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Workout of the Day

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3 rounds for time of:
100-meter dumbbell farmers carry
10 muscle-ups
15 dumbbell snatches, right arm
15 dumbbell snatches, left arm

♀ 35-lb dumbbells
♂ 50-lb dumbbells

Stimulus and Strategy:
In today’s workout, use two dumbbells for the farmers carry and a single dumbbell for the snatches. The loading should allow you to perform the carry in 2 sets or less. For the snatches, aim to perform all reps unbroken, but two sets may be needed because of the grip fatigue and redundant movement function with the muscle-ups. Don’t push to failure on the muscle-ups in the first round. Manage your reps and minimize your rest breaks.

Scaling:
Reduce the loading of the dumbbells. Reduce the reps of the muscle-ups.

To reduce the complexity of the muscle-ups, perform jumping muscle-ups. For the dumbbell snatches, perform hang dumbbell snatches.

In case of injury or limitation, perform single-arm dumbbell farmers carries. For the muscle-ups, perform low-ring muscle-up transitions. For the dumbbell snatches, perform single-arm dumbbell Russian swings.

Intermediate option:
3 rounds for time of:
100-meter dumbbell farmers carry
5 jumping muscle-ups
15 dumbbell snatches, right arm
15 dumbbell snatches, left arm

20-lb dumbbells
35-lb dumbbells

Beginner option:
3 rounds for time of:
100-meter dumbbell farmers carry
5 low-ring muscle-up transitions
10 dumbbell snatches, right arm
10 dumbbell snatches, left arm

10-lb dumbbells
15-lb dumbbells

Coaching cues:
Because of the conflicting movement functions, focus on a tight, efficient kip swing during the ring muscle-ups, pressing the rings toward the hips and then, looking for your toes as you transition to the bottom of the dip.

Resources:
The Dumbbell Farmers Carry
The Kipping Muscle-Up
The Dumbbell Power Snatch
The Jumping Ring Muscle-Up
Low-Ring Muscle-Up Transition Tips

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Mike Andridge
December 6th, 2025 at 12:18 pm
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Scaled to

3 rnds

160' fc 35# db' (5 back and forths in garage)

10 ring mu modifications=feet on ground-row into small hop ring dips

15 r snatch 35# db

15 l snatch 35# db

15:35

m/55/180

better in the intensity category, but still work to do.

Thanks for the challenge yesterday Chris!

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Luis Oliveira
December 6th, 2025 at 11:39 am
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19:31

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Jake South
December 6th, 2025 at 11:26 am
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Sc box assisted ring muscle-ups

19:36

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Ovidio Gonzalez
December 6th, 2025 at 11:21 am
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14:51” RXD (masters 40-44)

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Garrett Pippin
December 6th, 2025 at 10:57 am
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Intermediate option:


3 rounds of:

100-meter dumbbell farmers carry

5 jumping muscle-ups

15 dumbbell snatches, right arm

15 dumbbell snatches, left arm


Used 50lb DB


20:58

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Leon Wallace
December 6th, 2025 at 7:03 am
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Thank you for your rants. It brings life to the blog!

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Joecarl Limsipson
December 6th, 2025 at 6:36 am
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Intermediate option: 17:45

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Son Jihun
December 6th, 2025 at 3:17 am
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Rxd 23:09

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Chris Sinagoga
December 6th, 2025 at 1:33 am
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Champions Club Scaling Notes


RANT

I have not worked out for the past week due to an extremely personal series of events that happened last Saturday between... oh... say noon and 3:30 pm. And yet today I demonstrated a handstand descent from the wall for Mr. Gilbert at the 3:30 session and it was as smooth as ever, proving that despite a week of pouting like a 7th grader I'm still in the ballpark of my best fitness. I bring that up to highlight a different kind of fear than I talked about yesterday. And for this example I'd like to point to Mike's post from yesterday:


All just for practice and to get moving....

untimed

rows

sqt clns 95#

wall walks


Pick a lame excuse-

cold garage gym

stayed up to watch the Lions beat the cowboys :)



Let's ignore his attempt to taunt my sorrow, as if I could find watching any football enjoyable at the moment, and focus on the most important word of his entire post: "practice". As simple as that sounds, having the nuts to practice a workout that calls for a timed effort is a major move against fear. Whether it's fear of losing fitness, fear of missing out, fear of not keeping up, or fear of losing status.


Imagine, for a second, that Mike insisted on doing cleans at 135 lbs. and tweaked his wrist in the first round. On paper it could be argued that lack of warmup, lack of front rack mobility, lack of power on the jump, or lack of speed on the fall caused the tweak, and he could work on all of those things - which certainly might help... next time the weight is 135. But what about 155? 185? Max effort clean? If he didn't address the true underlying cause of his hypothetical injury - Fear of posting a light weight (status) - it will just show up at the next opportunity. But instead, my man cut off the timer and lived to work out another day. As experienced and fit as he is, I'd bet that decision did more for his fitness than trying to grind through it. That is good shit my man!


Coming from someone who scouts basketball games for hours and hours every spring, I can tell you with certainty that the value of a self-scouting report cannot be overstated. For a great example of that, look no further than Coastie's post from yesterday. If that kind of honesty is taken and realized with every workout, it's only a matter of time before the necessary adjustments are going to be made. So once again I ask you all to use his example as a lens to view today's workout. I mean, for real, how much technique do you veterans really need to focus on? Fix your damn posture on farmer's carry, relax your damn arms on dumbbell snatch, say some prayers for muscle-ups... you guys have that on autopilot. But, now that I know to look for it, I can spot a few different ways fear might manifest in this workout for all three exercises (hint, sometimes it gets disguised as sloppy form). See if you can do the same. Remember, this is just a random workout on a cold, sad Saturday that Michigan isn't playing; might as well practice something you normally wouldn't, hoping it's going to pay off next time Nate comes us. What's on your scouting report for this workout?

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Jim Rix
December 6th, 2025 at 2:45 am

Just read yesterday’s rant, and was thrilled to see Chris once again living his (futile?) devotion to UofM in public. That’s a man who knows no fear! But to his curiosity about fear, mine sorta blends Lincoln’s and Coastie’s. At my age, injury is always lurking, so I scale heavily, just to try to stay in the fight…I say as I nurse a spasming back, left elbow tendinitis, and right shoulder pain (but my knees feel great right now!). But I have Coastie’s disdain for going “too easy,” so those two fears battle for control of my head and heart. I fear retweaking my back, but what I really should fear is feeling great, b/c then I’m most prone to seek living in fame, which is one step from going down in flames. And a big part of this nonsensical drive was/is watching my parents age and the decline in the most basic of physical activities…seeing how nature will punish inactivity by choice, ironically, often drives me to push too hard, which leads to…involuntary inactivity. Anyway…that’s way more than my 2 cents. See y’all on the comments section tomorrow.

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Chris Sinagoga
December 6th, 2025 at 3:12 am

First off... oooh man we're going to pick up beefing right where we left off I see!


Secondly, that's great insight my man, and worth way more than 2 cents, especially about the cycle of how fearing inactivity can lead to involuntary inactivity. Never thought of it like that.

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