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2015 June GLBRT

I’ve been sleeping so good lately. Headed out at 7am simple for the sake of keeping the #RunEveryDayJune streak going. Went 1.1 miles in 11:37.

First Great Lakes Bay Regional Throwdown of the year started at 9am. Held at Next Level Fitness this time.

Event 1

8:00 (Simultaneously)

  • Row for distance
  • AMRAP DU

* One person at each thing at a time. Switch out any way you want.

I was on row duty first to get us off to a good start. Went for about 2:30 with 800 meters, got some rest and then jumped in on the dubs. We totaled 721 DU for 4th and 2,267 meters for 8th.

Event 2

10:00

  • Max snatch and C&J for men and women

* One person from each gender does one of the two lifts. Each team has 2 bars.

All 4 of us hit PRs! After 205# being a little shaky to stand up with due to whatever is causing my OHS issue, I fucked the shit out of the bar with 215# and actually power snatched it! That’s 20# more than I’ve ever even attempted to power snatch and a 5# snatch PR. We totaled 740# for 6th place.

Event 3

  • 1:00 AMRAP Muscle-ups (x3 points) – Member A
  • 1:00 AMRAP Wall Balls (20/14#, 10/9′) – Member B
  • 8:00 AMRAP
    • 15 Pull-ups
    • 15 Power cleans (115/80#)
    • 15 HSPU
    • 15 Front Squats (115/80#)
  • 1:00 AMRAP Pistols – Member C
  • 1:00 AMRAP Hand Release Burpee Box Overs (24/20″) – Member D

* Each team member does a 1:00 AMRAP of something and everyone shares the work of the 8:00 AMRAP.

Muscle-ups for me. Nice to get my part out of the way first thing. I went 4-3-3-2 for 12. Same as I got in practice. Their rings were like fucking sand paper! We had 381 “points” with the MU being tripled, which was 8th in the event. I didn’t do any pull-ups and HSPU were much harder than in practice.

When I watched this video I cringed at my lockouts as the minute progressed. Then I went frame-by-frame in Quicktime and I actually hit lockout in every rep, even the final one. Just hard to catch at speed and with my weird double-jointed elbows. I need to work on making the lockouts better though and keep my damn feet and legs together for more power.

Not too long after the event I was blacking out and my hands were all tingly for quite some time. Lucky I had some medical professionals on our teams to help me out and carb me up. Recovered for the final though.

Event 4

  • 25-15-10
    • Deadlifts – Men (205#)
    • Thrusters – Women (55#)
  • 10-15-25
    • Thrusters – Men (75#)
    • Deadlifts – Women (145#)

* EMOM 4 synchronized burpees. One person working at a time. The men do 25 deadlifts (split up any way), then the women do 25 thrusters, then 15s and 10s, before changing weights and swapping movements.

I did the 25 and 10 deadlifts, then the 15 thrusters and the final 4 thrusters after Bryan got interrupted by burpees. The burpees were just an annoying forced break. They were easy. We finished in 6:53, which was 6th place.

The points were so close that we actually dropped from 5th to 7th out of 22 teams after that! Only 7 points out of 4th place though. It was by far the most fun GLBRT I’ve participated in.

Here are the final results with a link to the spreadsheet I whipped up since they didn’t do any sorting of the data. If nothing else, we were consistent. Just needed a higher finisher in one of the full point workouts.

results-GLBRT-june-2015

3 Overheads

I slept so solid last night. Never got up to piss either. In for the 9am class.

Warm-up

  • Crossover Symmetry Activation
  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • 400m Run

Strength

2 Shoulder Press + 2 Push Press + 2 Push Jerk

  • 45#
  • 95#
  • 115#
  • 135#
  • 145#
  • 155#
  • 165#

I haven’t done a lot of vertical pressing for strength lately since I golf on Monday. The programming rotation time has come so it works out well for me, especially as I’m thinking to start a squat program instead of making shit up like I have been.

Conditioning

7 Rounds

  • 30s Wall Balls (20#, 10′)
  • 30s Rest

Felt easy actually. I got 14 for the first 6 rounds and then busted it a little more to get 15 in the last.

2-4-6-8-10-8-6-4-2

  • Deadlift (95#)
  • Power Clean (95#)

Wanted to hold on to the bar as much as possible. Went through the 6s and then dropped it. Did both movements for the rounds of 8-10-8-6 and then dropped it for a short rest. Finished with 4-2 unbroken. I really wanted to try the 6-4-2 but after the 6 cleans my grip needed a rest. Took me 4:27. It was a fun workout and would be a good challenge to push the limits and keep going until you really can’t hold the bar anymore.

