Crossfit Life: Snatch Balance (Saay whaaa?)

Tonight, for the first time, we did snatch balances! These are So difficult to say the least, but I'm so glad I got to do these.

A snatch balance is similar to an overhead squat (which is really tough) but more involved and more difficult.

Basically, you start with the bar behind your head, resting on shoulders. In one motion, you slightly bend your knees (like a push press), jolt the bar up and go into your squat stance and into a squat at the same time. Balancing yourself is key and bill had us practice several times with just a PVC pipe and then an empty bar.

I felt Like I had the hang of it for most of my reps but when that bar got some decent weight on it, man is was difficult to balance! Mom felt the same way.

I maxed at 70 pounds

Mom maxed at 40 pounds

After doing about 15 of these, it was time for the WOD.

Bill already put us through a pretty good warmup which involved rowing 500m, skipping with high knees, Spider-Man lunges, crab walks, air squats, and shoulder stretches.

The workout was fun..

Clock set to 7 minutes

100 double unders

Row with remainder of time to record meters

I did all 100 double unders! No singles!! Whoooo hoooo! I'm so proud that I am getting so much better at double unders! I can't string them together yet so I used a single in between every double. Diana is getting so good at these, she strung at most 22 in a row!!! Go Di! Mom and Maria did 300 singles instead of double unders (still grueling!) It was a girls night tonight and we rocked it!

Here are the results: