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!
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
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