Friday
WOD:
“Brandon’s Bad Day”
3 Rounds for Time of:
15 Overhead Squats (95lbs)
15 L-Pull Ups
15 Split Jerks (95lbs)
15 Knees to Elbows
15 Hang Cleans (95lbs)
15 Back Extensions (w/25lbs)
Please be sure to do the following:
- Use a rack
- You must split jerk, no push jerks
- Hang cleans start from the hang (not the ground) and move to a squat clean
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Photo of “Brandon’s Bad Day” Courtesy of CrossFit.com
First Hand Background Info on this WOD (and yes, it is our Brandon that the WOD is named for): Brandon’s Bad Day was filmed in May 2007 on a warm sunny day in Golden, Colorado during lunch as Brandon was finishing up the second day of working as a head trainer at a CrossFit Certification Seminar. The video appeared on the main site on August 3, 2007. The title of this post is “Slow Drain” for a reason. On paper, this WOD did not appear to be what it ended up as. Granted, working out at elevation (5,675ft to be exact) is challenging when you are used to working out at sea level, but more than that, something happens toward the end of the second round during this WOD that sucks the life right out of you, regardless of what elevation you are training at.
The beauty in the video and the overall effort itself is that he finished the workout, no matter how long it took. Everyone can identify with that struggle and that feeling, hanging on by a thread. It is awesome to see people fight for the finish everyday in the gym, this fight just happened to be captured on film. Brandon has done this workout several times since his initial encounter with it in May 07′ and those attempts have gone much better, so maybe that day was simply a ”bad day” for him.
Click the link below to view the video, courtesy of CrossFit.com
http://media.crossfit.com/cf-video/CrossFit_BrandonsBadDay.wmv
“If you wait for the perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.” Ecclesiastes 11:4
