In a sport where you are on the clock and measured for every movement, it is expected that there are great tools for tracking performance. In fact there are countless WOD trackers and planners available both online and off. Many boxes provide access to a tracking tool or provide at least a paper version WODBook. In my travels I’ve seen a great variety of these and have been trying Beyond the Whiteboard, other gyms provided FitView, flexFWD and numerous other sites. They are all great to track WODs, comparing you against other athletes, tracking your benchmark movements and lifts.
One new tool I’m trying is Science behind Sweat. What is cool about it is the ability to get beyond tracking into calculating work output over time, assessing muscle utilization and performance. It also tries to predict how you would perform in the Open or the Games based on your past results.
I found that computer trackers don’t work for me in the gym. For tracking the reps, planning the day or the week ahead paper is still the best for me. After using sports journal’s WODbooks for a year now, I’m experimenting with MetCon5. I like how this book helps you plan and hold you accountable over a whole year…
Today was a great endurance interval run with pyramid pushup, sit-ups every 2 minutes. A little over 6K in 15 rounds with endless pushups and sit-ups… Fun.
Skill
100 Double Unders
Conditioning
15 rounds
– 2 minute run then
within next minute:
– 10, 12, 14…. pushups and situps every 2 minutes
count up until run out of the minute then start counting down
[SCORE: 248 pushups and 248 situps]
