No Rest Minute

My back feels fine today. Hopefully that means this Active Life stuff is working, because I know I felt that yesterday and usually it affects me at least a little bit the next day. Went to the 4:30 class.

Active Life – Single Leg Bias

  • 6x (Tabata)
    • 20s Side Shuffles (10m)
    • 10s Rest
  • 2:00 Bottom of Air Squat Hold
  • 10s L Hang
  • 10/10 Lateral Leg Swings
  • 10/10 Leg Abducted Rocking

I’m not sure what a single 10 second L hang is supposed to do. πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

Warm-up – 3 Sets

  • 250m Row
  • 10 PVC Good Mornings
  • 40 Jump Rope
  • 15 Double Unders
  • 20s Handstand Hold

Strength – Shoulder Press

Good mornings were programmed for class, but I’m already doing those 2-3 times a week. I haven’t done a shoulder press lately, so it sounded good even though the workout had strict handstand push-ups coming up. Figured it would be a good warm-up if nothing else.

  • 5×45#
  • 5×75
  • 5×95
  • 5×115
  • 5×125
  • 5×135
  • 5×145

Conditioning

24:00 alt EMOM (40s work)

  • Strict HSPU
  • DU
  • Burpees
  • Row calories
HSPU DU Burpees Row cals
Round 1 14 76 10 13
Round 2 5-3 64 10 12
Round 3 4-4 76 10 12
Round 4 4-4 76 10 12
Round 5 4-4 67 10 13
Round 6 5-4 68 11 14

 

The 14 unbroken to start is only 3 off my best; I’ll take that after the shoulder pressing. Pretty happy I was able to get 8+ reps each round of the HSPU, for a total of 55 strict!Β Only missed a dub in 3 of the rounds. Some of my early counts may be off on those. Stayed consistent on the burpees and rower. Was expecting this to be a lot worse than it was since there was no rest minute like a traditional FGB-style workout.

Active Life – Back Max

8 Rounds

  • 10s Bent Knee Hollow Hold
  • 10 Lemon Squeeze

They said the goal here is to go unbroken, so I tried and struggled to finish 4. Then I did each of the next 4 rounds as an unbroken round with probably 20-30 seconds of rest. Finished in about 5:00.

2018 Begins

A few areas of my upper legs are lit up! Could it be from those squat jumps? Finished making my Bluetooth speaker. It’s soooo nice having some real volume in the garage.

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Active Life – Single Leg Bias

Warm-up

  • 10 Lateral Step Overs
  • 3 Sets
    • 8/8 Eccentric Ankle Dorsiflexion

Will my calves ever stop being sore when I do these?

Workout – 6 Sets (3 each arm)

  • 12 One Arm Front Squat (53#)
  • 10 Groiners
  • 1:00 Rest

This combo really gets be breathing heavy. It’s essentially 120 mountain climbers.

Strength – Back Squat

  • 5×135#
  • 5×185
  • 5×205
  • 5×225
  • 3x5x245

Humbling. I try not to think about what I could squat before. As I was walking the bar in after my final set I felt a little something in my left lower back. Fuck!

Then as I was getting out the dumbbell, this mother fucking 2.5# plate dropped right on the nail of big toe. I let out a bit yell. No marks on my foot yet.

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Active Life – Back Max

3 Rounds

  • 8/8 Turkish Sit-up (45# DB)
  • 8/8 1 Arm RKB Swing (70#)
  • 8 Evil Wheels
  • 8 Good Morning (125#)
  • 30s Barbell Overhead Hold (125#)

Wasn’t sure if I was going to feel anything in my back, but seemed ok. Using the seventy pounder for the one arm swings may be a bit much. Realized in the second set of good mornings that they should have been sumo stance. Next time.