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April 8, 2007
How to Use The CFT to Calcuate WOD Poundages
Calculate what percentage of the WOD "prescribed" weight to use by dividing your CrossFit Total by 875, then using that percentage of the prescribed weight. Men and women should both use the men's weight to calculate the poundages using this method.
Example: If your CFT is 400 and you want to know how much to use for "Diane" Multiply 225 by .45 to arrive at about 100 pounds. Example 2: if your CFT is 1000, multiply 225 by 1.15 to arrive at about 260 lbs.
200 lbs = .25
400 lbs = .45
600 lbs = .65
800 = .9
1000 lbs = 1.15
1200 = 1.35
Posted by Max Lewin at April 8, 2007 1:13 PM
Comments
Hey, did anyone else check out the "Trevor's Team Workout" on the national site? Doing the workout as a team looks so fun! Maybe we could try something like that, maybe at the CFO party. What do you think? I thought we could also draw names for teams/partners or something?
Posted by: Ann at April 8, 2007 9:50 PM
Sounds like an awesome idea, Ann. I'm all for it. Where I'm from two's a quorum so I guess it's a go. ;-)
Posted by: Mike Minium at April 9, 2007 12:45 AM
Ann, it's nice to see you back to posting every other minute on our blog. Now we just need to get Jonathan posting again.
Posted by: Mike Minium at April 9, 2007 12:59 AM
Mike, why are you up so late?! I hope you're not up deleted spam so that I can post! Get some sleep:)
Are we doing yesterday's WOD today?
Posted by: Ann Kelly at April 9, 2007 12:44 PM
Franklin,
Ribs are still wack, but better. I can't really do anything except run.
Mike,
What's the deal with the olympic llift program? I think it might be good weight training supplement to the Muay Thai.
Posted by: chad Lott at April 9, 2007 1:01 PM
I'm interested in the Oly program, too.
Posted by: Tim at April 9, 2007 1:11 PM
Today's workout didn't suck enough. We should have gone for 5 rounds!
Posted by: angela at April 9, 2007 8:38 PM
Ann, it's all Franklin's fault. He makes me stay up and discuss the finer points of Oly lifting 'til all hours of the night (just kidding, Franklin).
Chad, Tim: you guys are in--this is a totally voluntary thing.
What's going on is that beginning in May I'll post an Oly lifting program that's to be done 3x/week. The end goal is to get everyone proficient enough in the lifts to be able to compete in an Oly lifting competition as part of Team CFO. More to come in later posts...so just keep checking CFO.com.
Posted by: Mike Minium at April 9, 2007 9:19 PM
Mike,
Would the Oly workouts be a good sub for a weight gain program like Max did?
And can you really stay up past midnight talking about Oly lifts?
Posted by: Tim at April 10, 2007 4:16 PM
People do stay up past midnight and *talk* about weightlifting ad nauseum. www.goheavy.com
Also, one of the best weightlifitng sites is Butch Curry's site: www.lifttilyadie.com
Posted by: angela at April 10, 2007 10:02 PM
Not really, Tim. The purpose isn't to gain weight; it's simply to increase your snatch and c&j totals. You'll likely gain weight as a side effect (with a caloric surplus) but not as much as you would following a program of slow lifts.
Sad but true, I have stayed up talking about Oly lifts past midnight. Yeah, I know, I gotta get a life.
Posted by: Mike Minium at April 10, 2007 10:50 PM
Angela, thanks for the links!
Mike, thanks for the info. And it's okay if your life is oly lifting. Really.
Posted by: Tim at April 11, 2007 11:19 AM