I spent the last 4 days mostly on the couch, sick. Needed to do something today to get moving.
Clean Pull + 2 Power Cleans
Felt slow and tired.
Jerk balances
Felt heavy!
Jumped no the rower for an easy 2K in 8:54 to get the heart rate up a little.
Out in the garage around 11:30, though I really did not feel like doing this. Warmed up with 5 minutes on the Air Dyne, going 2.3km. Then I did 10 thrusters with 45# and 5 with 95#.
E2M 10:00
Easiest the “heavy” thruster day has felt the entire program! I wore a HRM, which is pretty interesting. 2 more weeks to go!
Went in at 5 to lift with Alex and work on my clean & jerk, mostly on the clean for now. Trying not to pull with my arms so much and be faster getting under the bar.
I was doing a complex of:
I didn’t keep track of how many times I went with each weight but it was at last 3 times through with 95#, 135#, 155#, and 175#. Then 2 of the complexes with 185#. My jerks felt pretty terrible for the most part. Started to get the hang of the changes to the clean though and got more comfortable with it.
Wanted to compare to a recent clean at about the same weight, but didn’t really have anything. This is today with 185# on the left. On the right is 190# back in December.
Nasty freezing rain last night. In at 10am with Kevin and Michelle.
It wasn’t exactly that each time, but always at least those reps.
95-115-135-155-175-185-185-185-185
I’m still really hesitant bringing heavy loads down to my back, but got more comfortable today due to the number of reps between the jerks and push presses. Felt pretty good about the weight, so decided to shoot for a front rack push press PR.
Beats my old 215# PR. I missed 235# because it was too far out front. Concentrated on a big leg drink and getting the bar back as fast as possible with 230#.
After an hour of OH work, why not burn the shoulders some more, right? Did 3 handstand holds facing the wall with a wall walk to get in place. The goal was 1:00, but had to drop after 40 seconds on the second one. Held on for it on the 3rd though. We rested 2:00 between each one.
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