Day: April 27, 2014

Head Case

My hamstrings are a little sore from the good mornings. Was up at 5:30 to take Mom and Dad to the airport. Hit up Open Gym in Bay City to lift.

Warm-up

  • 5:00 Bottom Squat Hold
  • 3×50 Band Pulls
  • Stretching

OLY

  • 45# Position Work
  • 4x3x95# Muscle Cleans
  • Cleans w/ blocks at the knee
    • 2x2x135#
    • 2x3x155#
    • 2x2x185#
    • 2x2x205#
    • 2×215#
    • 5x1x225#

I started to hit that mental barrier at 225#. So stupid! I just did a 255# power clean from the hang too weeks ago and I’m afraid of 225#. After a couple of false starts and iffy attempts, I convinced myself to stop being a pussy, pull, and drop under the bar. Last few reps were much better with confidence. I hadn’t done 225# from the blocks before so that was good. I am such a head case though and still think about those near-disaster PR cleans of the past. I need to get comfortable dropping under the bar to squat them and today was a good step back to it.

Back Squats

I didn’t plan on squatting, but Kevin was doing some and it was nothing crazy, so I jumped in with him.

  • 5×205#
  • 5×235#
  • 3x5x262.5#

That 2 hours flew by! Finished up with another 5:00 bottom squat.

Conditioning

Got out the sled when I got home. 140# total after adding 115# of bumpers and I also wore the 20# weight vest. Went 0.51 miles in 13:01.

Did a final squat hold of 3:00 to make 23 minutes on the day since I had done a couple of 5s in the morning.