Nick Momrik

Aloha Hawaii

Last day in Hawaii. My flight leaves at 11pm, so got up for one last workout in the fitness center. Went for my “go to” travel WOD, which I’ve been saving all week. Warmed up with a 400m run on the treadmill first.

WOD

100 DB Hang Squat Clean Thrusters (30# DBs)
EMOM (except for at the beginning), do 5 burpees.

Last time I did this was back in San Diego in September, with a time of 15:35. Today I finished in 14:37, almost a minute faster! I think it was due to a good first minute where I got 14 reps in and then 8 in the next minute. Went to 7s for the next 4 or 5 minutes and then 6s the rest of the way. No rest minutes, but I did make sure to leave myself about 10-15 seconds of rest time at the end of every minute before starting up burpees again. I wonder if that helps very much in the long run or if it would be faster to keep working nonstop the entire WOD.

I walked an easy 400m on the treadmill to bring my heart rate down, because this one really gets you going. Great workout!

Flying Solo

Legs are a little sore from the squats, hill sprints, and lunges yesterday so thought I’d take it easy and just do some cardio, but work on a skill at the same time. Went out to the parking lot with the jump rope. Warmed up with 100 single jumps.

Flight Simulator

5-10-15-20-25-30-35-40-45-50-45-40-35-30-25-20-15-10-5

Unbroken DUs

I got up through 35 in about 4 and a half minutes and then hit a wall. Since the last time I tried this, I also stopped and turned around at 35, I finally decided to do the same today. Took me a bit to get that set of 30 unbroken in and 25 was a struggle too, but after that it was fast and easy. Finished the Flight Sim 35 in 11:03, which is 3:48 faster than when I did it just over a month and a half ago. I’d say that’s pretty good progress on my DUs.

I did another 200 single jumps to cool down some. Not a big workout, but got the blood pumping, which felt good.

Hawaiian Hill Sprints

The time zone shift hasn’t bothered me too much. We’ve been getting to bed early due to exhaustion, so getting up early has been easy.

Warm-up

Ran a little loop that was probably about 400m.

WOD

10 Rounds

20 Air Squats
Hill Sprint (maybe 70 yards?)
Walk down the hill

There’s a picture of the hill. I sprinted from the end of the driveway up to the top of the hill and then walked back down for recovery each round. All of the air squats were done unbroken and I tried to go top speed on them. Counting all of the walking, my total time was 18:49.

Strength

12:00 EMOM

Odds: 12 Weighted Lunges (40# DBs, 6 each leg)
Evens: 20 Kroc Rows (40# DB, switch arms each time)

I was going to try for 20 and 25, but that was a bit ambitious and didn’t leave enough rest time, so I actually did 20 lunges in the first round.

Wednesday in Hawaii

Hawaii is really nice! 🙂 Needed to get my sweat on this morning though. Warmed up with about a 400m run up a hill, back down, and in a little loop.

WOD

“Annie”
50-40-30-20-10

DUs
Sit-ups

Started out shaky with my DUs so I was worried this would take ages. Found my groove in the round of 40 and then did 30-20-10 all unbroken. Total time was 7:41, a PR by 45 seconds.

Strength

10:00 EMOM

Odds: 15 Goblet Squats (40# DB)
Evens: 15 Push Presses (40# DBs)

Did this in the little fitness center they have here in the resort where we’re staying. Did everything unbroken and although neither was easy or completely difficult, it was a nice challenge. I tried to go for speed along with quality in the goblet squats because I really need that quickness for my air squats.

Short and sweet, but a nice little workout. Just what I needed.

Aloha!

Arrived in Hawaii on the beautiful island of Kuaui yesterday for a work trip. 🙂 Yeah, I know it’s rough! Did a few things in my room this morning.

3 Rounds

1m Air Squats
1m Rest

I didn’t do anything else to warm-up before this, so was a little slow coming out of the gate. Got 57, 59, 59. Need to get that up to around 70.

100 HR Push-ups

Finished in 5:42, a new PR by 4 seconds! I actually thought my best time was in the 5:30s, so am really happy after looking at the history.

Tabata Sit-ups

Kept a steady pace during each working interval and was able to get exactly 10 each time for a total of 80.

The Seven

Feeling better today. Went in for the 9am class instead of the 8am Competitors WOD because the Hero WOD sounded like fun and I could get another hour of sleep.

Warm-up

600m Run
2 Rounds
- 5 Push-ups
- 10 Air Squats
- 10 Leg Swings (Front to back, Side-to-Side, each leg)
- 10 PVC Pass-thrus

WOD

“The Seven”
7 Rounds

7 K2E
7 Deadlifts (245#)
7 Burpees
7 KBS (70#)
7 Pull-ups
7 HSPU
7 Thrusters (115#)

When it’s a Hero WOD you know you’re in for a suck fest. The first round wasn’t bad, but after that it was brutal. This WOD actually starts off with the HSPU and then thrusters but because of a big class size we paired up to share bars, so I started with the K2E. Rx for thrusters was 135#, so I scaled it down to 115#. I did all of my K2E, deadlifts, burpees, and KBS unbroken. Pull-ups were usually 4-3, but I think I got all 7 in round 1. HSPU were unbroken except for my 6th round where I went 5-2. Thrusters unbroken until round 6 where I wont 4-3. We had to stop at 33:53 because the next class was starting. At that point I had completed 6 full rounds and 3 of the pull-ups, so I only had 18 more reps to finish. Great WOD, but brutal. I think I did the first round in 3:11, but slowed down a ton after that.

