Awesome!

oh no

I hope it's not raining tomorrow...my platform and rack is outside!

rock!!!

wow. i'm speechless.

I will only have access to one bar tomorrow :o(

Cannot wait to storm through this WOD.

3-2-1 GO!

Wow, this ought to be fun... :(

i hate bench presses

Well...there will be no sleep tonight!

Man I need to drop weight. 225 is no joke on this work out!!!

i knew we were gonna be in for it.

The video shows one of the more impressive performances seen on this site.

if i put together the past two wods rolled into one + 5 sets of 3 bench today due to work, do you think i will be ok tomorrow? Also, if I weigh 220 lbs, what would my weight be for the excercises for linda? I think i have my figures, i just want to make sure i'm reading it correct. thanks for your responses in advance.

YES!!!!!!!!! LOVE THIS ONE!!!!!!!

Nice Gillian! Representing the East Coast!

Holy sh?t! that was incredible. I though under 30 min was fast for linda. That girl is a machine. And good coaching by allison, looking beautiful as always.

I'm going to Arkansas next week!

A long time ago someone sent me an email saying that if I'm ever in Arkansas he'd brush his tooth, put on this shoe and do a workout with me. I can't remember his name.. and it could have been Kentucky.

But if you're out there drop me a line!

Gillian is awesome. I got to do that workout with her and let me tell you it was inspiring to say the least. She's a gifted, natural athlete, great trainer and a really cool person to hang with.

After that day I didn't think I'd ever want to do Linda again. I'm still not walking right..

I have a good excuse not to do it! I'm going to my Grandparents 50th Anniversary party tomorrow. I'll be doing a run in PA instead.

Can't wait to see the vid. You rock Gillian.

Shudder...

Gillian-Amazing performance. That was quite impressive.

if we don't have access to multiple bars, how would someone go about this workout?

I saw this and said aloud, "God..."

It'll be my second date with Linda. First time I did power cleans...but full cleans are Rx'd I presume.

gillian is scary
i think i'm going to do 3/4 body weight for BOTH cleans and bench presses

Wow, Gillian. You are my Shero!!

Gillian would make the ultimate VP. If another country got out of line, we could just show them the video of her doing Linda and they would straighten up real quick.

awesome.

#14 Linda's a benchmark workout, and she is one of the heaviest bitches in the CF family. Not to mention, she'll sit on you if you cheat on her.

Train smart. Train right.

im going out to suffolk tommorrow to do a WOD over there, wat a workout to do there cant wait and if were not doing linda im down for anything. gillian great job that was sweet.I live in ny long island i would love to do a workout with you sometime get me on my email if you see this (tbm.mcbride@gmail.com)

Nicely done Gillian! 9/6/08 will be my first time meeting "Linda"....you will be my inspiration! :)

this WODs this week have been awesome. i love these core lifts!

btw, i know most of you probably think it's ignorant to consider a third party, however, most people thought it ignorant to oppose England, to free slaves, to allow women equal rights, and even to "lift" crossfit style. i think we can all see the benefits of each...check it out.

http://www.votesmart.org/election_president.php

So do you complete the 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 of one exercise then move to the other or do 10 of each then 9 of each then 8 .....

I've been waiting for this

This will be the first time Im doing this workout. I cant wait. Plus, I like the picture. I think CrossFit makes for attractive female athletes

hey everyone i have a question to ask and i would like to hear your thoughts and suggestions. im currently a college basketball player and have been doing crossfit over the summer and at the end of the year last year so for about 6 months now. im feeling great and looking better then ever. the season is coming fast and i dont know what to do about crossfit. should i keep doing the WODS during the season along with the schools workout plan or should i take a break from crossfit all together?

hey everyone i have a question to ask and i would like to hear your thoughts and suggestions. im currently a college basketball player and have been doing crossfit over the summer and at the end of the year last year so for about 6 months now. im feeling great and looking better then ever. the season is coming fast and i dont know what to do about crossfit. should i keep doing the WODS during the season along with the schools workout plan or should i take a break from crossfit all together?

What Peter? I dont doubt that it's a tough workout. I just figured we might be doing some running since earlier this week was heavy lifting. Thats why I thought I could get away with lifting today. It's pretty typical of me to lift in the morning, then go ahead and do the wod, no matter what i lifted and/or have to do.

Okay, really scary. I guessed the WOD again. Tell me, is anybody surprised since we had it so easy last cycle? Anybody. I knew it'd be Linda.

Damn.

Substitute suggestions for those with only one bar? Thanks!

Wow! Um ok, I weigh 257... I'm gonna die!!!
Dead lift 385 ten times? Ouch
Bench 257, ok that ones fine
but 193?!!! This will take me a week to finish it!

Gillian, you made that look easy!

Damn. This is going to be tough to do in my globo, since the bench rack is always taken and they only have 4 bars....

I guess I could use one of the curl bars, or drop weight off between DL and clean.

Any suggestions?

This will be fun as I wait for Hurricane Ike

WHAT THE F***!! Haha kidding I knew this was gonna come eventually... this is gonna be my first time doing Linda since I've started crossfit... let's hope I do well!

hmmm, currently on a 18 day squat improvement program so not following the sites wods. Rob C and I will have to make this up some other time...or count our blessings and be prepared to hit it hard next time out.
OPTbro - you have got your wish.

#35
I think you should do the work outs your strength coach advises you to do during the season. I was a college football player, I just maintaned some weight training during the season so my muscles would not atrophy. Doing an intense work out like crossfit, could be over trainig along with practice and games when you need to be fresh to be competative. Also, injuries happen if you dont get enough rest when your an athlete. If you are a redshirt, or not going to see the court this year, you might get away with it. What I would do, is put myself in best position to succeed by getting after it every day at practice and after practice weights. Although crossfit is great, you jeopardise performance on the court if your going all out on your wods. You have put your work in, it sounds like in the off season. Now go get you a spot on the team.

That video was amazing! The best part was that her form never waivered. Round 10 looked like round 1.

Wow x 7! 1 for each Gillian. Too bad I'm on the road this weekend. I'll have to settle for BW and the one KB I have with me for my WOD.

But, one of my goals to hit before the end of the year is an Rx'ed Linda.

14'59"... Damn! Nicely paced and good technique throughout. Reminded me of the terminator!

Wow. Just started crossfit. A couple of questions.

1) I weigh 195, and my bench blows. I can't rep 195 10 times. So is it cool if I do a few, put the bar on the rack, do a few more, etc. as long as I keep the clock going?

2) My fiance has started doing crossfit with me. She weighs 125. There is no way she could bench 125 even once, and she definately can't deadlift 185. How can we adjust it so she can do this workout with me? I definately don't want her to think she has to sit this one out. After all we started crossfit so we could workout together.

Any advice would be great thanks everyone!

forgive me, i don't understand this wod????

That video was very cool. I like the new windows that showcased each round.

Gillian, you are brilliant and beautiful in that workout!

Gunning for under 20 min this time around. First time I did it in 30 and change. 2nd time with Power Cleans was in 21 minutes, after doing Heavy Fran and Jackie 3 hours beforehand.

Comment #30, Zach, maybe you're too young to remember Ross Perot and how we wound up with Bill Clinton in the White House because people voted for Perot instead of Bush.

Voting 3rd party is not only ignorant but bad for the country.

cheers!

I shouldn't have looked... Why did I look?!? *shaking head*

I almost got to be your judge at CrossFit games in the DL/Burpee WOD. I was psyched, but they made a last minute switch and I wasn't your judge. It was still awesome to get to meet you face to face and you're a great inspiration for a lot of people; including me. I'll call it now. Jillian is winner at 2009 Games!!!

Awesome performance, Gillian. Amazing!! It was so nice to meet you at the Games, and I hope I get the chance to see you again soon.

I think From now on whenever I start feeling arrogant or full of myself I'll just watch this video.

good god...one of the strongest people, pound for pound, ever seen on this site. That was unreal. Of particular suck in this workout is the cleans. God I hate cleans.

Uh, squat cleans? Since when?

# 34
Being a former Hooper (long before the invention of Crossfit), I say Yes, keep doing the workouts as Rx. You are going to be running your tail off so sub any major running workouts with practice time. It'll pay off. You are just going to have to make sure that you keep your protein intake at a HUGE level to prevent breakdown.
Good luck. Where you playing?
M/6'10/295

#28 tyler, im looking forward to meeting you tomorrow, should be a fun time. I would like to do Linda as well, that would be a great workout to do. Is Logan coming down with you as well?

I used to know a girl named Linda... now I remember why I don't talk to her...

Great job Gill!

I thought "Cleans" meant: "whatever way you want, be it power or squat".

Gillian...god damn. When I move to NYC I'm going to hunt you down and then sheepishly ask you out and then before you have a chance to answer I'll say "oh don't worry about it, just thought i'd ask" while I walk away all dejected like

#51 Steve,

Think about the number of Americans who are dissatisfied with both major parties at some level. Think of the possibilities if even one major press outlet (CNN, NYTimes, FOX News, TIME, ABC, Washington Post, etc.) were to offer information about the "major" third parties and paint them in a positive light instead of spoilers or the candidate your crazy uncle Jethro is voting for. Think of your own dissatisfaction with the current Federal "employees" we call Mr. President, Madame Senator, Your Honor. Imagine a government truly "for the people." Ask yourself if you really are happy with the state of our Union. Ask yourself if either Major party stands for upholding and restoring the liberties promised us in the Constitution. Consider the country you will pass on to your posterity by settling for "the lesser of two evils."

sweet

Gillian, if you are out there, did you get like you are (big and strong !) doing crossfit or something else?? amazing video. some day.....some day...me too....

Consider the country you will pass on to your posterity by settling for "the lesser of two evils."

Comment #62 - Posted by: zach

Zach, I agree with your thinking. If more people would stop being "sheeple", change really could happen in this country. I too am saddened that it really does always boil down to the lesser, and sometimes greater, evil.

#51 Steve, your comment is very pessimistic and self-damning. Bad for the country? Maybe in light of some individuals' self-serving, closed minded interests. A democracy has room for, and should encourage, multiple political parties.

BTW, I am Independent, but Libertarian in nature...and have nothing better to do on a Friday night!

OMG this is going to be the death of me. I just realized how weak I am compared to weight... If only I was further into Crossfit then just 3 weeks!

#65 Herm: We seem to be on the same political page my friend!

#34
I apologize, I put my comment out prior thinking the whole thing through. Depending on your situation, whether you are getting playing time or working to get there. If your coach has you doing specific workouts, do what they expect. you can sub the major exercises, Pullups, dips, etc for your after practice training. You probably won't be going at it 7 days a week, so work a Crossfit WOD in on your day off. Keep your nutrition up, and rest is key, it's a long season.
again, Good luck.
M/6'10/295

Gotta love weekend rest :)

#48

I sympathize with you my bench also sucks. Fortunatly no one to my knowlege has had to bench press someone out of harms way. The way I understand it there is 2 ways to deal with this problem. If you want to work on strength (it will improve your max) keep the rx'ed weight and break it up as needed with as much time as needed (no more than 5 min between sets). This will test you and your nervous system. your strength will improve. If you and your wife want more of a cardio benefit (you are more interested in losing weight than gaining stregth) then scale back to a weight that you can do the whole set with out reracking or seting down the weight. I hope I answered your question. If anyone else has a better answer for this problem feel free to chime in. Im reletivly new to crossfit.

Gillian is so hot...

I strained my shoulder yesterday. I will have to go light in order to do this WOD. Doped up on Motrin!!!

Tomorrows WOD gives me cold sweats just thinking about it.....

Props for everyone at Revolution Defense/CrossFit MN. They took me in and made me feel like family. Thanks again for all your help and words of encouragement.

Re: Michael #48

Definitely scale it down until her strenght builds up. Work within your ability but push yourself. Check out this forum for some ideas on scaling the workouts.

http://www.crossfitbrandx.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/4945/

#48
Yes, you can set the bar down as many times as is necessary to complete the workout. For workouts that do not allow breaking up of sets it will be indicated on the main page.Normally breaking up sets is fine, but it kills your time.
For your fiance just scale back the weights and keep the format. Scale it to 3/4X bodyweight deadlift, 1/2 bodyweight bench press,and 3/8 bodyweight for clean. If she needs to go lighter than do so, its pretty much a judgment call on weight.

Now that's a real alpha female.

Looking forward to the cert tomorrow at One World. See ya there.

Ha - here we go, payback for the last 4 days of strength WODs begins...

Having said that, it's still most certainty strength based!

Sadly had to miss the squat and deads, and will miss todays too, 'cos I'm ill.

Which means I have one cracker of a catch-up day to look forward to!

Dude, she isn't even winded. Impressive.

maybe a dumb question but i am new to crossfit and iam doing the warm up and wod. Should i stick with that on this wod or just skip the warm up and go straight to the wod. hmmmmmm.

Holy SH*T! I knew she was lurking out there just waiting to strike but wow. This is my first linda so I think I'll take a sundial to the gym with me.

M/28/155/6'
44:47
10 - 155 deadlift, 145 bench, 115 clean
sets 9 through 1 - 145, 115, 105

First time doing Linda, and first time doing Cleans. The first 3 sets of all exercises took me half an hour, haha. Wasn't able to do a full set of deadlift/bench/cleans without resting until I got down to 4. Cleans worked me over good. I watched the video under the Exercises page but couldn't quite get that perfect clean-squat movement that the girl in the video did. My thighs never got below parallel... maybe I wasn't using enough weight or something, but after the second set my pulse was already over 160.

31/m/186

"Linda Heavy"

Dead lift @ 315
Bench press @ 205
Power clean @ 152

40:49

Increasing the load (obviously) made a huge difference in the time. My last "as rx'd" Linda was 30:10. The bench press and power cleans weren't that bad with the increased load, but the dead lifts were extremely taxing.

That was awesome. You're a super hero.

by far my favorite. been waiting for this one
get some

#78 Nick-
Definitely warm up. Get your heart rate elevated, your body temp elevated, and your joints warm.

I think Allison has finally found her place in CrossFit. Great job Gillian

m/28/81kg

ok...so i am still new to CF and am definately not full CF material yet...

Planned on doing 75% of the weight. After the first two rounds my back started siezing up, so I dropped my DL weight and reduce my sets.

Deadlift - 90kg x10/9, but dropped to 60kg for x5/4/3/2/1
Bench - 60kg, x10/9/5/4/3/2/1
Clean - 45kg, x10/9/5/4/3/2/1
25 minutes

Was excited and nervous driving to the gym. Great workout. I'll do better next time!!

#11 - you think you are screwed?? I'm 240.

Alright then - uh any scale down 'allowed?'

Gillian, that was incredible. You’re a superhuman.

Regarding the timing of this WOD - any other day I would be ecstatic about doing Linda, but this seems like a strange choice after doing max effort squats and deadlifts on consecutive days. Another deadlift workout so soon afterwards could be counterproductive (ie., a lumbar strain or hamstring tear - I've seen them before from similar workloads) . What was the thought process in choosing this?

#37 Vaughn Cassidy: If you thought the last cycle was “so easy”, then you didn’t do it properly. Try some heavy weights next time.

can someone explain to me how i need to perform this wod? i feel stupid, but if it's what i think, it'll take me all day.

Todays wod is making me wish I was a 126lbs.

I got about a Bill on gillian.. and this isnt going to be fun!

3-2-1.... GO!

are they squat or power cleans?

ARE THE CLEANS OFF THE GROUND? OR HANG?

they are squat cleans off the ground, thats how she does them in the video. That was an incredible time, if i complete linda in 45 mins i'll be happy!

Doing the Pittsburgh IKEA 1/2 marathon tomorrow AM! I like this workout! Thanks Jenn for everthing! Welcome home Mike! Sww you guy's SundaY!!

Hey, can we do hanging power cleans or do we need to pull from the ground each rep? and would I be worst off instead of grounding the weight every rep? Also, Barbells are a very few in our small gym on the FOB, can I substitute DBs same weight?

Still laid out. This is my new PB for sick.

So here's my question, and I'd love some feedback from experienced Crossfit instructors if possible:

I started dabbling with Crossfit in January. In June, I committed to WODs as per the main site. Until this week, I think I'd only missed 2-3 WODs due to scheduling problems. I've had huge gains in strength and stamina. PB's for 5k, 10k, DL, etc.

And then this week I've crashed. I have NEVER been so debilitatingly sick. Flu, tracheitis, I don't know exactly. Roaring temps, muscle aches, etc.

I'm some time from getting back to workouts, but using my downtime to start planning a strategy.

Should I stick with 3-1-3-1 pattern, but scale every WOD? Some other approach? Would very much appreciate your thoughts.

Haha ... did Murph the other day ... now I can't even bend over to put my socks on! Talk about contrast!

I'm 40 this month. I weigh about 158lb, ~10% body fat. Previous background of running and swimming, but more endurance/aerobic conditioning. Minimal lifting experience. Upper body strength not great. Don't have a MU. Sh press PB is about 100lb, I think. (Have my training log on another computer.)

23/m/235/6'7
The 235 BW made scaling a necessity for this one:

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps of the triplet:

Deadlift: 175
Bench press: 175
Clean: 125

Was struggling but surviving through the 6-rep set, and then just crashed. Took about 5 minutes off, contemplated quitting for the day, slapped some sense into me, and then pushed through the last 5 sets (with some significant breaks though). Laughable time but pretty proud that I sucked it up to finish it without dropping weight or reps.

Total time: 35:39

DL, 245(started wit 275, but only got 5 of the 1st ten. I was losing my form badly so I prudently lowered the poundage.)

DL: 245
BP: 190
Clean: 139

31:54

my bench press I flew through, but my DL and Clean we're weak. I think all the previous lifting days took there toll. This workout has destroyed me in the past. However this time, I wasn't dying and gasping for breath, I felt a hell of a lot stronger, but my intensity was lacking.

CFLU

Time: 47.48

Scaled to
Deadlift: 130 Kg
Benchpress: 70 Kg
Clean: 50 Kg

Whoop! My favorite...I've been anxiously waiting and anticipating "Linda" since I got to the stan.

Can't wait!

Hey,
Mega work out, Think i'll strugle today!

CAN ANYONE TELL ME THE NAME OF THE SONG TO THE CROSSFIT VIDEO POSTED ON AUGUST 26 08

While Gillian is doing her wonderfully formed deadlifts, the guy on the right of the viewer (on left of Gillian) is doing deadlifts in a very bad form.

Whoever you are, take care, your back is getting rounded as hell. You can pause the scene and see the huge difference between your form and Gillians's.

Good luck everybody, yay!

39 minutes. As I was doing it, people in the gym were like, freaking out, and some of them were doing some forearms workout, HAHA!

Going to be painful, still sore form the deadlifts. Will definately be scaling this one...

35/M/79kg

33:25

Will be subbing ring dips for bench press. No access to a bench. Can you believe it? A staple in most Globos and I have no access to one. oh well, here we go!!

Wow...in addition to being the hottest thing I have seen recently,that is downright motivating.

M/29/220/6'1

I have an idea on scaling since I'm not complete satisfied with Brand X's scale plan explanation, which just says to scale weight or scale reps, vague to say the least, I know, I know it free can't complain just leaves one scratching their head and thinking "what do I do? What do I do?"

Calculate your Lean Body Mass and use that as your basis for the loads for Linda.

http://board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=35256

for instance I'm 220 but I'm also 22% body fat(I know I'm a fatty) so when you do the mass I'm only 172 pounds of muscle, a much for manageable weight for a novice like myself.

Also as an antisocial person I would never want to ask a random Joe to spot me, which I don't think would be necessary with 172 on the bar.

Seems like these manner of WOD penalize you for high body fat. To be honest I've done the zone pretty strictly(17 blocks at 220lbs as best as I can when I eat all my meals in a Cafeteria) and the WODs for a month and a half and I've only maintained my weight not a pounds difference. What's up with that? It almost leads me to believe that those people who beam about how much weight they drop when they start crossfit is because they were largely sedentary before hand and as everyone knows your going to get quicker gains in overall fitness when you start from nothing.

I mean I've bought the rings and resistance bands but this lack of weight loss that allegedly takes place makes me just want to run and run and run like a hamster on a wheel until this goo comes off my midsection. I've been a loyal drinker of the cool aide but the flavor seems off all of a sudden.

