Today's workout called for a ton of loading to the front of my body. I had heavy squat cleans, and then supplemental front squats. My goal was 260# on the cleans and I was able to get that lift with almost no trouble. The only issue was keeping the bar racked on my right shoulder as I drove UP from the bottom position. Thanks to my baseball past, I have some limited range of motion through my shoulders and the connective muscles. My lat (big muscle along the sides of the back) on the right side is a good deal tighter so that "elbow up" position with the bar on my shoulders gets a little tough as the weight gets heavier. This opened my eyes to the need of some serious mobility and self-myofascial work on my right side. I am gunning for a solid 295# on this in the next month or two.
Getting some additional front squat work was helpful, and I got 4 rounds of 4 reps getting up to 255# very comfortably. I am feeling stronger and stronger with this lift, and I know I'll be able to push this into the mid 300's for a single soon enough! Then I moved on to the burn!
I had 20 muscle ups for time. Ugh. I pulled off the first 10 pretty well, then just moved to singles for the remainder of the time. I think I missed a total of 4 and finished in 7:17, NOT a good time. Even if I can't string 10 together, I should be able to bang 20 out in around 2-3 minutes. But the good thing was that I was able to feel a major set-back with how I approach these. I focus so much on the kip that I sometimes forget to pull. Then, I focus on my pull and forget to kip. When I get both together, I pop up so easily. Well then, pretty obvious what I need to do do, huh? Kip and pull simultaneously! Just do it Josh!
Getting some additional front squat work was helpful, and I got 4 rounds of 4 reps getting up to 255# very comfortably. I am feeling stronger and stronger with this lift, and I know I'll be able to push this into the mid 300's for a single soon enough! Then I moved on to the burn!
I had 20 muscle ups for time. Ugh. I pulled off the first 10 pretty well, then just moved to singles for the remainder of the time. I think I missed a total of 4 and finished in 7:17, NOT a good time. Even if I can't string 10 together, I should be able to bang 20 out in around 2-3 minutes. But the good thing was that I was able to feel a major set-back with how I approach these. I focus so much on the kip that I sometimes forget to pull. Then, I focus on my pull and forget to kip. When I get both together, I pop up so easily. Well then, pretty obvious what I need to do do, huh? Kip and pull simultaneously! Just do it Josh!
I then moved to 50 wall balls for time. Got this in 1:41 and felt very smooth. I may have slowed down just a hair at the end, but I did it all under control and unbroken. Happy with that time. Another little rest and I got 50 pull ups for time. I originally wrote out an AMRAP in 1 minute but had nobody to help me with the time, so I just went 50 all out. I banged out 30 straight, then 10, then 5 and 5 and finished in 1:07. This actually was pretty cool because now I have a good goal to work towards: 50 pull ups in sub-1 minute! I'll get that soon enough!
Going to get some good sleep tonight, and then it's on to some more tough training tomorrow and the rest of the week, I cant wait!!
Never Stop, GET FIT.
Josh Courage
Going to get some good sleep tonight, and then it's on to some more tough training tomorrow and the rest of the week, I cant wait!!
Never Stop, GET FIT.
Josh Courage
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