Spent five nights in San Juan, Puerto Rico. We didn’t workout at all but did over 8.5 miles of walking each of the first two full days there! Today was our first workout in a week and I can’t remember the last time I took a full week off! Out in the garage just before 1pm. Warmed up with 20 PVC passes.
Strength
Bench Press
10×45
10×95
5×135
5×165
5×185
5×200
5×215
5×225
Partner Arms
Plate OH Hold (45/25#)
10->1 Plate Curl (45/25#)
10->1 Plate OH Tricep Extension (45/25#)
This one came from Scott Panchik. One partner is doing the couplet while the other holds their plate overhead; you never put the plate down! Took us 5:08 to get through and my arms and shoulders were on fire!
Conditioning
4 Rounds
200m Run
15 Burpees
20 Russian KBS (45#)
20 Reverse Lunges
Wanted to just coast through something today. I did the first two rounds in 7:31 and then when I went for the third round of burpees I was feeling good so picked up the pace to finish in 14:09.
Partner with B, each doing a round at a time. My right calf blew out after about 15 dubs in round 8 and I went to the ground. So I did 10 burpees to finish out the last two rounds. B was cruising and doing about 42 singles on the jump rope. We finished in 11:41.
We finished in 27:31. Great new style of workout with the lower rep MU, but a lot of them! My hands weren’t going to take much more, so we called it at five rounds. Was playing around with my bar muscle-up technique and remembering some of the tricks.
Midline
4 Round Tabata
OH Crunches (legs up, 50# DB)
Bicycles
DB Pull-throughs (50#)
Hollow Hold
I got 12 crunches, 20 slow bicycles, 12 pull-throughs, and held the hold the entire 20 seconds each time.
This summer has been over-the-top humid almost every day.
Midline
50 Leg Lifts
50 DB OH Crunches (50# DB)
50 Oblique Heel Touches
50 V-ups
50 Hollow Rocks
50 Plank Hip Dips
Today I went 30-20 on the leg lifts, felt myself slowing a lot on the v-ups, and was able to do sets of 10 for the hollow rocks. Finished in 7:31, which smashes the 9:13 from a month ago.
Conditioning
25:00 AMRAP
400m Run
20 Box Jumps (24″)
5 Strict HSPU
5 HSPU
I got through five rounds, the run, and 12 box jumps. I rested between the types of handstand push-ups each round except the fifth one where I stayed on the wall because I knew I needed some time to finish the sixth run, but then I ran so fast I had enough time for a lot of jumps. Really sweaty from the heat and humidity, but a great workout.
My triceps, biceps, and front shoulders all were getting sore in the morning already.
Warm-up
80′ Lateral Monster Walk
80′ Monster Walk
10 Monster Squats
10 Monster Toe Touches
10 Front Squats (45#)
6 Front Squats (95#)
6 DB Deadlifts (35#)
4 DB Hang Cleans (35#)
4 DB S2OH (35#)
Legs
4 Sets
12-10-8-6 Front Squats (125-135-145-155#)
20 Pulsing Goblet Squats (53# KB)
I didn’t wear a belt. Glad this was the 4th week and we can move on to something else.
4 Sets
12 Barbell Glute Bridge + 2 Banded Hip Abduction (105#)
20 Banded Frog Reverse Hypers
Conditioning
DB DT – 5 Rounds
12 Deadlifts (50#)
9 Hang Cleans (50#)
6 S2OH (50#)
I went unbroken each round, with mostly push presses. My grip was smoked and I probably should have set the dumbbells down after 11 deadlifts for a very short break because the cleans really sucked. Finished in 6:28.
Midline
50 Leg Lifts
50 DB OH Crunches (50# DB)
50 Oblique Heel Touches
50 V-ups
50 Hollow Rocks
50 Plank Hip Dips
Oh my! I went 25-15-10 on the leg lifts. Could barely do hollow rocks and had to limit myself to all 5s. Then I finished with 2×25 hip dips. Took me 9:13.
Ready for some normal June weather, because this 80+ bullshit is here way too early!
Warm-ups
20 PVC Passes
10 Air Squats
5 Front Squats (95#)
Strength
Shoulder Press
10×45#
6×75
3×95
2×115
1×135
1×150
1×160
1×167.5
1×172.5
I think I put the belt on for 150+. Maybe could have done up to 180 or close today, but this was heavy enough and didn’t want to tweak my back going in to 63 front squats.
Conditioning
18-15-12-9-6-3
Front Squats (115#)
Bar-facing Burpees
Scaled it back from 135, which was the right call. I wore a belt and adjusted between movements. Was able to do every set of squats unbroken and kept a steady controlled pace on the burpees. It felt better than expected and finished in 11:06. So sweaty!
My shoulders and back (lower and upper) are really tight this morning. Out in the garage at 11.
Chest
10 Incline Bench Press (45#)
4 Sets
8 Incline Bench Press (95-105-115-125#)
12 DB Pullover (50#)
3 Sets
15 Incline DB Bench Press (40#)
12 Incline DB Fly (20#)
10 Incline Plate Presses (35#)
Conditioning
30:00 AMRAP – Partner
4x 3/2 Strict Pull-ups
12 Seated Leg Lifts over DB
12 OH Crunch (55# plate)
2×10 Lunges / DB RDLs
2x 8/5 cal BikeErg (standing)
This was a good sweater and those pull-ups were hard. The way this worked was B and I alternated between me doing 3 pull-ups and her doing 2 until we each went twice. Then we each did 12 leg lifts and 12 crunches. I did 10 lunges and she did 10 RDLs, twice. Then we each got on the bike twice doing 8/5 calories respectively. It was a really good variation.
Not exactly the workout I want to see when I’ve been trying to heal a tweaked calf for the last month and have had to baby a shoulder for over 3 months. But here we are. At least this workout isn’t a back breaker.
Warm-up
5:00 BikeErg (2,309m)
20 PVC Passes
3×10 Calf Raises
Shoulder Band Mobility
40 Lateral Hops
40 Front/Back Hops
10/10 Single Calf Raises on Step
10 Jump Rope
10 Double Unders
4 Wall Walks
I felt pretty good in warm-ups. My calf and shoulder both felt good with the movements.
The plan was to do a knee push-up on all wall walks to take some pressure of the shoulders and that worked really well, especially with the standard. I only missed one double under to start a round and every other break was me stopping on purpose for a rest. I stuck to sets of about 30 most of the workout. In my round of 150 I thought I miscounted at 80-90, so I actually did 10 extra reps just to be sure I got them all. So my tiebreak time ended up being five seconds before I actually stopped doing the double unders there. Only had to reset twice on the wall walks for moving a hand before my feet were on the wall, so not too bad. I finished the 15 and 150 and then got 3 more wall walks for a score of 377 and a tiebreak of 14:18.
Interesting workout for sure. Didn’t feel like I rested too much anywhere and my breaks with the double unders were good. Happy not to have missed after not doing any jump rope for over a month.
Since I’m workout out at home I’m recording all of my workouts so I can still register and compete in the Open, possibly making it to the 40-44 Masters Quarterfinals.
Of course I had to come back and do some time split evaluation.
I’m not a fan of redoing Open workouts, but this workout might be one where I could gain a lot of extra ground to help me make it to the top 10% and get to the Masters Qualifier. I highlighted the areas where I might be able to pick up significant time. Would I just give that time back by missing a bunch of double unders though?
Midline
3 Rounds
10/10 Banded Rotations w/ 10s Hold on each side (red band on rig)
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