The Price of Unbroken Pull-ups

My legs are still sore today. Was out in the garage just after 12.

Year of the Engine – Interval

12 Rounds

• 45s Row
• 1:15 Rest

My goal was to hit 1:35/500m and it was a success. I got 237 meters every round except the 5th where I got 238.

That put me over 150k meters on the rower since I got it.

Warm-up

3 Sets

• 10 Reverse Hypers (140#)

7:00 AMRAP

• 15 Air Squats
• 5 Burpees
• 10 cal Row
• 4 Inchworms

Got through three rounds and did the burpees instead of 20 double unders, due to my calf.

Conditioning

E3M – 10 Rounds

• 10 cal Assault Bike
• 10 Pull-ups
• 10 MB Cleans (20#)

Second week in a row where the Friday workout repeated some of the movements I did at home on Thursday night. This was programmed as 3×135# C&J for three rounds, then three rounds of heavier doubles, and finally four rounds of heavy singles. I definitely can’t do jerks with my calf and didn’t want to press my luck for my back or calf with heavy cleans so I decided to substitute the medicine ball cleans.

I started hot out of the gate to get the bike going each round and was doing 90+ RPM, until I had 2 cals left where I kind of coasted in because the work is already done and you just need to let it tick over. My goal was to do all of the pull-ups unbroken and I did. Pushing the limit on bigger sets of gymnastics is working out surprisingly well lately. I did tear open my palm in the 9th round, so the 10th was using basically finger tips only to grip the bar on my left hand. I’ve never ripped on my palm before! I think I was done with the first round in 1:02 and the rest of the rounds were 1:11-1:15.

Midline

5:00 EMOM

• 15 Hollow Rocks
• 10 V-ups

Last two rounds hurt!