Nick Momrik

Under Tension

Out in the garage this morning to squat before golf. Also wanted to test out the percentages before classes made their attempts.

Pause Back Squats

3 seconds in the hole

6×45#
6×135#
3×185#
3×225#
3×245#
3×265#
3×285#
3×295#

We had 50-60-65-70-75% set after originally having the last 3 sets at 70-75-80. I made our picked percentages so added 10# more (78%) for a final attempt. Made it but that was definitely my limit for the day, so glad we didn’t go with 80%.

Those were some legit pauses, as far as timing if I do say so myself. 🙂 None of that bounce shit to get out of the hole either. 😉

Was a good warm-up before going golfing; walked 18 holes. Chiro appointment in the evening and then went over to the gym.

Warm-up

Bottom Squat Hold
Squat Clean
- 5×45#
- 5×115#

Conditioning

10-8-6-4-2

Squat Clean (135#)
Bar-facing Burpee

On April 18th I used 115# for this same thing and it took 5:25. I did break the 8 into 5-3 that day. Today I went unbroken every round with the heavier weight and finished in 5:13. Burpees slowed me down again.

50 GHD Sit-ups
2 mile Run
50 GHD Sit-ups

Not fun. I averaged about a 9:25 pace. Finished everything in 25:17. I was not feeling good afterwards. A lot of time out in the sun today since I got to the course early to hit some balls. Having McDonald’s about an hour before getting to the gym didn’t help either.

Pulling Rope

Quads are still sore but on the tail end finally. Getting down to line up putts on the course was painful yesterday. My abs are sore from the v-ups and probably some from the GHDs too. Did a little work in the garage during the day.

Warm-up

Crossover Symmetry Activation
Shoulder press (3s pause at the bottom)
- 6×45#
- 6×75#

Strength

E3M – 6 sets

3 Shoulder Press w/ 3s pause in bottom

We weren’t sure how our original percentages would work so I wanted to try it out at 50-60-70-75-80%. Made it, so I went 5 pounds more for the bonus 6th set, which ended up having me use 95-110-125-135-145-150#.

Hit a big bucket of balls at the range in the afternoon and then went to the gym around 5pm.

Power Cleans

5x20kg
5×40
5×60
2×70
2×80
2×85
2×90
2×95
2×100
2×105
2×110

All touch-n-go reps. I chickened out on the second rep with 235# last week so was happy to get up to 242# today.

Accessory & Conditioning

Tested one 50 foot rope sled pull with 180# and then…

5 Sets

Prowler Rope Pull (180#, 50′)
High Prowler Push (180#, 50′)
125m Run

Didn’t use a clock or anything. Was sitting on the ground for the rope pulls. Walked back to the prowler after the run and didn’t take much extra rest after getting there. I’ve been wanting to try these rope pulls for lat work and I could definitely tell that my problem shoulder (left) started to give out sooner than the right.

Jumped in on with class who were doing some alternating EMOM work and then did some carries with them.

6:00 EMOM

5 OHS (135#)

Much harder than I expected. Maybe due to lats being fatigued?

200m Farmer’s Carry (2×44# KB)
Rest while partner goes

Easy.

Hung. Over.

Late night, but in to the gym to get some work done. My quads are still extremely sore! My legs have given out several times walking today. I’m sure dancing at the wedding last night had nothing to do with it.

Warm-up

3 Sets

150′ Jog in gym
10 Sit-up to Staddle
5 Scap Pull-ups

Strength

5 Sets

6 Pendlay Rows (supinated, 135#)
6 Evil Wheels

Didn’t feel the rows in my left shoulder at all. Maybe that time away helped.

Conditioning

10:00 AMRAP

20 Squats (20# MB)
200m Run (20# MB)

I think I finished 5 rounds plus the squats, but it might have only been 4. Guessing 5 since the final run and next round of squats took me just under 1:45. Didn’t push it today since it was a late night. I cupped my arms under the medicine ball for my squats and held it on my shoulder during the run. Tried one round with the ball an my hip and it didn’t work as well. Ball never touched the ground for the entire 10 minutes.

4 Tabata Double Unders
4 Tabata HS Hold
4 Tabata Push-ups

No additional rest going to the next movement. I tripped up way too many times and only got 106 dubs. Push-ups were tough after the handstand holds. Did 20-16-12-11.

