Tag: Push Press

Front Squats of Death

Much needed rest day yesterday. My upper back, shoulders, and chest were all feeling really rough and overall my body was beat up. Was not really looking forward to the amount of work programmed for tonight.

Back Squat

Add 0-5-10 pounds over the last 3×4@80% type workout.

  • 10×45#
  • 8×135
  • 4×205
  • 4×245
  • 4×275
  • 4×295
  • 3x4x315

I had used 305 so went with the 10# jump. Didn’t put on a belt until 295. Felt good.

Clean from Blocks (knee)

Work up to 3×3 @ 80%.

  • 3×135#
  • 3×165
  • 3×195
  • 3×215
  • 3×235
  • 3×245
  • 3×255

Ended up being a couple of inches below my knee. I’ve never liked block cleans and always had a hard time getting myself to commit to dropping under. No issue today so I bumped it up on my last two sets. Maybe it was because the blocks were lower.

Split Jerk

Work up to a daily 3 rep.

  • 3×135#
  • 3×185
  • 3×215
  • 3×245

At this point everyone was starting to feel things a bit so nobody pushed the weight here today knowing what we had coming in the metcon.

Accessory

We combined these to save some time.

2 Sets

  • 12-15 GHR
  • 12-15 Dumbbell Bent Over Lateral Raises
  • 6-12 Barbell Curls

I had to use the tiny orange band for my GHR and did 12 reps. Used 20# DBs for 15 laterals. Sets of 12 curls using 35# and then 65#.

Conditioning

3 Rounds

  • 15 K2E
  • 10 Push Press (185#)
  • 15 Front Squat (225#)

Heavy, but with today sandwiched in between two rest days, we figured it was a good one to grind away and do the work. Ugh it was so fucking horrible. I did 9-6 and then 6-5-4 for 2 rounds on my knees to elbows. Was able to go 6-4 on every round of push presses, and didn’t resort to any jerks. The front squats were fucking death! I started 6-4-3-2 I think, then 4-4-4-3, and the last set I felt like I was going to fail every rep. My core was giving out. I think I went 4-2-2-2-2-2-1. I was going for the 3rd and final rep there on the end and had to bail at the bottom. Walked over and finished using Bryan’s bar for the final rep. Took me 18:13. Wore a belt and used racks for both bars. I was taking so much rest time between sets and still couldn’t breath or feel confident in the squats.

Oh no, not done yet!

  • 10-20-30-20-10 Row Cals
  • 30s Rest

The 10 and 20 were decent, but my legs didn’t have anything more after that. Finished in 5:44.

Talk about a session from hell. That was way too much work for one day. Normally the programming has been taking about 90 minutes. Today it took us 2:15 and we were not screwing around, even speeding up by putting the accessory movements into a little circuit. I’m going to try to finish the final day of the Thruster Attack tomorrow if I feel good enough.

Bro!

Feeling a bit beat up today and originally planned a rest day, but switching it up to try to get on a schedule with Bryan.

Bench Press

  • 10×45#
  • 6×95
  • 6×135
  • 3×185
  • 3×205
  • 3×225
  • 3x3x235

Working sets at 85%. Wasn’t sure how it would go. Definitely felt awkward with so much weight on the bar after not having done much benching in a long time. Spotters said it looked easy though.

Dumbbell Bench Press

15 reps with 40# DBs. Yep, only one set. That’s the heaviest we have at the gym.

Dumbbell Fly

  • 15 – 20# DBs
  • 2×15 – 30# DBs

Strict Ring Dips

3×12 – all unbroken!

Skull Crushers

  • 12 – 20# DBs
  • 12 – 30# DBs

Was not pretty with the 30s. Felt like we should have had a wall of mirrors at the gym for this session!

Conditioning

5-10-15-20

  • Push Press (95#)
  • T2B

Have I not done enough push presses and gymnastics since Saturday? Unbroken on the first 3 sets and was hoping I’d be able to do the 20 but no way; went 12-8. Went 5 and 10 unbroken with toes to bar, then 6-5-4, and 6-5 before I hit my wall and had to finish with singles. Finished in 5:01.

Hybrid WOD

Starting some Hybrid Performance Method programming with Bryan and Weston. Figured I’d jump in with them and give my routine some structure.

Power Clean + 5 Push Press

  • 45#
  • 95
  • 135
  • 165
  • 185
  • 205
  • 225

Big PR on the push press! I’ve done 198 for 5 and 205 for 6 before. In the 2nd or 3rd rep of the final set I could feel myself over-extending so I braced hard and kept much better positions to finish the set. Barely. I could feel my back tight on the left side for the rest of the workout, but not a painful tightness, which is good.

Snatch Pull

  • 3×135#
  • 3×185
  • 2×205
  • 2x1x225
  • 2x1x235
  • 1×245

Odd doing singles, but was able to go heavy. Didn’t use straps at all.

