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July Cup Challenge

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Gym Closed Today and Tomorrow!! Class starts again on Monday July 5th at 6pm!!

Handstand push ups require an enormous amount of strength, balance, agility. They’re also quickly dismissed as an extremely difficult movement and substituted with elevated push ups (we’re just as guilty here at Intrepid). However, with our handy dandy bands, this month we’ll be focusing on this bad boy, especially for those of you competing in the August Intermediate Competition.

The rules are simple: max weight lifted = body weight x reps (-band assistance if applicable). This means we’ll have to take all abmats out of the equation. Range of movement will be arms locked at the top and head to ground at the bottom.

Top Position

Here are some tips from a previous post on HSPUs and on handstands in general.

WOD 07.02.10

Frolic at the beach!

6 Responses to “July Cup Challenge”

Drew
July 2, 2010 at 8:55 AM

June challenge + Murph= not the least bit upset the gym is closed for two days….

June Results?

Hooray for HSPU!! Good challenge, shooting for 2. Are you going to weigh us or take our word for it? :)

ruth
July 2, 2010 at 9:08 AM

Take your word for it?! Lol, not with you and the koala bear gaming every second of it. There will be a scale on the day of the challenge. I can already see you guys trying to weight yourselves down with fractional plates during weigh-in.

Scott
July 2, 2010 at 10:50 AM

Holy shnikies!! HSPU??

I just barely did my first “unassisted” hand stand. And by unassisted, I mean without someone catching and stabilizing my flailing legs. I kicked up so hard I was worried I’d plant both heels in the wall and get stuck upside down!!

I kinda liked Murph last night…even though I was 10 min slower than anyone else in the gym. I think I could shave a bunch of time off if I could build up speed/stamina on my pushups. Let’s do it again in a month or so. I want to break 50 min.

Happy 4th everyone!!

If anyone would like to play some beach vball this weekend….we are playing today at 4 PM in El Porto (bottom of 39th St) and also Monday starting around noon in El Porto.

Drew
July 2, 2010 at 11:04 AM

scott, jenna and I will be there today!! She’s good, I’m not. text me 530-570-8260

Avelyne
July 2, 2010 at 7:24 PM

HSPU…this Anna written all over it

Scott
July 3, 2010 at 10:05 AM

Will Anna be penalized for doing the HSPU with only one arm?
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