The truth is the army doesn't care how much I bench or dead if I'm over 22% and I can't run my Rx time for 2 miles they will put me in the basement, they've done it before, "welcome home hero!...oh wait you're over 22% body fat, never mind all that your a piece of trash"

What is it? Just mix the Cardio? two a days, one traditional cardio like a 5k then the WOD in the evening? Is 17 blocks too much?

and Coach how come Kettelbells are an emblem of Crossfit but we never seem to use them? b/c most don't have them? I brought them all the way here to the sand box and they are slowly collecting dust. Some nights I am tempted to do O lifts with my to 1.5 poods and leave the meatheads to fight over the one squat rack here on the FOB, but I've reading the threads and everybody seems to bash that idea.

Make me believe.
Charlatan 6

I'm new to crossfit and I enjoy the variety. However, on DL's, my grip just gives out. I'm assuming that comes with time but what is the feeling with wrist straps?

#110

Wrist straps are frowned upon. Over time your grip will strengthen and you won't have an issue. No gloves or straps and stagger your grip.

#110

I believe if you use straps or gloves you're actually making yourself weaker. CrossFit is about overall strength and endurance...if you can't hold on to the bar then your grip strength needs to catch up with your deadlift strength...and it will.

Daunting I believe is the word to use here. Can't wait though......3, 2, 1 GO!

What an awesome video. Great time! I really like how she was running at the end. Lots of energy left. I hope I'm like that today. Good thing it's a Saturday morning. The gym will be quiet so I can use all the bars I want. Gid-dee-up!!!

just hope the gym's empty,are you using that bar?, yes,and that one?,yes,and the bench?,sorry,yes,don't know how long i'll be!!
problems me thinks !!

#108 charlatan 6,
stick with it you will succeed,don't give up ,results aren't always instant,give it time,this programming will change your body comp.for the better,just keep at it at full intensity,good luck.

Wow that sucked, especially after the 5K race this morning.

My favorite WOD. Beautiful facility; More beautiful athlete. Very nicely done.

24/m/175

as rx'ed DL-260 BP-175 SC-130...49:50
I had to use wrist wraps I broke my hand/wrist about a year ago forearm strength is still recovering. any other opinions about using gloves or wrist wraps? If you want to get techical chalk isnt really natural either. I dont think cave men chalked their hands before pushing a rock on a mammoth.

Cory #35
I played hockey in college, and I ran into a similar situation--it was before I started Crossfit, but I still wanted to workout as much as possible during the season. Chances are whatever your coach has lined up for you won't be killer workouts during the season and they won't be the day before games. I'd stick with those workouts, and try to get the CFWU in before the team workouts. Who knows, you might even get the coach interested in Crossfit and he'll have the team doing it. We always had guys who thought they didn't have to do the team workout and that just doesn't look good, which is why I recommend doing what the coach gives you (Granted, Crossfit will probably be better than anything else out there, but whatever). Good luck. Where are you playing?

Chuck Norris carries Gillian's gym bag.

The video was particularly impressive since I've done Linda with those weights (scaling for me since I can't bench my bodyweight yet). It took me 20-some minutes and I was a wreck. Heart rate higher than normal (even compared to other WODs), felt dizzy even when lying down, and felt generally "off" for the next 2-3 days.

And on top of that, right when I finished, some tool came over and glared at the bench and asked, "Is that your sweat?"

BTW the scaling strategy I used (someone suggested it on the message board a couple years ago) was to pick a lower "pretend bodyweight" and base the loads on that. For safety's sake, it probably makes sense to use a "bodyweight" where you can handle the bench presses pretty easily -- don't worry, the cleans and DLs will still wipe you out.

Linda is the WOD I fear the most. The rounds of 7 and 6 reps are hardest, IMO ... keep remembering you're halfway through!

as rx'd!!

ALMOST EMPTY GYM :D (so 3 bars for me :D)

total 38:02

first time Linda!

(weights 120kg, 80kg, 60kg)

BW: 185
DL: 225 (125%)
BP: 135 (75%)
CL: 115 (60%)

30:20

Scaled each event 15-25% down for first time. Besides, my max bench is only 10# more than my body weight, and I didn't have a spotter. Also, I'm doing this a day early due to a field op tomorrow, so I didn't get a rest day.

On a side note, I couldn't believe how many dirty looks I got from FREAKING US MARINES for grunting, dropping weights etc. Probably all administrators....

Re: Michael #48

For your fiance: I'm pretty much in the same boat. I'm no where near strong enough to do the Rx'd WOD. So I just did some calculations and I figure i'll shoot for 1/2 of the Rx'd weight. If it is too much i'll lower the weights during linda. It will kill my time but i think i'll be focusing more on form than time for this one anyway.

If these movements are really new to her she may even want to scale the weight to 1/3 Rx'd weight. Have her do the calculations for 1/2 & 1/3 and review what she has done in past workouts to see how they match up.

Absolutely don't try to hit a PR weight doing Linda! You want her to be able to succeed! To finish! and not to get hurt!

Go, go, go!

I can only aspire. Raise your hand if you are scaling down. Envious of all those you can rock this one.

Mornin'

"Linda" was the coup de grace, completing my rotator cuff tear last summer. Makes my shoulder ache just looking at the written WOD.

Good place to talk about scaling if "as Rx'd" is too much (or if you're not MWade--Dude, who does heavy Linda? We are not worthy!). First, what's your goal today? Is it a strength day? Now, if you ask me, we just had three of those so I'd be looking for the met-con in 'Linda", but that's just me. If it's a strength day set aside an hour, pick the weight on the bench that you can safely lift without a spotter for at least 3 reps, and that's your BW for today.

Is it a met-con day? What's your 8-10 rep bench #? That's your weight for today, and all of the other weights are off of that. Still too much to clean? Drop another 10-15 #'s. It ain't really rocket science if it's your first "Linda" gang. Safety, safety, safety. She'll be back. The ultimate met-con "Linda" was posted on CFSC last year: empty oly bar (45#), never put the bar down "Linda" sprint.

Charlatan 6 #108:
6 weeks in? Easy there, fella, you're just getting going. After one year of CF, traditional split work-out including 3-4 45 min. cardio sessions/week prior, I lost exactly 2 #'s, but my %bw fat went from 21 -> 11 at 48yo, and at 151 #'s I also eat 17 blocks (high energy gerbil, I guess). Check those blocks, evaluate the quality of your carbs (less bread, pasta, rice, more veggies and fruit), 1-1.5x fat at most. If you need to work on the run add in a CFE run WOD 2x/week, either SC or LC (but not ultra distance). Rome wasn't built in a day. Keep at it, and keep the intensity of the WOD's as high as you can. I am not military, but all of those SEALs can't be wrong. We'll all be here to cheer you on.

I've never done cleans and would prefer for my CF coach to be around to show me proper form. That looks like a pretty complex movement.

Can anyone suggest a substitute?

Bingo -
If "Linda" is not met-con (regardless of the weight used), I don't know what is. It does say "for time". I do understand that some will need to scale down. (Yes, I agree, "Heavy Linda" is just nuts.) I just finished this here in Pennsylvania in about 99% humidity at CrossFit Generation. Definitely one of the hardest WODs.

Deadlifts - 240#s
No Bench, did 20# weighted ring dips
Squat Cleans - 120#s

40:22

Linda Stats and Standings from logsitall.com:
median time (104 entries): 30:13

median men: 30:20
median women: 29:10

top 15 (mixed)

Position Total Time Gender Approx. Age Bodyweight CF Gym Affiliation
[1] Tom Vickers 12 mins 38 secs M 31 170
[2] Adam Barlow 14 mins 16 secs M 31 160 Ft Bragg
[3] Chris Woods 14 mins 51 secs M 30 170 CrossFit BWI
[4] Ricky Frausto 15 mins 57 secs M 30 150 CrossFit Omaha
[5] Tyson Patrick 17 mins 34 secs M 22 172
[6] Lisa Quinn 19 mins 6 secs F 42 155 CrossFit Spotsy
[7] Brock Jones 19 mins 7 secs M 31 146 CrossFit Eastside
[8] Matt Chan 19 mins 9 secs M 30 200
[9] Mike Lane 19 mins 53 secs M 43 146 Solo
[10] OmAr ToRrEs 20 mins 5 secs M 31 160 Crossfit Hardcore
[11] Eric Brandom 20 mins 15 secs M 23 185
[12] Dan Heaney 20 mins 18 secs M 35 195 Solo
[13] Owen Satterley 20 mins 37 secs M 28 190
[14] craig descoteaux 21 mins 0 secs M 30 135 Crossfit Tulsa
[15] Marc Vermette 21 mins 37 secs M 36 205 My garage

age and gender groupings on main page.

as always, more data is more better.

-bill patton

awesome work gillian!!!!!

14:59, that is quick. She's so strong on the bench press, that's where I lose so much time. Once she gets better at the Olympic lifts we're all in trouble...

Why are people asking if the cleans are hang or power?

Thanks for the help everyone! (I was #48.) I am kinda looking forward to today. Although I might have to break up the bench sets, I think I will catch up in the DL, which I have always been really strong in. Cleans... I'm about average so I won't lose time there like I will bench.

mattshack - #101: The song is Given Up by Linkin Park.

Bench is my weakest link to Linda as well. I would be in the 20-25 min range if I could bring it up to the level of the other lifts.

Amazing video! Headed to the gym here in about an hour to meet Linda. This is one of the few I have to do at the gym because of lack of equipment.

I scaled this to 46%. So it was 120# deadlift, 80# bench, and 60# power cleans.

Round times:

5:13
4:13
3:51
3:01
2:47
2:25
1:58
1:38
1:07
0:42

Total: 26:55

The first rounds were the hardest, psychologically. But apparently I paced myself pretty well. I threw the numbers into a spreadsheet and did a linear regression, the R² was 0.98. Crazy. Basically a coefficient of 28 seconds per rep, with an intercept of 7 seconds. Here's a chart (w/f/s):

http://tinyurl.com/62ua68

M/36/6'3"/175#/xfit since 8/22/2008

Ok, this was my first Linda and it got the best of me. I weight 200 pounds and did the wod as described and man! I didn't make it past the 7 set. the deadlifts did me in. I have no problem with the bench and the cleans, but those darn deadlift pretty much did me in. Yes, I know I am weeeaaaaakkkkk. but next time Linda, I got a date with you in 30 days, that I promise! its on my Calendar.

Even though it was a good workout, I feel like a loser :(

M/5'8"/200#/38Y

M/23/6'1"/180

Started with Murph at the Power Barn: 34:18

then did Linda as RX
DL:275
BP:185
Clean:135

25:41

Killer, always a killer

10-1 rep rounds of

Deadlift 300lb
Strict deep ring dips (thumb to armpit to full lockout)
Squat cleans, 150lb

26:54

10 - 3:00
9 - 3:38 - 6:48
8 - 4:08 - 10:56
7 - 4:17 - 15:13
6 - 3:41 - 18:54
5 - 2:59 - 21:53
4 - 2:06 - 23:59
3 - 1:31 - 25:30
2 - 0:51 - 26:21
1 - 0:33 - 26:54

Last time I did this was with bench and power cleans and took just under 40 mins. Next time will have to bite the bullet and go rxed to see how far I have come. I thought the strict ring dip was a good sub but with such a big difference in times I’m not sure now ...

I’m gonna be scared checking CF.com tomorrow morning

Cheers, kempie

O.K.,I'm 6'3"/265 lbs (400lb. deadlift, 265lb.bench, 200lb. clean x 55 reps each?!?!) This might be my Thermopylae...

Scaled to 155# 120# 95# and 10-8-6-4-2
23:01

M/26/5'9"/168

Should've been 252/168/126
Scaled down to 185/165/115

17:55

I need to work on deadlifts! They are def. my weakest area! (I think I need to get over my fear of hurting my back from going heavy on DL)

tear* :'(

24/m/5'11"/189

26:32 as rx'd....285 dead, 190 bench, 145 squat clean. 5 minute pr and I'm furious for resting as much as I did. I'm done linda by 10:15 on a Saturday, what more could a man want?

I tried to do Gillian proud by coming close to her time but no chance. She's a machine.

Bench press was the hardest for me.

Last time I did this I only did the even numbers but today I wanted to spank Linda. Unfortunately my time wasn't what I was hoping it to be. I think I took a little too much time to start the bench press rounds and too many breaks during the bench press. Boooo to that.

Anyway... last time (1/2 Linda - even numbers --> 14:16

Today... as Rxd 27:01

Body weight --> 180.4 lbs
deadlift --> 270 lbs
bench press --> 180 lbs
clean --> 135 lbs

Gonna spank you even harder next time Linda!!!

10...1
36# KBs

2-KB Front Squat
Pushup
2-KB Clean

Forgot to start my watch. Pretty much straight through.

Gillian great performance, great speed. This one remembers me to Annie's old WOD videos.

Keep on going

this was my first linda ,
very scared when i saw it this morning...

as Rx'd: me = 175 so:
DL = 265
Bench = 175
Cleans = 135

Time : 19:21

sickest workout in a long time,
3 hours later i am still feeling it...
thanks coach!!

First time diong Linda. HAHA. Great workout, 28 minutes flat. I cut back the weights, to an amount I could do, the cleans were empty bar for the first 5 sets, added 50 lbs for last 5, 135 lbs for dead lifts for all sets, should have stepped that up after 5th set, bench was 100, should have stepped that up sooner. Non the less I completed this workout and feel awesome, I love the results I am starting to get.

M/27/200/6'
29:54
Had to scale it down:
DL - 209
Bench - 199
Cleans - 133

wow. That hurt. 44:33 only got 10,9,8,7 done
DL 385
BP 225
CL 165
Finally learned what a torn callus is like. Buying chalk today.

scaled to approx 70% = 70, 50, 35kg = 16:20

Fantastic video- all I can say about Gillian is WOW!- if that's not a truly elite performance of one of the most difficult workouts ever, nothing is- perfect form and strong execution the whole way through.

Gillian you are smokin hot

First Linda, loved it all the way through even when she was killing me. Time sucked though.

m/5'9"/185/28

Had to scale Deadlifts down to 225 lbs (weak DL's)
Bench = as RX'd @ 185 (bench felt good)
Cleans = as RX'd @ 135 (Cleans weren't toooo bad but still pretty heavy for me)

Can't wait for next time to see improvements.

36/m/172

Not possible to do for time due to set up of gym.

DL 135 (Reps 10-1)
BP 135x2, 130x2 125x6 (Reps 10-1)
Clean 85 (Reps 10-1)

27/m/180
only 2 weeks into crossfit.
not sure my cleans were that great, certainly couldnt do any more

29 mins

145 deadlifts
125 bench
60 cleans

Does anyboy think that this DL session is too close to the 3-3-3-3-3 DL session? My gut does not like it. Can anyone explain the benifits and problems with this type of programmming? Thanks

m/34/210/6ft
This is truly one of the workouts that makes me think bad thoughts and say bad words! Even better is the look on peoples faces when they ask you what your workout is while your in the middle of it or directly after it (while trying to avoid pukey!)

Started with light stretching, then went into the WOD. Had to sub with dumb bell's due to the crowd. I used 150's for the DL, 90's for the BP, 70's for the clean. My DL's were broken set until #4 but I did them all the way to the ground. My Cleans were Power cleans.
8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
37:25
GO POKES!!!!!!

24:56 - a 7 minute PR The DL's really sucked after the cleans. All bench was unbroken, but everything else was 66%/33% split...

first, Gillian, you are such a bad a$s. seriously humbling...

ah, Linda. 3 bars of death. frontal assault on my posterior chain...

w/u Burgener warmup x2 (broom, women's bar) 1x10 OHS, 1x10 45# squat cleans, 1x10 Deadlift @ 88#

scaled to 110# DL; 55# bench; 45# squat cleans -- took 6 weeks off of any real CF WODs, so wanted to focus on FORM.
21:31

definitely the fastest Linda, also the lightest. however, i am glad -- i concentrated on form and my low back fatigued so fast it made me a bit concerned. and for those who haven't done this WOD yet, the round of 7 reps sucks. its the hardest round to get through. but after that its downhill!

glad to see Linda again,
ck

#156 Dan D, that might have been the most open ended question ever. Quick example though...

A hurricane is coming to your house and is about 3 days away. You are below sea level so you have to put sand bags around your house and other members of your families house. You work all day on your house lifting heavy sand bags to barricade your house. Now are you not going to do the same heavy lifting all day to help your family because it worked the same muscle groups as one day or two days prior? Of course you are! We train for real life, you don't always get the perfect recovery time. Do the dead lifts or don't do the dead lifts its up to you. But this stuff works.

Plus this workout is too fun to pass up!

Yeah, Gillian! After meeting you this weekend, somehow I'm not surprised at your performance in the video ;)

AWESOME!

23:19
Light weight / subs / all sets

soooo umm yea had to scale this one

Body weight 215

bench press 215
deadlift 225
power cleans 135

did it fast but man it hurt 23:31

No weights, but I found a big log and wrapped the webbing from my rings around it to do the deadlifts. I also elevated my feet on a picnic table and did PU's then box jumped on top of it.

Tree/log deadlift
Elevated Push up
Picnic table box jump
10-1

15:15

40/m/72/170

10-9-8
dl 225, bp 135, clean 115
7-6-5-4-3-2-1
dl 175, bp 115, clean 95
37:35

ive been looking into cross fit. looked over the w.o.d. for about the past 2 weeks. today's workout motivated me to start. A buddy and I did it together in just over 56 minutes. we stayed with each other for spot... and morale support. I must say doing the prescribed at 185 lbs...(I actually weigh about 195) kicked my butt... thanks for the workout... looking forward to tomorrow.

WOD: "Linda"
M/41/175
45:22.
DL--265# (150% BW) through round of 8, then 255;
BP--145# (83% BW);
Cleans--135# (77% BW).
Cleans were power cleans from the ground.

OMFG This was the most brutally intense WOD since I started CrossFit 15 months ago. First time I did Linda all the way through. I felt like I'd just had to move a ton of gravel with a shovel as fast as possible.

Tony the Chiro #96--My advice: go back to doing regular WODs, with reduced intensity until you feel 100%. You wont see any personal bests for a while but that's the best way to get back into it, in my humble opinion. Your energy level will pick up again eventually. Don't worry, everyone has ups and downs, even without being sick.

255 deadlift, 177 bench, 133 clean

28:22

M/5'9"/170lbs

Brandan, watch out for Rhabdo buddy. Ease into it. Much Respect.

Now, trying to scout out 3 bars....hmmmm.

Pretty pumped. I'm 190 though I've only ever been able to bench 135 if that before crossfit. I had personal trainer for about a year and a half with the goal of getting to the next level. I didn't learn anything other than personal training costs a LOT of money, so I quit with minimal results. Then my leader at work mentioned this website to me. At the time I was in a program that I was hesitant to give up, though I knew I was power lifting too much. Slowly, grudgingly, I switched over to only doing the WOD (and of course the official warmup for muscle groups not mentioned in the WOD).
Here I am about 4 months later, I have not lost any weight (better than that!) I have lost two belt loops and my strength is higher than it has ever been! I just put up 190lbs on the bench and am expecting to break 200 within a week. I've never looked this good before, about a month into it my wife said to me "You're getting really really strong" even though I couldn't see the difference back then my self. In 4 months I have reached levels with crossfit that I only dreamed of after YEARS of power lifting. Of course I was lifting to the point of being catabolic but that doesn't matter.
As an added bonus the high intensity low duration work outs make it so that my joints are not soar after grueling work outs. Please don't stop the work outs and put out some more crossfit gear so that I can show my support at the gym!

Gillian,

14:59! You are amazing. From start to finish not a glitch in your form. Beautiful to watch.
Makes me wish I were young again.
Thank you Lauren for posting it.

I'm pissed because I'm off schedule with the WOD. I combined the 5 x 3 squat and 5 x 3 deadlift WOD's into one yesterday to try to catch up. Now LINDA!?!

I also swam this morning. OK, enough whining...

3, 2, 1...

m/34/70/190

285
190
145 full squat cleans -always
22:48pr and thinking about Gillian the whole time.
what a beast and hot!

m/33/225/5'8"

Didn't do this WOD due to not having that equipment available to me.

Did this instead:

3 rounds for time of:

Run 400 meters
20 thrusters with two 20# dumbbells
20 swings 1.5 pood kettlebell
20 Sumo Deadlift High Pulls 1.5 pood kettlebell

Time: 31.08.20

I know it's a crappy time, but I'll take it; not that I have much choice in the matter, LOL.

