Author: Nick Momrik

I'm searching for my first hole-in-one. I enjoy being active and making things. I work for Automattic.

Keep Planking

On Sunday night I played pickleball for about 2 hours. It was a lot of fun! Walked 18 holes yesterday. Out in the garage in the afternoon today.

 

Active Life – Hips

Warm-up

  • 250m Straight Leg Ski
  • 5 Inchworms
  • 5 Sumo Inchworms
  • 5/5 Leg Abducted Rocking
  • 1:00/1:00 Sciatic Nerve Flossing
  • 8/8 Single Leg Deadlifts
    • 45#
    • 95#

Workout – 6 Sets (3 each leg)

  • 8 Single Leg Deadlifts (135-155-155#)
  • 40s Bent Knee Hollow Body Hold

Was getting unstable with 155. I guess it’s been a few weeks.

Conditioning

15:00 AMRAP

  • 10/10 Single Arm Push Press (50#)
  • 25 Sit-ups
  • 20 Russian KBS (70#)

Stole from the gym’s workout today but I’m still not doing bar work so I did sit-ups instead of 15 T2B. Got through 5 + 55 with everything unbroken.

Active Life – Back Max

5 Rounds

  • 30s Plank
  • 30s Left Side Plank
  • 30s Right Side Plank

Did them on my hands, which was probably a bad idea with my left wrist bothering me the last few weeks.

2018 AGOQ #4

I’m a little bruised up on my collarbone from the cleans, but feeling good otherwise.

Active Life – Hips

Warm-up

  • 10 Side Shuffles (10m)
  • 2:00/2:00 Banded Posterior Hip Distraction
  • 10/10 Lateral Leg Swings

Workout – 6 Sets (3x each leg)

  • 10 Box Step Ups (24″, 50# DBs)
  • 5 Eccentric Ankle Dorsiflexion
  • 1:00 Rest

Got the ticker going!

Conditioning

Warmed up snatches with 5×45, 5×75, 3×115, and 3×145.

2018 Age Group Online Qualifier #4
5:00 AMRAP

  • 9 HSPU
  • 6 Bar-facing Burpees
  • 3 Snatch (165#)

Holy fuck when I got that first snatch! My feet were getting really wide on every catch. I did every set of handstand push-ups unbroken though the 2nd and 3rd rounds were a bit slower. Felt pretty good on the burpees. Did exactly 3 rounds.

Active Life – Back Max

12:00

  • 8/8 Bottoms Up KB Press (26#)
  • 8/8 Half Kneeling Halos (26#)
  • 8/8 Suitcase Deadlift (88#)
  • 8/8 Single Arm Push Press (50#)

After cruising through round 1 I picked it up so I could get through 3 rounds and was able to.

Lift Heavy Shit

I really did have plans to hit a garage workout yesterday, but I was tired and decided on another rest day. Wasn’t missing the 10am class today, except I walked in and it is actually a 9am on Saturdays! Oh well, I was able to take advantage of the empty gym and was kind of nice to do my own thing.

Warm-up

  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • 10/10 Leg Swings
  • Dead Hang
  • 2 Sets
    • 50′ Walking Lunge
    • 10/10 Single Arm KBS (35#)
  • 10 Power cleans (45#)
  • 8×95#
  • 20 DU
  • 6×115#
  • 20 DU
  • 4×135#
  • 40 DU

Conditioning

This was one programmed at the gym during the week.

  • 10-8-6-4-2 Power Cleans (155-185-205-225-245#)
  • 50 Double Unders

I did all single cleans. I missed 3 times in the first round of DU, did 2 rounds of 30-20, missed 5 times in the 4th round, and did the last round unbroken. Finished in 10:09. The bars sure got heavy after the first 2 weights, but it felt great to lift some shit.

Active Life – Back Max

  • 1:00/1:00 KB Psoas Mobilization
  • 10:00
    • 8/8 Glute Bridges (3s hold)
    • 12 Curl-ups (3s hold)

Did 5 rounds.

Take It Easy

Tuesday was a travel day coming back from Barcelona. Walked 18 on the course yesterday and was fucking dead by the 8th hole. Probably shouldn’t have played because I was unable to do anything the rest of the day and could barely eat.

Still tired today so I jumped on the Airdyne for 20 minutes, doing 5.95 miles. Didn’t want to dig myself a bigger hole by doing anything too intense yet. Mowed the lawn too.

Gettin’ The Worm

My body feels a little tight from yesterday, but my back seems to be solid. Out in the garage by 9am because I’m leaving for Europe this afternoon. I don’t remember the last time I worked out so early.

