month, though I set several PR's in metcon workouts DURING feats of strength month. I will try to collect the data over the next month and let you know.

So far I can tell you that my CrossFit Total went from 900 to 920. I did, however, feel weaker on push-ups than before we did feats of strength month. I think it is because I just didn't do them very much and they are something I improve on by doing them a lot. We'll see.

Topics to come:

Why Aaron can't gain weight?

Can Aaron get better at push-ups and thus improve his Cindy score from it's 1 year plateau?

Did Aaron spell plateau correctly?

That last one might be kind of slow.