Tag: Band Pull

Short Week

Usually I take Monday off, but I’m heading up north this weekend so switching up my workout schedule a bit. Went to the 9am class.

Warm-up

We did a bunch of shoulder stretching stuff with a PVC pipe.

Strength

Shoulder Press

  • 6×45#
  • 6×95#
  • 6×115#
  • 6x6x132.5#

Accessory

3 Rounds NFT

  • 20 Band Pulls (Yellow CS)
  • 8 Scap Push-ups

Conditioning

5 Rounds

  • 10 Front Rack Lunges (95#)
  • 10 Push Press (95#)
  • 5 Burpees

Round 4 of push presses was a battle, but I just couldn’t do it in round 5. Had to break that last set up into 5-5. Burpees were really slow throughout trying to give shoulders more rest. Finished in 6:47.

Extra

  • 3x10x45# Wrist Curls

Eight

All of that work with the weight vest wore me out yesterday. Had to take a nap before making dinner for the family. Headed over to Hinks Elementary School before noon.

Warm-up

  • 400m run
  • 100 Band Pulls (red)
  • Shoulder stretching

Skill

MAX Unbroken Muscle-ups

Got 8! That doubles my previous of 4. About a month ago I got a set of 3 for the first time, so goes to show how much improvement you can make if you spend some time working on a weakness.

Conditioning

10 Rounds

  • 5 Toes through rings
  • 6 Pistols (alternating)
  • 30 DU

All toes through rings were unbroken. They are easier to keep going than toes to bars. Pistols could use some work on balancing. I think I got 6 or 7 rounds of double unders unbroken, which was pretty good considering I was on a playground with a mix of dirt, rocks, and mulch. Pretty consistent pacing throughout the rounds to finish in 11:25.

I drove over to Alpena High School to use the track, but that thing is all gated in and locked up. How dumb for a public school! So I stopped at a park that has a paved path/trail. Used RunKeeper to walk out a 400m route, but I’m sure it was off one way or the other.

4 Rounds

  • 400m Run
  • 50 Air Squats

Ran the first 400 way too fast in about 1:30. All those air squats really sucked in between the runs. Doing 60 pistols probably didn’t help. Took me 13:05. I was out on the trail, so walked the 400m back.

Accessory

50 Diamond Push-ups – 1:51

50 Bench Dips – 1:30

Blew up my triceps with this!

Chilly

Got up to Long Lake yesterday for a week with the family. The only thing I did all day was:

MAX Reps Push-ups – 52

Beats the 42 I did two years ago, which surprised me!

This morning I got up and went for a run:

  • 5:00 Warm-up
  • 14x
    • 0:15 @ 85-90%
    • 1:45 slow
  • Cool down until 4 miles total
  • Walk about 0.5 miles

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5×100 Band pulls (red)

8 Rounds (Reverse Tabata)

  • 10s Push-ups
  • 20s Rest

Scored 10-10-10-10-10-8-7-7 for a total of 72. Need to be able to do all 10s.

Barcelona Hills

Got up this morning and ventured out for some running. Saw a park on the map that looked like it had some views of the city.

100 Band Pulls (red)

Ran 0.96 miles out to the park. Lots of stopping at street crossings and damn is it hilly here! When I got to the park, I walked up and found an area with some benches and flat-ish ground.

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3 Rounds

  • 40 Air Squats
  • 20 C2D Push-ups

The air squats seemed harder than they should have, but the push-ups felt easier. Took me about 5:58.

Walked back down to the streets and went a shorter way back for a 0.61 mile run. I guess I should have reported those in kilometers since I’m outside the United States. 🙂

Did 200 band pulls back in my room. I also brought a jump rope with me, so I could take that out one morning. I think I’ll do some hill sprints one day for sure. Use what you got!

Shallow Dip

Went out and walked 9 holes of golf for the first time this year. I have plenty of swing issues but didn’t have any issue with the shoulder.

My legs feel fine from the squats, but I think the triples yesterday made my abs sore. Tell me you don’t work your core when you squat. 😉 I noticed I’ve been getting tired this week too. I think Smolov is hitting my CNS hard! Did a little work at night in the garage with Kevin.