Hike

Went out to Piestewa Peak and did the Summit Trail wearing the 20# weight vest. Going up while wearing that thing is horrible. The last 10-15 minutes with the vest is absolutely brutal, but I kept chugging along without stopping. Overall went 2.05 miles in 58:59 with 1,024 feet of climb.

Sweat It Out

Wednesday night after the WOD I started to get sicker. My eyes wouldn’t stop watering and my nose wouldn’t stop running. Yesterday was a total mess and I was in bed laying down all day because I couldn’t sit or stand without my head going crazy. It’s under control today but I’ve developed a cough.

After being cooped up for a day and a half I needed to get out and figured sweating would help me recover. Full Strength is closed on Fridays so I went and hiked the La Cholla Trail at Camelback Mountain again. Didn’t wear the weight vest so I could go all out and that I did! Did it about 15 minutes faster than last week when I was wearing the vest. Overall was 3.81 miles in 1:25:19 with 1,318 feet of climb.

Back to Back Squats

Coming down with the sniffles today, probably due to the cold nights because the heating situation where I’m staying sucks. It started warming back up today though, so that should be the end of the freezing temperatures. Shoulders were really looking forward to resting today after a few days of hitting them hard. Went in for the 5:15pm class.

Warm-up

Run 800m
10 Air Squats
10 Push-ups
10 Burpees

Strength

5 Sets of 5-7 Back Squats, 2-3 minutes of rest between sets

8 @ 45#
7 @ 135#
7 @ 165#
7 @ 195#
5 @ 225#
5 @ 250#

It’s been quite a long time since I’ve done a lot of heavy back squats like this. Back at Survival Fitness we pretty much switched away from them to box squats a few months back. Nice to hit them hard again. Based on my previous 1RM, my goal was to hit 250 for 5 reps, which is supposed to put me at around 290 for a 1RM (and those calculators are usually a little low in my experience). I didn’t think I was going to get it after the set at 225#. It was a fight, but I got all 5 reps.

WOD

21-15-9

Deadlifts (255#)
Box Jumps (30″)

The Rx was 295# on the deadlifts and after getting light-headed on Saturday with 3 sets of 7 at 315# I knew scaling it would be smart for me. I broke the deadlifts down into 7-7-7, 5-5-5, and 5-4. My box jumps were pretty much unbroken, just getting set if I lost balance coming down off the box, but no rebounding since it was a high box. Finished in 6:43 and felt good about it.

Finisher

Core MB Complex, alternating with a partner
2 Rounds each

10 Chest passes
10 Overhead passes
10 Side Tosses R
10 Side Tosses L
10 Straight up

I paired up with Zach and we used a 20# MB. Wow, what a burn that was!

More Shoulders

When I saw the WOD for today I planned to skip out. More shoulder work and I’ve already had a lot the last few days. But, my upper body strength is my weakest so I could use the work. Went in for 9am.

Warm-up

50′ Burpee Broad Jump
50′ World’s Greatest Stretch
2 Rounds
- 10 PVC Pass-thrus
- 10 Leg Swings (side-to-side, front-to-back, each leg)
- 10 KBS (35# KB)

WOD

500m Row
40 Pull-ups
30 Shoulder to OH (115#)
500m Row
40 Pull-ups
30 Shoulder to OH (85#)
500m Row
40 Pull-ups
30 Shoulder to OH (65#)

On the first set of shoulder to OH the RX weight was 135#, which is heavy! Using 115# was heavy enough as it was for me. I went Rx the rest of the way though. Started off with 10 pull-ups, and then went 5s the rest of the way in round 1. Rounds 2 and 3 were pretty much 3 at-a-time the whole way, which short breaks to shake out the arms. For the presses I pretty much went push presses the entire way and I think I broke it down to 10-8-7-5, 15-10-5, and 18-12. Finished in 25:43.

Meet “Nancy”

It’s been a cold few days here in Phoenix, with freezing temperatures every night. Since today’s WOD had running, I was not going at 9am! Went in for the noon, which was good running weather.

Warm-up

3 Rounds
- 3 Pull-ups
- 6 Push-ups
- 9 Air Squats
30 AbMat Sit-ups
30 Supermans
Bergener Warm-up (45#)

Strength

10:00 EMOM, increasing weights

Power Snatch
OHS

I started with 75# and went up 10# each minute until I hit 135#, where I did a few sets before going to 140# for the last set. I did all arm pull on the first attempt and then hit it with an ugly attempt. My snatch needs work!

WOD

“Nancy”
5 Rounds

400m Run
15 OHS (85#)

I could have done it Rx with 95#, but I would have had to break up the OHS. By using 85# I was forced to fight for my reps and was able to keep it unbroken. Finished in exactly 15:00. Hitting all 15 in-a-row on the last two rounds was a fight and the bar was swaying all over the place. First shot at “Nancy” was a good one.