Turkish Get-Up for Entire Body Strength

SURE, IT HAS AN ODD name. But what the Turkish get-up may lack in creative panache, it more than makes up for in effectiveness. This total-body strength move first made fashionable by old-time strongmen--you know, the ones you've seen in black-and-white photos with unitards and handlebar mustaches--is being resurrected by today's power-lifters, weightlifters and even disciples of CrossFit training for its ability to build freakish strength from head to toe.

The Turkish get-up strengthens your core, all your major muscle groups, smaller stabilizers, tendons and ligaments. In addition, it improves power, flexibility and shoulder stability. And all it requires is, as the name implies, getting up from the floor in a predetermined way.

-taken from Muscle & Fitenss, April 2008, by Sean Wixman06/14 Tuesday WOD

06/14 Monday WOD

Strength

Bench Press 5x5x5

Weighted Dips 8x8x8

Barbell Turkish Get-Ups 3x3x2x2x1

WOD

5 Rounds

3 Bar Muscle Ups

15 Pushups

Burpees

70