Scaled load by 25% - Which equaled 185, 123, 93.

took me 32:37

Hit the wall at round 5 and Pukie stayed on my back for the rest of the workout. He's a real burden - So next time I won't have 4 block protein omelet (w/ 4 blocks evoo) , 2 block ice cream, 2 block pumpkin bread, & 3 cups of coffee for breakfast. Sure it was Zone, but it since it didn't sit, it wasn't the best of ideas.

damn that is hard core trainning nice

30m/173

28:25 as rx'd (265/175/135)

far from my best...back seized up on the set of 9 deadlifts and i knew it would be a struggle

M/40/210/74"

Started Linda but tweaked back slightly in second round of DL's. I don't get it...if the DL's are heavy but low reps, no problems...if moderate to even light weights (even 135), i always have back issues...any thoughts?

switched to:

10 rounds of
10 medicine ball cleans
10 ring dips
10 kettlebell snatches (24kg); alternated arms each set

lower right back is killin me! i can not do deads or cleans or its just going to get worse! so just the bench part for me today then im doing an arm work out!

M/24/190

I'm curious how many people my size or larger actually made it through this workout as RX'd. I did 4 rounds and couldn't even pick up the bars to put them away afterward.

35:20

275
185
140

Sore from DL's yesterday. Grip became an issue from 6-4 rep rounds on the DL. Seaty, dirty and bloody at the neighborhood gym.

Amazing work Gillian! You are such a strong beautiful athlete.

CFWU x3

I don't know which was harder....."Linda" or birthing my 3 daughters with no epidural!

First Time with "Linda" and she dragged me in, ate me, crapped me out, and covered me with sand..and it was all fun in a sick sort of way!

Body Weight: 125
Deadlift: 190
Bench Press: 125
Clean: 95

TIME: 29:56

TOODLES! :)

No weights available while on a yachting vacation in Canada so I did this instead:

3/4 mile run on hilly, rocky path around park
100 squats
3/4 mile run
100 squats
3/4 mile run
100 squats

25:26 - beautiful views of the cove... pileated woodpeckers, herons, purple starfish, otters and bald eagles made the run enjoyable! Pose running definitely makes running on paths covered with tree roots easier as I'm not shuffling and stumbling over roots like I used to do.

Drew

thanks for your post i really apprecitate it especially coming from a college athlete. i play at notre dame of ohio. its NAIA.

#160 Austin...thanks. That makes sense. You've nailed why I train. For those moments in life.

I suppose my question is to the people programming the WODs. Does Linda, this close to another DL session, increase performance or is it risky? Seriously. I know a national champion powerlifter who DLs no more than once a week. And he could destroy Linda at these weights.

Training should be to imporve performance. I am not sure this training pattern accomplishes that goal. Sure, simulating a possible real life situation is great. But that does not make the training safe or performance enhancing.

I just don't know...but my gut tells me it is to much and should be scaled because of the proximity to another heavy DL session.

30/M/180

Havr to do this at work on Mon (lack of bars at home). Made up "Nasty Girls", results there. Stunning video. I was enthralled, and then I saw the time and was floored.

M/33/170/5'9"

Deadlift 255
Bench 185
Hanging Clean 135

24:02
Focus on hard shrug during cleans.

F/37/141ish/5'4"
Scaled to puppy (half intensity week, no buttercup scaling really)
10-8-6-4-2 reps of the triplet:

Deadlift: 120
Bench press: 70
Clean: 70
12:18

Last time:
Used 125 for DL, but used bars at Y and may have been off by 5lbs.
13:51
I can't stand up straight without shaking. Felt nauseated during round 2.

So...PR! No nausea this time, no shaking. Could have probably gone a hair faster.

29/m/64kg

I used 50% bodyweight for cleans.I felt i was getting the technique towards the end of the workout so ill go heavier next time.

24 mins.

as rxd....bodyweight 190...full squat clean of corse...

33:38....jb

M/32/5'9/212

First ever Linda

Had to scale the weight and only had one bar so time suffered greatly. Still I am drenched and feel like I went through the ringer with Pukie knockin so I guess it is not all bad.

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps of the triplet:

Deadlift: 225
Bench press: 135 (can do more next time)
Clean: 100 (Need to work on form)

32:27

CFWU-2 sets of 12 pu's at 30 assist
DL-55lb
BP- 35?? (I think more not sure)
CL0 30lb
22:13
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BW:175
Deadlift-255
Subbed Weighted Ring Dips(20lbs)-195
Cleans-135
40:00 on the nose
This and "Eva" are the hardest workouts in the CrossFit storms archives.
I am going to sleep all afternoon.

37M/5'10"/166#

Warm-up: 3:03 row (768m); CFWU - 1 rnd; Burgener WU.

As Rx: 36:18.

4:56 slower than PR. Left grip strength giving me a prob again today and made DL the slowest part. 250# DL. 165# BP - bar to chest. 125# squat cleans - to 11-inch box.

M/165/5'11"
Scaled
DL 230 136%
BP 157 95%
SC 115 69%

48:40
I'm sure my squat cleans weren't squaty enough. Pukie rode by twice to see how I was doing.

DL 275
BP 185
CLEAN 135
32:45

40:14
had to drop weight on DL

woops...misread the time... 45:40

29:32
DL 225; B 185; CL 125

bw 165

dead: 255
bench: 170
clean: 125

20:39

500m row, 400m run, 2x10 squats, ghd su's and be's

BW=202
Linda: 305dl/205bp/145clean (didn't compensate for 35#bar)

27:46

f/38/148#/5'5"

56:48

Gillian inspired me to get too ambitious.

I started with this on the bars:

deadlift 185#
bench press 95#
clean 95#

I scaled the deadlift down to 165# after the second round.

I actually upped the bench press to #100 after the fourth round

I dropped the clean to #85 after the first rep! and stopped doing full squat cleans after my knees started buckling inward during the third round.

Feel like I got a good workout at least.

Just finished. As RX'd at 190 lb BW, got through the middle of my 5th round, and went and threw up. HARD! Couldn't finish today. I know I am new to Crossfit, but DAYUM, that was a beast. I think I was at 23 minutes or so when I went and puked. Luckily I made it to a trash can. Don't think the gym management appreciated it very much.

Then unfortunately my fiance did it next. Although she scaled down in weight, she tweaked her back on cleans 4 rounds in. She was flying through it though. Better luck to us next time!

DL 275
Bench 185
Clean 135

32:25

M/52/5'8"/142
Scaled:
DL 185,155,155 then tweaked back
Bench 135,115,115,115,115,115,115,115,115,115
Clean 95,95,65,65,65,65,65,65,65,75 worked on form

The hardest part for me is scaling down and not trying to act like I still have an 18 yr. old body that can recover in a day.The problem is I still have the 18 yr. old mentality. Probably too close to the heavy DL's we just did and I should have scaled down further.Sometimes I feel stupid but I'll learn from my mistakes. "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has it's limits"... A. Einstein

Question, as RX'D, is it a full squat clean? Hang power clean, hang squat clean or power clean? I did it with a full squat clean the whole time, but with that weight, would of been easily done with a hang power clean. Let me know!!!!!

age 18 bw 170
28:48 almost as rx'd
255# deadlift(rx'd)
155# bench(almost rx'd)
130# clean (2.5# more than rx'd)

i am sooooo sore right now. i felt terrible through the whole workout. i went up like 30# in dl, 20# in bench, and 15# in cleans. poor performance either way. definately a humble experience. ouch

29/m/5'11"/195

As Rx'd for 200#
40:00

300# deadlifts
200# bench press
150# cleans

First time with Linda. Went really heavy for me on thurs WOD and my lower back was still a little sore. When I was doing Linda I was getting cramps in my lower back. I think it hurt my time. Also had to change weights on the deadlifts and the cleans (only had 2 bars). Had someone helping change the weights though. I was shooting for a time that I didn't even come close to, but the cramps were hurting so bad that I just wanted to finish. Even though I feel like my time sucked for what I expected out of me, I was proud of myself that I finished cause man those cramps hurt. Feel good now though ( now that's over). Crossfit Rocks.

That DEMOLISHED ME..

My back has been hurting so i went LIGHT on the dead lift, but i was still dying

145 DL, 185 Bench, 125 Cleans..

25:35

Wife is going light until she gets the movements down so she doesnt tweak her back like I did

65 DL, 65 bench, 45 cleans

23:38

35/M/170#/6'0"

CFWU (pushups subbed for dips) x2
WOD: Linda
255# DL
170# BP
130# FSC

(39:16) PR at these weights

I only have 2 bars, so time includes moving the bench and changing weight between Bench and Squat Cleans. That said, I'm not sure how much I'd improve if I had a 3rd bar and didn't have to switch - still spent too much time keeled over between rounds.

Gillian's 15 minutes is pretty impressive - it takes some monster stamina to blow through this WOD with only a 1-2 breath break every few rounds.

39/M/220#
As Rx'd:
Deadlift 330#
Bench Press 220#
Clean 165#
Time 33:27
This was my first time doing this WOD. The weights are easy and I could do all my repetitions per set continuously without stopping; the CV circuit aspect of it took its toll. Awesome!

24/M/235/6'3"

Linda as Rx'd 1:20:00.
Deadlift 345#
Bench 235#
Clean 175#
She destroyed me.
Normally I finish in the top third of posted times, not today.

25:52 using 140# DL, 100# BP, 2x30# DB for cleans. 5 mins faster than the last time using the same loads.

Linda - Squat cleans and subbed HSPU nose to ground BW 186
DL 278
HSPU
Clean 138

26:49

I don't have 3 bars, or that much weight at home, so I did something else.

50 situps
50 lunges
50 situps
50 double unders
50 situps
50 burpees
50 situps

15:13 (pr)

f/39/133/5'0

Linda all 10 rounds

DL 115lbs
Bench 75
clean 65

31:20

This workout felt really good. I couldn't have done any more weight without my form failing badly in the beginning. I had to break the larger rounds up into 2-3 sections.

M/26/6'4''/221

First Linda ever. Really struggled with the DL, especially since the weight I started with was only five pounds lighter than my last set of three two days ago. Weight was fine for cleans, though from the looks of the comments I should've been getting into a full squat at the end. Bench weight was fine.

DL: 340 for 10,9,8, then 315 for the rest
Clean: 170 for all
Bench: 225 for all

39:50

Pretty slow, but I think a lot more DL work will really help me lower this a lot the next time it comes around.

Killer workout, though. I'm still getting over it.

My mother in-law's name is "Linda" which always brings extra motivation every time this WOD comes up... BRING IT LINDA I'm not afraid of you!

Damn.. I was the only one at the globo gym in the free weight room sweating, gasping and swearing.. but I pushed through it

As rxd.. scaled weights 29:00

33 yom 220 bwt
bike 10 miles
linda
deadlift 310 1st time rx'd (+5 from last time)
bench press 220 as rx'd
squat cleans 135 +10 from last time (61 percent)
time: 25:38 pr by 2 minutes 16 secs
bike 10 miles home

Scaled down not comfortable yet with olympic lifts
Deadlift: 133#
Bench press: 175# (switched to 155#) from 7 on
Clean: 89#

Finished in 24:17

not worth putting time.
bw 245#

DL 275#
bench 185#
clean 135#

lost 4# during workout

e=(m-sweat)c^2

decent amount of energy. . .

I could not do it as rx'd just yet...had to scale it way down.

1st set of DLs 185# but my back started to hurt too much...had to scale it down to 135# for the rest of the workout

bench press: 115#
cleans: 75#

26:58

Pretty much scaled off of my BP weight

DL: 155#
BP: 100#
Clean: 75#

Just under 21 minutes, used clock on the wall... funny enough, the BP was like a break!

"Linda" as rx'd

DL 280
BP 185
CLN 140

BW = 185lb

time 43:30(PR by 12 minutes)

"Noob" here.

m/34/145
working out w/ dedication for about 3 mon. known about crossfit for 2 weeks.

135lb Dead lift
95lb Bench press 10reps (first 7 sets) 8-6-5 reps
95lb Cleans (used same bar as bench)

27 min. @la fitness laguna niguel, ca.

Thanks again to Ruth at southbay cf.

m/32/165

Deadlift - 255
Bench Press - First 10 at 165, and then had to sub to 145
Squat Cleans - 115

43 mins

Deads easy and straight through. Bench is a big weakness. Cleans gassed me. Each rep caught in a full squat. Mentally and physically grueling. Cleans ate up almost all the time.

linda just beat the crap out of me. you're an animal coach.

175 6'0"

245 deadlift
175 bench
135 clean
40:02

Linda
Deadlift (185)
Bench Press (185)
Clean (135)
All Reps as rx'd
This was the hardest workout I've done yet
27:07

scaled
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps of the triplet:
D.L. : 1.5 BW = 120kg scaled to 100kg, 220lb, 83%
B. P.: 1.0 BW = 80kg scaled to 70kg, 154lb, 87%
Clean: 0.75BW = 60kg scaled to 50kg, 110lb, 83%

32:02

as rxd
30:56
my back is tight! and i can barely walk, guess linda whooped me a bit

to add to #232
dead lift 250
bench 170
clean 125
m/170/30/6'

M/25/165/6'0

I GOT OWNED. This is my hardest workout for sure. I need to strength train. My deadlifts were decent, my squat cleans were pretty good, my bench was HORRIBLE. Once I dropped the weight on myself I knew I was done.

Dead-250, Bench-165, Squat Clean-130.

10,9,8 in 41 mins and I just couldn't go anymore.

m/24/uk

Weight:75kg (165lbs)

Deadlift: 100kgs (220lbs)
Bench: 75kgs (165lbs)
Clean: 50kgs (110lbs)

Time: 52.38

Comments:
Just getting back into it after a three month break from all exercise. Was disappointed overall here, especially as I had to lower the weight of the deadlift.

Strength wise the deadlift was the hardest, benchpress was easy, and clean wasn't a problem strength wise, but the clean really kicked my butt cardiovasicularly. Most disappointg of all my form sucked. Just couldn't keep my back straight on the deadlift.

not fun...i did the 3-3-3-3-3 deadlift last night, and then attempted this one 13 hours later. Let's just say I learned the importance of rest this morning when I got to the round of 6 and couldn't stand up...

I'm going back after Linda in a few days...

Mark 49/M/154lbs
Scaled to
205 DL, 130 BP, 95 Squat Clean
28:31 PR by 10:00 minutes

Theresa
Scaled to
155 DL, 75 BP, 52 Squat Clean
23:18

25/M/185/5'9"

DL 275lbs
BP 155lbs(I suck at bench)
squat cleans 135lbs

39:17

Linda you are one bad ass chick!

M/5'10"/185/21

Few days ago was my first time doing DL's so I was still sore from that going into today. As RX'd cept for DL's

DL: 205 instead of the RX'd 275
Bench: 185
P-Clean: 135
Time: 27:07

F/41/126

Scaled 80ish %. Shoulder is giving me trouble so I had to lower the BP weight

DL 150
BP 85
C 75

34:36

This is a minute faster than my best time which was done with much less weight.

Learned a lesson today: ALWAYS check your bars before you attempt to lift them. No matter how close you have been to them!

Around round 6 I jumped on the bench, set my hands and lifted and the bar went flying up on the right. Some yahoo took all of the plates off of the right side of my bar! Well I had to stop to find plates and guy that did it said:

Him: "I took them"
Me: (glaring look)
Him: "I didn't know anyone was using them"
Me: (another glaring look while grabbing new plates)
Him: "well you don't have to cop and attitude"

All I have to say is he is damn lucky I was doing a WOD for time! If he had just said "SORRY, I took them" I would be okay with it. I was literally standing 1 foot away from the bench (my back was to it) but could he not have asked? Why did he think the plates were on the bar. I am just lucky if it were reversed and l lifted the uneven bar with all of the weight on my bad side I probably would have screwed my shoulder up more than it already is.
Rant over!

22.m.135.65"

as rx'd
DL: 205
BP:135
Clean: 105

28:47
*GEEZ Gillian nearly lapped me!

Gillian may have punished Linda (Didn't even look like she broke a sweat.) But, Linda kicked the sh$t out of me.

BW 160
DL 205
Bench 150
Clean 95

35:40

Knee felt really good. Can still tell I'm protecting it on Cleans though. But, it's progress. Leg is still atrophed but getting stronger.

As Rx'd:
DL: 360
BP: 240
clean: 180

1:08:04 and there was not a drop left in the tank after that. Maybe I should lay off the Popeye's Chicken as a post workout meal.....

m/39/6'3"/198

WOW! First Linda, she is an a$$ kicker.

25:18

Scaled:
DL - BW
BP - 3/4 BW
CL - 1/2 BW

GO NAVY!!!

BW 165

Last time 23:46

DL 185lbs
BP 155
Cl 85

This time 28:50

DL 215Lbs
BP 155
CL 95

46:45 (PR - sadly)

Second time doing it, first time actually doing squat cleans (a lot tougher).

I'm at a globo gym so I could only use two bars so loading and unloading for the cleans and deads took a lot of time. I also had my bench bar completely unloaded during the workout so I had to find new plates.

It's a great workout.

About 36 min.....forgot to look when finished. Went straight into 'I am dying' mode.

Started with correct weights, by the time I was done, bench was 155, clean was 115, squat was 205. Body weight is 180.

First time doing Linda. As rx'd; 36:52, weights were 135kg deadlift, 90kg benchpress, 65kg clean.

Oh yeah, I'm totally in love with Gillian. I'm also pretty sure that if I were to scale down to her weights it would take me a fair amount longer than it took her.

I was able to do the weight posted this time my last Linda I scaled down to:
DL 225
bench 195
clean 135 did it in 33min

Today at the Wellness Center which I paid 7 dollars to do Linda.
DL 245
bench 195
clean 155
the first 5 rounds I was okay until my form was getting bad, so I decided to scale back down to what I did last time and finish with good form.
It took 42 minutes. If I didnt sweat so much, or if I could use chalk for my hands so I didnt loose my grip I would have done better. I hate how gyms dont let you use chalk, thats why I have my own gym in my garage.
28yrs 194lb male
aka Tito

As rx'd

bw:165

Deadlift: 255
Bench Press: 165
Clean: 125

39:50....all I heard from the guy keeping time was you got 20 seconds...GO! I knew this meant to stay under 40 minutes. CrossFit!

Had to do cleans with a curl bar...form was horrible.
time 38:10
Deadlift 285
Bench 190
Clean 140

#207 and everyone else who is asking about power and hang cleans - If it doesn't say power or hang it is a squat clean from the floor. The only exception I know of is Grace which is anyway you can floor to overhead.

M/39/6'0"/155

As Rx'd (120kg+90lbs,155lbs,52.5kgs)
35:00 pr by 2 min

First pr since coming back from my hip injury. I was a little unsure of how it would do in the cleans so I took some motrin to keep the inflammation down. Hopefully it helped rather than masking pain that I should have heeded. Also first time with a major callous tear. Yeah!

Gillian - That was beyond solid. Truly impressive!

First Linda w/o.

D/L: 195 all unbroken
Bench: 135 all unbroken
Cleans: 95 broken on sets 10-9-8-7.

31:00

Wanted a sub 30.
Cleans were the kicker. Form improving.
Bench seem to be the rest period.
Will have to increase D/L & bench next time.
On Day 8 of Burpee challenge but had to make up day 7 too. So 15 Burpees post w/o.

Carry on.........

I am 17 years old and until today I thought I was in great shape. I am currently in the Navy Delayed Entry Program and I am a SEAL candidate. I have known about Cross Fit for some time but thought that me other workouts were better suited for me. I was WRONG!. Today was the first day that I tried Cross Fit and I am convinced that this is the most effective workout around. "Linda" was a reality check for me that told me I am not yet strong enough. Thanks to "Linda" I am now a believer in Cross Fit.

m/40/210

as rx'd 35 min

deadlift 315
subbed hspu
full cleans 158

#246 Edwin

Why oh why would someone take our weights. Sorry you had the same experience. Must have something to do with the phase of the moon.

Great job though, I am not sure I could have done it that quickly with all of that loading and unloading plus you got a pr doing full squat cleans instead of power cleans. I'd say that is something to celebrate!

Refused to head to the gym for bench, so subbed weighted ring dips (12 kg).

DL @223# (149% bwt)
Wtd Ring Dips @ +26#
Squat Clns @ 114# (76% bwt)

33:58

This was tricky in my 24-Hr Fitness. There are a total of 4 Olympic bars in the whole gym, so I had to use one of those w-shaped curl bars for DLs, and a pre-loaded bar for cleans. Unfortunately, the highest weight I could find on one of those was 90-lbs, but I had to scale back the BPs, anyway.

Should have been 225/150/110, but scaled to 185/115/90. BP was definitely the weak link. Got 25:56. Wanted sub 30, so that was fine with me.

Got some great looks. Fun workout.

m/37/185

failed....

looked forward to beating old time on this one. set everything up, warmed up chest, did one warmup set of deadlift and on 3rd rep pulled my lat! The DL's from 2 days ago did me in....

As Rx'd (used trap bar for deads and 2" thick bar for bench)

315 dead
215 bp
160 clean

42:00

killer on an old fart like me!

M/31/5'4/150
Back and hamstrings still sore. Scaled to 135/150/85 respectively: 26:20. Was a sweat monster after the 1st two sets. Hopefully no deadlifts for another week or so. My back might actually recover by then. I am hoping tomorrow is a run day, come on 5K...

31:30m

Did not cycle because of home gym. Also scaled to my weight.

dl 135, bp 85, sc 65
44:57

Wow, Gillian! Very impressive. You made it look easy. I'm ashamed of my effort in comparison.

m/22/6'/191

Deadlift: 290
Bench: 195
Squat clean: 145

33:18 as Rx'd

The deadlifts were the limiting factor for me, and I need to get stronger at them. Probably one of the hardest workouts I've done. Squat cleans are significantly more difficult than power cleans, yet the full clean is Rx'd.

After my set of six I looked at my watch for a time check and it was on 2 minutes. I had accidentally stopped it doing cleans I guess. So no time.Really pissed me off but I finished.

m/22/144/5'7"

DL: 195
Bench: 145
Cleans: 105

40:40

made do with only two bars.

after set 6, had to drop the DL and clean weight by 10 pounds. DL was the hardest, Bench was a grateful breath of fresh air!

good form throughout, but i wobbled all over the place as i tried to put the weights back afterwards, and during my cool down.

10-9-8-7-7-7-4-3
(230/155/125)
46:15
Had to break up bench and cleans after second set

m/25/5'9"/160

170# DL
hop pushups
65# clean

24:55 with a bloody shin

Way to execute, Gillian!

Gillian great job

Linda humbled me, suffering from allergies and a head full of snot, about passed out.

m/34/190/5'8"

RXed

DL 285
Bench 190
Clean 142

1:17:54 embarrassing
last time 32:51 on 3/8/08

David
M - 33 - 5'10" - 179# BW

DROM Warm Up

WOD scaled to 150# BW: 1:14:32

Post WOD: Burpees x 5, Foam Roll, and Stretching

Notes: Scaled to 150# BW which put it at 225# Deadlift, 150# Bench press, and 115# Clean.

I completely ran out of gas about the fourth round (reps of 7) and had to sit for about 10 minutes to muster the energy to finish it out. That was a nasty first experience with Linda. Ouch!

100 day burpee challenge, day 5 complete.

m/34/205

Linda as Rx'd 42:13 difficult
305dl
205 bp
150 pc

I feel i need addtional core work. I have been doing crossfit for 4 months. my week points seem to be cardio and core. I also know my weight should be down 10 lbs. to be around 12%bf. Any suggestions to additional training? I have been doing the cf warm-up.

day 5/100 for the HDBC

first Linda, scaled to BW - .75BW - .5BW

50.42 min

M/29/220/6'1

DL:1st 265, the rest 225.
BP:Hammer machine when not in use 180lbs, then taken figure tip push ups.
Clean: 89lbs.

1:12:54

Not as Rx, the numbers were kinda random, the LBM calculations was still too much for me to do the whole reps, so these numbers just kinda showed up.
Bench is always hard to get from the meat heads.
but hey I did it and trust me I wanted to quite way before half way.

Thanks for your encouragement Bingo and Pedro. I know I getting ahead of myself and I need to be patient and stick to it, for me the videos are almost demotivate me b/c I can't see myself ever being at that level and I feel like the videos are of naturally gifted people that were trim and buff long before CF was invented. I would also contend that this WOD as do several seem to favor the 126lbs 5.5ft female, as Nicole and Gillian are almost the exact same specs, interesting.

Kinda creepy I noticed that but hey when you're the Crossfit poster kid I'm gonna know more about you than I want to. I'm not stocking you, honest I'm a happily married man.

Peace Out,
Charlatan 6

Had to scale her back some. The 260 starting weight is a bit high for me.

DL - BW
BH - .75BW (185 - ya I know it's 10#s light)
CL - .5BW (135 - but this one is 5#'s heavier)

35:58

I'm smoked!

This was my first date with Linda. She's a tough old bag.

I had to scale the weight down some.
28/M/206/71in

DL=225
BP=155
CL=135

42 min flat.

I know this isn't the best time out there or the heaviest weights, but I'm damn proud. I think I am still in debt from that 7K row yesterday too. I have a bad habit of making my rest days too active, but I am trying to lose weight and I feel really guilty when I totally take a day off. Down 40 pounds in 3 months though! Jenny Craig eat your heart out!

STAY MOTO all!!!

f/42/5'4"/150

DL - 165
BP - 90
C - 55

33:38

Kicked my butt...I'm not as strong as I thought I was!

Warmup;3x15 pushups, situps, back ext, 3x5 pullups, stretch

Workout:
10...1:
Split-peddle legpress-210 lbs
Bench-100 lbs
Modified Cable Row-120

Time: 28:30

Wow first lisa.......ripped me a new one....

20:51 as Rx'd until the 3rep set.....then I had to drop 20lbs off the dead lift, and 20lbs off the bench....clean as rx'd throughout

First time doing linda and I couldn't get through the whole thing. Got 10-9-8-7-6 and then couldn't even get one rep of the DL and failed on rep 2 of the clean. weights were as rxed and next time me thinks I'll scale this one. Linda beat my ass and took my lunch money.

29/f/114

only had 30 min to workout and only 1 bar available. not feeling well and did very light fran instead.

fran with 45# bar 3:02

(time should have been much faster, no gas in the tank today)

pre: wux2
post: smr

gillian- wow that was just sick! so impressive! wow, just wow!

27/6'8"/210

1st Linda as rx'd
dl 315 bp 210 cl 155

1:06.48 Hit the wall in the 3rd round

M/36/5'7"/205

Still ramping up the weights on this one

DL 185
BP 50 lb Dumbells
Cleans 95

27:45

wow I can't believe how I'm feeling right now
that was intense. I wanted to quit I'm glad my partner who has been doing cross fit for three weeks now didn't let me. This is my fourth crossfit work out.
I scaled the weight down
M/5'10/200lbs

DL 225
BP 200
CL 105

as time went on I had to scale the weight down some, on DL,BP. I hope in time doing crossfit I will be able not to scale the weight down at all.

Completed linda in 28:41

m/40/67"/195

BW: 195
DL: 295 = 151%
SC: 135 = 69%
BP: 205 = 105%

59:50

Shared bars w/ 2 others so we all compromised a bit w/ the weights & did a bit of plate shuffling throughout. DL's toughest. Grip issues from the start. Can't believe how fast you guys are getting though this one. I was just trying to finish! Wicked showing Gillian.

Charlatan, sounds like you need to jack up your metabolism. Maybe a set of tabata in the morning or evening (opposite your WOD). Also add sprint intervals as a warmup. That should do the trick.

22:26
Deadlift 95 lbs
Bench 65 lbs
Medball Clean 20 lbs

41:10 (36:15 still personal best)
bw = 200 lbs.
DL - 275 lbs (started DL with 305 and got 4 rounds into it before I realized it wasn't 275)
BP - 185 lbs
SC - 135 lbs

Guess I thought that I had better put up or shut up so...

165/m/26

DL at 245
BP at 155
Clean at 115
28:15
First time through and I was tough.

37/6'2"/192
Colorado Springs

As RX'd: 39:17

DL: 285lbs
BP: 190lbs
FS Clean: 145lbs

I'm more proud to say as RX'd here than my time, considering it is slower than my PR. The power cycle we just got off had an impact on the deadlifts. Bench as always is my weakest link. Secondly is the deadlift. Full squat cleans, no problem!

Back is screaming! Ahh, I can sleep tonight.

Did this today finished in 32:19
Height 6'4"
Weight 201 lbs

Holy crap was it a good work out. I hope there is more of this coming soon.

Only had access to a 35# Kettlebell for today's WOD, so...
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 Reps of this quadrulet for time:
Sumo Deadlift High Pulls w/KB
Push-ups w/KB on back
Full Squat KB Cleans L
Full Squat KB Cleans R

20:11

bwt 138

did 1/2 cidy 10 min: 16 rnds then 3 hrs later did main WoD as Rx'd (rounded my weight up to 140 for easy math)

32:58

Thanks to the peeps down at the black box for havin me this mornin :)

Holy Crap that was awesome!

As RX'd

105 kilo deadlift
70 kilo bench
52.5 kilo clean

Very very nice, like to see more workouts like this... But using less bars got some evil looks at the globo gym :P

41:58

DL 225, BP 150, Power cleans 45lb db's. Seven minute improvement over last time using two different bars this time; probably saved at least 7 mins. just avoiding hauling the plates back and forth. Avg HR 169, peak 184, rec. 61.

Congradulations for everyone that finished, impressive...

I got through the 6 rep:

DL: 225
Bench: 205
Cleans: 135

Need to work on the DL, big time.

Anyone live near DANBURY CT? Looking for a CF partner.

I paid a bit for my hit & miss schedule as of late. 4 minutes slower than my PR time.

Deadlift (225)
Bench (175)
Clean (135) -Full Squat

Time: 22'15

m/41/180

DL - 205 = 115% go higher next
BP - 145 = 80%
SC - 115 = 64%

27:39

rounds 8 - 5 seem to take forever.

195 pounds. Scaled back a bit. My dead lifts need work.

DL: 205 - 105%
BP: 175 (increase next time) - 95%
HC: 125 (increase next time) - 65%

I have never had my butt kicked by a girl ... until today.

Oops, 28:03

this is great. i just found this site and i'm hooked. does the wod change each day or week? is there a place like this in nyc?

as rxd:
BW:175
DL:270
BP:185
CL:135

THAT WAS HEINOUS!!!

F/38/140/5'7"

DL 135
BP 85
C 65

34:40

My first Linda - wow.

DL: 225 = 129% of BW
BP: 135 = 77% of BW
Clean: 115 = 66% of BW

BW = 175#

Time: 1:02:00

Goal: Just finish!

One Bar: Unfortunately only one bar; This meant changing weights and moving the bench in and out of the squat racks. No way to get a reasonable time.

Realization: I can't do clean squats with any meaningful weight. Lack confidence. Will need lots of practice in this area.

Next time: Heavier on BP. This was the first time I have done any BP's in about 7 or 8 years.

Great WOD. Very hard.

BW=167

DL=179
BP=135
HC=89

I did all this with one bar and the changeovers stunk. I'm sure they took away from much of the benefit. Nevertheless, I was winded from the 2nd set to about the 5th. But the changing over unfortunately allowed me to catch my breath too much.

29:19

Increase all weights by 10 lbs next time. Looking forward to it!

«Linda» -25 lbs

BW: 135 lbs.

Deadlift: 175 lbs. (200-25)
Bench Press: 110 lbs. (135-25)
Clean: 75 lbs. (100-25)

Total Time: 23:59 minutes.

Linda as RX'ed: 11:56 PR. I did the Linda in the video 080801.

At CrossFit LaLanne, thank you Chris and Mark, you guys were great.

Still pumped after the Level 2 cert. Amazing experience.

Kallista, I thought about you and our philosophy discussion from yesterday while I was doing Linda. Every rep stands alone, do every one like it's your last.

22/m/195
I have been only working out since January and only been doing crossfit since mid July.
I should of done DL 300, Bench 195, and clean 150ish
but had to scale down a bit, so I did DL 225, bench 165, and clean 110 in 39 mins.

as rx'd:
dl: 250
bp: 165
full cleans: 125

my eating was off last couple days, so this almost killed me, pukie, black outs, etc. PR of 38:14. not at all happy with it. great reminder to keep my game tight on the eating. I will redeem myself tomorrow.

deadlift: 295
bp: 200, until 6th round had to drop down to 155....weight overloaddddd
clean: 155

33 min.

f/142/31

CFWU to start

DL 215-215-205-205-205-205-205-205-205-205
BP 75-75-75-75-75-75-75-75-75-75
C 40-40-40-40-40-40-40-40-40-40 (first time doing cleans (or 'Linda') and wanted to focus on form than weight. Will definitely go heavier next time. I actually enjoyed these, thought it was a fun exercise!)

29:31

As Rx'd

43.47

DL: 135 = 83% of BW
Bench: 55 lb dumbells = 68% of BW
Clean: 65 = 40% of BW

35ish minutes (forgot to stop the watch)

First Linda after only 2 weeks of crossfit. Brutal.

Hard to do at 24 hour fitness, even on a Saturday afternoon but 1 bar for DL and clean with bench done with dumbbells seemed to work.

Linda"

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps of the triplet:
Only two bars--left the DL bar alone,changed wt between bench and clean. Needed the breating time, anyway.
Deadlift: Scaled to 180
Bench press: scaled to 133
Clean: Scaled to 89

52:47

My very first Linda and was gunning for Gillian but HOLY SHI!!!
nice job girl
41/m/5'9/175
deadlift rounded up to 265
bench 175
cleans rounded up to 135
19.44
i need work on my cleans if im gonna beat the prettiest Beast of the East
Gillian you have an open invitation to come up to Westchester to show us boys how its done

well finally got another workout in with t n t from bel-air. i represent crossfit york, pa. i'm attending running/endurance sept. 20-21st, and level I sept. 27th-28th. i digress.

the facility(globo-gym) we used isn't linda friendly so we made our own hurricane.
as rx'd
"hanna"
2000m row
50 burpees
50 kb swings 1.5
for time.
time: 16:45

it really felt good to workout with them again, i loved it.
i can't wait to become official. about 2-3 weeks away. i can't wait for the knowledge. enjoy your weekend guys. b.

Dude...

Almost as rx'd

-DL 291(should have been 330)
-Bench 135(should have been 220, but still could have gone heavier. Know that for next time)
-Clean 165(that was rx'd)

Time- 26:11 with a hangover. Sake is not a good power source nor is it paleo or zone.

M/30/220/6'6"

BBQ dinner tasted horrible during this.

34yom/167/6'0"
DL 245,BP 165,CL 115 - Wow
55:54

31yof/126/5'6"
DL 155,BP 75,CL 60
55:56

53:20
BW 179
DL 225=126%BW 270 or 150%BW is RX'd
BP 185=103%BW 179 or 100%BW is RX'd
SC 115=64%BW 135 or 75%BW is RX'd
@ WC

M/23/168

"Linda"

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps of the triplet:

Deadlift: 1 1/2 body weight = 255 lbs
Bench press: body weight = 170 lbs
Clean: 3/4 body weight = 125 lbs

I would like to thank Tyler and Logan for coming down and doing the WOD with us today. You guys F@#*ing rock, I have to train harder in order to catch up with you guys. The cleans is what killed me on this workout, but now I know what I need to improve on.

As rx'ed, with the weights shown above 17:54

m/40/212/5'11"

I had to scale down to dl=280 bench=205 clean=95

got through it, but the over-crowded frou-frou gym made it pointless to even time. About 1/2 an hour, including time spending having to re-rack the bars, waiting for people who jumped in on the bench,refused to let me work in and went super-slow on purpose. Highlight: dropping 280lb weight on someone's cellphone. Time to join X-fit gym.

Bodyweight: 175

DL: 260
BP: 180
C: 130

Only had one bar. I did all sets for Cleans, then Bench then DL. Usually took 15-30sec break in between most sets.

Time: 31:05

Can a comments page be set up for just results?

Ex.

M/28/200
time: xxxx

i think im in love

M/230/6'4"/34

dead 315
hang clean 185
inlcine bench 185

29:45

29yo/m/5'8"/150

Scaled 75%

DL -170
BP -115
Clean-85

Time: 21:30

I think I could have done the Bench and maybe cleans as Rx'd but definitely not the Deadlift, thought my back was gonna burst. Still sore from two days ago.

Linda....Blair.

Kicked my ass.

M/38/5'6"/190

Made it through rounds 10,9,8, and 7 before the gym closed. Thank God. (did BP for round 6 - was the only thing working well...)

Deadlifts at 285 were brutal
Between those and the 140# cleans, my hips of all things were KILLING me.
The BP did alright at 190. I was actually surprised - that felt very strong and I haven't benched in a long time. Guess those push-ups have been helping!

That said - should've scaled this in weight. As it was, I backed off the last two sets of deadlifts by 50# and I was still running out of gas. Had the gym not closed, I would have still had to bail early.

Linda - we will meet again. Hopefully no time soon. :)

30yo M 175lb 5’10”
CFWU x 3, 10 pull ups, 10 ring dips per round.
Deadlift 95lbs x 5-5 135lbs x 5 205lbs x 3 250lbs x 2 Bench press 45lbs x 5-5 95lbs x 5 135lbs x 3 155lbs x 2 Clean 65lbs x 5-5 95lbs x 5

Deadlift 205lbs: 10-9-8-7-6
Bench press 175lbs: 10-9-8-7-6
Squat Clean 115lbs: 10-9-8-7-6
Time: 59:35
One bar had to change weights each set. Foam roll after.
Compared to 071114: DL 185, BP 165, C 115 x 10-9-8-7 in 57:29

M/48/151

Injury prevents bench; unfortunately no "Linda"

Crossfit Strength Experiment Week 5

Buy-in: DL 200# 12-9-6 (one min. between), unbroken

WOD
15-12-9 Power clean 115# (note, this was 1RM 6 months ago)
24-18-12 PU (oops, did 28 first round)

13:14

I feel like a crash-test dummy...

Charlatan 6:

I6 has good thoughts. Also, consider scaling the weights more to produce a more intense, shorter WOD while you adjust to the Crossfit experience. Glad you are here.

Gillian's a beast.

BW=168.

Scaled to 125#/165#/205#

I'm sure by the end, the deadlift and squat clean looked terrible.

Time: 30:45. Very happy with the time and happy to be done with it. Quite a boost of confidence when some body builders in the gym said, "Geez, that guy's pretty strong."

Now for 84 burpees.

“Linda”

10-9-8--6--4--2-1 reps of the triplet:

Deadlift: 70kg
Bench press: 60kg
Clean: 30kg

the first 3 rounds i did like the wod called, but than i decide to do downscaling the amount of reps.

time 20:25

i concentrate much on the technique of the deadlift and the clean to do it right.

m/36/102kg/196 CF since june 2008
the Netherlands

Me: 42yo/M/5'10"/173lbs/10.5%BF

When I saw Linda as today's WOD, I almost threw up in my mouth. Linda has always been one of the toughest WODs for me and today I feel great...

Warm Up: Greg's Circulars + Bergener WU with a hollow pipe.

WOD: Linda 55:15

Dead lift: 259lbs: All sets unbroken.

Bench Press: 174lbs: I broke all of the sets into 2 reps at a shot. My bench press has always been my weakest event and I have never done Linda as prescribed until today because of my bench press.

Cleans: 129lbs: I broke most sets into 4 or 5 at a shot until the 6th round. Sets unbroken after the 6th round. I was surprised at how well I did with the cleans, my form is getting really efficient.

Cool Down: 5 bar muscle ups.

A REALLY BIG DAY FOR ME! This is the first time that I was able to do Linda as prescribed. Last time I got to set 6 before I could no longer do the body weight bench. This time I felt really good on the bench but I kept my sets to two at a shot for fear of burning out before I finished. Next time I won't be so particular about getting the weight to the exact pound for Linda. This also shatters my last time of 1 hour and 57 minutes :>) A great day for me :>) Thanks Coach, Coach B and Rip...

Have Fun, Train Hard,

Billy

#308 Gillian

Not sure if you folks saw this post, but G's video time of 14:59 was shattered today...by her.

Congrats GM -- that's an incredible time to achieve.

m/34/210#/5'9"

I had to scale the cleans down to 65% of bw since I am still not proficient with them yet. Otherwise done as rx'd.

