Author: Nick Momrik

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

More Snow in April

Back was tight when I woke up. Maybe it was the 1-2 inches of snow on the ground! Out in the garage before noon so I could watch Tiger in the afternoon while working.

Active Life – Hips

Warm-up

  • 5:00 Airdyne (1.51 miles)
  • 15/15 Lateral Leg Swings
  • 20 Groiners
  • 1:00/1:00 Samson Stretch

Workout

  • Romanian Deadlifts
    • 8×45#
    • 8×95
    • 8×135
    • 8×175
    • 8×205
    • 8×225
    • 2x8x245
  • 45 Sumo Deadlifts (225#)
    • 9×5
    • With about a 5 count rest

Used neutral grip for all of the RDLs. For my break on the Sumos I moved a chip and got back on the bar. Took me about 3 minutes to complete the 45 reps.

Conditioning

4 Rounds

  • 30s Lunges
  • 30s Rest
  • 30s Shoulder Presses (45#)
  • 30s Rest

Went 17-19-20-21 on the lunges and 19-22-24-25 on the presses. An empty bar sure can burn!

Active Life – Back Max

4 Rounds

  • 15s L Hang (bent knees)
  • 10 Curl-ups (5 count pause)
  • 30s/30s Single Arm Farmer Carry (70#)
  • 10 Alternating Push-up Ts

Do Over

Garage session before dinner.

Active Life – Hips

Warm-up

  • 1:00/1:00 Banded Posterior Ankle Distraction
  • 20 Lateral Banded Step Overs
  • 8 Paused Squat Press Outs (25#)
  • 5 Single Jump Squats

Workout – 4 Sets (2x each arm)

  • 12 Single Arm Waiters Squat (3s pause, 53#)
  • 100m Single Arm Farmer Carry (53#)
  • 30s Rest

Conditioning

  • 2:00 AMRAP – DU
  • 1:00 Rest
  • 2:00 AMRAP – Dumbbell Snatch (35#, alternating)
  • 1:00 Rest
  • 2:00 AMRAP – DU

Wasn’t planning on the 2nd round of double unders, but I was not happy with missing so much in the first 2 minutes; I could barely get through 20 reps at a time. Did 147 and 158 double unders, so was nice to get a higher number when I was fatigued. Went unbroken for the snatches with 49 reps. You don’t always have to go heavy.

Active Life – Back Max

3 Sets

  • 16 Front Squat
  • 30s/30s Banded Posterior Hip Distraction

I used 115-125-135#.

Break From Kipping

Chest is sore from Sunday. Went to the 4:30 class.

Warm-up

  • 10:00 EMOM (alt)
    • 4x 25′ High Knees + 4×25′ Butt Kicks
    • 3 Tall Muscle Cleans + 3 Hang Power Cleans + 3 Power Cleans
      • 3 sets 20kg
      • 2 sets 30kg
  • Power Cleans
    • 3x40kg
    • 3×60
    • 3×70
    • 3×80

Weightlifting

10:00 EMOM

  • 3 Power Cleans (90kg)

All touch-n-go sets. Felt good being able to do that many sets.

Conditioning

  • 3 Rounds
    • 50 Russian KBS (44#)
    • 75 DU
  • 1 Round
    • 21 Wall Balls (20#, 10′)
    • 21 T2B
  • 2 Rounds
    • 21 Wall Balls (20#, 10′)
    • 21 V-ups

Grip got fried from those sets of 50 swings, done unbroken each time. I think I did the dubs in 3 sets every round. I did 2 rounds of 12-9 wall balls and then unbroken. My shoulder was killing when I started the toes to bars. I got through 6-5 favoring it and could feel myself trying not to let the right side get through too much in my kip. Struggled with doubles and singles to finish out the 21. I went to v-ups for the other 2 rounds. Finished in 16:27.

Going to have to take a break from kipping for at least a few weeks and I should probably start the Crossover Symmetry stuff when I workout at home.

