Tag: Push Jerk

DT Struggles

Legs felt tired last night after the running workout. Felt pretty good this morning though.

Warm-up

  • Crossover Symmetry Activation
  • 2 Sets
    • 5s of StrongFit Tricep & Bicep Openers (10#)
    • 10 Reverse Hypers (140#)
  • 3 Sets
    • 5 Ring Rows
    • 5 Clean Thrusters (45#)
    • 30 Double Unders

Conditioning

“DT” – 5 Rounds

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

Had been over a year and a half since I did this one. Old PR was 10:35. My plan was to try a new strategy of doing all 12 deadlifts and getting 5 cleans before dropping the bar. Then the final 4 cleans and the jerks. Followed it in the first round and it was way too fast. I think I was done at 1:07. I think the second round I did 11, 1+5, 4+6. Round 3 was the same or maybe 11, 1+4, 3, 2+6. I remember being done at about the 5 minute mark. Then the last 2 rounds were slow with too much rest. In round 4 I even dropped the bar with 2 jerks to go. Ugh! Finished at 10:02 for a 33 second PR.

The worst part for me, by far, are the hang cleans. They get so damn heavy and destroy me. Not so good when the final 2 rounds take just as long as the first 3. 😦

Accessory

4 Sets

  • 8 Pendlay Rows (115#)
  • 8 Good Mornings (115#)

Midline

6 Rounds

  • 20s Hollow Rocks
  • 20s Rest
  • 20s L-hang (knees up)
  • 20s Rest

Felt the burn. I have to do hangs due to my shoulder; L-sits on the rings don’t feel so good.

These last two weeks have been horrible from a diet perspective. I’ve been getting take-out every meal. Got lazy after Murph and I’ve been busing finishing up a bunch of projects at work before I go on my sabbatical. Had been avoiding the scale, so was scared to step on it this morning, but figured I should before I go on my trip. Was very surprised to see I was still under 204#. Winning! Looking forward to getting back on track when I get home from Washington, D.C. I can tell I’m not feeling as well or recovering as well with all of the junk and who knows what my macros look like.

Sweat It Out

Wasn’t sure I’d make it to the 10am when I woke up, but I did. Couple beers do me in these days. #weaksauce Felt better after an hour and made it in. My back feels fine today but my ass and hamstrings are sore. Shoulders are a little tight too.

Strength

  • 2 Shoulder Press
  • + 2 Push Press
  • + 2 Push Jerk

Felt weak for sure. Went 45-75-95-115-135-145-155#.

Conditioning

7:00 AMRAP

  • 5 Push-ups
  • 5 Power Cleans (115#)
  • 5 Box Jumps (24″)

Cruised through at an easy pace and finished 7 rounds plus the push-ups and cleans.

Gymnastics

E30S 5:00

  • 5 Ring Rows

Pretty excited when I tried a couple and could actually do them! Haven’t been able to any pulling like that in months with this shoulder.

Extra

  • 1,000m Row

Easy pace. Finished just under 4:00.

Glad I made it in. Feels good to have moved and worked up a little sweat.

Best 12.3

metcon2

Still pretty much the same with my back. Went to the 5:30 class after waiting for the Nike Metcon 2s to arrive. They are a solid shoe and seems like they improved the areas that broke down on people that had the Nike Metcon 1s. For $130 though, I’m not sure they are a better buy than the new Reebok CrossFit Sprint TR, which is only $100 or even the Reebok CrossFit Nano 5 for $120. All 3 are great shoes though and you can’t go wrong with any of them.

Since I was a few minutes late to class I didn’t really do much to warm-up other than some bottom squat hold and PVC pass-thrus.

Strength

Bulgarian Split Squats

  • 2 Sets of 8/8 holding 35# KBs
  • 2 Sets of 8/8 holding 44# KBs

Class was doing deadlifts but those were a no go for me. Had my foot up on the Rogue bench.

Conditioning

With not being able to test out 13.2 on Sunday, I was hoping I’d be able to hit this one.