Midline

75 V-ups

Got talked into this one. Was really feeling it in my upper abs. Kept a single steady pace the whole way. First 25 at 1:00, 50 at 1:59, and finished at 2:55.

All on the Clock

Shit, my quads are sore! Lazy morning so out in the garage around noon.

Warm-up

Crossover Symmetry Activation
2 Sets
- 5s of StrongFit Tricep & Bicep Openers (8#)
- 1:00 Bottom squat hold
Power Snatch
- 4×45#
- 4×75#
- 4×95#
- 4×115#

Weightlifting

E30S 10:00

2 Power Snatches (135#)

All TnG, including the warm-up sets. One of my calluses from Murph was pulling off strips in the second half of this. Glad it didn’t cause any full on rip. Trimmed it before touching the deadlifts.

Midline

7:00 EMOM

8 Weighted GHD Sit-ups (20#)

Set the clock for 6 sets, but felt good so did one more set.

Conditioning

20:00 EMOM

100m Ski Erg
2 Deadlifts (305#)

Warmed up deadlifts with 6×135#, 6×225#, and 6×275#. I put on my new hand grips for the final warm-up set and the first 10 rounds of the workout. Figured it would help to save my hands as well as break in the grips. They were starting to dig in to my fingers too much so I went hand naked in the second 10 minutes.

Completed both movements each minute, which left about 24 seconds of rest. Didn’t wear a belt and my back held up fine because I got set before pulling each set. The inspiration for this came from SkiWOD. 90 damn degrees! 🔥 HOT! 🔥

On Sabbatical

Flew home from D.C. yesterday. Ten days is a long time for me to be away from home. Didn’t get in much exercise at all due to working a lot and going to a conference. Did go about 60 miles on foot, walking a lot! Didn’t touch a barbell the whole time away, so figured this garage workout would be interesting.

I’m actually on a 3-month sabbatical from work starting today, which is pretty sweet.

Warm-up

Crossover Symmetry Activation
Shoulder Press
- 10×45#
- 5×65
- 5×85
Back Squat (after finishing press working sets)
- 10×45#
- 5×135
- 5×185

E3M – 5 Sets

5 Shoulder Presses (56-66-76-81-86%)

I went 100-120-135-145-152.5#, which is a PR. Hell, my best 4-rep was 150#. Was scheduled to do 155# on the last set, but scaled it back due to how I was feeling. Probably a good thing I did.

E3M – 5 Sets

5 Back Squat

Same percentages as the presses. I went 210-250-285-305-325#, but did break the final set into 3-2. I knew I wasn’t going to make it and my back was feeling pretty ugly. Took about 30 seconds before getting back under the bar and barely made them. In the video my back doesn’t look at bad as it felt.

Power Cleans

2×45#
2×75
2×95
2×115
2×135
2×155
2×175
2×195
2×205
2×215
2×225
1×235

I was feeling very cautious after the squats. Even though 225# felt solid, after a wide stance catch with 235#, I pre-Clarked the 2nd rep. Will take me a few days to get back in the swing of things I guess.

Hitting the golf course tonight.

Primal Fitness

Finally made it to the CrossFit box right around the corner from the apartment where we are staying. They were the 70th affiliate in the world, so have been around. At 10am every Sunday they do a Hero workout.

Warm-up

High Knees
Butt Kicks
Side Shuffle
6:00 AMRAP
- 100m Run
- 5 Boot Strappers
- 5 Sit-up to Straddle
- 5 Pull-up

Their pull-up bars are a full-on fat bar. That would suck to use all the time. I did kipping pull-ups. Finished 3 rounds plus the run.

Mobility

Pigeon Stretch
Foam Roll Quads
Lacross Ball Pecs

Conditioning

“Loredo” – 6 Rounds

24 Air Squats
24 Push-ups
24 Walking Lunges
400m Run

Kept a solid steady pace and finished in 23:12. Had never done this one before. Push-ups were 14-10 every round and everything else unbroken.

D.C. Run

Went out for a run around D.C. in the morning. Ran by the White House, and then all of the big monuments. Really nice in the morning with not many people around. Easy slow run at about an average heart rate of 121 beats/minute. Went 5.15 miles in 56:06 and then walked the rest of the way back to the apartment.

dc-run

dc-run-route

Tired in D.C.