Back Squat

  • 6×135#
  • 6×205
  • 6×235
  • 3x6x265

The working sets were at 70%, which felt good.

Conditioning

3 Rounds

  • 15 Wall Balls (20#, 10′)
  • 5 Muscle-ups
  • 15 Hang Power Cleans (135#)

Scaled down the wall balls from 25# since we don’t have that. Tried slam balls but the ones we have for that weight don’t bounce off the wall at all. Was not going RX+ with 30#. I also dropped the muscle-ups down from 7 to keep intensity up and be closer to Bryan’s time.

I went 3-2 on each set of muscle-ups and 6-5-4 on the cleans. Finished in 9:24 about 30 seconds behind Bryan so scaling was the right thing to do. I really need to start pushing sets more instead of playing so safe all the time. Should have gone unbroken on the first set of muscle-ups and tried to do the cleans in 2 sets each time.

Update: None of us realized the cleans were 135/195#, probably because we are so used to seeing 135/95 our eyes didn’t pick up the difference. Looking at the other days for the week it seems these metcons are programming for Regional level athletes, which is definitely not us. Will be scaling back a lot or just sticking to the women’s weights. Using 70% of the assigned men’s Rx seems appropriate.

“Danny”

Didn’t eat the breakfast I wanted to and it hurt me in today’s workout. Went in at 11:30 and we had a big group today, like old times! Everyone was kind of doing different things to get going. I warmed up with a little bottom squat hold and 10 empty bar thrusters.

Thruster Attack Week 9 Workout 1

  • 3 Cycles
    • 3 Rounds
      • 20s Thrusters(75#)
      • 10s Rest
    • 30s Rest

Yuck! Still stuck to all sets of 9. Was really feeling this one during the long break before we started the workout.

Conditioning

“Danny” – 20:00 AMRAP

  • 30 Box Jumps (24″)
  • 20 Push Press (115#)
  • 30 Pull-ups

I did step-ups right from the start. First round I did 8 and then 7 leading with each leg but the rest of the way I switched legs every 5 reps. Push press felt good even after the thrusters, probably due to all of the thrusters building up my strength endurance. Was able to go 11-9 each round. I did all sets of 5 on the pull-ups. My biggest issue was lungs in this one. Taking longer breaks than I should have needed. Made it through 3 rounds, the step-ups, and 16 (11-5) of the push presses.

More Tabata Thrusting

Slacked off for a rest day yesterday. My legs are sore to the touch again from tabata thrusters. Went to the 5:30 class.

Warm-up – 2 Sets

  • 15 Pass Thrus
  • 10 Air Squats
  • 10 Push-ups

Strength – Push Press

  • 6×45#
  • 6×95
  • 6×125
  • 6×155
  • 6×175
  • 6×195

Conditioning

9:00 EMOM (alt)

  • 14 cal Row
  • 8 Deadlift (225#)
  • 10 Toes to Rings

Nice and easy.

8 Rounds

  • 20s Wall Balls (14#, 10′)
  • 10s Rest
  • 20s Plank (hands)
  • 10s Rest

I didn’t really need more tabata thrusting movement, so I went light, which made this a cake walk.

Dip Commitment

Feeling lazy and tired today. Body feels beat up from the class met-cons yesterday too. Out in the garage after the Lions game.

Split Jerk

  • 5×45#
  • 3×95
  • 3×135
  • 2×165
  • 1×195
  • 1×215
  • EMOM
    • 5x1x235
    • 5x1x250
    • 5x1x265
  • Heavy Single
    • 1×275
    • Miss 285

I gave up during the dip on the first attempt with 265, but racked it right back up and nailed it. Mental games! Nice to still be able to go up after so many heavy singles in the EMOM.

Push Press

  • 5x3x205#

Back Squat Jump

  • 3x3x95#

Skipped out on the ab work. Happy to still get in a pretty solid session feeling tired.

Little Lifting

Went in for the 4:30 class, but was there early so got in my lifting instead of doing front squats with class.

Split Jerk

  • 5x20kg
  • 5×40
  • 3×60
  • 2×75
  • 1×85
  • 1×92
  • 1×97
  • EMOM
    • 5x1x102

Felt like I needed to crack my back in one spot and I just could not get it.

Push Press

  • 3x3x87kg

Couldn’t believe that was it for the lifting today. Deload week is kind of nice.

Conditioning

14:00 EMOM (alt)

  • 15 Wall Balls
  • 10 Bar-facing Burpees

Started getting rough after the 3rd or 4th round because I wasn’t slowing down on the burpees. The rhythm I figured out a few months ago is money!