CrossFit Open Workout 12.3 – 18:00 AMRAP

  • 15 Box Jumps (24″)
  • 12 Shoulder to OH (115#)
  • 9 Toes to Bars

I did all step-ups and all push jerks in unbroken sets. T2B were unbroken through 5 rounds I believe, but it might have been 4 rounds. Then I’d do them in 2 sets until the final round where I did 3 quick sets. Finished with 9 full rounds plus 12 step-ups, which beats my best of 8 rounds + 17 reps. I did an extra step-up in the first 3 rounds too because in my head I was thinking it was 18 for some reason. Dummy! Can’t count them though. :-/ In the 2012 Open my score was only 5+21 on this.

Stuck around and did some banded stuff that’s supposed to take pressure off the low back and reset some things.

Also got the new 3rd edition of Greg’s book, which I’ll call the Weightlifting Bible. Won it in a Twitter contest. At 588 pages plus the appendix this thing is a monster.

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McGhee

Feeling a little sore in my shoulder areas from the lifting yesterday. Legs and back seem good though.

With the release of 2016 Games season we know it’s now 66 days until the first Open workout announcement. Long metcons this Sunday and text, then will probably transition into more skill based work and higher intensity conditioning pieces. Maybe I’ll bring back some of the thruster program.

Warm-up

  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • Shoulder Stretching

Strength / Weightlifting

25:00 to work up to a heavy set of the complex of a squat clean + thruster + push jerk. So that’s essentially 2 squats and 2 shoulder to overheads in there.

  • 45#
  • 95
  • 2 sets 135
  • 165
  • 185
  • 205
  • 215
  • 225
  • 235
  • 240

Had 245# in my mind going in to this. Having done a 250# thruster and a 255# push jerk before I’m pretty happy with the 240# with this combination. When I brought the bar back down into the front rack for the jerk on my last set I felt it a bit in my back.

Conditioning

“McGhee” – 30:00 AMRAP

  • 5 Deadlifts (275#)
  • 13 Push-ups
  • 9 Box Jumps (24″)

I’d only done this once before. It was over 2.5 years ago and I got exactly 17 rounds. After feeling my back during the lifts I knew I wanted to wear the belt and figured it would help pace me a bit with having to loosen and tighten it each round. Worked out well. I did all of the deadlifts unbroken, went 5-4-4 on push-ups until the final round where I tried to go through them faster, and did all jumps on the box, but no rebounding. Had 10 rounds in just before the 15 minute mark and ended up with 19 rounds plus the deadlifts, push-ups, and 3 box jumps. Nearly kept the same pace in the 2nd half of the workout. It would make a huge difference if I could do the push-ups in 2 sets throughout.

Even got a little “Fran-lung” from this for about 30 minutes after. Back help up during the deadlifts and box jumps but I can tell it’s going to be sore and tight for the next couple of days.

mcghee-after
At least we didn’t die

Back in Michigan

Got home yesterday from Park City and planned on going to the 9am class. Didn’t wake up until 8:45 though. Was great to sleep with some humidity after it being so dry in Utah and in my own bed as well. I went in to CrossFit Intuition around noon.

Rowing WOD Week 12 Session 1

  • Part A – 4 rounds
    • 2,000m
    • 5:00 Rest
  • 5:00 Rest
  • Part B – 2 rounds
    • 500m
    • 3:00 Rest

The 2k rows were done at 20-22-20-22 s/m, making the 2nd two faster. Kept up with increasing the rate 1s for every stroke/minute. The 500s were set to be done at the 2k race pace. Since I started them off as the start of the race, the average pace is below my 1:41 goal, but I settled in around 1:40-1:41 after 200 meters or so.

Could definitely tell the difference being back in Michigan with so much more oxygen available. Looking forward to enjoying the effects of the altitude for the next few days or week and excited to test the 2k later this week.

Went back to the gym for the 5:30 class.

Warm-up

  • Crossover Symmetry Activation
  • 2×8 Reverse Hypers (210#)

Strength: Shoulder Press

  • 8×45#
  • 6×95#
  • 4×125#
  • 2×145#
  • 1×155#
  • 1×165#
  • F – 175#
  • 1×175# (PR match)

That’s a couple times recently where I’ve matched my previous best from last November. I haven’t been consistent on a lot of my strength work though and have put a lot of focus into rowing over the last 12 weeks, so I guess keeping steady should be okay. I also held that last rep overhead for a count of 20.