On Tuesday my legs were pretty sore from Monday squats and my traps are still sore from DT. We walked about 9.5 miles around the monuments and stuff. Yesterday I didn’t really do shit. Was pretty tired. Figured I’d better do something this morning though, so came up with the following in my apartment.

10:00 AMRAP

20 Walking Lunges
15 Push-ups
10 V-ups

Did 6 rounds plus 9 push-ups. Everything was unbroken. Didn’t put on any shoes or socks for the entire workout though.

8 Rounds (Tabata)

20s Handstand Hold
10s Rest

Yuck!

8 Rounds (Tabata)

20s Bottom-to-bottom squats
10s Rest

Didn’t try to game it today and went out 14-14 to start. Then the burn started! Went 12-12-11-10 and pushed it to finish 12-15 for an even 100 total, beating my previous best of 93.

To D.C.

Legs are tired and my traps are sore to the touch. Out in the garage early afternoon before heading to the airport.

Warm-up

Crossover Symmetry Activation
Back Squats
- 10×45#
- 2x5x155#
Shoulder Press (after squat work)
- 10×45#
- 2x5x75#

Strength

E3M – 5 Sets

5 Back Squat (53-63-73-78-83%)

My numbers were 195-235-275-295-315# today. Little grind but feeling good after the time away from heavy weights. Bar did not feel so good sitting on my sore traps.

E3M – 5 Sets

5 Shoulder Press (53-63-73-78-83%)

Now these got rough for the final two sets. Glad I had the belt on to help protect from over-extending too much. Weights were 95-115-130-140-150#. Seems like that last set was a PR or a PR match, but I don’t have great records of multi-rep maxes.

Glad to have time to get in my strength work for the week so I don’t fall off what we have programmed at Intuition.

Conditioning

30 GHD Sit-ups
500m Ski Erg
30 GHD Sit-ups
500m Ski Erg
30 GHD Sit-ups

Wanted to do 50-1000-50 but wasn’t confident the Ski Erg would stay on for me, so I adjusted. 30 reps on the GHD at a time was plenty! First set of 30 took exactly 1:00 but the other two rounds were much slower. My splits on the erg were 1:52.6 and 1:53.3. Finished everything in 9:03 and got my sit-ups done for the week. Now I’m of to D.C. for 10 days.

DT Struggles

Legs felt tired last night after the running workout. Felt pretty good this morning though.

Warm-up

Crossover Symmetry Activation
2 Sets
- 5s of StrongFit Tricep & Bicep Openers (10#)
- 10 Reverse Hypers (140#)
3 Sets
- 5 Ring Rows
- 5 Clean Thrusters (45#)
- 30 Double Unders

Conditioning

“DT” – 5 Rounds

12 Deadlifts (155#)
9 Hang Power Cleans (155#)
6 Push Jerks (155#)

Had been over a year and a half since I did this one. Old PR was 10:35. My plan was to try a new strategy of doing all 12 deadlifts and getting 5 cleans before dropping the bar. Then the final 4 cleans and the jerks. Followed it in the first round and it was way too fast. I think I was done at 1:07. I think the second round I did 11, 1+5, 4+6. Round 3 was the same or maybe 11, 1+4, 3, 2+6. I remember being done at about the 5 minute mark. Then the last 2 rounds were slow with too much rest. In round 4 I even dropped the bar with 2 jerks to go. Ugh! Finished at 10:02 for a 33 second PR.

The worst part for me, by far, are the hang cleans. They get so damn heavy and destroy me. Not so good when the final 2 rounds take just as long as the first 3. 😦

Accessory

4 Sets

8 Pendlay Rows (115#)
8 Good Mornings (115#)

Midline

6 Rounds

20s Hollow Rocks
20s Rest
20s L-hang (knees up)
20s Rest

Felt the burn. I have to do hangs due to my shoulder; L-sits on the rings don’t feel so good.

These last two weeks have been horrible from a diet perspective. I’ve been getting take-out every meal. Got lazy after Murph and I’ve been busing finishing up a bunch of projects at work before I go on my sabbatical. Had been avoiding the scale, so was scared to step on it this morning, but figured I should before I go on my trip. Was very surprised to see I was still under 204#. Winning! Looking forward to getting back on track when I get home from Washington, D.C. I can tell I’m not feeling as well or recovering as well with all of the junk and who knows what my macros look like.