It’s All Back

Woke up on Sunday with a headache from the gym’s Christmas party so it turned out to be a rest weekend. Good thing with today’s workout.

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Warm-up

4 Sets

  • 20s Bottom of Push-up Hold (2″ off floor)
  • 10s Rest
  • 20s Superman Hold
  • 10s Rest

Strength

Back Squat

  • 10×45#
  • 5×115
  • 5×165
  • 5×205
  • 5×225
  • 5x5x245

The working sets were programmed at 75%, so rounded down when basing off the 335 pound max. Didn’t want to blow up too much with 90 wall balls coming up. Felt better than the 6x4x265 last week and a nice jump over the 5x5x245 from a few weeks ago.

Conditioning

3 Rounds

  • 30 Wall Ball (20#, 10′)
  • 25 American KBS (53#)
  • 20 C2B Pull-ups

The Rx weight was 70 pounds, but not for this guy. Every round I went 3×10 wall balls, 15-10 kettlebell swings, and 4×5 chest-to-bars. First time trying butterfly again for C2B and it felt great, so I used it the whole way. I guess that is the last thing to come back since I just got my muscle-ups back. My rep schemes worked well and I was surprised to keep hitting sets of 5 on the rig. Usually I can’t keep up that large of sets for C2B and especially not with the butterfly kip. Finished in 13:24.

Started getting a headache within minutes and several other people did as well. With those 3 movements your head is continually moving up and down, so maybe that did it. Tough workout!

Beat the Nasty

Body feels good. The usual 4pm class.

Warm-up

  • 4 Rounds
    • 20s Hollow Hold
    • 10s Rest
    • 20s Superman Hold
    • 10s Rest
  • 2 Rounds
    • 20 Air Squats
    • 15 PVC Passes
    • 10 Hang Power Cleans (45#)

Pretty sure I could warm up my squat in the first 50 reps. 🙂

Conditioning

“Nasty Girls” – 3 Rounds

  • 50 Air Squats
  • 7 Muscle-ups
  • 10 Hang Power Cleans (135#)

Did this once, just under 3 years ago in 10:46. My goal was sub 10, hopefully going 4-3 every round and keeping the cleans unbroken. Round 1 was done around 3:00, 2 around 3:20, and finished at 9:31. Nice PR! I kept a nice steady pace on the air squats, knowing I couldn’t raise my heart rate going into the muscle-ups. So nice to have the MU back and they felt good. I had to double or triple kip my final dip but made every round 4-3.

Accessory

3 Sets

  • 10/10 Kroc Row (50#)

Midline

50 Sit-ups

I really like the Tabata hold warm-up and these sit-ups for quality. Really allows me to get a full reach and stretch on each rep, which I definitely don’t do when I’m doing them for time.

Feeling Squats

Last night I noticed my hamstrings and ankles starting to get tight from the squats, but my back has felt great. Not feeling any worse today.

Warm-up

  • 1:00 Row
  • 5x
    • Inchworm
    • 2 Push-ups
  • 1:00 Row
  • 10/10 Single Arm DB Shoulder Press (30#)
  • 1:00 Row
  • 40 Double Unders

Strength

Shoulder Press

  • 10×45#
  • 5×75
  • 5×95
  • 2×115
  • 2×135
  • 2×145
  • 2×150
  • 2×155

Was hoping to get 150-155 after doing a 165 single a couple of weeks ago. Barely made the 155 and it was starting to look ugly. Nowhere near what I used to press!

Conditioning

5 Rounds

  • 250m Row
  • 40 DU
  • 5 DB Thrusters (50#)

Missed 4 or 5 double unders through the workout. The thruster reps were low enough to keep moving. Finished in 9:54.

Skill

The cash-out was actually handstand work, so I did some of my practice walking up in to the wall.

Off The Pace

Warm-up

4 Rounds

  • 30s Row (Easy)
  • 30s Row (Harder)

Got about 960 meters.

Strength

Back Squat

  • 10×45#
  • 6×135
  • 4×185
  • 4×225
  • 4×245
  • 6x4x265

This was programmed to be 6×4 at 80%. If last week’s 235 pounds was a real 70%, my current 1RM would be 335. So that’s what I went off. I haven’t put more than 265 on my back, which I did for a set of 5 last month, in 1.5+ years, so this was a lot of heavy reps for my Bambi legs. After the first set I knew it was going to be one hell of a push, but I made it through every set with about 2:30 rest between.

Conditioning

E90S – 15:00

  • 10 Burpees
  • 10 T2B

After the 2nd round I could feel my toes to bars going already! Those squats wiped me out and the burpees use a lot of that same hip action. I fell off the pace in the 5th round I think so then it became an AMRAP. I was able to pick it up in the final minute to get close to 10 rounds with 9+13. I was not expecting this to be so hard with how well my T2B have been the last couple of months.

Midline

50 Sit-ups

Just what my core needed after the squats and workout. haha Went slow, controlled, and reached way out on every rep.

Every… What?

Wasn’t feeling anything from yesterday’s workout until I got to the gym and started moving around. Then I could feel my shoulders were tight.

Warm-up

4 Rounds

  • 20s Hollow Hold
  • 10s Rest
  • 20s Superman Hold
  • 10s Rest

Interesting for a warm-up.

Gymnastics Test

1:30 AMRAP

  • Handstand Push-ups

The focus for the next month (gym is a week behind the Krypton programming) is handstand push-ups. I choose to work on kipping and was able to get 32 reps by doing 15-10-7. The first 15 were done in 20 seconds, so I bet I could do better by coming off the wall much earlier.

