BlessTheGym Tour/Camp with Kendrick Farris

Had a much-needed massage and rest day yesterday. My legs are as sore as they’ve been in months from the various squatting stuff on Thursday.

Matt and I headed down to New Species CrossFit in Royal Oak this morning for some weightlifting instruction from Kendrick Farris. Two hours this morning spent on the snatch and 2 more hours tomorrow morning for the clean & jerk. He had a really simplified way of teaching the lift, which made a lot of things click for both of us. He also was able to get us into good positions we’ve never really felt before. Well worth the $250 and I have some things to work on. Looking forward to the C&J tomorrow!

We did a lot of drill work with an empty bar and some with just 65#. Then at the end we worked up to 155# and did an easy hang power snatch with it from above the knee. I haven’t done over 135# since the 60 Day Challenge ended over a month ago.

Got back to Saginaw and was going to do 14.2, but C2B pull-ups didn’t feel great on my shoulder, so I’ll give it another day or two to improve. I did pull out the rack and get in my front squats though.

Front Squats

• 5×135#
• 5×205#
• 2×235#
• 1×255#
• 1×280#
• 1×285#
• 1×290#
• 1×300#
• 1×310# (PR Match)

Hell yeah!! I was even wearing my lifting shoes (which I haven’t been wearing) since I was going to wear them for the OHS of 14.2 and I was on the downslope of the floor. I didn’t really like feel of those 2 things though. I felt like it was pushing me forward, which you definitely don’t want in the front squat. Still made the lifts though.