The Bar Takes a Piece of Me

I wasn’t really sore this morning from yesterday’s Olympic lifting session. I do feel a bruise near my neck from doing cleans though.

Warm-up

• 3m DUs
• 6 each of Push-up complex (Under the fence, knee to elbow at bottom of push-up, foot to outstretched hand at top of push-up)
• 50 Sit-ups
• 6 each of Push-up complex

I think we did something else in the warm-up, but I can’t remember what it was.

Strength

5 Sets

• 5 Deadlifts
• 20s Rest
• MAX HSPU
• 3m Rest

Since I had just done RDLs last night I wasn’t sure what I’ve have left in the tank for deadlifts. I started with a warm-up set at 135# and then my rounds went like this:

• 165# DL / 7 HSPU
• 195# DL / 7 HSPU
• 215# DL / 5 HSPU
• 245# DL / 6 HSPU
• 275# DL / 4 HSPU

Everything felt pretty good. Today was the first time I tried HSPU with only 1 AbMat. It’s definitely harder than 2, but I’ve come along way since doing stink bugs 2 months ago. 275# is a new PR for deadlifts by 5#.

WOD

5 Rounds

• 8 Deadlifts, 85% of 5RM
• 20 Wall Balls

I used 235# for deadlifts and a 15# MB so that I could keep up the intensity throughout. In the first round I did all 8 deadlifts unbroken, but then broke them up into sets of 5 and 3 for the rest of the rounds. Each round I tried to do the wall balls unbroken, but had to take a break of 2-3 seconds during a few of the rounds. I finished in 10:41. On one of the the deadlift descents, the knurling of the bar scraped my knee and took a souvenir.