Warm-up

  • 4:00 Bottom Squat Hold
  • CS Activation
  • 5×50 Band Pulls (red)
  • 3 Rounds
    • 20 GHD Sit-ups (to parallel)
    • 20 Hip Extensions
  • 15# Snatches & Snatch Presses
  • 45# Clean Positions and Push Jerks

Today is the eighth day in a row getting 30 minutes in the bottom squat hold position. This was the first time doing a snatch in close to 2 months. Felt good. I was also able to snatch press the training bar from behind my head for the first time without pain! Last week I couldn’t do it with a PVC pipe.

Power Clean & Jerk

  • 2×95#
  • 2×115#
  • 2×125#
  • 2×135#
  • 2×145#
  • 2×155#
  • 2×165#
  • 2×175#
  • 2×185#

I haven’t done jerks in about 2 months either. Felt good, so kept going. I focused on as little dip as possible in the jerks. They were the fastest I’ve ever done and felt better than ever. Maybe I should take a long rest more often!

Seated Good Mornings

  • 5×135#
  • 5×145#
  • 5×155#
  • 5×165#
  • 5×175#
  • 5×185#

Felt solid and stable doing them. Everything is getting stronger from all of the squatting!

Did a 6:00 squat hold at the end and called it quits. Pretty light workout on the day, but needed after the heavy squatting yesterday and the 2 hour session. I won’t get much Smolov in over the next week because I’m heading down to Cincinnati on Thursday to watch the Central East Regional and won’t be back until Sunday night. Body could probably use the rest though.

Hundreds of ’em, Fifty Two

Have been resting on Fridays, but really wanted to get in another squat session today, so I’ll rest tomorrow or maybe drag the sled.

Warm-up

  • 200 DU
  • 3:00 Bottom Squat Hold
  • 200 DU
  • 3:00 Bottom Squat Hold
  • Crossover Symmetry Activation

I guess I left my RPM rope at Survival Fitness, so had to use my backup, the RX rope. Managed to get 70+ and then 100 unbroken during the first 200. That got me to 1,508 for the final week of my personal Double Under Challenge. In 4 weeks I racked up 5,200+ double unders!

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Muscle Clean

  • 3×95#
  • 3×115#
  • 3×135#

Hip Clean

  • 2x3x135#
  • 3x2x155#
  • 3x2x175#

Trying to work on speed under the bar. Kevin also pointed out that I was banging some instead of driving the bar up so I tried to work on pulling the bar in to me and driving it up off the legs.

Strength

Back Squats

  • 5×155#
  • 5×205#
  • 4x9x245#

I’m going to start pulling some of my extra squat days from a Smolov squat cycle, so that’s where the 4×9 came from. It was supposed to be at 240#, but I didn’t feel like messing with the little plates. Wasn’t as hard as I was expecting.

Good Mornings

  • 5×135#
  • 5×155#
  • 2x5x175#
  • 5×185#

In between some of the good mornings I knocked out 3 sets of 50 band pulls. Finished with another 3:00 squat hold. Ended up with 29 total minutes in the squat hold today, so tomorrow and the rest of the 30 days will be 30 minutes a day.

Ho-hum Tuesday

Feeling good! I can’t wait to start trying out the shoulder next week.

Warm-up

  • 2:00 Bottom Squat Hold
  • 3 x 30s Box Shoulder Stretch
  • 3 x 25 Band Pulls (thicker red band)
  • 2 x 1:00 Laying KB Hold (each side, 25# KB)
  • 3:00 Bottom Squat Hold

Strength

Warmed up with 5×135# pendlay rows and 5×135# RDLs. Then super set these two…

5 Rounds

  • 5×185# Pendlay Rows
  • 10×185# RDLs
  • 90s Rest

Conditioning

7:00 AMRAP
* 5 box overs EMOM starting at 1:00

  • 15 GHD Hip Extensions
  • 15 V-ups

I got either 5 full rounds plus 5 more hip extensions. I flew through the box overs, but those v-ups got slow.

Did a 6:00 squat hold after class. Will get in 15 more minutes throughout the day. Yesterday I did 5×5:00 without a problem, so I’ll make it a total of 26 minutes today.

Is Spring Here?

With the forecast calling for highs around 70° Sunday and Monday I think spring may finally be here! My traps are still really sore. My weight was down to 194.3 pounds, which was surprising with all of the fried fish and beer I had yesterday for lunch. I’ve lost all of the vacation weight and more in less than 2 weeks. Onwards to 185-188 now!

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I hit a workout in the garage around 10:30.

