Thursday Blowout

We're going to call this week's workout "Find Your Own Way." What started out as Juggernaut 2, evolved and grew right along with our athletes this week.

I'm usually a stickler with my clients. I've done the homework on a program or a workout, designed it as efficiently and effectively as possible to accomplish what my clients are looking for. Baring any morphological issues, the program should be accomplished as it's written. It is what it is for a reason. Thursday was something else entirely.

Our Juggernaut workouts are exactly what they sound like, huge. You have one task. Here's as much time as you need. Your one goal; finish. And every single person did. Every single person returned to the well time and again to draw out more, to keep going. As wells began to run dry, the workout began to change. Out of necessity, in order to simply keep moving and accomplish the goal. Explosive movements gave up their explosion and gave way to movements that enabled the maintenance of speed and momentum. These same high velocity movements melted into purposful, structurally strong movements that emphasized keepingh form and strengthening the body, all while the energy stores were being looted.

In rounds 9, 10 and 11, burpees shrank to body weight squats briefly interrupted by a pushup or two. Decksquats morphed into deliberate but determined weighted situps. Clean and press melted into sumodeadlifts, which, in turn, were ground down into a straight forward romanian deadlift. By the 12th round and 74 minutes into the workout all four athletes had found their own road, their own path up the mountain. When I called out the hour, half expecting someone to ring the bell and and tap out at the end of what was supposed to be our one hour together, the only response I got was the sound of focused breathing and medicine balls slamming against the wall.

Each athlete: One body, one system, accomplishing one mission, one goal. Finish. Bravo.

12 rounds of the following.

12 repetitions of each movement equals one round.

Burpees

Kettlebell clean & press (12 each arm)

Med Ball Deck Squat

Kettlebell high swings

Wallball