Conditioning

10:00 AMRAP

  • 7 Deadlifts
  • 7 Power Cleans
  • 7 Push Jerks

I used 115# and set a goal to do unbroken rounds. I then took probably 30-40 seconds of rest after most rounds. After doing that for 6 rounds, I took a shorter rest and did the cleans in singles. Ended up with 7 rounds plus 5 deadlifts. The cleans and jerks started to get hard in those unbroken rounds. Good challenge after not touching weight other than some thrusters last week.

Midline

Weighted Planks (45#, on hands with straight arms)

  • 5 x 45s
  • 1 x 2:00

Went for broke on my last one. I was shaking like crazy. Probably had about 1:00-1:15 rest between attempts alternating with a partner.

Shoulder Carnage

Feeling good again today, so glad the head cold moved through quickly. In around 5:30 to get half of the Team Series workouts done.

Warm-up

  • 3×8 Reverse Hypers (160#)
  • Crossover Symmetry Activation
  • Muscle Snatches

Team Series #5

  • Karen: 150 Wall Balls
  • Grace: 30 C&J
  • Diane: 21-15-9 Deadlifts & HSPU
  • Randy: 75 Snatches (75#)

Each person on the team does one benchmark. I got to do my first Randy. Went 15-10-10-7-8-8-5-6-6. After 25 my shoulders felt like they were going to explode. Took me 5:01 in the splits (and 4:57 by video) but sure didn’t feel like that long. Our total time was 20:49 with splits of 5:47, 8:41, and 15:48.

Team Series #8

  • 200 toes-to-bars, while 2 teammates hold loaded barbells overhead
  • 200 shoulder-to-overheads (135/95 lb.), while 2 teammates hang from the pull-up bar

Horrible! For T2B I think I did 4 sets of 10 and then maybe 7 and 7, maybe? Not sure. We finished those at 7:41 and literally took about a minute to peel off wraps and shit before we started on the S2OH reps. We paired up doing 5 and 5 the whole way and then switched with the hangers. Just kept moving. Hanging wasn’t a big deal, especially using a mixed grip. We finished at 17:23.

Shoulders are absolutely destroyed! Events 6 & 7 tomorrow.

Gold Star

Had taken the day off work to play our end of the year golf tournament. We only got through 7 holes before storms rolled in and it rained all day. So back home and worked out in the garage before 5pm.

Warm-up

  • 3×10 Reverse Hyper (180#)

Was pretty easy to setup and take down my contraption.

Strength: Safety Bar Squats

  • 10×65#
  • 6×135#
  • 3×185#
  • 3×225#
  • 3×245#
  • 3×255#
  • 3×265#
  • 3×275#
  • 3×285#
  • 3×295#

Lifting shoes but no belt. Second to last rep was a struggle so I started thinking too much and made my final rep pretty squirrely.

Warmed up for the metcon with 5 shoulder press + 5 overhead squats with 45# and 95#.

Conditioning

  • 10 Shoulder Presses (115#)
  • 15 OHS
  • 20 Push Presses
  • 25 Front Squats
  • 30 Push Jerks
  • 35 Back Squats

Same bar and load for each movement. One of my favorites to come back to because it tests you in many different ways. I’ve done it three times now, getting better each time.

  1. 4/15/13 – 14:03
  2. 7/21/14 – 13:34
  3. 9/3/15 – 10:33

Over a 3 minute improvement in the last year! I went 7 shoulder press, 3 presses then on to my back and in to 9 overhead squats, and then finished the last 6 OHS. Push presses were done 9-6-5, front squats 10-10-5, push jerks with 3 sets of 10, and didn’t put the bar down for the 35 back squats. Tried not to rest too much when I dropped the bar in between sets.

Jumped on the Air Dyne for a very easy 10 minutes to flush out the legs.

Check out some CrossFit elite doing this one…

Return to Row

In for the 9am this morning.

Warm-up

  • Crossover Symmetry Activation
  • 3×10 Reverse Hyper (210#)

Strength

2 Shoulder Press + 2 Push Press + 2 Push Jerk

  • 45#
  • 75#
  • 115#
  • 135#
  • 145#
  • 150#
  • 160#

Wish I would have gone 155-165# or had a few more minutes.

