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Aaron

Mel, Chandler and myself will be doing Bravo portion this weekend. I really believe our time would of been even better on Alpha, but I was a little over-trained and waited the team down, but they never faultered, and they kept pushing me to do my best!

I think the reason I love the FMP’s so much, is that it always seems to me in that last few minutes of the mission, you mentally start to doubt your ability, and that is where the Warrior Mind has to come in – so you can continue to kick ass, and complete the mission.

Looking forward to Bravo this weekend, I am thinking we may do it Sunday, but we will post as soon as we do.

Hoo-Yah!!!

I too weigh about 165lbs. I probably would have opted for the 135lbs DL right from the start. I like that you tried to go heavy though. I also think it was good that you chose the workout that you thought would challenge you more. Both of these things are right in line with the training philosophy of the Warrior Athlete.

I made Bravo’s AAO pretty hard on the muscles of the posterior chain (hamstrings, glutes, lower back). Dropping the weight was prudent to accomplish the mission, and as I said, I would have gone with 135lbs DL because I know myself. There’s a guy that I work out with though, whose a big MF (probably about 210lbs BW), he could have done the 225 no problem.

When it comes to lifting heavy, here’s my thinking. There is a give and take for everything. If you want to be fast and have a great deal of endurance, you cannot spend an inordinate amount of time lifting really heavy. If you do, you will lose the balance. Here’s my rule of thumb on the DL – Light = 95lbs / Medium = 135lbs / Heavy = 225lbs. I rarely go heavier than 225 because for my purposes, that’s the weight that offers me the ability to maintain strength while still being able to run 10 miles +. At 225 I might do 5×5, or something, but not a FMP type workout.

Thanks for sharing your mission stats.
Coach

After the squats during the insertion phase the Phase I thrusters took longer than planned. Once finished I started Phase II with 225# on the deadlifts. By this point it was very hard and I was breaking the set of 10 into 3 subsets to get through it without getting hurt. Looking at my watch after round 2 of 5, I knew I wasn’t going to make the deadline at this weight. I reduced the weight to 135# and finished the remaining 3 rounds. Time was 23:55.

I didn’t like the fact that I dropped weight on the deadlifts and definitely had mixed feelings about it. On one hand I looked at it as copping out–saving myself from the punishment of going over the 25 min timeline and having to do so much more of the workout. On the other hand I imagined it as dropping some weight from my assault pack in order to make it to the extraction in time, doing whatever it takes to accomplish the mission.

I’d appreciate any of your thoughts or honest feedback on this. Thanks.

I’d be interested to see what your time would be if you did it again as Team Bravo.

Go ahead – I’ll wait…

BattleBorn CrossFit here in Reno took the FMP challenge today. Small team of us, Chandler, Mel, Harold, Kumar and myself.

Chandler, Mel and I worked as team Alpha, and then Harold and Kumar worked as team Charlie…. Yeah I know, there was no team Charlie. We took Alpha and Bravo, and combined/subtracted to get them there team version of the FMP.

Thanks again for a killer WOD, and another amazing day with my commrades.

Alena