Deadlift: 315#
Bench Press: 210#
Cleans: 135#

39:30

weight 170

Bench 170
Clean 130
DeadLift 255
Time- 16:26

I also did "Fran" today for some unknown reason. I just felt soooo good. It is amazing what a good night of rest will do. "Fran" time 2:19 PR, I taped it for fun, I will post it tomorrow.

m/37

This one really hurt and I have never done it before. Due to a shortage of Bars in my gym I had to do the cleans with dumbbells therefore I had to reduce the weight.

Time: 17:28

Forgot to mention that Pukey the Clown payed a visit

M/25/177lbs.

270lb. deadlift
180 lb. bench press
135lb. power clean

37:26

good workout.
wasn't able to even finish it last time...so lowered weights this time.

m/18/170

deadlift- 215
cleans- 135
bench- 160

my hands...ouch

Awesome performance, Gillian - holy cow, when you get a bit of experience with the clean, including full power in the 2nd pull ...

82.5% Linda, 254/170/127 at 27 even.

My last Linda done 80%, 246/164/123, in 30 mins.

Finally getting some efficiency in the low weight clean. Frikkin awesome workout! Paul

DL: 305
BP: 200
Clean: 150

(Full squat cleans)

43:10

Scaled to BrandX Puppies: 10-8-6-4-2

My PR CFT for DL is 215#, (ie BW+10#) so I had to scale.

Using a scaling chart (Baechle and Earle, 2000) I guestimated the following weights:

DL: 135#
BP: 95#
SC: 75# (turned out to be too much, so knocked it down to 65#)

Time: 23:17

45/180

34:17 As Rx'ed.

29m/70"/155
Linda was awesome!!!!

DL / 235
Bench/ 155
Clean / 115
35:04.
It was my first time and she handed out a whoopin'!!!

-CF Endurance WOD

-"Linda"

BW=180

24:33 Rx

First time, so went light

dl: 95
bp: 135
cl: 95

Did all sets - could tell my hips were weak...

time = 43:00

27/m/181

Only did rds 10 thru 6 I was dying. This was my first time trying this as rx'd. Deadlift's were much too heavy and form started to suck.

DL: 270
BP: 180
SC: 135

M/24/175
Scaled for now, next time Linda will be mine.

DL 225
BP 135
Cleans 100

Anthony (M/29/167)

Deadlift
45x10
135x1
225x1
315x1
405x1
415x5

"Linda"
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 of:
Deadlift 150% BW (255)
Bench Press 100% BW (170)
Clean 75% BW (135)

Time: 14:08 (PR)

Linda with a sprained wrist is not fun - but at least I got a PR. I was secretly hoping for a much faster time - but I completely bombed on bench press. Better luck next time!

comment # 350
time = 29:49

275DL, 185B, 135CL
36:16

42/167

First time attempting Linda with 3 different bars (in 90 degree heat).

DL - 250
BP - 165
HS Cleans - 125

10,9,8,7,6 rounds and out at 50:10. First time in a long time that I could not complete WOD. Have not been eating or drinking well the last couple of days and it showed...

m/24/6'1/215

DL: 265
BP: 205
CL: 140

57:03

m/46/212/6'2

28:18

dl 155
bp floor 155
cl 95

scaled for good form

Cory #35...

I had a couple thoughts on your question. I play college soccer, so I understand the demands of college athletics also in terms of sport-specific and full-body workouts like crossfit. Our preseason just ended and we're a couple of games into our regular season. I also love crossfit and it did wonders for my stability and explosiveness in the first few steps and when running through contact. You have to find a balance in your schedule for your technical skills training (basketball), basketball-specific conditioning, and a crossfit workout. For us, our games are Fri and Sun, so I like to do a crossfit workout on a monday and/or tuesday(more of an endurance workout like Angie or Murph, rather than going heavy like Linda during the season). This way I keep working on my relative strength and explosiveness during the season and don't wilt into purely an endurance athlete (running 2 hours a day will do this). As for you and your offseason, I would try doing what I do during our spring... On technical skill days, go early or later and get a crossfit workout. On conditioning days, just focus on that session and go as hard as you can and kick everyone's ass!

37 Min, but I had to lower the load though - this is week two of crossfit for me.

deadlift-220
bench-145
cleans-110

had a great time today, went down to crossfit suffolk an did the LINDA with larry and devin. Sick setup there cant wait to do another WOD with them

new pr.... as rx'd 14:52

praying for GRACE tomorrow

Deadlift 135
Bench press 85
Clean 65

35:33

10lb plates were small, so pulled from mid shin for the cleans. A bit ackward. Deads were the easiest, bench the roughest, segmented into many partitions.

45/M/6/180 STA 74

TIME: 25:31

3 BARS OF DEATH!!
YES!! THIS IS ONE OF MY MOST LIKED WODS.

DEAD LIFT- 225 1.25X BODY
SQUAT CLEANS- 135 .75X BODY
BENCH PRESS- 185 BODY+

SCALED THE DEADS TO 225...290 AINT GONNA HAPPEN.

ALL ELSE AS RX'D. SQUAT CLEANS DOWN TO A 14" BOX.

ALL THIS WAS AFTER 4 HOURS OF HOSE TESTING IN 100+ DEGREE SUN. MY CREW WOULDN'T JOIN ME TODAY BUT THEY WATCHED AND HAD PLENTY OF HELPFULL THINGS TO SAY...YAAA.

YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT

RURAL/METRO FIRE DEPT.
TUCSON, AZ.

15 minutes is like the 4 minute mile as far as I'm concerned. I'm sucking wind from the first round. This is not getting easier. From about the third round, I'm hunched over in a pool of my own sweat, my heart is pounding, and I can't catch my breath. Better still, everyone is staring at me like I'm on some kind of drug, because it isn't like I'm MOVING that fast...

Add in the fact that I'm muttering to myself (5 more, 2 more, up, up, UP!) and it is quite a sight. And this doesn't even talk about trainers trying to unload my weights while I'm working on one of my other bars.

Then I have to watch these girls doing 1/2 air squats and checking their form like they are doing it right. I'm trying to figure out if/how I can tell them how to do a proper squat without being a know-it-all. Maybe they'll stop doing weighted squats in the smith machine and get off the leg press...

Reps-split-Total Time

10-2.41-2.41
9-4.45-7.26
8-5.31-12.57
7-6.27-19.24 Gillian was done here...
6-5.04-24.29
5-5.16-29.45
4-4.00-33.46
3-2.42-36.28
2-1.25-37.53
1-.51- 38.45

as rx'd. Full Squat Cleans

DL-275
BP-185
CL-135

m/27/186#

m/39/180/5-7

scaled to:
205 deadlift
180 bench
50 cleans

27:00

I made the mistake of not scaling. Made it past round 3 and couldn't finish.

Linda sat on me and farted.

as rxd 43:00

Its rough with only one bar - I think I spent more time changing weights around than I did actually exercising with them...

m/34/175/5'7"
been doing xfit for about 3 months now
dl - 225
bench - 185
clean - 135

finished the 6 rep set by 59 minutes...

My objective was to scale this one properly and I think I got there.

Body weight: 185

Deadlift: (scaled) 245
Bench press: 185
Clean: 135

8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1

Time: 25:31

I have a new least favorite workout.

My own special "Girly Linda" (only have 2 bars):

10-8-6-4-2-1 reps of the triplet:

86 lbs -- Deadlift: almost 1/2 Rx'd
38 lbs -- Bench press: less than 1/3 Rx'd
38 lbs -- Clean: almost 1/2 Rx'd

I guess i need another bar as i could have done more on the bench press.

22 minutes -- Didn't rush it too much.

And 8 burpees.

What a coincidence! I just did "3 Bars of Death" yesterday, Friday. Coach, I'm glad to know that I think like you do :) Proud to be a part of this community.

42/f/5'3/110

DL 165
BP 75
CL 75

10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 = 22:40

Body weight: 115#
Deadlift 1 1/2 body weight: 175#
Bench Press 3/4 body weight: 85# (One of this day it will body weight!)
Clean 3/4 body weight: 85#

26:38

Puke in my mouth on the 2 reps bench press at the end of the WOD. Couldn't spit it out because I was bench pressing...a little bit went up into my nose also...NASTY!!!

22/m/180

As Rx'd

54:45

Saturday Class @ Brand X

Saturday class

AMRAP in 15
100 m run
5 one arm dumbbell deadlifts
5 one arm dumbbell power cleans
5 one arm dumbbell thrusters

Use dumbbell = .25 bodyweight
Switch arms each rd.

Used 30# db and got 7 rounds.

Jodi (F/29/110)

Deadlifts
95x1
135x1
185x1
225x1
260x1
290x1

Later in the day:

"Linda"
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 of:
Deadlift 150% BW (165)
Bench Press 100% BW (110)
Clean 75% BW (83)

Time: 29:47 (PR by almost 11 minutes)

Deadlifts and cleans felt awesome...bench press was the suck and were singles right from the beginning. But I'm still thrilled with myself. haha!

First Date with Linda, Month 2 of CrossFit.

33/M/5'11"/180

DL 270
BP 180
CL 135

Gutted out Rx'd weights, the triple 7's were a hell of a wall.

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 = 1:02:00. Not impressed with my time, but satisfied I finished.

Linda
subS
DL185 BP135 C90#
10/8/6/4/2/1
16:42

BW 156
DL 245
BP 160
Cl 115
Time 22:53

Getting to the gym after my stag last night was a WOD in its self!!

m/38/6'3"/215

had to scale it down

deadlift - 275
bench press - 205
power clean - 135

38:24

first time doing linda. kicked my ass, but it was awsome. cannot wait for tomorrow!

m/38/193

26:10- killer workout, humbled and inspired, first time doing this one, happy to finish at full weight under 30:00

WOD ,LINDA ;
D/L,110k
B/P,75k,first 7 reps then 70k
CLN,55k
40.18.
weighed in at 11st,6lbs today,dead on middleweight limit,bench press so weak ,huvnae done it since starting crossfit and it was shocking ,considering i used tae rep out over 20 at 75k.what's the score ? ah know we never dae it in workouts but should i continue dain it just to keep it for Linda ?
anyway brilliant wod ,wiped me oot, but i was back at the gym a couple of hours later to practice other weak points.

as rx'd, first Linda....hated it!

28:31

185 lbs
Deadlift: 280 # (277 round up)
Bench: 185 #
Clean: 140 #

Almost met up with pukie on this one.

I was not feeling recovered from deadlifts two days ago, and I didn't have a spotter at the globogym, so I made up a LindaLite:

Pushups: 40, 36, 32, ..., 4
Hang squat clean: 20, 18, 16, ..., 2 @ 90lb

Time: 27:30

My butt was amply kicked.

Deadlift: 225
Bench Press: 150
Clean 115
Time: 24:47

Hanna:
For time,
2000m row
50 burpees
50 DB swings 55# (35# for Teri)

Teri 16:47
Todd 17:31

Did 1/2 Grace after in 2:08
Teri did 65# full Grace in 3:11

GREAT working out with Brandon Merson and Chris M!

First off, I have to declare myself a DNF for my first "Linda." I thought I would have enough time before taking my kids to go play golf--but I ran out of time.

My BW=157 today
DL = 240
BP = 160
Clean = 115

My DL form was sketchy around the end of rnd3 (end of 7 reps), so I dropped the DL to 135 for safety.
Ran out of time and had to leave after rnd5.
31 min in...
Man, my Glutes were hurt'n...

Sucks, I feel as if I failed because I couldn't stick around to finish, and I dropped weight.

went out to crossfit suffolk for this one and met up with George,Lisa,Larry, and Devon. had so much fun ot there. everyone wrecked it.Such nice people. If your in the suffolk area i definetly recommend checking out some of there classes.

Bwt 135

Dl 195
Bp 135
Cl 105

As Rx'd 14:43

sub'd Fran:
6:37 PR by 50 seconds

m/180/32

- 36:23 as rx'd

Dead - 271
Bench - 180
Clean - 135 - Did 10 for the first and second set by accident then went to 8.

Bench was ok, need more work on the squat cleans and deads

m/25/220

dead 315
bench 205
clean 95

28:44

had to scale this one, and even then I wasn't sure I'd be able to finish after round 5, but I powered through it!

Scaled everything 75%

Dl - 215lb
Bp - 145lb
Clean - 110lb (my form was piss poor on these)

Time: 29:41

As RX'd, squat cleans:

:47::54

m/34/198
DL- scaled to 255
BP- 195
CL- 145 - full squat clean
48:58

m/22/160lb
scaled down by half
DL-120
BP-80
CL-60
30min 19sec

34:13 as rx'd, bwt = 180.
Bench Press took about 20 mins, atleast. Was down to singles by the round of 5.

26:50, had to scale today because of the knee.
DL 230, BP 200, Power clean 140
M/39/201

she shouldn't deadlift with hex plates

6'0/197/22
295 dead
195 bench
155 clean

37:45 and puked twice. i think this is one of the worst ive done. those deads killed me

37/m/5'11/160

Scaled bwt 100#
Deadlift: 155#, Push-ups, Clean: 75#
16:18
ft-lbs: 65,221
ft-lbs/min: 4,001 (first linda over 4,000)
time/scale ratio: 26.1=16.30/(100/160) (last 33.0)

Linda as Rx'd

DL: 265
BP: 175
Clean: 135

Time: 27:59

BW 205

DEADLIFT 225#
BENCH 205#
CLEAN 125#
33:00

cant deadlift 305 yet... killer

34/m/6'2, 187
275 DL
185 BP
135 DL
25:34

38/M/175/6'1

Linda
265 DL
177 BP
125 Sandbag Cleans!!

34:10 (Sandbag cleans were TOUGH!!)

DL 285#
BP 179#
Cl 125# power cleans
27:33

M/23/150 GregAWU

As rx'd:

225# DL
150# BP
115# Clean

33 minutes - back got real tired.

bw: 162lbs

deadlift: 165lbs
dips
full squat cleans: 85lbs 10-4, 65 lbs 3-1

10-9-...-2-1

28:10

M/18/162/5'10"

241 DL
163 BP
121 Cleans

31:28

This kicked my a##

Did Linda Last week

19:40 as rx'd

Today:

Sh Press
135 x 3
140 x 3
150 x 3 (pr)

AMRAP in 15
100 m run
5 one arm dumbbell deadlifts
5 one arm dumbbell power cleans
5 one arm dumbbell thrusters

Used 45# dumbbells, a little heavier than rx’d.

13 rds + run + deadlifts + power cleans + 2 thrusters.

bw 169
75% of rxd
dl 190, bp 127, c 95
full squat cleans, used two bars and changed weights along the way. 36:15

47:00 of hell. This was the closest I think I've come to puking...walking around the house after not knowing wether to sit, stand, lie, or puke.
w= about 190 # so it was scaled a bit... at home with only 1 bar, I think being bent over changing the weights sort of siezed the abs a bit and hard to catch breath. What a sweat that was. Love the heavys, my back is absolutely done now.
DL-255
BP-185
Cl-135

DL 185
BP 185
Clean 90lbs (just learned how to do them two days ago)
Spent 10 hours laying hardwood then this.
37:45
I'm fairly happy with that.

I weighed myself today for the first time in ages in order to scale the weights for today's workouts... Now I have been sick for a few weeks so not much working out and also been off the zone as I have been eating comfort food for my sickness so I was expecting something bad... But I'm now 187# up from 175# and in only like a month OMG! Needless to say I am not a happy camper...

I had to scale today massively as my strength has not kept up with my arse lol...

I did

Deadlift: 110kg (was too heavy but I soldiered on)
Bench Press: 70kg (could have done more)
Clean: 60kg

Total Time: 53:01

(I had to change weight plates between deadlifts and cleans but really I needed the time to rest)

I didn't really do a great job of scaling this... I should have scaled it to me weighing around 70kg like the bench for the other too but I got over confident and I couldn't say die once I'd started lol. Next time I'll be smarter.

I fell over for the first time on a lift today... Doing a clean lol... It was very funny and being at a globo using metal weights it sure got everyone's attention, I was pissing myself laughing but the trainer looked very concerned.

28/m/192

39:09

DL-BP-C @ 225-185-135 due to lingering lower back issues. 1st effort with full squat cleans, makes about a 10 minutes difference.

First time and had to scale a bit and had to change the bar on deadlifts and power cleans but felt I would have rested any ways.
dl 225
bench 225
power clean 135

My first 'Linda', as RX'd:

26/m/145

DL 215
BP 145
SC 110

Finished in 30:20

Go Gillian!!
M-155
dl:225
b: 135-145
c: 115

Time: 42:57

* Could have pushed harder but was fasting because its Ramadan. And if pukie visits thats a lost day and after a month of fasting, not trying to have to make up any days. Like always Coach thanks and much Love.

Oh, and FGB shud be interesting!!

m/33/5'4"/145

Puppy scaled (10-8-6-4-2)

DL: 185
BP: 135
SC: 100

First "Linda". Left elbow acting up. Do the full one next time.

Darn you Linda - so bad but oh so good.
24:30.
m/5-11/245 (dang it Linda!)

DL - 200 (all the weight I have...)
Decline push-ups (no bench in the garage yet...)
CL - 200-150-200

47 / 173

as rx'd -- first time at these weights

42:57

you crossfitters crack me up. Didn't you realize Gillian was cloned 9 times? They had a camera on each one of her....geeze...I'm so much smarter than you guys...think I'll vote for Obama.

M/21/6'2.5"/205

Sets as rx'd, weight 2/3 of rx'd
46:54. I think Linda may be more of a man than I am...

Steve
M/46/172

DL 225
BP 170
Clean 125

32:12 shaved off 20 minutes!

Not easy to do in a gym but on a Saturday night it's a bit easier. Modified in order to complete the sets and not blow my back out. I have been doing the work outs for a week now and already feel stronger. Not able to meet the weight goals but get a great work out nonetheless.

First Linda. Needed more weight for bench - too easy.
DL - 115
Bench - 50
Cleans - 45

36:17

Ooops. I meant 26:17 - still a little shakey with the keyboard.

Subbed out the Deadlifts for squats. My back is still in rough shape from the last set of deadlifts.
Also adjusted the weights.

28:20

M/27/5'10/200

As RX'd
DL - 300
Bench - 200
Clean - 150

25:13

I hate Linda and she hates me, but we make it work.

26/m/152

Holy moley that was ridiculous. 1st go at this, back still sore from last DLs, but I made it work.

DL - 225
BP - 135
CL - 105 full squat cleans through 5 rounds, then power cleans there after.

Time: 37:10

Need to find someone to help push me during these workouts. I think I'm taking rests when I dont need too. But I'm still beat!

DL- 315
BP- 205
CL- 155 (full squat)

49:30. Just beat 50 min. which was the goal today. Low back is still pretty fried from last week. Bench press was a mess today.

M/24/73"/218lbs

DL: 345
BP: Ended up at 215
Clean: 165

48:25

Goal was 45 min or less, but 345lbs DL destroyed my back and tore open my hand. Maybe next time.

M/45/154

Scaled a litte
215 deadlift
145 bench
115 clean

36:18

Scaled waaaay back.

BW: 220 did..

10-8-6-4-2
of
185 DL
125 BP
95 Full-squat cleans

Was going to decide after the round of 10 whether I could do the full 10-9-8-7-etc. and decided it was not going to happen.

A time is probably useful...

18:37

M/36/5'9"/180
bench 181
deadlift 269 total 32040 lbs
clean 132

1st time w.o.d. done as RXd =32:25

time would have been a little better but i was spotting on the bench for my partner

First time...scaled weight as follows, BW =185:

DL: BW x 1.22 (225)
BP: BW x .84 (155)
HSC: BW x .73 (135)

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

Total time: 38:41

Temp at 29 Palms: 106

10lbs lighter than less time. pulled conventional instead of sumo and from the floor this time not partial. also up 50lbs from last time on deadlift. close grip on bench press instead of medium. and squat cleans instead of hang power cleans last time.

225lbs bdw. but i used my lean bodyweight again.
275 - deadlift
185 - bench press
135 - squat cleans

oh...and last time i did a set of 10/8/6/4/2/1 this time i did 10/9/8/7/6/5. so up from 31 to 45 reps. didnt time it last time.

40:16

Vance

m/41/210

25:57

BP- 90kg
Clean-50kg
DL-90kg

RDS
10:00
BP-15kg
Clean-15kg
DL-20kg

m/40/5'8"/200#

DL 300#
BP 200# unbroken
squat clean/power clean 150#

When I got to the set of 7 I had to switch to power cleans or else I would have never finished.
At the set of 4 I ripped two calluses on my left hand, luckily they did not rip all the way off, so I just pushed them back into place and put a glove on and finished the workout.
51:06

1-bar wonder today...