Run Every Day

Left the house just after 6pm. Felt good and kept up a solid pace. Ran 3.31 miles in 30:20. After feeling pretty good the last few days I was curious if it would continue today. Seems like I crossed over some type of hump because it feels easier to keep a faster pace than the pace I had been going. Don’t want to push too much this week though with the competition on Saturday.

Practice

HRV dropped 9 points for the second day in a row. Now in the red at 89. I feel good though. Hips and knees didn’t bother me getting out of bed this morning.

Run Every Day

Kept it short, but picked up the pace. Went 1.1 miles in 8:21. The pace charts for RunKeeper are pretty different when you compare it in the iOS app to what is shown on their web page. Who knows which one is more accurate. :-/

Had a team practice scheduled today. Next Saturday we are going to a throwdown between all of the local gyms, where you compete for your gym. Fittest gym takes home the belt. Always a fun time. We ran through a couple of the events and talked strategy.

GLBRT Event 1

8:00 (Simultaneously)

  • Row for distance
  • AMRAP Double-unders

One person at each thing at a time. Switch out any way you want. Wasn’t as bad as I expected this to be.

GLBRT Event 3

  • 1:00 AMRAP Muscle-ups (x3 points) – Member A
  • 1:00 AMRAP Wall Balls (20/14#, 10/9′) – Member B
  • 8:00 AMRAP
    • 15 Pull-ups
    • 15 Power cleans (115/80#)
    • 15 HSPU
    • 15 Front Squats (115/80#)
  • 1:00 AMRAP Pistols – Member C
  • 1:00 AMRAP Hand Release Burpee Box Overs (24/20″) – Member D

So basically each team member does a 1:00 AMRAP of something and then everyone shares the work of the 8:00 AMRAP. Fun workout!

Went really well! It’ll be a fun day of competition with this crew.

Hips Don’t Lie

IMG_5968It has to be the running that is making my hips feel like they are. Could probably use some stretching. They don’t hurt or anything bad, but definitely something new. HRV dropped into the orange again this morning from the combination of that tough workout yesterday morning and the evening run. Wednesday isn’t typically very intense though, so I should recover. I’ve dropped 4 pounds in 4 days after getting back to eating the Paleo meals. Feeling better already.

Run Every Day

Got up and went 1.71 miles in 16:23. 10 days in to this June running experiment. I still don’t enjoy it.

Got to Intuition after 6 for the Wednesday night session. Warmed up with Crossover Symmetry Activation and a 1,000m Row. Didn’t feel the hips as the day went on. Maybe it’s mostly a morning thing.

No B.S. Bench Press – Cycle 2 Week 7

  • 10×45#
  • 5×135#
  • 5×185#
  • 5×215#
  • 3x5x230# (PR)
  • AMRAP 205# – 13 reps

Used a very short pause on the first three sets. I went 5# over the recommendation for the working sets as I did in the first cycle as well. So that’s a PR set three times and then I beat my AMRAP set by a rep as well. Got ugly on the final 2 reps of the working set, but made it.

Power Snatch + Squat Snatch

  • 20kg
  • 40kg
  • 60kg
  • 70kg
  • 75kg
  • 80kg
  • 83kg
  • 85kg

Got a little mental on the squat snatch with 85. I hit my right knee on the way up and then was up on my left toe, but had the bar locked in place solid so was able to hold on. The most I’d done for a squat double was 80 before hitting that. All of the power reps felt really solid. Hopefully can put up a nice PR next Saturday.

OHS

  • 3x70kg
  • 2x80kg

I haven’t hit heavy OHS in well over a year, so figured I’d try. Each time I do this, I can’t keep it stable and start to feel it in my low back. Same fucking thing today. I’ll have to take a video or have somebody watch me next time. So after missing the 3rd rep with 80 I shut that down; no need to hurt my back.

10:00 EMOM

  • 2 Power Clean & Push Jerks (205#)

Class had 8 minutes of 2 programmed today, with increasing weight. Those are always fun and it’s been awhile since I’ve done something like that. After the OHS fail, I saw a loaded bar already out, so decided to hit it. After 8 I said fuck it and made it 10 rounds. I wasn’t standing up any of the cleans, right into the push jerk without a re-dip, so I guess they were what Catalyst might call Power Clean Jerks (no “&” in there). I actually thought I was using 195# for some reason and noticed it was 10# more when putting everything away. Bonus!