Midline

4 Rounds

  • 15 Sit-ups
  • 10 Shotguns
  • 20s Plank

Even got in ab work to go with the lifting since it was part of the workout! Finished in 5:59. The shotguns were bothering that spot in my back that wouldn’t release.

Double Bump

Out in the garage around 4:30. Warmed up with Crossover Symmetry Activation.

Split Jerk

  • 5×45#
  • 5×95
  • 3×135
  • 2×165
  • 2×185
  • 1×205
  • EMOM
    • 5x1x225
    • 5x1x240
    • 5x1x255
  • Heavy Single
    • 1×270
    • 1×280

With the new PR, lucky me gets even bigger increases this week on top of the percentage bump. Was getting under it pretty well. Felt satisfied with 280 for the day and it’s what I wrote down as a plan so didn’t try anything more.

Push Press

  • 5x5x190#

Realized I’ve been using my push jerk for these percentages, which is 10# higher than my push press. It’s been working so I guess I’ll keep it going. Did round down, whereas last week I stuck with the 191.25. Five sets get heavy!

Back Squat Jump

  • 3x3x95#

Stiff legs in the first set!!

Midline & Gymnastics Accessory

5 Sets

  • 15 Weighted GHD Sit-ups (parallel, 25# plate)
  • 4 Strict C2B Pull-ups

Keeping my back safe with the sit-ups to parallel. After the first set I went os wide as I could grip on my rig for the last 4 sets.

Conditioning

5 Rounds

  • 15 Push-ups
  • 30 Bicycle Crunches

Decided to do this combo for time to make the push-ups harder. All sets of 5, though they got slow between each rep. Finished in 4:13.

Will get in a 22 minute ROMWOD tonight, which will be pretty consistent for the last 10 weeks. I can probably count on my hand the number of days I missed where I didn’t do a make-up double on the next day. (haha, and then I skipped today due to the debate.)

Three Hundo

Back to work this week! I took a couple of rest days to start the week. I did do a 22 minute ROMWOD on Monday though and today I did a 20 minute during lunch. Out in the garage around 4pm

Jerk

  • 5×45#
  • 5×95
  • 3×135
  • 2×165
  • 2×185
  • 2×205
  • EMOM
    • 5x1x215
    • 5x1x230
    • 5x1x242.5
  • Heavy Single
    • 255
    • 265
    • 275
    • 285
    • 300 (PR)

I was working on a shallow dip (still gets deep the heavier the load is) and getting under the bar instead of pressing out too much. The reps were feeling snappy and had no issues with the EMOM, where I started to struggle in the first week of the program and this was heavier. I almost stopped at 275 but it was feeling so good and looked smooth on video that I went again. After 285 I actually loaded 295 on the bar. But said fuck it and threw on the 2.5s. Why go for a PR of less than 2 pounds (133kg or 293+ pounds) when I was so close to that big number. Even after all of the volume it felt so much better than a couple of weeks ago when Alex and I tried. Excited!!

Push Press

  • 2x5x178.75#
  • 3x5x191.25

Squeezed out every last pound of the % by using my fractional washer plates. 🙂 These didn’t crush me either this time around, heavier. Wonder if I’ll be sore again though.

Back Squat Jump

  • 3x3x95#

Midline

5 Sets

  • 20s L-sit (rings with bent knees)
  • 40s Rest

4 Sets

  • 16 K2E with twist (alt)

I will try to get in the next 23 min ROMWOD tonight to make up for yesterday. Could probably use it after throwing my body under so much weight.

Slanted

Did a 20 min ROMWOD this morning before walking 18 holes of golf. Headed out to the garage after 6pm for the 2nd day of the first week of Catalyst OTM.

Split Jerk

  • 5×45#
  • 3×95
  • 3×135
  • 2×165
  • 2×185
  • EMOM
    • 5x1x205
    • 5x1x220
    • 5x1x235

Started feeling heavy in the last 3 reps. After the set with 135# I went to get the next set of plates to add to the bar and all of a sudden… crash, bounce, boom, bounce, bounce! Scared the shit out of me, I look back, and one side of the bar had fallen off the jerk blocks. Learned to roll it to the back of the blocks after each set due to the slant of the garage floor.

floor-dents
Whoops!

Push Press

  • 5x5x175#

Nice being able to go right into it without needing warm-ups after the jerks. Had the belt out, but didn’t use it at all today.

Back Squat Jump

  • 3x3x95#

Seems like pretty low volume, but no complaints from me. Fun exercise.

Midline

5 Sets

  • 20s L-sit (parallettes with knees bent)
  • 1:00 Rest

I’m so bad at these.

5 Sets

  • 10 K2E with twist (alternating sides)

Was supposed to do 4×12, but felt my grip slipping so stopped at 10, kept there for each set, and decided to add another set to make up the volume. I wore my Bear Komplex grips after the first set. They still need a fair bit of break-in.