Month: December 2021

Pump the Brakes

I’m definitely feeling some fatigue and head fog from the booster shot. So I went easy on the workout.

Back

4 Sets

  • 12/12 Single Arm Incline DB Row (25#)
  • 12 Incline Back Fly (15#)

4 Sets

  • 10 Straight Arm Lat Pulldown (49#)

4 Sets

  • 10 Lat Pulldown (93#)

Conditioning

16:00 EMOM (alt)

  • 100 Jump Rope
  • 15 cal BikeErg
  • 24 Reverse Lunge
  • 15 V-ups + 40 Russian Twist

Day of IBEX

My glutes are really sore from yesterday, which must have been the Bulgarian split squats. It was really cold in the garage so we tried to get warmed up with the workout first.

Conditioning

4 Rounds

  • 50 Jump Rope
  • 30 DB Floor Presses (25# DBs)
  • 25 Hang DB Cleans (25# DBs)
  • 20 Lunges
  • 10 Burpees to Plate (45# comp)

We modified (due to B’s back) an IBEX piece here. I split the floor presses in half each round and went unbroken on the other movements. Finished in 14:38.

Biceps

3 Sets

  • 20 Barbell Curls (35#)
  • 30 alt DB Curls (15#)
  • 40 Banded PVC Curls (red)
  • 90s Rest

Another IBEX workout, though we didn’t do a 4th round.

Midline

3 Rounds

  • 15 Leg Lifts
  • 15 DB OH Crunches (50#)
  • 15 Pike-ups

Might as well make it 3/3 with some core work from IBEX as well.

Leg Tri-Set

Warm-up

  • 80’ Monster Walks
  • 80’ Lateral monster Walks
  • 10 Monster squats
  • 10 Monster Toe touches
  • 20 Trunk Rotations

Legs

4 Sets

  • 6/6 Curtsy Lunge (40# DBs)
  • 8/8 Bulgarian Split Squats (25# DBs)
  • 12 Double DB RDLs (50# DBs)

This was a nasty tri-set. I think I chose wise weights for our first attempt.

Conditioning

10 Rounds

  • 30s BikeErg
  • ~45s Rest

310, 313, 315, 315, 317, 322, 323, 323, 324, 334 meters

That Feel

Partner Chipper

  • 40 Strict HSPU
  • 60 Burpee Box Get Overs (42”
  • 80 Single Arm DB Thrusters (30#)
  • 100 Pull-ups
  • 120 cal Row
  • 100 Push-ups
  • 80 Air Squats
  • 60 T2B (10-10-5-5)

We alternated doing 5s for the HSPU. I went unbroken for three of my sets and then had to do 2-1-1-1. Since we were keeping the box at one height we alternated between me doing six and Brandi doing four. For the thrusters we each did 10 at a time, five per arm. The pull-ups were 10 sets of six for me and four for B. These wrecked me! I got on the rower and couldn’t even pull 900 cal/hr my first time. But then I was able to catch my breath. We split those up doing six rounds of 12/8 calories. I did 10-10-10-12-12-10 push-ups while B was doing sixes. We each did 20 squats twice. Then to close it out were sets of ten toes to bars. Took us 34:14 and I was not feeling very good for the next hour.

Bouncing the Bar Again

Warm-up

  • 2:00 Wrist Warm-up
  • 5 Hang Power Cleans (45#)
  • 5 Power Cleans (45#)
  • 5 Power Cleans (65#)

Gymnastics

5 Sets

  • 3 Handstand Kick-ups

Arms

Partner Plate Arms

  • Plate OH Hold (35#)
  • 10->1 Plate Curl (35#)
  • 10->1 Plate OH Tricep Extension (35#)

We did this a month and a half ago and 45# was horrible. This was a lot more manageable and still a great little workout.

Conditioning

  • 15-10-5 Hang Power Cleans (95#)
  • 30-20-10 H2H KBS (53#)
  • 24-16-8 Squat Jumps

Haven’t done any cleans in quite some time, so bouncing from the hang felt weird and my hands didn’t know what to do with the hook grip. Finished in 4:17.

Accessory

3 Sets

  • 10/10 Kroc Rows
  • 10 Strict Ring Dips