Team Workouts

In the spirit of the CrossFit Games, we're ushering in the holiday season with a team workout for tomorrow's rest day. This will be the first of what we hope will be many team workouts.

Team workouts are a great way to engage in a little friendly competition. And just like with our standard CF workouts, they offer plenty of variety. They run the gamut in terms of how many athletes per team, the length of workout, the exercises used, etc.

Tomorrow's workout places a strong emphasis on near-peak power output. In other words, this is a fairly high-load, short-duration workout.

Tomorrow's Team Workout:

3 Rounds for Time:

3 back squats
6 thrusters
9 burpees

The workout will be done in relay fashion, using two-person teams. So teammate 1 starts off, goes through all 3 squats, all 6 thrusters, and all 9 burpees. The moment teammate 1 finishes the ninth burpee, teammate 2 then jumps in and goes through the same sequence (thus allowing teammate 1 to recover a bit, resting until teammate 2 is done with his round). After teammate 2 finishes his ninth burpee, it's back to teammate 1. This sequence continues until both teammates have finished 3 rounds each.

For those of you who are looking for a good show, MJJ and Manwell have challenged Brandon and Connor to this workout. They'll be going during the 10am class tomorrow and the weights they'll be using are 275# for the back squats and 175# for the thrusters.

Any betting types out there? Any prognosticators? Let us hear it in comments.

And who else will join in on the Team Workout fun? Pick a weight that's challenging and get to it!