Active Life – Hips

Workout – 15:00

  • 12 Side Shuffles (5m)
  • 10 Walking Lunge (20# DBs)
  • 10 Kossacks
  • 50/50m Single Arm Waiters Carry (35#)

It’s nice to finally be able to open the garage and do these walks outside instead of pacing back and forth 5 meters at a time. From the back of my garage to the street is right around 25 meters. Got through 4 rounds, the shuffles, and the lunges.

Cooldown

  • 1:00/1:00 Hip Wind Up Stretch

Conditioning

Did 2 sets of 5 snatches with the empty bar. Probably should have done some dubs.

15-10-5 Snatch (75#)
60-40-20 Double Under

All snatches were unbroken. I missed a dub right off the bat and then at 32 reps. Missed at 14 in the second round. In the last round I dropped my rope and it wrapped around the bar slowing me down. Then I missed at 7 reps and missed again. Finished in 3:46. Could get close to 3:00 without all the screw ups.

Active Life – Back Max

4 Rounds

  • 50s Overhead Barbell Hold (165-135-135-135#)
  • 50m Double Front Rack Carry (50# DBs)

I was shaking so bad and barely made it through with 165 so I dropped down for the rest and still struggled. My wrists get so sore from these. Finished in 11:40.

Glad I got that in. Hopefully I can get in some bodyweight workouts and running over the next week. Mowed the lawn right after and time to pack and get to the airport!

Holding Up

Walked 18 holes yesterday and it felt a bit like a pulled muscle in my right middle back during some swings. It just wouldn’t loosen up, but good thing it didn’t affect my swing. Last night my legs were aching. Thinking it was from walking the course for some reason because I can’t imagine feeling like that so long after the Sunday workout. Can’t believe my chest isn’t sore though.

Went to the 4:30 class today.

Warm-up

10:00

  • 10 Right Arm KBS (35#)
  • 5 Glute Bridges
  • 10 Left Arm KBS (35#)
  • 30s Plank

Did 5 rounds.

Weightlifting

Power Cleans

  • 5x20kg
  • 5×40
  • 3×60
  • 2×70
  • 2×80
  • 2×90
  • 10:00 EMOM
    • 5 Sets 2×95
    • 3 Sets 2×100
    • 2×105
    • 2×110

All touch-n-go except for the last set. I chickened out on it, but I dropped the bar and did the 2nd rep right away. Really happy with the way the lifts felt.

 

Conditioning

9:00 AMRAP – 1-2-3…

  • Deadlift (90kg)
  • Push-up
  • Sit-up

After the cleans I stripped off some weight and decided 90kg (198#) was good enough instead of the Rx 225#. Was able to go unbroken through every movement and finished exactly 12 rounds. Could have gone faster through the middle section of this workout.

This felt good too. No belt for the cleans or the deadlifts, so my back is feeling good!

Bench Day

Did a bunch of yard work yesterday and didn’t have time to workout with other stuff and family visiting. Went to the gym at noon.

Warm-up

  • 1 Mile Run
  • Bench press
    • 10×45#
    • 10×95
    • 5×115

Had to get out of the house so I got the gym a little early to run.

15:00 AMRAP

  • 10 Bench Press (135#)
  • 20 Air Squats

Did two sets of 5 for every round of bench press and my second sets were starting to get slow in the last few rounds, so I think it was a pretty good strategy. Based on my 8:43 for 100 reps with 135 pounds I was thinking somewhere around 10 rounds would be pretty good. Then I did the first round in just over a minute. I finished the 6th round at 7:30, so was able to keep that same pace to get 12+3.

I’ve been wanting to try a metcon with bench pressing, so finally pulled this out of my idea list. The only other times I’ve benched in a metcon were Linda and 100 reps for time.

Fitting that this morning Castro announced bench press would be at Regionals. I wonder what the workout will be.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bib_NivFgQn/

 

5 Rounds

  • 100m Single Arm Farmer Carry (62#)
  • 20 Walking Lunges
  • 100m Single arm OH Walk (44#)
  • 20 American KBS (44#)

The rounds were much quicker than I thought so instead of doing the planned 30 minutes, we cut it off after 5 rounds, which was at 21:09.

Sumo Conditioning

My quads are already sore from yesterday. Out in the garage before lunch.

Active Life – Hips

Warm-up

  • 5:00 Airdyne (1.53 miles)
  • 15/15 Lateral Leg Swings
  • 20 Groiners
  • 1:00/1:00 Samson Stretch

Workout

Romanian Deadlifts

  • 6×45#
  • 6×95
  • 6×135
  • 6×185
  • 6×215
  • 6×245
  • 2x6x265

The workout portion also included the Sumos I combined with the conditioning below.

Conditioning

10:00 AMRAP

  • Buy-in: 30 Sumo Deadlifts (245#)
  • MAX Airdyne (AD2) cals

I figured throwing the Sumos in here would keep me moving. I did 15-8-7 for the deadlifts and finished in about 1:30. Got 229 calories.