This was a good test for my back. Got it warmed up and fatigued with the lifting. Then it was really pumped up from the swings. It held on ok through the wall balls. Glad tomorrow is a rest day though.

DT Meets Cindy

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 (3 each leg)

  • 10 Step-ups (20″, 50# DBs)
  • 5 Eccentric Ankle Dorsiflexion
  • 1:00 Rest

Warmed up for the barbell complex with 3 sets at 45#, 1 set 95, and 1 set 135. I jumped on the bar to hang and do some bar taps and considered doing ring rows. Took a few rounds of the workout to loosen up, but I powered through (or became numb to the pain?). I may have to give my right shoulder some rest for a few weeks.

Conditioning

Little benchmark mash-up of DT and Cindy I came up with a few weeks ago. Glad I didn’t make it 20 minutes.

15:00 AMRAP

  • 4 Deadlifts (155#)
  • 3 Hang Power Cleans (155#)
  • 2 Push Jerks (155#)
  • 4 Pull-ups
  • 8 Push-ups
  • 12 Air Squats

Started out feeling good with the air squats, but that quickly faded.  Always holds me back in Cindy or Murph. You dread picking up the barbell each time because you know you can’t put it down until the reps are completed. Made it through 10+9.

Midline

4 Rounds

  • 10 T2B
  • 20 Russian Twists (44#)
  • 10 Ball Slams (25#)
  • 40 Double Unders

Didn’t run a clock. Went unbroken every set of toes to bars. Missed once on dubs in the first round, twice in the second round, and unbroken the other two.

It’s Not Thursday

When I woke up this morning I thought it was Thursday for about a half hour. I did a double-take when I saw the day of the week on my computer.

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
  • 10/10 Single Leg Deadlifts
    • 45#
    • 95#

Workout – 6 Sets (3 each leg)

  • 10 Single Leg Deadlifts (115-135-155#)
  • 40s Bent Knee Hollow Body Hold

Conditioning

10:00 AMRAP

  • 10 V-ups
  • 10 Single Arm Dumbbell Hang C&J (5/5, 50#)
  • 10 Push-ups

The push-ups were the hardest part, coming right after the DB presses. Did 6+28.

Active Life – Back Max

10:00

  • 5/5 Split Squat Rock Back (3s pause)
  • 5 Evil Wheels
  • 10 Dead Bugs
  • 10 Groiners
  • 10 Cat Camel + Rock Back

Did 2 times through.

2:00/2:00 Foam Roll (quads)

Wind Up

My back is a little tight from yesterday. Out in the garage in the evening.

Active Life – Hips

Workout – 15:00

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

The instructions said to keep breathing to under 5 breaths in 20 seconds. Not sure how you measure that, so I just went nice and easy. Kept moving but didn’t get my heart rate up. Got through 3 rounds plus the shuffles, lunges, and Kossacks.

Cooldown

  • 1:00/1:00 Hip Wind Up Stretch

Conditioning

10:00 AMRAP

  • 150m Ski Erg
  • 50 DU

Missed several times in the first round of double unders and was thinking I was in for a long one. Never missed more than once in a set after that, but only got through 1 set unbroken. Finished 6+158. Maybe should have moved the car out of the garage so I didn’t have to walk around it.

Active Life – Back Max

4 Rounds

  • 40s Front Rack Hold (185#)
  • 40m/40m Single Arm Farmer Carry (53#)

Could have went with the 70# KB. Finished in 8:48.

Jump Into It

My shoulders were starting to feel 18.5 already several hours after. The right one wasn’t exactly feeling great when I warmed up for that workout. I haven’t been doing much pull-up work lately though. Maybe I need to try out the Active Life shoulder program.

