September 05, 2010 - Events - Deload

Dynamic Warm-ups

Yoke/Farmer's Walk Medleys (No Rest)
440x75'/172x75'
440x75'/172x75'
440x75'/172x75'
440x75'/172x75'

Keg Tosses
Horizontal
35x1
35x1
35x1
35x1
Vertical
35x1
35x1
35x1
35x1
Horizontal
35x6

Play Stone Carry/Tire Flip Medleys
+300x60'
+300x100'/550x6
+300x60'/550x7

Comments: I knew even if I felt good, I had to take it easy today as far as weights. Caught up on what had been going on at the Stable while I was at the show. Talked shop with Joe quite a bit in regards to overhead pressing before I got into it. I had plans to do medley work and test out throwing a keg. Zach and Bill were doing yoke but since I wanted to do it light I did all my sets with no rest to get out of their way. Especially since they are prepping for a show while I'm just coming back. Weights were easy but quite a gasser doing all that work. Only rest was walking back to the yoke after the farmer's. Next I did keg tossing. Joe gave me a bit of verbal lashing about my yoke performance about how I didn't let weight settle and that I'm rushing it. Definitely good to have Joe coaching me on that event as he's outstanding at the yoke. Tried out two different grips on the keg. We don't have a way to gauge the height other than eyeballing it at the moment. Probably would have helped to have my camera for this. On one of my throws, the seal broke and the pressure air leaked out which lead to fairly humorous outcome when I tried throwing it again as it would "spit" at me when I tried to settle it (I'm assuming that the kegs I'll be using at the contest will be half kegs with sand). Working on transferring the power into the keg. On the first few I was launching myself forward a few feet. After the singles, I did a set of six just to get used to doing a lot of tosses in succession. Those actually got better as I got into a groove. Then I wanted to play with the Husafell stone. But I don't call it that. This thing is nasty. It does not play well with others. It's made of concrete and is trapezoid shape with two pieces of rebar sticking out the top to add weight. One side is smooth, the other is jagged with the word "PLAY" etched into it. So it is the "PLAY" stone to me. I had issues even picking it up off the ground. It is bitey. But I got it and it wasn't too much trouble though it is a pain to get it into position. I sucked balls on the tire. No excuses on that. Luckily I got time to get back into it.