Tag: Seated Good Morning

From the Blocks

Went in at 10:30 to do some Olympic lifting work.

Warm-up

  • 300m Run
  • PVC Pass-thrus
  • 10/10 Leg Swings (F-B, S-S)

OLY

Kevin had some of his jerk blocks in, so I used them to do hang snatches and cleans. It was great work and made some progress in reaching extension, especially in the snatch.

Snatch

I did a double at 95#, 2 singles at 95#, 2 singles at 105#, 6 singles at 115#, and 3 singles at 125#. Triple extension was feeling the best it ever has. Here’s a video of one of the 125# lifts. I get too high off the ground, but everything else is a big improvement.

Clean

I did 2 doubles at 135#, 3 doubles at 155#, and then 6 singles at 175#. Didn’t feel as good as the snatches, that’s for sure. I have a bigger tendency to cave my knees in on the clean and wasn’t getting the greatest hip extension. Here’s a lift at 175#.

Really took my time on the lifts and probably spent more than an hour working them. Need to do this more often.

Headed back around 6:30pm to open gym for some extra work.

Strength

Seated Good Mornings

  • 5 @ 95#
  • 5 @ 115#
  • 5 @ 135#
  • 5 @ 155#

Not so sure these were a good idea today, but oh well.

WOD

7:00 AMRAP

  • 10 Push-ups
  • 10 Pistols
  • 10 T2B

Quick little metcon to throw in a few things we haven’t worked in over a week. The pistols were brutal, especially without wearing my OLY shoes. My quads were on fire after round 1. I finished 5 complete rounds and then got 6 push-ups.

Kevin’s New Toys

I went over to Kevin’s for a garage session tonight. He got a bunch of new equipment so I got to try most of it.

4×10 Reverse Hyper

Loaded 70# for the first set and then 120# for the last three. Quite the interesting machine. It made my back really spicy almost immediately.

3×7 GHR

I held a 5# plate on the 2nd and 3rd set. Tried to use a 10# plate on the 3rd set but couldn’t even get 1 rep.

5×5 Seated Good Mornings

Used 75#, 95#, 115#, 125#, and 125#. I’ve only done good mornings a few times and this was the first time doing them seated, which I think I like better than standing.

Earthquake Bar Bench Press

Did 10 reps and then a static hold at the top. Did 50# and 90# with a 20 second hold and then 100# with a 30 second hold. We used steel plates for these. We did try 120# with a mix of plates and KB, but it was not happening because the KB are so unstable.

Back Squats

The plan was to do 5×5 at 75-80% of 1RM, but we were a little too fried from 13.4 this morning and all the back work. We did 5 reps at 135#, 185#, 245#, 225#, and 225#. The first two sets were going to be warm-up sets and then into the sets of 245# but we knew the 5 sets were not going to happen after that first one, so we dropped it down and cut the number of sets short. Then we dropped back down to 135# for a max rep set. Kevin stopped at 20 reps and I stopped at 30, deciding we wanted to be able to walk tomorrow.

We jumped back on the Reverse Hyper for a quick set of 15 with 70# to stretch the back out.

It didn’t seem like that long while we were lifting, but it was a solid 2 hours.