Midline

10-20-30-20-10

  • Sit-up
  • Russian Twist (53#)

Jumped in with the class on this. Went unbroken in 4:45. The round of 30 twists sucked balls!

On the 37th Day

IMG_5926Wasn’t as tired walking 18 yesterday, but I could feel it in my hamstrings the last 4-5 holes and feel it there a little this morning too. My HRV was up to 109 from 97, but still red. I don’t understand that at all. In for the 9am at CFi.

Warm-up

  • 100 Walking Lunges
  • Bottom Squat Hold

Strength

Back Squats

  • 20×45#
  • 8×135#
  • 8×205#
  • 8×255#
  • 8×285#
  • 8×305# (PR)

That last set made me realize the goal of 300# Super Squats is within reach. Maybe sooner than I thought.

Did a couple of C&J with 135# and 155#.

Conditioning

E2M 14:00

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

Like a DT complex, but not. Unbroken every round in 23-25 seconds.

  • 100 Walking Lunges (50# sandbag)

Nice little finisher. Didn’t run the clock.

Annie Are You OK

Legs felt a little weird this morning getting out of bed. Maybe a result of smashing my knees yesterday. Out in the garage just after 7:30 and warmed up with 3:00 Air Dyne (1.38km).

Coffee Squats

Pause Front Squats (5s in the hole)

  • 10×45#
  • 5×135#
  • 5×185#
  • 2×225#
  • 2×245#
  • 2×265#
  • 2×275#

I don’t have anything insightful to say, though do I ever? Was hard breathing in the hole on that last rep so started to lose position coming up.

Lunge University

  • 200 Weighted Walking Lunges (40# vest)

An extra 20# came yesterday for my weight vest, so had to try it out today. Damn that thing is heavy now. Took me 9:47.

I had an appointment at the chiropractor before hitting the gym tonight. Only going once a month now since my back has been doing well. When I got to the gym I did Crossover Symmetry Activation and then jumped into one of my favorite girls since I haven’t done her yet this year.

Conditioning

“Annie”
50-40-30-20-10

  • DU
  • Sit-ups

I knew I was doing well when I felt good at the end of the 50 sit-ups. Didn’t miss any dubs and finished in 5:59, for a 29 second PR! Did anchored sit-ups with some DBs over my feet.

No B.S. Bench Press

  • 10×45#
  • 5×135#
  • 5×185#
  • 3×205#
  • 5x3x225#

Felt strong.

Tall Cleans

  • 5×45#
  • 2x5x95#
  • 2x5x115#
  • 2x3x135#
  • 2x3x155#
  • 3×165#
  • 2×175#
  • 2×185#
  • 2×195#
  • 2x2x205#

Workin’ on that speed under. Rough on those last 3 sets. I didn’t realize how many sets I was doing at the time.

Push Press

  • 3×135#
  • 3×146#
  • 3×157#
  • 3×168#
  • 3×179#
  • 3×190#
  • 3×201#
  • 3×212# (PR)

I missed out on PP triples that CFi did Monday so they fit in well today, especially since I did sets of 5s a week ago. I had 45# plates on and then just kept making 5 kilogram jumps. Felt a little fatigue from the bench press, but I’m liking overloading the upper body with two pressing movements on Wednesday. Need to start putting some work into my jerk though. Gotta keep those shoulders working well, so did Crossover Symmetry Plyometric.

5 Seconds Can Be A Long Time

Surprisingly I didn’t sleep very well last night. I figured being out in the sun would have me so wore out I’d sleep like a baby. I used the A/C in my room for the first time of the year too, so maybe that was it, but otherwise I would have been miserable hot.

Got to the gym a little after 9. Warmed up with 100 walking lunges and some bottom squat hold.

Squat Every Day

Jumping Back Squats

  • 10×45#
  • 5×75#
  • 5×95#
  • 5×115#
  • 5×135#

Pause Back Squats (5s in the hole)

  • 4×185#
  • 4×225#
  • 4×245#
  • 4×265#
  • 2×285#
  • 2×295#

Five seconds is a long time down there. Was starting to round on that final rep so it was a good stopping point. Makes 27 days. I wore the best starting at 245#.