200# bw, did all 3 at 170#

17:52.27

Looking fwd to FGB tomorrow.

185 lbs.

53:47

Looking forward to tomorrow.

age 42
bwt 215#
time: 50:00
10-1.
DL: 135,185,205,225,245,265,275,295,315,365.
BP: 135,155,175,185,205,215,225,235,245,275.
PC: 115,125,135,145,155,165,170,175,180,185.
Did power cleans instead of "cleans". Only had 2 bars so I did DL and BP first and then finished with PC.

Cycled 102 kms in 4 hours 17 minutes. From Glacier Wa, up Mount Baker and back.

I thought I could take care of Linda afterward but alas I was a little delusional.

Tomorrow.

Gillian is rather incredible. Nice work!

as rx'd:

34:30

37:08 as rx'ed
3 min slower than last time

Scaled weights and reps
10-8-6-4-2

DL 155
BP 100
Cl 40# DB's

duh...14:25 above

did the workout as rx'd, deadlifts actually a bit heavier.. didn't time it though. too slow to time anyways..

50:42

After 7th took 20lbs off dead

Did power cleans instead (need to go down all the way next time)

This took a good effort

M 21 5'3" 137lbs

M/40/182

Linda's little sister, scaled to what i could handle...roughly 100/75/50.

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1

Dead Lift 185
Bench 135
Squat Cleans 95

28:59

Dead Lift 100kg
Bench 75kg
Cleans 55kg

Cleans were supposed to be Full Squat cleans off the ground, however i did not end up going into a deep squat.... sort this out next time!!!

Male/80kg/28/6ft

Deadlift - 110Kg (dropped 10kg off prescribed load after first round)
Bench - 80kg B/W
Clean - 55Kg (dropped 5 kg off prescribed load after first round)

52:02

Bench was no problem, grip was failing me on the deadlifts and the cleans were just smashing me!!!

m/43/5'9"/181 lb

Only 2 bars. 180 lb and 135 lb. Sore hamstring/shoulder

Deadlift 135 lb (20,18,16,14,12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2)
Bench (incline) 180 lb
Power Clean 135 lb

28:52

BW: 159

As Rx'd.
Weights:
DL - 239
B/P - 159
Clean - 120

Time: 48:06

Single sh*ttiest experience of my life.

Deadlift: 83lbs.
Bench press: 48lbs.
Clean: 45lbs.

time:34:20

I scaled to about 55%. It was a great work out and I picked pretty good weights for myself. Hit the wall at round 6 but kept pushing through. This one is going to hurt :)

M/36/185

DL: 275
BENCH: 185
CLEAN: 135

49:53

48/m/190

DL: 280
BP: 180
CLEANS: 120 (60 db's)
34:46

Rx'd weights

deadlift: 255
bench: 170
clean: 130

time: 36 min 54 sec

subbed bench for strict ring dips.

24.50

59/m/180

Linda: first time
70 min

Scaled greatly
DL 185
BP 135
Sqt Cleans 65

One-bar wonder today. Seems like I spent most of my time changing weights.

Crossfit Purdue

Linda: First Time for everyone
Me: 42 minutes as Rxed

285 Deadlift
190 Bench
140 Clean

Caleb: 225 lb, Rxed, 52 min
Tom: 165 lb, Rxed, 33 min

clean 95lbs x55
truster 125lbs x55
deadlift 215lbs x55

Time
57:00

DL: 300
BP: 195
CL: 150

50:11

28:02 with power cleans; weights were 289, 193 and 144 respectively. Huge test for the shoulder and it made it through, first time with bench in forever so they were so amazingly slow and broken. All deads straight through, which was one of my only two goals (other was sub-30), and that was tough. Cleans broken up so that I wouldn't go into deads with my grip and lungs smoked.

This WOD destroys me on my best day; I remember when I first started the hardest part was putting the weights away after but now I'm already fresh as a daisy about 10-15 mintues post-WOD.

Did this first thing on an empty stomach, might not be the best WOD for that due to it's length but I felt pretty good. Got kinda pukey so I'm glad I didn't eat.

M/6'/187/44

DL 228#

BP 100#
I suck at the bench, but should have gone a bit heavier

Clean 70#
atrocious form...didn't really get down into the squat - started improving in later rounds & bumped up to 100# in the last 4 rounds. I think I need to practice these with someone who knows what they're doing...

30:12

I have never tried this one before and this morning I can hardly move wow.
205 DL
135 Bench
95 Clean

37 min

Oh the Pain

M\43\190

225 DL
180 Bench
120 clean

39:10....slow, but did more weight than last time. Shocked at how well the bench went.

first time doing "linda"

230lb DL
175lb Bench
125lb Cleans

25:25

this is the second time i've done Linda... the first time was a few weeks into crossfitting back in March... i scaled back a bit then, and did it in 39:50...

today, i did as rx'd and did it in 26:40... i am frankly surprised by this time and wonder if it is a fluke... hopefully it won't be another 6 months before we try her again...

245 DL
165 bench
125 cleans (did full squat cleans on teh first rep and then hanging squat cleans)

super happy today

I have ran away from Linda long enough...lol
Did this one yesterday. Scaled the weight, obviously...
DL 115
BP 60
Cleans 55

29.37

DL killed me. So many in a row, I start to really get concerned about
form. I didn't break up any of the DL but I did go slow just to work
on form. Felt my back round a little after 3 to 4 sets, so would set
the bar down completely and focus on my form.(Thank you Alan for your input) Did not let go of the grip.
Cleans. The first few sets were fine. I was thinking too light. As I
got to set 6, I knew it wasn't too light. ;-)
BP I just never did these so 60 was probably too light. Felt way too
easy and whipped through those quickly.
Nest time, i think the DL and Cleans will stay the same, I'll up the
BP perhaps by 5lbs and see what that does.
YUCK. I didn't like Linda at all!
Lysa

Started off the day with a 10.5 km hike with 60# at ~5 km/h with the Boy Scouts. Be prepared!

Deadlift - 10-9-8-7 (165#) 6-5 (175#) 4-3-2 (165#) 1 (185#)

Bench press - 10-9 (135#) 8-7-6-5-4-3 (145#) 2 (155#) 1 (185#)

Skipped clean - didn't want to risk it w/o instruction and the back was tight already due to the deadlift.

CFWU x2

DL: 275lbs. all sets
BP: 185lbs. all sets
Squat clean: 135lbs all sets

25:36

m/22/185

DL - 235#
BP - 160#
Clean - 120#

Time - 40:55 brutal

Went for an "As Rx'd" and put myself in the hurt locker.

Started with 275 DL, 185 BP & 140 Cleans...felt my back go out on clean rep #8. Probably out of commission for the next 3 days (had this injury before).

Should have scaled down to 245/155/115 and probably would have had a solid, injury-free work out.

Note to my future self: Stop being a bull-headed dumb-a**, remember the pain you're in right now. Lift smart.

10min spin on bike

CFWU x 3

Wod: Currently 164. Scaled too:

Deadlift: 205lbs
Bench: 145lbs
Clean: 115lbs

Time: 32:35

First time doing this and I have to say it was one of the most painfull/enjoyable workouts yet. My time was horrible but its a benchmark and Im sure Ill beat it next time around!

M/24/5'11/164

Scaled Linda:

95# Dead lift
135# Bench
95# Clean

25:35 min

M/33/204/6'0"

m/47/180

Scaled to:

Deadlift - 255
Bench Press 165
POWER cleans - 125

29:45

Did everyone see post #308?

11:56.............

Gillian you are killing me. How can you do Linda any faster? With such great form and no apparent stress.....

Very inspiring.

Bench press killed my time thanks to rotator cuffs

as rxd 37.34

male 30 5'10" 72kgs

27/m/185

deadlift 225#
bench 185
clean 135

32:23 above

32:23

F/44/130/5'2"

DL 167/B 105/CL 75#
36:31

That video was incredible!

37yom/6-01/208

DL 315#
BP 205#
SC 155#
Time 38:48 Slower than last time.

Did this with my buddy who is probably 165#. He killed my time. I have noticed the higher BW participants seem to be moving through this like Water Buffalo, Ha Ha.

41:05
Scaled back to:
215 dl
155 bench
135 clean

m/28/195

"linda"

deadlift...300#
bench press...200#
clean...150#

as rx'd: 34:41

Killed Linda.
A little hung over and on the 7th day of a throat infection.
deadlift 280
bench 190
clean 145
18:07 loved it, almost puked

38/m/5'4"/145

DL: 220 BP: 145 CL: 110

As Rx'd

20:59 PR!

http://www.coloradospringscrossfit.com

31/m/71/175

24:15

Scaled
DL BW, BP 135#, CL 85#

This scaling was perfect for completion. Hoping next time to up the weight, working for a rx'd Linda.

Ah, Linda: the cruelest, most evil bitch of them all. Between injuries and limited gym access I haven't done her since April 2006. As Rx'd:

DL 240/Bench 160/Clean 120

28:20 PR (Shattered previous best of 38:30, set way back in October 2005!)

32/m/195

DL 300 (fun)
BP 195 (cake)
CL 150 (broke me off)

As Rx'd
31:59
First time ever.

That was not fun but a good workout. Dl 255, Clean 135, Bench 80 lb db. (no 3rd bar)
39:50. BW 170, ht 5'6", 42 yo. Could be faster just used to saving myself for the next exercise.

Stop the BS comments please. JMHO. Post workout not BS.

46/M/240lbs.

I'm still learning form on the cleans, and working on strength, had to scale back...1st time I tried Linda, I DNF'd due to wrist pain.

Sharon V (my wife who just got Level 1 Cert in VA.Bch) helped me with form today...and i FINISHED! I was drenched and wasted:

DL: 270 (could have gone heavier, I banged these out)
BP: 205 (challenging by 5s)
CL: 115: (started with 135, but could not squat to ground properly, so 1/2 way through, I dropped to 115 and squated properly).

Time: 36:10, first time finish: NEXT TIME, I'm hopefully going to be stronger and go up a little in weight, and try my damnedest to beat the time!

m/19/5'9"/156

DL: 235
BP: 155
CL: 115

Time: 43:00 give or take a few. First time benching in about a month or too but felt great. Probably could have pushed a little harder in the first few rounds but those squat cleans were killing me. Almost met pukie so had to slow down hard in the later rounds. Some kid was trying to get me to wear his straps for the DL's too which was amusing. By the way, Gillian is a tank. She finished while I was in my 2nd or 3rd round.

23/M/173
Non-RX

DL - 225# Unbroken All The Way Through
BP - 50# Incline Dumb bell
Clean - 95# Hang Cleans

Un-timed (Under an hour)

BP: 170# was not able to get body weight had to sub w/ 95# all reps
DL: 225# 10,9@250#,8@225#,7@185#,6,5,4,3,2,1
Clean: 125# 10,9@115#,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

The only weight I had to scale @ the begining was the BP.

Total time w/ a medical @ rnd 8 (stopped clock) was:

1:02:10

I think next time Power Cleans...squat cleans killed me.

33:55 First time as rx'd.
bwt 180

Gilian!!!! Where have you been all my life?

Body Weight is 199, tried to do it as RX'ed but after 4 Benchpresses and 1 DL I went to...

DL - 225
BP - 135
CL - 135

Still a smoker at VIP Gym...I "stormed through" in 27:42. Feel good about it, but want better next time. Trying to enter the Zone with AM, more or less. Should help in the future.

On catch up....

As rx'd.

DL 120KG
BP 80KG
CL 60KG

1st 2 rounds took almost ten minutes.
Rounds 3 4 and 5 felt like i'd never finish
Round 6 i could see the light at the end of the tunnel
Round 7 i thought i could easliy get my goal time of under 35 mins
Round 9 the clock showed 30 minutes
Finished in 31:00

PR.

f/37

19:40 95DL, 45CP, 45CL
Could have gone more on the CP

Complete to 7rep round/need 2nd bar
DL 190lb
BP 150
CL 115

125lbs squat cleans, and not 115 as originally posted. Need lots of work.

m/25/68"/151
34:26
225/150/110
Needed a spot on the last 2 reps of the 7,8,9,10 sets of bench. Can't pull the pansy card next time on Linda.

M,160lb
32:56 with DL 210, BP 165, C 115. Scaled deadlift from 240lb because I'm weak.

Geez, took twice the time of the pros and DL wasn't even as rx'd. Goal is sub 30 min with 225 lb DL. Might be a year before I get there, but I'll get there.

M/32/190

Haven't done this one in over a year. I'm a huge slacker. But found the last post and tried to do an apples-to-apples comp. 145 for clean, 185 for bench, 245 for deadlifts (this is the only one I really dropped down on; simply don't have the grip for the entire 10 sets).

As requested, 35:37. All sets unbroken. Next time, try to do deadlifts w/ 265, and then 285 the time after.

Linda

Rx'd would have been BW: 155
D/L 230 - I don't think so
BP 155 - Nope aint happening yet
SC 120 - Yeah right. :0

Scaled version
D/L 95# (first 10 reps 115#, but had to lower)
BP 70#
SC 45# barbell
18:20

All weights felt good and form was good. Reminder, bump up 1% wt for each next time.

Done in regular gym, took up 3 barbells, nobody bothered me just watched. Thats part of the fun.
:)

M/30/5'9"/165

First time doing Linda. Had to scale this down. For the first few sets, I had only one bar, so lost time moving weights around. Then a second one freed-up so I could leave that dedicated to the bench press.

Deadlift: 185 (1.2 * bodyweight)
Bench press: 115 (0.7 * bodyweight)
Clean: 95 (0.6 * bodyweight)

Time: 34:02

215
135
115

40:15

weights were not as Rx'd; I am 172 lbs
hard WOD

Male/26yo/5'8"/150lb bw

Deadlift:225pounds
Clean: 115 pounds
Bench Press: 150 pounds

18:36
I'm one day behind.
Hooyah! Go Navy!

SUB 126% dl
SUB 90% bp
SUB 63% cl

38:38

M/38/150

F/40/5'2/121

Linda scaled

DL 125#
BP 75#
cleans 67# (power, not full squat)

31:03

That was one tough workout! Don't know if I can do rx'd next time this comes around, but certainly want to be closer.

Did rounds 10 to 7
225# Dead lift
95# Cleans
65# dumbell presses

42M/170#

Scaled DL to 225 otherwise as Rx'd

30:30

almost rx'd... chose a fake BW of 121 (Bench - 121, SC - 87, DL - 180)
27:24

That video got me pumped for this WOD, My first time doing "Linda."

Gillian made it look so easy, I started out like a bull but died pretty quick. I finished all ten sets in 27 mins, I thought I was going to die!

M/5'6''/180

275 lbs. Deadlift
185 lbs. Bench
135 lbs. Clean

cfwu x1

For a better personal comparison I used the same bw as last time, 175, even though I weigh more. My bw seems to fluctuate 10 lbs anyways lately. This WOD more then any pushes me to loose weight. If I can get down to 160 my rx'd weights would be 240/160/120 compared to 265/175/135. Obviously the 15lb loss in body fat means I am moving roughly 15 lbs less during all movements along with the calculated difference of each movement weight.

bw=183 dl-265 bp-175 cl-135

080907 38:50 PR 5m faster
080303 43:50
071114 42:46
071011 46:27

f/43/5'9"/141

1st time Linda
scaled
DL - 135
can't do fb/incline smith press 60 plus machine
cleans - 60 (30 DB)

34:06

f/43/141/5'9"

1st time Linda
scaled
dl - 135
incline smith(can't do flat) - 60 plus machine
cleans - 60 (30 db)

34:06

Body weight 150#
Bench 155#
Clean 115#
Dead lift 185#
time
17:45

200lbs deadlifts
135lbs bench
100lbs cleans

battery went dead during round of 5. Round of 6 ended at 16 or 17 minutes and restarted time after 3rd rep of cleans in round of 5. Rest of routine took 6:58. So total had to be less than 30 minutes which would be a PR.

F/38/5'6"/140

Going for body weight DL, 75% bench press and 50% cleans--couldn't quite do it with the bench press. Used: 140# DL, 85# BP, 70# Cleans

33:31

M/40/5'11"/185

185# DL, 135# BP, 95# Cleans

35:07

34 m 198

Dl 315
Bench 205
Cleans 155

29 min

Did a little extra

M/38/6'5"/263#

58:21

First time doing Linda, and scaled it a lot just to be safe.
165# Deads
135# Bench
95# Cleans

The cleans and bench were a piece of cake and I could have done a lot more weight, but I'm glad I scaled the deadlifts as my lower back was fried already from the recent deadlift WOD. I had to switch the weights every set because I work out at home and only have one bar. This got old quick and added a ton of time. Great workout though and it really made me appreciate the video of gillian.

Linda

Deadlift 265
Bench press 1st round 190 rest of the round 165
Clean 135

Time 57:24

First time doing linda and my time it was not good!!!!B/P kill me I should scale down?????

First time doing linda, went a bit heavier than rxed.

23/M/170/5'11

DL 255#
BP 175#
CL 133#

73 minutes. Wasn't going for time.

"Linda"

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps of the triplet:

Deadlift: 1 1/2 body weight (155 #)
Bench press: body weight (115#)
Clean: 3/4 body weight (20# DBs)

Ham tweak and elbow tendonitis led me to just do a light workout.

Time: 36:45
\

Did WOD with family today

"Firechief Annie"
21-15-9
Hang clean 95lbs
KB swings 53lbs
Hang snatch 95lbs
Wallball shots 20lbs

Back cramped up, 22:35, very disappointing.

m/45/5-8/150

Linda (Performed on Saturday)

33:35

DL 225
BENCH 150
SQUAT CLEAN 115

M/25/160/6'

as rx'ed 21:17

did linda today

F/23/115

Deadlift 185lbs
Bench 95lbs(I suck! can't do body weight)
squat clean 85lbs

47:22

Really hard

28/M/168

Did Not Finish

WOW!!!!!!! Hardest workout for me yet. I am posting this just to compare for next time. I had only one bar, changing weight every time killed me.

10-DL 245#, Bench 165#, Clean 125#
9-DL-225, B-165, C-115
8-DL-225, B-165, C-115
7-DL-205, B-165, C-135 to lazy to change all the weight.
6-DL-205, B-165, C-115
5--DL-205, B-165, C-115
And thats when I almost died. Next time I will go the the gym as a guest. Should not be hard to beat this one.

45 minutes

31:50 as rx'd

255 DL
170 BP
130 SC

The last time I did this WOD I believe I did Hang Squat Cleans and it took me around 19 minutes... Did Cleans from the ground today. Big Difference!

M/46/145
CFWU3, Linda routine light for WU.

"Linda"
As Rx'd (Only 2 bars)
DL: 220 lbs
BP: 147 lbs
Full Squat Cleans: 115 lbs
38:31
8 minutes faster than last time. Could've shaved off a little at the end where I had to swap weights between DL's and Cleans.

Tracey F/43/110, First Linda
DL: 72 lbs
BP: 37 lbs
Full Squat Cleans: 45 lbs
11:48

done yesterday

26/f/5'2/127# (a bit dehydrated)

breakfast: run about 5 miles (around Fremont St. experience, then down to the Stratosphere, then back n around Fremont again)

40 mins later, play 1 game of bball
lite lunch
2hrs later, play 1 game of bball

to big box gym for:
1 mile warm-up run 7.5 mins, cfwu,
WOD: "Linda" almost as rx'd
dl 185 (oops. shoulda been 190)
bp 130
cl 95
time = 27:38

well, after Friday's back/butt aggravating 4 hour drive to Vegas, then playin bball, then stayin up late drinkin like a fish, gettin only 4 hrs of sleep before wakin up on Saturday to go run, n then playin 2 more games of bball, the body wuz feelin a bit beat as i ventured over to 24hr Fitness Agassi Sport in Las Vegas, to make good use of my "access any club" 24hr membership.
knew i wuzn't gonna set any prs, so just determined to move thru Linda n get her done without injuring my cranky fatigued back. despite initial apprehension at tackling the bodyweight bench without a spotter, managed to move thru at a fair pace.

post: muscle-up practice, buncha kipping pull-ups, some k2e and toes-to-bar,
post post: ample consumption of fun beverages of assorted potencies til 4 am.

this morning's drive back plus right after playin back to back bball games in rec league = much tiredness now. no FGB today. herpaps tomorrow if da body hasn't gone on strike.

m/39/5'4"/140

Set up as RXed:
DL - 210
BP - 146
Cl - 105

Only have 2 bars so had to pull all plates from the DL bar, move it into the cage, replace plates for BP, then reverse that for the next DL. Also had a predetermined stop time due to an appt. Finished the fourth round at 27:30 and stopped. Total trainwreck. Unloading, moving, and reloading the bar by myself ruined me. After stopping in disgust and exhaustion, I realized a better way to have done it. My heaviest dumbells would have given me a bench press just 10 pounds shy of bodyweight. Then I wouldn't have wasted so much time and energy between exercises. That's what I'll do next time if I haven't acquired a third bar by then.

