Some Things You Don’t Expect Together

Posted on Mar 29, 2007 - 10:02pm by MarkFu in Training Log

I have never had a pickle and a piece of Belgian dark chocolate together. I wouldn’t think to find penguins in the Amazon rain forest and I wouldn’t expect a Muslim to get some barbecue pork and down a couple of shots with me. Some things naturally just don’t go well together, some you would never expect to see together and others you wonder why they are even together. (I did not mean to make a reference to my dating past). Interesting things can result sometimes like "hey, you got chocolate in my peanut butter" Reeses’s peanut butter cups.

This evening’s WOD was kind of like that. I did high repetition deadlifts and between lifts went out and ran 400+ meters. It wasn’t long before the runs looked like something else, like a cry for help. Here is what I got done in 21:41…

4 rounds, for time,
Deadlifts @ bodyweight (200#) 21, 15, 12, 9 reps
4 x 450 meter runs between deadlift rounds.

My warm-up was two rounds of the standard Crossfit method, which is effective at getting a sluggish body like mine ready for high intensity work. I added to the affect by wearing a 20# weighted vest on all, except the initial 800 meter warm-up run.

This is one of those workouts that you look at and say "Ok, I can do that. No problem." Except that once I got underway, I understood this would be a "problem" for about 20 minutes. I walked out of the gym tonight in a haze and a blank gaze but snapped out of it in time for dinner.

According to Eric Cressey, "deadlifts enable a lifter to use more loading, thus ensuring that more motor units and, in turn, muscle fibers will be recruited all over the body. The more fibers you recruit, the greater your stimulus for growth. And, if you’re looking to shed body fat, the post-exercise oxygen debt will be larger from recruiting more muscle mass, meaning that your metabolic rate will be really jacked up for longer after the end of your training session". That is a good thing!

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