Warmed up squat cleans after that with 115-155-185-205# doubles.

10:00 EMOM

  • 2 Squat Cleans (225#)

Wore a belt for these. Got spicy real quick! Like 2nd round quick. Another 5-10# and I probably would have been failing at some point.

Conditioning

4 Rounds

  • 10 American Kettlebell Swings (70#)
  • 10 OH Walking Lunges (53#)
  • 400m Run

My rounds were 2:55 – 3:05 – 3:10 – 2:55 for a 12:05 total. So slow on the runs. Holding the one KB overhead for lunges was something I’m not used to.

Felt good, so I headed back to the gym in the evening to get in my rowing workout.

Warm-up

3 Rounds

  • 8 Reverse Hyper (210#)
  • 1:00 Air Dyne

Row: Pacing & Engine

  • Interval 1
    • 5:00 @ 20 s/m
    • 4:00 @ 22
    • 3:00 @ 24
  • 5:00 Rest
  • Interval 2
    • 3:00 @ 22
    • 2:00 @ 24
    • 2:00 @ 26
    • 1:00 @ 28
  • 5:00 Rest
  • Interval 3
    • 2:00 @ 22
    • 2:00 @ 24
    • 2:00 @ 26
    • 2:00 @ 28

Again, like last week, the idea is to change the pace 2 seconds per 500m for every 2 strokes per minute. I was shooting to start at around 2:02 for 20s/m. Racked up 7,111 meters for the session. Not bad hitting the right stroke rates and changes of pace, but I’m not sure if I’m pushing myself enough.

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1 More Sleep

Stayed up late and up early this morning. Too excited watching the stuff roll in from California on social media. I fly out tomorrow! Out in the garage around noon to do work.

Shoulder Press

  • 10×45#
  • 5×95#
  • 3×115#
  • 2×135#
  • 1×145#

Warmed up.

Pressing Complex

E2M 12:00

  • 1 Shoulder Press (155#)
  • 2 Push Press (155#)
  • 4 Push Jerks (155#)

Was feeling rough in the first round! I wore the belt so I wouldn’t overextend. Really tried to tighten up my lower body before each set. Last couple of singles felt heavy! Here’s my last set…

Death by Clean

* Every 30 seconds instead of every minute!

  • 1st 30 seconds – 1 Power Clean (115#)
  • 2nd 30 seconds – 2 Power Clean (115#)
  • … increase by 1 rep every 30 seconds

Testing this one out before it’s used later this week at CrossFit Intuition. I set the over/under at 9, figuring that it all came down to how long you can go unbroken.

I probably should have done a few warm-ups because the first few rounds felt ugly as hell. Went unbroken through 8+7 and then singles. Barely had any rest before the 10th round started so just kept with the singles. Didn’t make it through. Final score of 9+7. It got nasty real fast. Wore the belt here too just to be safe.

Gymnastics

12:00 EMOM

  • 2 Strict Pull-ups (40# vest)
  • + 2 Strict Ring Dips (40# vest)

Was taking about 15 seconds to get the work in each round.

Conditioning

2 Rounds

  • 75 Air Squats
  • 25 Ball Slams (30#)

My air squats are slow, but I never stopped during either movement. Finished in 7:13.

Took a break from watching the Masters and Teens on the live stream because I had to go pick up a case of Kill Cliff so figured I’d stop at the gym for some more work around 6pm.

I did some bottom squat holds and stretching, then 3 sets of 10 Reverse Hypers (210#).

Out of the blue I went for a big set of muscle-ups even though I’d already done those weighted pull-ups and dips earlier today. Got 9 and dropped without attempting a 10th. Was at that point where you just know it’s not going to be close if you try another. That’s a PR by 1 from a year ago. Curious to see what I can do fresh now.

Was going to do some light and long prowler pushing. But a young kid who was a good football player wanted to join in, so did some sprints instead.

5 Rounds

  • 25m Prowler Sprint (High, 180#)
  • 25m Prowler Sprint (Low, 180#)

They always seem to be worse than you remember.

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.