The horror...
The horror...

My god. i tried to go as Rx'd, which meant

235lb dead lift
175 bench
135 cleans

after 40 minutes, i had only made it from the 10-reps down to the end of the 6's.

i went to do the first deadlift of 5, and my body said "nope, that ain't happening". The benching was no problem, but the cleans/deadlift combo was a killer

this is the hardest workout i've ever tried, and i have no regrets aout not finishing. from the comfort of my couch now though, i think... only 15 more reps and i would have been finished.

next time Linda, next time...

24:34 as rx'd.

275# DL
185# BP
135# CL

35:33

BP 135
DL 205
CL 95

m/70kg/37

DL 100kg didn't want to take all weight off and on
BP 70kg
CL 50kg

Linda with 10 or all three then 9, 8 ...1

So swithched between exercises and only had two bars, so a bit of weight changing.

30min, will be much faster next time when I do all of 1 exercise as I won't spend as much time with weight changes on bar.

23:15

18.37

BW 70kg

Scaled due to shoulder injury

DL 100kg (underweight)
BP 50kg (underweight)
Power Clean 52.5kg as rxed

Still great WO

"Linda"

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps of the triplet:

Deadlift: 1 1/2 body weight - 270
Bench press: body weight - 180
Clean: 3/4 body weight - 135

79:20
-------------------------------------------------------
Compare to 080303

Deadlift: 1 1/2 body weight - 275 lbs
Bench press: body weight - 175 lbs
Clean: 3/4 body weight - SUB 95 lbs Hang Clean

35:57

M/36/140

1st "Linda" ever, as rx'd:
210 DL
140 BP
105 CLN
27:15, lower back was screaming!!!

BW 170
DL 175 (I dont want to do more until my form is better)
BE 175
CL 125

1 hr 5 min. Lots of breaking up sets. I lost some strength on my bench from what it was before I started crossfit....SO I will incorporate more bench into my crosfit workouts.

M/33/6'/185 Baghdad, Iraq
What an amazing gut check...having some workout partners around would have been great. Actually, misery loves company and I could have used some that day. :-) The heat only added to the misery.
DL 275 / BE 185 / CL 135 41:27 (wasted too much time in between the first three rounds)

Away from the gym so had to sub.
Run 5k in 30 mins. Not great. Cash out 10 pushups and 10 HSPU progressions plus some stretching.

36/M/6.0/215#
CFtting in Madrid since Jul/28/08

subbed:
DL 90kg (100kg for first round of 10)
Ring Dips (no bench)
Squat Cleans 50kg (as rx'd)

45.01

48/M/160
Linda" ever, as rx'd:
240 DL
160 BP
120 CLN
28:52(pr)

Just a bit off cycle. Time not available for the whole workout so scaled to 10/8/6/4/2/1...used 225 BP, 315 DL, and 135 squat clean. 13:04. Best part was my 12 year old son wanted to begin lifting and he did Linda, with the bar for BP and DL, and 16 lb medicine ball for squat clean. 12:40. He had great form on all three. Dad is very proud...he was beaming too. Thanks Coach.

265 DL
175 BP
135 PC for a time of 27:24 first time doing linda.

M/47/6'/183

Deadlift: 185# 1 x body weight
Bench: 165# 90% body weight
Clean: 95# 52% body weight

BW 160# as rx'd
38:07

30/m/5'10"/220

scaled...

DL - 135
Bench - 135
Clean - 95

23:00

27/m/6'5/250
Dl 315
bench black power band pushups
hang clean 185
10-1
35 min

a couple days behing schedule and almost as described...just finished dealing with Gustav here in La.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 5, 5,
since I only had 2 bars I made the last 3 sets 5reps

deadlifts @ 240
Bench Press @ 160
Cleans @ 120

29.55

last time in Nov 07 33:40

25/M/5'8"/135

first ever Linda for me. scaled bench press down to 99lbs.

otherwise, as rx'd.

26:50

5 min rope jumping + Greg's WU + Burgners WU

Only have two bars at home so need to change weight all the time.

time as rex'd last time:

45 minutes

Time as rex'd this time:

30.28 :)

BW: 72kg

Linda @ Rx
34yr Male 70" 163lbs
Dead-Lift: 245lbs
Bench: 165lbs
Clean: 125lbs
29:32
painful...

20:24

Dear Linda,

Even significantly scaled, you suck.

Best,

My Lower Back

DL - 135
Bench - 115
Clean - 60

29:56 (1st time doing a Linda)

m/26/195#/5'10''

as rx'd 36.35

RX'd
265
175
135
28:56

m/38/190/70"

CFWU*2

Linda:
DL as rx @ 285
BP as rx @ 190
CL scaled to 50% @ 95

27:49

Need much work on cleans. Almost all power rather than squat due to form/confidence.

Ouch.

First Time doing Linda and I must say its a killer.

24/m/175

DL 265 (10,9,8,7)
225 (6,5)
BP 175
Clean 135

It took me forever to do this, all because of starting with 265 DL. I didn't get a final time because I ran out of time but it would have taken me close to 2 hours to complete. I feel bad not bein able to pound out the last 10 reps of each. No worries from me, I'm aiming to destroy Linda next time.

M50/195#

Warmup:
Row 5 minutes + CFWU

WOD: 38:52 with mods

Mods:
DL - 225# (115% BW)
BP - 135# for 10 and 9 reps…went to 165# for remaining rounds (70% / 85% BW)
Cleans - 95# (50% BW)

Notes: Performed 080907. Cleans were the achilles heal on this WOD.

M/38/186

DL: 280
Bench: 185
Clean: 140

As rx'd 48:26. Deadlifts were a mother, plus I had to switch weight.

7

first time with Linda, very tough one.
Scaled to
115 cleans
175 bench
185 deads

30:47

Ran out of time today to do the whole workout and our first time on Linda. Went too light on the DL as it was definitely the easiest.

AL bw-170
225lb DL, 170lb BP, 125lb Clean
10,9,8,7,6,5 = 30:35

Taylor bw-180
225lb DL, 185lbx3 170lbx2, 130lb Clean
10,9,8,7,6 = 37:00

Ryan bw-160
180lb DL, 160lb BP, 115lb Clean
10,9,8,7,6 = 24:00

Alittle late doing this one, but as prescribed,
245lb dl
165lb bench
125lb sq clean

42:18 vs 44:04 previous. My bench has gotten worse since last time while cleans and deads better. I think I need to supplement a little extra bench work.

30/m/5'5
BW 165#
DL 250#
BP 165#
SC 128#

18:12, PR'd by 2min from last Linda @ 160# BW

19/m/6ft/199lb

Geeze. Disappointing for real.

Deadlift: 300 till 6th rep-set and had to lower to 230
Clean: 150 dominated
Bench: 205 really destroyed bench, easy.

Took me 1:11:07 because I was trying so hard to do my 300lb deadlift for all sets. Failed. But I did finish.

Really disappointed after this one =(

I've injured myself the last two times I tried this ogre of a WOD, no joke. My shoulder still hurts from several months ago. Therefore, I skipped out on the bench press. Anyway...

modified "Linda", 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1:

DL 255# (should have been 270#)
Ring Dips (too easy)
Squat Clean 135#

TIME: 31:26

I was glad to finish. Next time its as RX'D for sure.

Hey Gillian,
I was bummed that I missed you and Michael when you stopped by LaLanne Fitness. HOWEVER, I just watched the video that Chris took of your Linda and it was IMPRESSIVE, to say the least! Thanks again for stopping by and I look forward to meeting you guys in person! :)

20/m/5'10"/175lbs

Linda as rx'd plus ten pounds... so measurements were off of 185lbs

19:55

i hate my life right now..

29/M/73"/188
28:47
Deadlift: 135
Bench: 115
Power Clean: 95

24/m/182

Bench press spanked me this time! I got stuck without a spotter at least 2 times. DLs and cleans weren't too bad.

DL 245
BP 175 (+10)
Clean 135

1:01:43

15:55

BP 185
DL 255
HSC 135

scaled down to:
DL 185
BENCH 155
CLEAN 95 (power clean)

Charity-
RX'd
DL-180
BP-120
SC-90
22:55

m/42/204/5'11"

DL 10x315,9x275,the rest at 225 #s
BP 155 #s
Clean 150 #s

scaled a bit: shoulder pain from jumping PU in July still inhibits anytype of press. Lumbar muscle pain caused me to scale back the DL after the first set (possibly poor form and fatique from doing an all out six sets of 3 rep DL 4 days ago.

the first two sets of DL: limited by lumbar muscle pain on the left and fear of "pulling something" strength was there otherwise.

bench press broken each set with one rest: primarily due to right shoulder pain from injury

cleans were mostly unbroken with some pauses. Kicked my ass, almost passed out with dizzyness.

3 hours later I feel comparable to how I have felt following an 18 mile run

M/24/195/6'1"

First time doing Linda and I f-ing finished it!!
ef yeah
As rx'd!!!
DL-290
BP-195
Power Clean- 142
29:14
Not sure my form was very good, expecting lower back to be sore today/tomorrow

Bwt: 137

As Rx'd

DL: 225
Bench: 155
Squat Clean: 115

17:34 (pr)

m/26/195/6'0"

First Linda...Scaled WAY back.

DL-165
BP-130 with dumbells
Clean-115 without squat

18:05

Very tough workout...my lower back is going to kill me tomorrow. I can already feel it!

Also, did my first ever muscle-up yesterday on my new rings!

23/m/190

34:59 + 21:41 = 56:40

DL - 275#
BP - 155#
CL - 135#

Had to break it into two parts (10-7,6-1) because had a client and didn't have time to finish. That definitely affected my time.

f/21/5'4"/117

1st time Linda

DL - 135#
BP - 65#
CL - 85#

31:44

22/F/170

DL-170#
BP-60#
CL-75#

54:53

M/37/202

scaled back weight:

DL: 225
BP: 205
Clean: 135

34:24

Was rushed to get going and coming off my worst few weeks since starting CF, so stopped early.
Did 10-9-8-7 in 25 mins
DL 225
BP 175
CL 135
35m/170

29/M/72kg/182cm

1:17:04

DL @ 90kg (125%BW)
Clean @ 50kg (70%BW)
KB Floor Press @ 16kg each side (44%BW)

I think that's the hardest thing I've ever done. it just keeps going and going and going and going.

Fortunately I am losing some weight, today was at 217

As Rx'd
DL 325
BP 215
Clean 160

Only have two olympic bars at gym so had to be creative how to get through this

60 minutes 30 seconds

M/37/188/5'10

DL-275
BP-185
CS-135

34.01
This was my first Linda. Back is already sore,
Go Pirates

THROWN OUT OF THE GYM FOR WEARING MY VIBRAMS!

When: Saturday, 6 Sep 08, Hickam Fitness Center, Hickam AFB, HI

m/215/33/6"0

Back after a week off...

d-lift, 225
bench, 175
clean, 115

wanted to use the same weights I used back in February, to compare. I did 10, then 9, and I was doing the cleans of number 8 when the gym staffer asked me If I had another pair of shoes. I said no, and he said that my shoes might be a safety problem. I asked him if he was throwing me out, and he asked If I would go with him talk to the shift supervisor, since it was her decision. I agreed, and of course, she said my shoes were unacceptable. So, I asked for a comment card, put my views in writing (I had no beef with the staffers, they were very polite), and left my comments for the mananger. She sent me an e-mail today, saying that she had to agree with her staffers, but that she would run the issue up the Air Force Headquarters, to see what they say about it.

Funny part is, I usually only go to the Hickam Gym on Drill Weekends. But still, being asked to leave?! I still can't believe it. When the staffer mentioned a possible safety issue, I offered to grab a couple of 45# plates, and to drop one on his foot and mine, to see if his sneaker afforded him more protection than my VFFs. Of course, he declined. I wonder if anyone else has had similar experiences? I usually work out at Camp Smith, and I've never had a problem with my VFF's there.

THROWN OUT OF THE GYM FOR WEARING MY VIBRAMS!

28:34 RX

32/m/170

dl:255
bp:170
pc:125

26:28 pr

scaled to roughly 75% of my rx'd numbers

deadlift 200lb
bench 160
sq.clean 90

46:06
First time on Linda, I now fully understand "three bars of death".
Onlookers: "you looked like you were going to die", "you are kicking your own ass!"

Gotta love it! A couple months ago this would have been totally impossible for me, thank you Glassmans!!!!

08/09/1975
33/M/1.81m/75kg
DL 110kg
BP 75kg
Clean 50kg
40:53
First authentic Linda - that was tough.

M/39/5'10"/176 (bad first NFL Sunday of drinking and eating waaaay too much)

My first "Linda," so I didn't know really what to expect, although I knew it would be painful.
Scaled to 205 deadlift, 125 bench press and 95 clean (should have used at least 105, maybe 110).

Total time = 33 flat.

175-m-29

as rx;d:

21;50

24/M/175

DL 262 lbs
BP 175 lbs
Clean 135 lbs

17:36

This was my second time doing Linda and it was just as bad as the first.

m/36/190/5'6"

"Linda"

As Rx'd Time - 58:39

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps of the triplet:

Deadlift: 1 1/2 body weight - 285#
Bench press: body weight - 190#
Clean: 3/4 body weight - 145#

Cleans killed me, but I continue to work on that skill. Bench sets were unbroken, and DL's were unbroken from 7-2.

Linda

Had to scale.

DL 70kg (body weight)
BP 30kg
Clean 30kg

The weight just seem to get heavier and heavier even although you are doing less reps each time. I was so please to get to the end.

Time 38 min 32sec

I am going to try and catch up FBG on the rest day. Don't know how I will manage, could harly move after Linda. (Went to strip the bars and could see stars) Think I am going to be sore tomorrow.

Good Fun

First "Linda" I tried, in fact first real WOD i actually attempted since starting CF. Had to scale a good bit to make sure I could finish.

M/36/5'10"/235

10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 Total = 34:45

DL: Started w/245, went to 225 for 9, then 185 for the rest
BP: 245 all the way through (BP was not the issue)
Clean: Started w/175 for 10 then went to 135 for the rest (These things were the issue, tore me UP)

Great WOD, I need to work on my clean and DL. Gotta watch more videos on how to do the clean correctly. I will definately be feelin it tomarrow night!

scaled:

Deadlift 40 kg (3/4 bw)
Bench 30 kg (1/2 bw)
Clean 30 kg (1/2 bw)

10-9-8-7-6-5-4 (stopped bc using 3 bars and rest time in bw was too long)

35:36

Scaled to 10-8-6-4-2 reps at a 160lbs

13:23

m/39/6'0"/195

completed (sort of) on 9/8...only did evens and cut weight down...still kicked my butt hard.

12:40
DL - 195
BP - 145
Clean - 95

m/27/5'8/160

deadlift: 228 lbs
bench press: 155 lbs (unbroken)
clean: 111 lbs

50 minutes

m/190/28/6'3"
what I was supposed to do:
285 deadlift
190 bench
143 clean
what I did:
235 deadlift
185 bench
135 clean
took me 39 minutes. strength movements are definitely my weakness. glad I did this. need it alot. can't wait for fight gone bad tomorrow. . .my shoulders can still move a little. . .that needs to get fixed.

m/31/5'4"/147

First "Linda"
I was looking forward to trying this until I got to the 7 rep round. OUCH.
Had to take a 3 minute break to catch my breath and to see straight again.
Finished in 29:59.

M/33/198lbs.

Did this yesterday (Sunday) and am very sore today. This was my first Linda as Rx'D.

DL = 295
BP = 195
CL = 155

48:19 Very tough.

as rx'd
245 DL
170 BP
125 Squat Clean

Completed the "4" reps and decided ENOUGH!

I fear Linda.

33/M/179/6'00"

DL - 270
BP - 180
CL - 135

First Linda as rx'd - Have always scaled the dead lifts in the past. So, time-wise, it wasn't my most stellar performance but I gave it everything I had today. Cleans were beyond full depth.

47:00

Big improvements to come next time and again at prescribed weights.

Dan D.
www.CrossFitStickers.com

CFWU

54:20 (weights as prescribed, did power cleans)

only had one bar, so had to change weights between every set - had my wife help, but still added lots of time

m/30/6/220

I had to scale this one back a little bit. I haven't benched in years and have only been cross-fitting for about 2.5 months. Rough.

Deadlift - 225lb (100%)
Bench - 185 (85%)
Clean - 110 (50%)

38:15

33/m/204

DL with 315
Bench Press with 205
Clean with 155

23:21

DL: 225 lbs 1st set, 215 lbs thereafter
Bench: 175 lbs 1st set, 160 lbs thereafter
(Hang) Cleans: 95 lbs

1:20 minutes (but included having to wait 5 minutes for bench)

I have realized once again, I'm still in ridiculously poor shape.

Not an excuse but I did have a pinched nerve 1.5 years ago that left my upper left side of my body basically useless for 3-4 months. Very bad atrophy in my left pec, shoulders, lats and arm muscles. I couldn't even do a pull-up or push-up on my own as of November last year. I still notice how weak my left side is whenever working out.

cfwux2
burgwux2

Linda (scaled wt and reps)10-8-6-4-2

dl - 275 1.2 of bw
bench - 225 .96 of bw
clean - 150 .64 of bw

25:45

M/18/5'11"/155

10-8-6-4-2 reps:
DL - 225
Bench - 155
Clean - 115

33:13

25/5'9"/63kg

40:02 - pretended I was 55kg and scaled accordingly.

34:15
sub 135#dl, 95# hpc, 155 bench (body weight)
due to bar's, did dl and hpc's first in 11 mins, took 23 to finish bench!
wu=30 min home stairs lvl 8 prog

26.39 sub 155/95/135dl bw=150
wu=30 min new new stairs aerobic level 14
short of breath...noon wo on one powerbar and green tea

last time:24:55
first time finished?
sub 155/95/135dl bw=150
wu=30 min elliptical

27/5'4'/210#

Scaled this to

DL:225#
CL:135#
BP:185#

40:20

34/M/190

B&B
DL: 285
BP: 190
CL: 145

Only 1 bar of death, so spent lots of time changing weights, moving bench in & out of rack etc...

44:27 pr by 23:17

Freakin Awesome workout! Almost vomitted a couple of times towards the end. Not that that's what you want, but I know I pushed my body to the limit.

Deadlifts: 225lbs reps 10-1
Benchpress: 170lbs reps 10-1
Cleans: 100lbs reps 10-1
Time: 53:14

40yrs old
166 lbs

"Linda" Rocks!

M/38/69"/155
190 D/L
135 Bench
95 Full Squat Cleans
~ 45 minutes

Scaled
100lb deadlift
75lb bench press
60lb hang squat clean

(rx'd would have been 217.5, 145, 108)

31:38

M/185/6'1"/47 yoa

225# Deadlift
185# Bench
135# Clean

Decided to just try and get through the workout and also did with a buddy. By far the hardest workout I have ever done including Murph. Took about 45 minutes, and had to rest a few times as I was seeing stars.

As previously stated I ran 5k on Sat. So on Monday did WOD belonging to Saturday 080906 Linda”

Linda scaled for Puppies

10-8-6-4-2 reps of the triplet:

Deadlift: 100kg (+-100% of body weight @98kg)
Bench press: 65kg (+- 2/3rds of body weight)
Clean: 55kg (+-55% of body weight )

Completion time was 19:00

DL: killing my lower back after last week’s DLs, but apex of difficulty stays on weak grip specially left hand.

BP: could have gone a bit heavier (guess up to 80-85kg) but it was first try at BP for more than a year.

Clean: Same issues with grip. On top of than didn’t really do squat cleans but kind of power cleans from the ground, not hanging. Were not intending to do them, I just forgot what the exercise looked like…

I'm going to get this done today, but i'm not sure how to do it... Do we go through all 10 sets of DL, then 10 sets of BP ect. or are we supposed to do 10 DL, 10 BP, 10 Clean, then 9,8,ect?? please give me some guidence. thank you!