Conditioning

  • E2M – 8:00
    • 200m Run
    • 50 DU
  • 2:00 Rest
  • E2M – 8:00
    • 200m Run
    • 10 Push Presses (115#)

For those first 8 minutes I thought we were doing an alternating EMOM. So I wash pushing hard on my runs and finishing just in time. Never missed a double under. Then during the rest I realized it was E2M. I don’t know what I was thinking. At that point I was committed and knew I could make the runs, so I kept up my pace. I probably missed by a few seconds on some in the next 8 minutes. Those push presses were a challenge after taxing our calves with the jumping rope. The Rx for this was 155/105!!

Under Press-ure

Rest day yesterday, but I spent about 10 hours in my workshop. Carb loaded for today’s workout by eating sweet potato pie for breakfast.

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Conditioning

5 Rounds

  • 10 Bar-facing Burpees
  • 10 Thrusters (95#)
  • 1:00 Rest

Went out hot on that first round of burpees. Was really close to failing on the last thrusters of the last two rounds. My round times were 0:57, 1:08, 1:12, 1:15, and 1:17 to finish at 9:49.

I think I got the idea for this from a partner workout I saw on the TeamRICHEY channel.

Strength & Midline

5 Sets

  • 5 Shoulder Press
  • 5 Strict Chin-ups
  • 10 Evil Wheels

My shoulders were fried! Went 95-105-105-110-115 and didn’t have much more.

Did a little bit of handstand walk practice, but I was toast.

Two K Test

Happy to report that my shoulders aren’t having any problems after the muscle-ups yesterday. Went to the 4pm class.

Warm-up

  • 1:00 Row
  • 15 Air Squats
  • 1:00 Row
  • 15 PVC Passes
  • 1:00 Row
  • 15 Muscle Cleans (45#)

Was right around a 2:00/500m pace for the warm-ups.

Conditioning

2k Row

This is a retest from a month ago, which was a day I missed at the gym. Would have been nice to know where I was at with my conditioning for something like this. Didn’t think I could compete with my 6:43 PR since it was done as part of a rowing program, so during the last month of rowing focus my goal has been to go sub 7. Started with a 1:46/500m pace, but started falling behind pace near 1,000 meters. My 500m splits were 1:44.8 (due to fast first 100m), 1:46.3, 1:47.7, and 1:46.8 for an average of 1:46.4 and a time of 7:05.6. Far from my PR, but good enough for 85th percentile on BTWB and 322 out of 1,168 in the 2019 Concept 2 Indoor Rankings (about 72%) for the heavyweight 30-39 division. I just couldn’t put the power through my legs to keep up a better pace.

Weightlifting

Power Clean

  • 2×45#
  • 2x2x95
  • 2×135
  • 2×165
  • 2×185
  • 2×205
  • 2×215
  • 5x2x225

Legs were tired! I went TnG through 205 I believe. Didn’t use a belt. Second rep of each of my final 2 sets were almost misses.

Muscle-ups Are Back!

Went to bed way too late last night, so I’m dragging ass a bit today. Went to the 4pm class.

Warm-up

2 Rounds

  • 1:30 Row
  • 10/10 Bulgarian Split Squats
  • 15 Air Squats

Strength

Back Squat

  • 6×45#
  • 6×115
  • 6×165
  • 6×195
  • 6×215
  • 4x6x235

Felt much better than the 5x5x225# last week that we did after 70 overhead squats.

Conditioning

18:00 EMOM (alt)

  • 5 Muscle-ups
  • 8×60′ Run
  • 10 Burpee Box Jumps (24#)

Before class I did some swinging and my first muscle-up since the Open. Felt good, so figured I’d try them in the workout.

This workout starts as an alternating EMOM and then you turn it into an AMRAP when you fall off the pace. I got a little rest after a set of 5 MU but I fell behind pace after the first run and for the rest of the workout. Was able to get 5 unbroken muscle-ups for my first two rounds and then did 3-2 for the next 3 rounds. I finished up my fifth round a couple of seconds before the 18 minutes ran out. The running sucked! I think the running got to my head and I didn’t push on the burpee boxes; I was jumping up out of the burpee, but then taking 2 steps in to the box instead of jump-jump. The steps are so much slower.

Hope my shoulder is good tomorrow. It feels a little odd right now.

All Strict

Had a headache all night Monday, woke up with it Tuesday and felt like garbage. Took a sick day so didn’t exercise. Feeling great today though, so back for the 4pm class.

Warm-up

  • 5 Rounds
    • 30s Assault Bike
    • 30s Rest
  • 2 Rounds
    • 10 PVC Passes
    • 15 Air Squats

Weightlifting

Squat Snatch

  • 5×45#
  • 3×75
  • 3×95
  • 2×115
  • 1×135
  • E30S – 10:00 (20 sets)
    • 1×145#

A month and a half ago we did this with power snatches and I used 165#. Obviously a little different with the full squat and 30 more snatches coming up in the metcon. With how my back was feeling a couple of days ago I wasn’t pushing it. The 145 pounds felt solid for today.

Conditioning

10 Rounds

  • 3 Power Snatches (135#)
  • 6 Strict Handstand Push-ups
  • 24 Double Unders

All singles with the bar, 2×3 for HSPU, and never missed a DU. I did have to start extending the rest just a bit before my second set of HSPU each round and was very close to failure for the last few rounds. Going into the workout I fully expected to have to scale back and do some kipping reps at some point. Sixty strict reps is a lot for a big guy! Felt really good after the rest day though. Finished in 13:11. I don’t think I could have attacked that one any better.