PR City
This week is turning out to be incredible. As I hinted to last week, that this week would be tough, you all have come out HARD and have been doing a kick ass job and going a little bit out of your comfort zone and killing workouts. Keep up the great work guys!
http://vimeo.com/11657114
Strength
Squat Snatch: 1-1-1-1-1-1
WOD
For Time:
50′ Overhead Walking Lunge (45#/25#)
15 Knees to Elbow
30 Double Unders
50′ Overhead Walking Lunge
15 Pullups
30 Burpees
50′ Overhead Walking Lunge
15 Knees to Elbow
30 Double Unders
RIP old fenway! love this vid!
snatch: successfully landed 70#, successfully failed at 75#…per usual. gotta get over the 75# block!
wod: 7:45 Rx. I really, really liked this one!
snatch complex @85#
wod: 7:43 rx. burpees in the middle were a nice treat!
wod: 12:54, not even close to Rx! Less and less Rx as it progressed! This is the butt-kicking I spend my hard-earned clams, and skip television at night, to get at CFSV, so I consider that value delivered. No complaints here! Three hours later, I still feel there is some portion of my lungs waiting for air to be delivered. Cal, it makes me smile to see that you “really, really liked this one” – you have the best attitude! I enjoyed practicing just the drop part of the squat snatch – I finally felt like I was doing that part right, and it gives me confidence to do more of those moves. Thanks JT!
hahaha. if this had been more than one time through i would’ve cried. there’s something satisfying about doing something once and feeling really good that you won’t have to revisit!
great job on the snatch stuff!
Hillary – I just want to tell you that your post is what got me out of bed and into the gym tonight. Sometimes I feel like once I am awesome at something I should be awesome at everything, and then I got kinda psyched out — but you’re right — the goal is to get our butts kicked so that we’re stronger next time. 🙂
I *did* RX it, but it took me 14:02. Double-unders are so painfully slow for me still.
Unlrelated – my snatch was an evil mistress tonight. I managed to bonk the barbell off my head once, which was just hilarious (it didn’t hurt at all, and I have no idea how I did it), but I totally nailed 65# and was feeling awesome. Then I somehow threw 70# directly ontop of my lower back. I have a sweet green bruise across my spine. It felt surprisingly OK until I got in my car…hopefully its only a day or two before it’s fine.
yay! getting one’s butt kicked is great – taking one on the back sounds not so good, though. hope you are well soon!
snatch: 85#, finally felt like I was starting to “get” it. Looking forward to doing this again so I can add weight.
wod: 10:08 Rx, flew through the knees to elbows and pull-ups, but lagged on everything else… still need to work on my endurance
squat snatch: 105# PR, same as my PR OH Squat from two days ago. I’m still failing more than succeeding with these, but I felt really good about them today. My previous attempts at squat snatch were more of a power snatch followed by a OH squat. Today I was landing right into the squat. Attempted 115 and got really close, but couldn’t control the weight overhead.
WOD: 9:51 @ 35# and 60 single unders. This one felt good, and I think I scaled appropriately. This is also my first time doing 15 pullups unbroken.
That’s solid man that you snatche your 1rm ohs especially since it was only a couple days ago!
Squat Snatch: 135# – This felt really clean and solid, and is a PR for squat snatch. Everything was clicking, so I tried 155# a couple times and failed, but I don’t think it’s far off.
WOD: 8:14 Rx. Burpees in the middle sucked the life out of me.
You weren’t far off at all dude, speed was good you’ll hit the transition next time.