Conditioning

5 Rounds

  • 200m Run (20# Weight Vest)
  • 10 GHD Sit-ups (20# Weight Vest)

Damn, running really sucks with that extra weight. When I took off from the garage my body really wanted to heel strike. Kept up a pretty consistent pace and finished in 7:50.

Skill

I rested 5 minutes and then did 300 double unders for time. Took me 4:30, which is 5 seconds slower than the last time. I contacted RPM about the cable issue and they are sending me a replacement. I was able to remove the loose strand and the cable didn’t seem to act any different, so I’ll probably keep the replacement until I need it. Good start to week 3 of 1,000+ DU.

Midline

5:00 E30S

  • Hollow Hold Feet/Hands

Much harder with only that 30 seconds of rest.

Accessory

3×50 Band Pulls (Red)

Trying to get a little scap work in.

Went to Survival Fitness at 1:30 for weightlifting club.

Muscle Cleans

  • 3x3x95#

Cleans

  • 2×125#
  • 2×155#
  • 2×185#
  • 1×195#
  • 1×205#
  • 5x1x215#

Concentrated on getting the bar to the power position, which I completely missed with that hang power clean this week. Took all cleans into the full squat too so I can get comfortable dropping under the weight again. Should have taken a video or two.

Langford Couplet Squats

Do 2 front squats, rack it, and immediately do 5 back squats. I did 205-225-245-265-275. I chickened out and didn’t go for 285 on the last set like I planned. Probably a good thing though because it was rough to finish as it was.

Clean Deadlifts

  • 2x3x285#
  • 3x3x305#

Lost feeling in my left thumb on the final set. That has never happened before.

Early to Bed

I was exhausted early again last night so went to bed shortly after 10 and then in for the 9am class again.

Warm-up

  • 3 Rounds
    • 20s Bear Crawl
    • 10s Rest
    • 20s Zombie Kicks
    • 10s Rest
    • 20s Air Squats
    • 10s Rest
  • 10 Burpees

Strength

Deadlifts

  • 5×135#
  • 5×225#
  • 5x3x315#

Was programmed to be 5×1 @ 90+% but my back is still jacked from trying to do heavy triples on Friday. First set at 315 started to feel tight in that area, so I just stuck with that weight for every set.

Accessory

12:00 EMOM

  • Odds: 8 Pendlay Rows (135#)
  • Evens: 15 Band pulls (purple band)

Supposed to use 40% of max deadlift for the rows. Haha! I’m not sure I could row that much for 1 rep. 135# was plenty and still a struggle for the last couple reps each set.

Conditioning

20:00 EMOM

  • 4 Thrusters (75#)
  • 4 Pull-ups
  • 4 Burpees

Another choose your own adventure between 3-5 reps of each. Matt tried it with 5 yesterday and was terrible, so 4 it was for me. Was finishing rounds in 30 seconds at the beginning, but up around 43 seconds by the end. I was getting done with my thrusters in 8 seconds from start to finish. With a tighter kip and using the hips, pull-ups didn’t fatigue and felt good through all 20 minutes. Transitioning between movements slowed and my burpees got slow, which brought my times down. Rough workout; a real mental grind in the second half.

Meh Monday

Went to the 9am class again. Feeling kind of blah today after the horrible performance by Manning and the Broncos last night.

Warm-up

  • PVC Burgener Warm-up
  • 2 Rounds
    • PVC pass-thrus
    • Squat Hold w/ 2s Pause
    • Rocket Ships

Strength

5×3 Back Squats in the 80-90% range

  • 10×45#
  • 5×135#
  • 3×205#
  • 3×235#
  • 3×275#
  • 3×280#
  • 3×285#
  • 3×295#
  • 1×305#

Ugh! Didn’t wear lifting shoes today, so not sure if that made a difference or just the increased heavy volume that I’m not used to.

Accessory

2 Rounds NFT

  • 30 Band Pulls (red)
  • 30 Band Good Mornings (black)
  • 30 Sit-ups

Conditioning

7:00 AMRAP

  • 3-6-9… Front Squats (115#)
  • 3-6-9… Box Jumps (24″)

Finished the round of 15 plus 10 front squats. Tried to keep a nice steady pace and not coming firing 100% out of the gate. Had too many trip ups on the box. Did unbroken front squats through 9, then 7-5, 6-5-4, and 5-5.

Worked on my bar kip for a few minutes after class. Trying to keep the legs straight and get all of the power from the hips.