Did an easy 800m run to start 10am class.

Conditioning

Partner Chipper

  • 200 Wall Balls (20#, 10′)
  • 150 American KBS (53#)
  • 100 Power Cleans (95#)
  • 50 Pull-ups

Teamed up with Bryan. We did sets of 20 wall balls, 15 swings, 5 cleans, and 5 pull-ups. The pull-ups sucked with no grip left and so much sweat dripping down on to the hands. Thought I might rip. We finished in 17:54.

Midline

3 Sets

  • 10 GHD MB Pass (14#)

Pretty simple.

Accessory

3 Sets

  • 15 Reverse Hypers (210#)

Two Dozen

Pretty early to bed again last night, was up by 7, and in the garage by 7:30. Warmed up with 50 walking lunges.

Coffee Squats

  • 10×45#
  • 5×135#
  • 5×185#
  • 5×225#
  • 6:00 EMOM
    • 4x3x255#
    • 2x3x265#

Wanted to kind of take it “easy” today, but usually an EMOM like this is anything but easy. I was going to use 255# the whole way, but when I got done with the 4th set I went straight for the 5# plates and threw them on. Maybe not the best idea because in that 5th set I felt a pull in my upper back from holding the rack position. Same area that I tweaked a couple of weeks ago. Took a couple of hours before I really felt it last time, so will see how it feels this afternoon.

24 days of squats…check!

Lunge University

  • 200 Weighted Walking Lunges (20# vest)

Relaxed pace since my heart rate was already up from the EMOM work. Finished in 9:29.

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Damn I look like death in that picture. Can you tell I just rolled out of bed? Done by 8am. How did you start your day?

Was able to get tennis stadium tickets for all 3 days of the CrossFit Games when they went on sale today. So excited!!

Got to the gym at 6pm. Hit Crossover Symmetry Activation and then jumped on the rower.

Conditioning

8 Rounds

  • 1:30 Row @ 1:48-1:50/500m
  • 1:00 Rest

Meter counts were 412-413-414-415-415-414-413-413. Not hard, just putting in work.

No B.S. Bench Press

Cycle 2 Week 2

  • 10×45#
  • 4×135#
  • 4×165#
  • 4×195#
  • 6x4x215#

Feeling solid. I cycled my reps pretty quickly.

Weightlifting

I did some warm-up with the empty bar.

Power Clean + Hang Power Clean

  • 3×1 50kg
  • 60kg
  • 70kg

Clean + Hang Clean

  • 2×1 80kg
  • 2×1 90kg
  • 2×1 95kg
  • 100kg

Started squatting all of these. Got rough at 95+.

Push Press

  • 5×135#
  • 5×155#
  • 5×175#
  • 5×185#
  • 5×195#

Felt brutal. Looked back and I did the same working sets back in January. Here I thought that might be a PR for a set of 5. I would have gone 5# heavier! 🙂 Finished up with Crossover Symmetry Plyometric.

Lunge Sandwich

Squat day 17. Here we go. Warmed up with 100 walking lunges that took 3:58.

Coffee Squats

Front Squats

  • 10×45#
  • 5×135#
  • 5×185#
  • 6:00 EMOM
    • 2x5x225#
    • 2x3x255#
    • 2x2x275#

That was a good one. Originally I was going to use 285# for the doubles at the end but the triples were feeling rough with 255 and I wanted to be able to keep good positioning.

Strapped on the 20# weight vest and did 200 more walking lunges at a relaxed pace. Took me 9:14 but still got me sweating.

Wednesday night, so off to CFi in the evening. Warmed up with Crossover Symmetry Activation and then did this little number…

3 Rounds NFT

  • 75 DU
  • 10 Reverse Hypers (260#)
  • 5 Back Extensions (15#, 51X3 tempo)

Did the first two rounds of dubs unbroken and then got 49 in the last round. Those tempo back extensions create such a pump in my low back.

No B.S. Bench Press

Starting a second cycle of the program. Alex and Bryan are joining us this time around.

  • 10×45#
  • 5×135#
  • 5×185#
  • 5x5x205#
  • AMRAP 205# (12)

Starting up 10# over the base number from the previous cycle. It the AMRAP that’s 2 reps more than I got with the 195# last cycle. Excited to see how the extra accessory work I’m adding on Sundays helps out.

