11/30 Monday

Coach Jon and Allyson do partner deadlifts for the CrossFit Games Team Series competition. Perhaps we should try a partner CrossFit total sometime?
Coach Noah's 8 week gymnastics/progressive calisthenics clinic starts today! We have only a few spots available in this specialty course. Join us!
This week is Fitness Testing week! We are testing our cardio/respiratory endurance, strength, stamina, power, speed, accuracy and flexibility. Today we begin our testing with the CrossFit Total. Developed by Coach Rippetoe specifically for CrossFitters, the CF Total accurately reflects the level of functional strength available to an athlete. Today you have the option for bench press instead of press. 
The order for performing the three lifts will be squat, press, and then deadlift. The best single attempt for each of the three lifts are added together for the CrossFit Total. There is no time limit for each lift or for the length of the session in which they are all performed, but they must all be performed during one session—i.e., you cannot leave the area to rest or perform other activities between the three lifts. 
After a warm-up, the squat will be performed first. Some squatting with the empty bar should have been included in the general warm-up so that the knees, hips, back, and shoulders are not too terribly surprised.  
Your first attempt would be a weight you know you can do for a heavy set of three. The second attempt would be a weight you know without any doubt that you could do for a single, having just done the first attempt. And the third attempt is the weight you want to do, based on your performance on the previous two attempts. If you have made a mistake setting your first attempt, the next two will need to be adjusted, but you should know what you can triple, and this will always be a safe first attempt.  
After the squat, rest a while (long enough to rest, not long enough to get cold) and follow the same procedure with the press. Since press numbers will be much lighter, the warm-ups will be closer together, and you might choose to use fewer intermediate warm-ups. This is fine, since the squat has provided quite a bit of systemic warmup, if not actual fatigue. After a rest and a drink following the press, the deadlift warm-up might be abbreviated even further, with a heavier first warmup and only two or three intermediate sets before the first attempt. 
Coach Ripp's CrossFit Total Rules:
Here are some basic precautions that need to be followed for safety:
1) Don’t be stupid.
Don’t total if you’re injured to the extent that a total will aggravate the problem. This will cost you in at least training time, and possibly time off of work if you’re ultra-stupid.
2) Don’t be greedy.
Learn to recognize the difference between greed and ambition, and be merely ambitious.
3) Don’t be pig-headed.
If your first attempt tells you that you need to lower your second, do so, without a misplaced sense of diminished self-worth. It’s a test, and it’s designed to measure what’s there, not create something that’s not. That’s what training is for. 
Today's Workout
CrossFit Total 
or 
Powerlifting Total

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