Good morning Team HEL -
Welcome back from the weekend! Make sure you have your training journals for these coming weeks, we will be doing a lot of barbell training.
Tuesday
Barbell training
Wednesday
Agility
Thursday
Benchmark
Friday
Barbell training
Saturday
Team workout
"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
with barbell training, will there be any metcons or something similar?
Posted by: Nikki Brush | October 19, 2009 at 18:14
Nikki -
No. Barbell training will usually be comprised of one or two movements that you will do for the full hour. These days will be more individualized than MetCon's where everyone will do nearly the same thing.
That being said, those who have achieved a Basic Level may train during the evening outside of the WOD. In other words, if you train at 1700 with the Team you can stay and do a MetCon you like or missed earlier in the week at 1800.
The reason I am going back to isolated barbell training is because when we split the strength training and MetCon in one hour, there wasn't enough mental energy given to the barbell training and gains were less frequent. Strength is a key component to fitness and needs to be given at least 60 minutes of focus.
Posted by: Kevin | October 19, 2009 at 18:31
Dumb question - so is "barbell training" essentially a "heavy day" in disguise? :)
Posted by: Nikki Brush | October 20, 2009 at 09:53