Partner Buy-in

Buy-in:

  • 4x 11/15 cal Row

AMRAP

  • 10/10 DB Hang C&J (40#)
  • 20 Renegade Rows (40#)
  • Rest
  • 10 HSPU
  • 160’ Suitcase Carry (73#)
  • Rest
  • 20 Russian KBS (53#)
  • 40s Sandbag Hold (100#)
  • Rest

Partner w/ B. Rows were our buy-in, then doing 2 movements and resting while partner goes. We were planning on something in the half hour range, with the buy-in being like a warm-up. My back gave out in the 3rd round of renegade rows so ended it after those, taking 29:24.

50 Second Abs

Conditioning

4 Sets

  • 2:00 Row (513-520-521-525m)
  • 2:00 TrueForm Walk recovery (0.15 – 0.18 – 0.2 – 0.21 km)

Back

3 Sets

  • 10/10 Single Arm Side Seated Crossbody Pulldown (38#)
  • 12 Close Grip Pulldown (93#)

3 Sets

  • 12 Wide Grip Seated Row (93#)
  • 10 Underhand Grip Seated Row (93#)

3 Sets

  • 10 Chest Support DB Wide Row (25#)
  • 10 Chest Support DB Low Row (25#)

Midline

2 Rounds

  • 50s Single Leg Lifts
  • 10s Rest
  • 50s Crunches
  • 10s Rest
  • 50s Reverse crunches
  • 10s Rest
  • 50s Bicycles
  • 10s Rest
  • 50s Oblique Heel Touches
  • 10s Rest

I hate Tabata, so you can guess how much I disliked 50 seconds at a time!

Arms It Is

We were busy so had a few days off from the gym.

Conditioning

10 Sets

  • 1:00 Row
  • 1:10 Rest

265-272-283-281-285-285-288-286-285-289m

Arms

  • 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 Plate Curl (35/25#)
  • 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 OH Tricep Extension (35/25#)
  • OH Plate Hold (35/25#)

4:42

3 Sets

  • 10 Incline DB Bench (25-30-35#)
  • 10 Incline Fly

3 Sets

  • 10 DB Pullover (50#)
  • 15 Push-up

Flag & Flutter

Warm-up

  • 2:00 BikeErg (1,013m)
  • 2:00 Row (506m)
  • 20 PVC Passes
  • 10 Hang Power Cleans (45#)
  • 5 Hang Power Cleans (75#)
  • 30s Dead Hang
  • 30 Hops

Conditioning

7 Rounds

  • 5 Pull-ups
  • 5 Hang Power Cleans (95#)
  • 5 HSPU
  • 40 Jump Rope
  • 200/160m TrueForm Run

Partner workout with B. She started and did the pull-ups, cleans, HSPU, and rope. Then I did it. Then we each ran. Took us 29:31.

Midline

4 Rounds

  • 3 Dragon Flags
  • 30/30s Side Plank
  • 50 Hollow Flutter Kicks
  • 12 OH DB Crunches (50#)

Finished in 10:40.

Remove the Wall

Conditioning

5 Rounds

  • 10 Renegade Rows (50#)
  • 10 Incline Back Fly (20#)
  • ~190m Row
  • 8/8 Lateral Step-downs (12”)
  • 12 Reverse Lunges
  • ~180m TrueForm Run

Parter-ish workout with B, so the distances are rough estimates of what I was getting. Took us 21:59.

Gymnastics

We did some spotting and worked on not relying on the wall for handstand kick-ups.

Midline

Tabata

  • 10 alt Single Arm Single Leg V-ups (8# DBs)
  • 9 Leg Raises
  • 20 Russian Twists (45# plate)
  • 14 alt Side Crunches

Every Machine

I’m really feeling my triceps from the first day of the chest program.

30:00 AMRAP

  • 5 HSPU
  • 400 BikeErg
  • 20 Plyo Lunges
  • 200m Row
  • 10 Pull-ups
  • 120m TrueForm Run
  • 40 Mountain Climbers
  • 200m SkiErg

This was a lot harder than expected. I did everything unbroken, wore grips for pull-ups and was able to finish four full rounds plus through the mountain climbers. I couldn’t get myself to push the runs otherwise I might have been able to finish five rounds.

Another Go at a TRAIN Chest Program

We took 3 days off for the holiday and my birthday.

Warm-up

  • 20 PVC Passes
  • Trunk Twist
  • 10×45
  • 10×75

We’re going to start the chest program again that we did late summer. We had good results and enjoyed it.

Chest

MAX Bench Press (100/50#)

I was getting pretty slow, so stopped at 50, which is the same number of reps I got before.

MAX Push-ups

Only 30 push-ups though, which is five fewer.

3 Sets

  • 12 Seated DB Shoulder Press (40#)

These felt ok.

50 DB Bench Press (50/25#)

I went 10-8-7, 5×5 to finish in 2:05, which is 21 seconds faster because I was smarter about my sets, compared to 15-10-10-8-7.

Conditioning

2 Rounds

  • 10 cal BikeErg
  • 10 Burpees
  • 10 Box Jumps (24”)
  • 10 DB Hang Power Cleans (40#)
  • 10 cal Row
  • 10 Burpees
  • 10 Box Jumps (24”)
  • 10 DB Hang Power Cleans (40#)

Good one! Took me 10:55.

Midline

4 Sets

  • 1:00 Plank
  • 50 Hollow Flutter Kicks
  • 10/10 KB Side Bends (62#)

The flutter kicks got to be a challenge. Wasn’t really for time, but took me 9:46.

Have a Merry One

Partner workout with B. This is the work I did

  • 4×12 cal Row
  • 4-4 Strict Pull-up
  • 5×12 Push-up
  • 3×50 Jump Rope
  • 4-4 Strict Pull-up
  • 5×10 DB Push Press (40#)
  • 3×50 Jump Rope
  • 4-4 Strict Pull-up
  • 5×10 Renegade Row (40#)
  • 5×10 Tuck Jump
  • 5×10 Push-up

We were going back and forth on each movement. She did 10 butterfly pull-ups in between my strict ones and did 8 and 6 push-ups respectively the two different rounds. We finished in 27:15.