DL 240
BP 160
SC 125
17:12

23/M/155/5'9"

Been doing Crossfit on and off for a year or so now. More consistent for the past couple of months.

First Linda ever. Hoping she doesn't come find me too soon in the future. No pukie, though.

Scaled slightly, because I haven't benched in a long time and assumed that would be weak link. Rarely clean and went light on those to tweak form and make sure I got that down for future workouts.

225 DL
135 Bench
90 Clean

~35 minutes based on clock on the wall, but was happy just to finish because I was racing against the gym closing at 10pm!

Jeff @ home
BWT 160#
DL-140
BP-161 (Yellows, 25)
Cln-121 (35# bar, Greens, 11's, 10's)
17:08

bw 208
dl 315
bench 215
clean 155

bench--cake
dl hard
cleans 1/2 squat, 1/2 power

43:34 pr by 5 min.

scaled this one a little, had no choice didn't have enough bars or weight

200 dl
165 chest press machine
85 lb clean

15 mins

had to scale this one, not enough weight in apt complex gym

200 dl
165 chest press
85 clean

right about 15 mins.........I'll make sure I go somewhere with enough weight to do as rx'd, I'm sure my time will increase 3 fold

m/46/173
CFWUx1
BWUx1
Linda Rx'd with full cleans 34:02. Last time 31:00 with power cleans.

left shoulder still tender, so not ready for Linda:

BP 5 sets up to 145
DL 7 sets of 135 (10-9-8-7-6-6-5)
FrontSquat 7 sets of 95 as above

first time with Linda
m/37/224

DL 255(using EZ Curl Bar - not enough Olympic Bars - hands kept slipping)
BP 220
Clean 135

BP 185
CL 135
DL 225(1.2*BW)

49:29

1-3:53
2-4:53
3-7:37
4-6:34
5-6:51
6-7:07
7-3:30
8-4:46
9-2:55
10-1:23

48/m/140

last time
dl-210
bp-140
clean-85
28:37

dl-210
bp-140
clean-105
33:15

33/M/225lbs/6'3

205lb Deadlift
225lb Bench Press
115lb Squat Cleans

One bar icl Smith machine. Had to rotate weights between cleans and DL. Back isn't the same...it is stronger. No bumper plates all steel.
41:31

195 dl
2x45 db bp
95 clean
32:51

Good Grief!!!

Linda

185 DL
185 BP
115 Clean

33:31

I'm shot

EJEJJJEEEJEJEJJEJJJJEEJEJEJEJEEJJJJJEEEJEJEJEJJEJ
M/35/165
255 DEAD LIFT
135 CLEAN
165 BENCH
DIDNT TIME WENT A LITTLE HEAVIER THAN RXED

CFWUX1

10-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps of:

Deadlift 150#
Floor Press 150#
Clean 106#

22:54

Only had one Oly Bar.

18:02
DL 95
CP 60 (could have done 80).. next time
CL 45

Done Sept 9, 08, scaled
Deadlift: body weight, 200lb/90kg
Bench press: 3/4 body weight, 150lb/65kg
Clean: 1/2 body weight, 100/45kg
22:42 157ahr/170mhr

All broken except bench, which means I have to increase that weight (bench is weak and needs improvement anyway.) went for more of a cardio this time, but wow, first time doing Linda, she rocks. Gilian's video is motivating, to say the least . . . . .

M/27/5'9"/184

10-8-6-4-2

Deadlift - 280#
Bench - 185#
Clean - 115#

26:00

29yo, 5'11", 175lbs

I did a quick 10-9-8-7 section of Linda this time, since I was pressed for time.

Deadlift: 210
Bench Press: subbed Ring Dips
Clean: 105
Time: 19:48

This is embarrassing, but I haven't worked out much the last week or two. Last time I did Linda was in October, at 68% of recommended weight, and a total time of 24 minutes. This time was 80% of recommended weight, and I sweated my balls off doing what I did.

m/31/145#

225 dl
145 bp
115 cleans

27:08

2nd time doin linda... scaled the 1st time doin it but didn't this time and i paid for it. great workout though!!!

26/m/155#

235# DL
155# BP
115# CL

27:29 (PR)

beat previous time by almost 4min...

Finally got to LInda..16:26. Didn't sleep well last night and my performance was impacted. Scaled 135 DL, 95 bench press, 45 clean and press. Focused on technique and time.

M/22/5'4/145 lbs

Deadlift: 210 lbs.
Bench Press: 145 lbs.
Clean: 110 lbs.

Time: 50:00

First time doing Linda, now I know why it's called the "three bars of death"

275#/185#/135#

25:42

Full squat cleans

40/M/163

CFWUx3 (light bench for dips)

Scaled to 76%
DL:165
BP:125
CL:95
48:49(3:28 PR with 24% more weight on the bars)
Still on my 100 pushup challenge

Did on 9/9/08

Subbed
Dead lifts 140 lbs
Feet raised 1 ft pushups on bars
power cleans 95lbs

28:14

~38 minutes

36/M/205

This was my first time doing Linda. I'm still in pain from doing this yesterday and I had to scale it.

Deads-Scaled down to 275
Bench-205
Cleans-Scaled down to 135

Previous
43.21
BP 10-60#/8-4 65#/3-75#
DL 75#
CL 65#

Today 33.06
DL 90
BP 65
CL 70

34/M/240

2/3 of Linda

185 DL
135 Cleans

58 mins
300 DL
200 BP
150 Clean

I did the 5x3 DL's the day before which killed me. My back is throbbing today

M50/170

46 minutes changing all the weights as i only have one bar

F/29/5'4/127

DL - 135# (1.06% BW)
BP - 65# (.5% BW)
CL - 35# (.28% BW)

22:00

WOD of 08.09.06 - late post

On Tue. 08.09.09-
Scaled Linda @ 78% of rx'd (435# -559#)
Finished in 22:50

DL - 225 (1.3% bwt)
BP - 115 (67%)
CL - 95 (55%)

m/54/69"/172#

SORRY TO BOTHER, BUT......
what's the music on the video?
Any way to post the tunes with the videos in the future?

I really don't have the time to wade thru 600 comments to see if someone else asked @ the muzik.

THanks in advance good people!

Ht: 5'6''
Wt:153

as rx'd: 39:18

185 lbs male...scaled to BP: 115, DL:185, Clean: 95...23:08. Sore enough for me.

1st time doing Linda, scaled it down - a bit to much it seems, I think I was afraid!

BP 20 kg, DL 60 kg, Clean 20 kg

Time= 19:24

22.18

1st time after a long layoff.
Ht: 5'9"
Wt: 175

Scaled down:
BP: 135
DL: 135
CLN: 75

22 Minutes

165 bwt

240 lb DL
170 BP
125 p. clean
as rx'd 22.18

500m row, 2x10 cfwu

27:46

BP:205/DL:310/Cleans:145 (wanted to do 155 but didn't account for the 35lb bar i chose)

need to mention that Joey, my one and only trainer at this point, did his first Linda a few days after it was posted. His BW is 155.

Linda: 12:17

Lots of potential for this guy.

Ok, Gillian is crazy strong but she does not weigh 125 lbs.......

Kevin L:

DL 135
BP 85
HPC 65

27:51

25:42 done on 9/9/2008
275#/185#/135#

F/24/5'3/100#

Deadlift: 85# las 2 1ras rondas, luego bajé a 65# por deterioro de la forma
Push ups(Sub b.press)
Clean: 45#

Llegué hasta las 4 1ras rondas y en la 5ta solo hice las reps de DL y PU. Fue demasiado para mi!!

m/34/180lb/6'3"
35:02
DL: 270 (subbed 245lb=BW x 1.36)
BP: 180 (subbed 145lb=BW x .80)
Clean: 135 (subbed power clean 95lb=BW x .52)

BP was the hardest, even at 80% BW. BP broken in the second set. Everything else unbroken. Only had two bars, so changed plates between BP and cleans.

225/165/115

28:30

BW: 207#

312# DL (142kg)
210# Bench Press (94.5kg)
162# Cleans (Full Squat) (74kg)

Time: 22:53 (PR)

BW = 205
Subbed 245DL, 185BP, 135 P/Clean
Just under 40 minutes.
Up the weight next time and go for squat cleans (legs absolutely fried before doing Linda today, squat cleans would have taken me about 1.5 hours)

BP 75%
DL 80%
HC 50%
20:50

Dead 135/Bench 45 Dumbells/70 Clean
14:02
Scaled due t

WOW, WAS NOT ABLE TO KEEP THE WTS THE ENTIRE WAY

DEAD - 10 - 205, 9-205, 8 - (4 - 205, THEN 4 195), 195 FOR 7, 6, AND THEN DOWN TO 185 FOR THE REST.

BENCH 10-155,9-155,8145,7-145, 6 AND THE REST 135

CLEANS - 95 THE WHOLE WAY COULD HAVE DONE MORE.

TIMER STOPPED AT 11 MIN SO I THINK THE TOTAL WAS 38 MIN OR SO. GREG WAS A GREAT HELP WITH THE SPOT, THANKS MAN.

I was looking forward to this one till I did it.

Dead: 295
Bench: 195
Clean: 155 (turned into power cleans)

time: 37:47

I died after this all day.

me
m/25/6'3"/206
44:22 (pathetic) here in the desert the temp is high even at night and the ac in the gym really sucks

her
f/26/5'3"
41:something

best 5 year anniversary date EVER!!!!

didn't have 3 bars
so i counted the reps and did the exercises seprate.

55reps 300# 15min
55pers 205# 15min
12reps 155# crash 12min

total time 42 min could barely walk and talk .

I calculated total weight lifted from all exercises combined was 29,635lbs. 36,300lbs would have been the total if I had finished but I chose not to compromise my safety. now tell me what regular program could deliver so much weight lifted in a single work out? I don't care if my time sucked I look at the work load.

6'1" 200lb turning 35 this December.

m/35/235
this one kicked my butt!! I did it a few days ago and attempted to do it as prescribed. I got through the first round and realized I went to heavy. I started with 360 for deadlifts, 240 bench, 180 cleans. I only did 3 rounds and had to drop the last 2 rounds down to 315, 225, 135.

24M-165

15mins

DL 255
BP 175
HC 135
(I'd rather use more weight than less relative to body weight estimates)

great, now I'm pissed, I did hang cleans instead of power cleans...I mean, though I guess if you change it up that's ok for that particular workout, but now I have to go back at some point and go through it like her (once again, always watch the video first...damn it)

m/36/6'4"/220#

Linda - Pack version

10/8/6/4/2

DL 50kg
BP 50kg
Clean 10kg

Felt like I still had something in the tank, but felt tired from lifting 4 days straight prior.

Soccer tomorrow so wanted something to go with.

Forgot to add time

12:46.50

Mega. I hope my back does not melt later tonight. Competitive on time, light on weight. Will hope to build slowly, slowly.

DL 145 115 95 95 75 75 75 75 75 75 (90% - 45% BW)
Bench 115 135 135 135 135 135 135 135 135 (82% BW)
Clean 115 115 95 95 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 (70% - 45% BW)

Strong as F#*@!!!!!!!!!!!!

BW 187

DL 280
Bench 185
Clean 140

Did 10-9-8-7 and stopped there, 24:40. Broke DL and cleans into 3 subsets per set, with plenty of gasping in between. Lots of work to be done here.

Weight 85kgs
Deadlift - 120
Bench Press - 88
Squat Clean - 60

Did sets 10,9,8 at 68kg Squat Cleans and then 48kg Squat Cleans for remaining sets. Dropped 10 kgs off deadlifts for sets 10,9,8. Bench Press as rx'd

31:14

25/M/175
Rang out of time. 10,9,8,7,6 and stopped as RX'd.
DL 265
BP 175
Clean 135
33:00

m/34/5'9/173

CFWU - 3. Regular reps. Superman. Burgener.

DL-265
BP-175
Clean-135
29:25

Lots of room to reduce time by not taking so long between exercises. Just need to push a little harder.
3/3/08: 32:11

30# dumbbells

CFWU
BW 186
DL 280
BP 185
CL 140
42:08
Last Linda (080310) was 84:21. Big improvement. BW dropped from 195 to 186 (The Zone Works!) Time before that (071011) couldn't do even 1 DL rep at 1.5xBW. Thanks Coach.
M/47/186/72"
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NJB
BW 180
DL 95 (.53xBW)
BP 55 (.31xBW)
CL 45 (.25xBW)
44:12
M/13/180#/66"

27/m/206

CFWU x 1

DL: 205
BP: 155
SDHP: 95

Time 23:10

Crossfit Warmup followed by Linda as RX'd

total time 34.41

this was an interesting one....

38:22
used 185 for deads
did pushups 20/18...2
used 135 for cleans

m/32/73kg
only mnged 10,8,6,4,2 reps

deadlift: 60kg (82%) - last 2 rnds @ 70kg
bench press: 60kg (82%) - last 2 rnds @ 65kg
cleans: 30kg (40%) - last 2 rnds @ 45kg

M/30/6'

285 Dead
205 Bench
155 Clean

41:00

Killer. I sweat so much that the entire YMCA floor looked like it had rained indoors. Next time I'll bring a towel. I need a crossfit gym in my neighborhood so people don't keep staring at me!

bwt- 178 so I used 180

dl - 270
bp - 180
squat clean - 135

Time - 20:17. This was a PR by 9 minutes at a heavier bodyweight, so I'm happy. Next time sub 15.

Jennie: 27 F 160# 5'9"
"Linda"

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps of the triplet:

Deadlift: 183 pounds
Bench press: 115 pounds
Clean: 95 pounds

Time= 35:09

m/30/228

Deadlift: 275 and then 205
Bench: 205
Clean: 135

Only for 10-9-8

30 minutes

0.5 miles course, 1 ronde de CFWU.
Fait Linda en 24:49.
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 de squats+bench press+clean Pris 185lbs pour les squats, dumbells de 70lbs pour le bench press, et 90lbs pour les cleans.

27/m/245

Subbed squats instead of deadlift - don't know why

Squat 225
Bench 135
Clean 115

24:26 but stopwatch shut off so 10 min added for total of 34:26

as rx'd
39:42
dead

AW - f/33/160

This was not pretty. Coming off of being sick and much weaker than I thought.

Starting weights 10/9/8
DL - 165
BP - 105
SC - 95

7/6/5/4/3/2/1

DL - 135
BP - 85
SC - 65

Somehow finished 43:29

m/42/6'/178

Deadlift: 235
Bench press: 175
Clean: 135
Thru 10-5 41:05

Previous:
Deadlift: 235
Bench press: 155
Clean: 3/4 135
Thru 10-6 30:30

bw:129

bp: 95
squat clean: 95
dl: 185

59:19

by far the worst WOD I've ever done. ghastly.

35M172 and tom
Started at 245dl, 170 bench, 135 cleans, but lowered weight several times to end at 225, 145, 95. Sharing 2 bars for 3 people.

44 mmins to finish the 5's (compare to last time
54 mins

35F128
25mins, full counts, lower weights.

weight:
- DL = 205 (1.4x)
- BP = subbed push ups (no bench/spoter)
- Clean = 95 (x.65)
time: ~18min

dead 95
bench 95
clean 75
44 min

31/m/190

DL - 225
CL - 115
BP - 185

Made it through the 6 reps round and time ran out on me. Took 33:40.

m/6'2''/20/180lbs

DL:270
BP:180
SC:135

As Rx'd: 36:10

Wow 58 mins

Deadlift: 80kg
Bench press: 70kg
Clean: 50kg
Time: 15.28

CFWU x1
29:20

240 DL
160 BP
120 Clean

used three bars this time

Previous:
(Weighed in at 155.

235 DL
155 BP
115 Cleans

DLs were hard -- broken sets until 4 reps
BP was easy -- should have added weight
Cleans were about right; broken sets until about 6 reps-- not all were full squats.

Used same bar for DLs and Cleans -- needed the extra rest time for the first five sets. Could have shaved some time after that.

39:00)

M/37/5'8"/160

BP: 160lbs
DL: 135lbs
HC: 95

35 minutes

Subbed ring dips since I only had 2 bars. Next time if I have to do that I'll do 25lb weighted ring dips.

25:26

First time with Full squat cleans and I mean ass to ankles. Deadlifted a tiny bit heavy, cleaned a tiny bit light, no 1.25 lb plates...

Pretty pleased with my time since it is not only my first time with full cleans but also a pr by about 10 minutes.

DL: 259.4
Ring dips
Squat clean: 125 I think, the bar seems to be lighter than most and I have some weird 44lb cheap bumpers by marcy.

Linda
Deadlift 88lbs
Bench 53 lbs
Clean 50 lbs
24:24 minutes

Next time I can increase the bench press weight.

Deadlift 225# - decrease by 10-20#'s next time
Bench press 155# - increase by 10#
Clean - 115# - increase by 10#

30.58 - deadlifts killed me

im behind

170 lb bwt

Linda as Rx'd - got some looks(globo gym)
255 Dl
170 BP
125(1 kilo off since we dont have the plates)

25:52 PR by 2:48

Gillian is amazing. I realized just how amazing about half way through this workout! Much respect to you!

M/32/220

I am behind... Thoughtpost some rx'd beef...
fist time Linda took advantage of me. 1:01hr
2nd time a pr 53.23min as rx'd plus a few lbs here and there. RD0
DL 340#
B 225#
PC 170#

M- 275-185-135 PR 33:53
H-135-115-135- 34:30
E- 225 3 sets 115 hurt hand-115-135 1 set, 115
35:15
G-35:53- too imbarrassed to record weight- hurting back

44/m/165

DL 230
BP 165
CL 135

31:19, aah 3 minutes off PR, felt pretty good, probably because of too much resting, DL and BP all unbroken, maybe up 5 on DL, down 10 on CL

10-8-6-4-2
deadlift 195 lbs
bench press 155 lbs
clean 75 lbs

Time not tracked due to extra partner

deadlift 225lbs
bench 165lbs
clean 135lbs

time was 27:51 but i only had two bars so each round took roughly and extra twenty seconds to strip the weight from the deadlift to the clean weight and then put it back on

TSCHANZY 46 YOM 168 lbs 5'9"

Body Weight is 168, tried to do it as RX'ed ON DL 2 REPS 255 but a I went to...225 DL. AJUSTED BENCH DOWN TO 165, 1ST SET WAS OVER MY BODY WIEGHT.

DL - 225
BP - 175 1ST SET THEN 165
CL - 125

1. 11:39 2. 10:55 3. 27:03 4.35:05 5 41:44 6 48:06 7. 52;31 8. 55:55 9. 58:18 10 59:27

LONGEST WO TO DATE 1ST TIME 59:27 DL'S KILLED ME

TSCHANZY 46 YOM 168 lbs 5'9"

TOTAL WEIGHT LIFTED ABOVE 27,750 LBS

finally getting a chance to catch up, after CFE, CF L1 and illness and prep for affiliation. Today did
DL 252
BP 176
Clean 102
10,8,6,4,2 evens only

48:02

37m/5'10"/170

46:38 as rx'd
D - 205 for 2 sets then 185
B - 155 all sets
C - 75 all sets

33/M/225lbs/6'3
Oct 6th 2006

No spotter for bench press and wrecked my triceps 2 days earlier.

235 DL
185 Bench Press
95 Squat Cleans

27:55

Sep 06 2006

205lb Deadlift
225lb Bench Press
115lb Squat Cleans

41:31
Spotter Involved

Date Change!!

33/M/225lbs/6'3
Oct 6th 2008

No spotter for bench press and wrecked my triceps 2 days earlier.

235 DL
185 Bench Press
95 Squat Cleans

27:55

Sep 06 2008

205lb Deadlift
225lb Bench Press
115lb Squat Cleans

41:31
Spotter Involved

cfwu x3

10!
Deadlift 135
Bench press 85
air squat

cfwu x 1
wod
60:00
10-9-8-7-6-5-4
245# dl/225# dl for 5&4
175# bench/185# for 6-5-4
125# squat clean

M/18/185#

"Linda" scaled down:

185# Deadlift
135# Bench Press
115# Clean

26:20

Did on 12-22-08

total time 34:03
1-2:31
2-4:48
3-4:56
4-4:43
5-4:46
6-3:58
7-2:50
8-2:50
9-1:28
10-1:12

PR as RX'd
135-clean
275-dead lift(+50lbs from last time)
185-Bench