Active Life – Hips

Warm-up

  • 5:00 Airdyne (1.45 miles)
  • 15/15 Lateral Leg Swings
  • 20 Groiners
  • 1:00/1:00 Samson Stretch

Workout

  • Romanian Deadlifts
    • 6×45#
    • 6×135
    • 6×185
    • 6×205
    • 6×225
    • 2x6x245
  • 40 Sumo Deadlifts (225#)
    • 4×10
    • 10 count rest

Got the heart rate up doing those sumo DLs. Felt pretty good though.

Conditioning

  • 25 Burpee Box Jumps (24″)
  • 25 Push Press (95#)
  • 25 Burpee Box Jumps (24″)

I couldn’t believe the time was over 3:00 when I got done with the first 25 reps. I was jumping up and then into the box jump every rep to not take extra steps. I did step down and back a bit every rep. I went 10-9-6 on the push presses. Finished in 8:06.

Cooldown

That was enough on my back for the day so I didn’t do any of the Back Max work. I did do 10 Cat Camel + Rock Back with a 2 count pause in each position.

11.6/12.5/18.5

Y’all are crazy for voting 11.6 instead of 13.5. Why would you want to do those movements for 7 minutes instead of 4 and with ascending reps! 13.5 would have been a 4 minute workout for probably 80-90% of us. Still better than 14.2 though.

Warm-up

  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • Air Squats
  • PVC Passes
  • Shoulder Stretching
  • Lunges
  • 5×45# Thruster
  • 5×65# Thruster
  • C2B Pull-ups

18.5 (11.6 / 12.5)

7:00 AMRAP – 3-6-9…

  • Thrusters (100#)
  • C2B Pull-ups

In the 2012 Open my score was 58 and just over 2 years ago I did 91 reps. I got 88 today. On the thrusters I did 3, 6, 9, 6-6, and 6-5-4. I did butterfly somewhere into the 12 I think and then switched to a regular kip. All 3s through 12 and then quick singles in the round of 15.

My only goal for the Open this year was to come out healthy and it was a success. My ranking should be respectable considering I haven’t been doing a lot of cardio and I basically quit 18.4 by not attempting any of the 315# deadlifts.

Weighlifting

Power Clean

  • 3×135#
  • 2×168
  • 2×185
  • 2×205
  • 1×216
  • 1×238

Some weird numbers because of mixing pound and kilo plates.

Stripped off some weight and did a 3:00 AMRAP with Michelle and Weston. We rotated around each doing 1 rep and we got through 18 reps each. I used 205#. That was a lot of fun and something I really miss.

BFBs

Active Life – Hips

Warm-up

  • 1:00/1:00 Banded Posterior Ankle Distraction
  • 20 Lateral Banded Step Overs
  • 8 Paused Squat Press Outs (25#)
  • 5 Jump Squats (singles)

Workout – 6 Sets (3 each arm)

  • 10 Single Arm KB Squat (53#)
  • 80m Single Arm Farmer Carry (53#)
  • 30s Rest

Conditioning

5 Rounds

  • 1:00 Bar-facing Burpees
  • 1:00 Rest

Next year I will not suck so bad at these during the Open. Might as well start improving now. I quickly figured out that if I jumped my feet up between my hands, instead of keeping them wide, I would get closer to the bar and go straight into the jump over the bar. It wasn’t a short jump, but I wasn’t wasting time with a bunch of steps. I was able to get 16 reps every round. I could have gotten 17 in the 3rd set and I had some seconds to spare in the other rounds, but not enough to complete a full rep. Really happy with the effort on one of my least favorite movements.

Active Life – Back Max

12:00 For Quality

  • 8/8 Bottoms up KB Press (26#)
  • 8/8 Half Kneeling Halos (26#, around and back)
  • 8/8 Suitcase Deadlift (71#)
  • 8/8 DB Push Press (50#)

Something like this turns into a good little conditioning piece as well. Did 3 rounds. My left arm almost gave out in the last round.

Midline

  • 50 Sit-ups
  • 100 Flutter Kicks
  • 50 Leg Raises
  • 100 Bicycles

Got nasty after going unbroken on the first 2 moves. Finished in 5:35.