Tag: run

Closing in on 300

That damn “Annie” DOMS is killing my abs. I’ve had twitches and cramps all day. Walked 18 holes yesterday. It was 93% humidity in the middle of the round when I checked. Took a lot out of me for the rest of the day.

Today Bryan came over to workout. I warmed up with 500m on the Ski Erg.

Bench Press

  • 10×45#
  • 10×95
  • 5×135
  • 3×165
  • 3×195
  • 2×215
  • 1×235
  • 1×255
  • 1×270
  • 1×280 (PR)

Was supposed to work up to an opening attempt as if I were doing a push-only powerlifting meet. Since I hit 275# (my previous 1RM) for a double on Sunday, I wanted to hit 280 today and have a good idea of what I might be capable of next week when going for a max. I don’t if I have much more than that I have in me!

Accessory

  • 2×10 DB Side Raises (25#)
  • 2×10 DB Bent-over Side Raises (30#)
  • 3×10/10 Bottoms-up KB Presses (30#)

There were pull-ups and rack chins programmed, but they are in tomorrow’s workout too (I actually swapped the order of the days), so no need to hit them 2 days in a row. I did add the KB presses though.

Conditioning

3 Rounds

  • 400m Run
  • 10 Hang Power Snatch (115#)

Meh. I did the snatches in 2×5 each set. I don’t feel comfortable cycling hang snatches from a high position with 115# so it took me a lot longer. Bryan smoked me by almost 90 seconds. I finished at 7:55.

2:00 Challenge

  • Ski Erg Calories

Since I was down 0-1 in the series I had to pick something I was 99% sure I’d win. Got 49 calories to Bryan’s 43 and tied up the series.

No Golf

It was raining this morning and forecast through the early afternoon, so I didn’t even head out the golf course. Decided to hit the 4:30 class. I was already starting to feel my shoulders last night after not lifting for a week, but it’s not any worse today.

Warm-up

  • 20 Jumping Jacks
  • 15 Toe Touches
  • 10 Air Squats
  • Bottom Squat Hold

Strength – Back Squat

  • 7×45#
  • 7×135
  • 6x7x185

Heavy enough for me at this stage and I could feel the tightness before I was even done.

Conditioning

  • 10-8-6-4-2
    • Power Clean (115#)
    • Push Press (115#)
    • Burpee
  • 1 Mile Run

I dropped with 1 power clean left for the 10-8-6 and then did the 4-2 unbroken. Probably should have pushed it, but didn’t want to be extremely gassed for the run. I think I was done somewhere between 5:00 and 5:30. The mile was slower than it should have been. Finished in 14:31.

Worked on handstand walking and free-standing handstand holds a little bit.

Wavy

Went on the kayak this morning for 2.32 miles in 40:32. The wind was blowing pretty good, making the way out a fight.

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Went for a run at 5:30 and knocked another 14 seconds of the 2.98 miles, doing it in 27:27. First mile was the best today, with 9:00, 9:27, and 9:19 average paces.

Another Loop

Did a little kayaking and played 6 games of Slammo yesterday, which gets you more sore than you’d think. I got a lot of sun yesterday.

Went out for a run again on the loop again today at about 3:30. Knocked over a minute off yesterday’s time by doing the 2.98 miles in 27:41. My pace splits were 9:27, 9:27, and 9:06.

Playing 9 holes of golf tonight.

Not Often

After staffing our WordPress.com booth at the National Wellness Conference all day, I needed some exercise. I started RunKeeper when I took off from the motel, but wasn’t wearing any headphones, never looked at the distance, and didn’t care about my pace. I just kept running out of St. Paul. It’s extremely rare for me to run anywhere near an hour, but this ended up being almost 64 minutes to go 5.22 miles, which included a large winding set of stairs near the hotel that I had to go down on my way out and then up on the way back. Now I feel better.

90s Are Coming

Walked 18 holes yesterday and it was the hottest day we’ve had so far. Felt it out there and felt the fatigue in my legs this morning. Out in the garage at about 4 with Bryan.

Bench Press

  • 10×45#
  • 10×95
  • 5×135
  • 5×165
  • 5×195
  • 4x5x220
  • 3x10x205
  • 3x10x175 (close grip)

Accessory

  • 3×10 Tricep Rock-n-Rolls (35# DBs)

Skipped the side raises and bent-over side raises due to time. They are usually in the program a couple of times a week anyway.

Conditioning

5 Rounds

  • 10 C&J (95#)
  • 20 Toes to Rings
  • 400m Run

I was planning on doing 2 sets of 5 clean and jerks, but Bryan was going unbroken so I did too. No problem doing every set unbroken. The rings are not in a great position relative to my rack for doing much. I had to kind of twist to one side to miss hitting it. I started out with 10/10 on the rings for the first 2 rounds and then started to break them up into mostly sets of 5 with some 3s and 4s.

When I finished the first round at about 3:33 I felt like sub 20 was possible if I didn’t rest too much between movements or between sets on the rings. Each round my average pace got closer to 4 minute rounds. I had just over 4 minutes to get in the final round. I shortened my transition rests and was able to step it up on my run to came in at 19:44.

This next week is supposed to be at or above 90 every day. Yuck!

Felt it Coming

Made it in for the 10am.

Warm-up

  • Bottom Squat Hold
  • Shoulder Stretching
  • 1-2-3-4-5
    • Burpee
    • Squat Jump
    • American KBS (35#)

Lifting

Power Snatch + OHS

  • 3×45#
  • 3×75
  • 3×95
  • 3×115
  • E90S – 5 Sets
    • 3×135

It’s been at least 2.5 weeks since I picked up a barbell for any olympic lifts. Felt pretty good. I taped some gauze on my hand and wore one of my Bear Complex grips to help protect it.

It was going to be the same E90S but with a squat clean + thruster next. I was warming up with 3 reps using 135# and my back was feeling like it might go, so I stripped the bar and bowed out before it turned into a full-on tweak. The overhead squats seem to aggravate it. 😦

Gymnastics

E90S – 5 Sets

  • 30s Handstand Hold

I did these while everyone was doing the cleans. Should have done at least 45 second holds.

Conditioning

Team with Jason and Gavin:

  • 9 Prowler Sprints (1 set 135# & 2 sets 180#)
  • 72 Burpee KB Thrusters (2×26#)
  • 800m Run

We didn’t time it. Rotated through the prowlers and then did sets of 8 burpee thrusters for 3 sets each. Felt pretty good on the run, but couldn’t stick with Gavin.

Out in the garage in the evening after mowing the lawn and watching some of the other Regionals.

Bench Press

donut-recovery

  • 10×45#
  • 10×95
  • 6×135
  • 3×165
  • 3×195
  • 3×215
  • 3x3x230
  • 3×20 alt Incline DB Bench Press (50#)

My bench press has been feeling really really good!

Shoulder Press

  • 8×95#
  • 4×115
  • 4×130
  • 3x4x140

Meh. Did the work, but was careful to squeeze with the minor back tweak this morning.

Tomorrow we are doing “J.T.” so I decided to skip the half kneeling kettlebell presses and tricep kickbacks. I also skipped one arm farmers carries due to my back.