Weightlifting

Snatch Balance

  • 5x20kg
  • 2x3x40kg
  • 2x3x50kg

Bringing the weight back down doesn’t feel very good on my shoulders so probably won’t be doing that for snatch work again anytime soon.

Clean Pull + Clean + Push Jerk + Split Jerk

  • 60kg
  • 70kg
  • 80kg
  • 90kg
  • 3×1 100kg

The push jerk was an interesting twist in this complex and so was bringing it back down to the rack for the split jerk. No misses.

Finished up with Crossover Symmetry Iron Scap.

2 Weeks of Squatting Every Day

I keep getting up earlier than usual and I’m not too happy about it. My upper body seems a little tight this morning from the 84 pull-ups. Didn’t rush out to the garage this morning since I have a lot more time to work with on Sunday mornings.

Switched it up with 100 Walking Lunges (20# vest) for my warm-up. It took me 4:30 to do them.

Coffee Squats

2 Front + 5 Back

  • 45#
  • 135#
  • 175#
  • 205#
  • 225#
  • 245#
  • 265#

Up 30 pounds over what I did last Sunday for this complex. This is the most weight I’ve had on the bar yet and it’s still well below the 295# I’ve done for this combo before.

That completes 14 days in a row at the squat rack. I’ll keep slowly increasing the weights and over the next two weeks I’ll hopefully be back to typical squatting loads. I’ve really been enjoying the morning squats as a way to kick off my day. Haven’t noticed any additional fatigue from them and don’t think they’ve been affecting my other training negatively. If anything they are probably helping. Don’t think I’ve mentioned the stretching routine recently, but I’ve been continuing to do it at least once a day, except when I do the 90 minute yoga workout.

Accessory

4 Sets

  • 10 Incline DB Bench Press (45°, 40-45-50-50# DBs)
  • 10 JM Press (45-65-65-65#)

Going to try adding in some bench press accessory work on the weekends to see if it’ll help getting to 300#. Holy Shit! The JM Press is no fucking joke. There are a couple of variations out there. I used what looked to be the hardest one and I’m pretty sure I got that right. Wow!

I hope that didn’t smoke me too much for today’s workout. Super Sunday at noon…

Warm-up

  • Crossover Symmetry Activation
  • 1,500m Row (6:36)
  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • C&J
    • 4×45#
    • 2×95#
    • 2×135#

Weightlifting

E2M 20:00

  • 2 C&J

Started with 155# and went up 10# each time, finishing at 245#. I think I wore the belt starting at 215#. Took my time with that last round, to make both reps. I squatted most of the reps but powered a few of the early ones when I wasn’t thinking. Last few rounds got rough. The cleans aren’t really a big deal for me, but I’m pumped to have made all of the jerks. We took about 5-10 minutes plus before starting the next part.

Conditioning

With a running clock, @ 0:00…
5:00 AMRAP

  • 5 MU
  • 10 Cleans (155#)

This is event 1 of the 2015 Masters Qualifier. Wanted to do some muscle-ups this weekend and this looked like a fun one to try. Was scared how this would go after all those heavy cleans, but it was just fine. I broke the MU into 3-2 every round and did relaxed singles for the cleans. Finished 2 rounds plus 5 muscle-ups and 2 cleans. It was fun doing some MU in a workout again.

I called on the group for some movements to make up the next two parts and then I came up with the rep schemes and how to split up the 4 movements.

@ 10:00…

  • 30 Wall Balls (20#, 10′)
  • 30 Push-ups
  • 30 Russian KBS (70#)

Wall balls and kettlebell swings were unbroken. I did the push-ups in 3 sets of 10. Finished in 2:50.

@ 20:00…

  • 150m Walking Lunges

I was excited when someone picked lunges and knew I had to put them solo. Finish the workout with a little Lunge University. 🙂 We went outside since it was a nice afternoon. I programmed it as 100 walking lunges, but after about 50 steps I went to chase Michelle down for extra credit since she was doing a lap. I don’t usually do them stepping through, but did to catch up and it’s so much faster doing them like that, but so much extra burn too. Finished in 4:03. I stopped counting the reps after deciding to go for the lap distance instead, but should have been about 150.

Midline

  • 60 Quarter Get-ups

Used a 53# KB and split this up into 10 reps per side at a time.

Knocked out Crossover Symmetry Plyometric before heading home. Kind of wanted to skip it, but was already feeling my shoulders smoked so I knew I should do it.

An hour or so later at home I am wrecked!