July 29, 2015 – Week 9, Day 2

Dynamic Warm-ups

12” Log Cleans
90x5
125x5
155x3
185x3
215x3
245x3
245x3
245x3

Hatfield Overload Squats
170x5
170x5
260x3
260x3
350x1
350x1
440x1
530x3
530x3
530x3

Farmer’s Walk
205xpick
275xpick
275x60’ in 12.25 seconds
275x60’ in 11.67 seconds
275x60’ in 13.56 seconds

Sandbag Carry and Load Over Bar (49”) (turns at 20’)
220x3x40’
220x3x40’
220x3x40’

38 Minutes of Stretching

Comments: It continues. Still feeling yesterday’s workout. I was sweating just eating breakfast haha. Normally this workout starts at Max Fitness (which is like 5 minutes from work) but with the increased event work, it doesn’t make sense to do it there for now. Got to the Y and got started. Log cleans were first. Not a heavy weight but definitely a noticeable weight. I know from past workouts that this could be tougher than it looked on paper with lat soreness from previous workouts. The weight felt fine. One of the things I tried was doing a touch and go style on the clean, having the log kiss the bumper plates and going rather than deloading it completely between reps. Constant tension seemed to work well but I don’t know if I will be quite ready for contest weight for this method with my current strength. Other than getting a little off balance on the second rep of the last set, these were good, efficient lifts. Then it was hatfields. A little weird doing these at the Y after taking such a long break. Bar is a little different from the one at Max. Really not much to say on these as it is weight I know I can do. Plate jumps up to the work sets. Stance was a bit more comfortable as I didn’t have to worry about fitting on a platform. I was dripping sweat even after these two lifts but I need to do more stuff. Headed home for more events. It took me a bit longer than I had hoped to get things setup for farmer’s so I did just two pick-ups for warm-ups. I was very worried after the last one with how insanely heavy and tough it felt. I can do this weight but with the high humidity and my profuse sweat on these powder coated handles, it was going to be tough. Thankfully, none of the picks were anywhere near as bad as the last warm-up. First set went well but I knew I could go faster. About half a second faster on the second run. On the last one, I thought I had chalked my hands enough but I guess not as a big pool of sweat formed in my right palm and my grip started to falter in that hand about a third of the way down the course. Caused me to slow down big time but I made it no drops. Reviewing past runs with these handles and this weight, I’m a little over a second and a half slower than my best. But that wasn’t after heavy squats haha. Sandbag work was just awful. I felt good with the initial listed event on the entry form but then the distances got doubled and I internally started screaming and vomiting. Screvomiting if you will. Took a sandbag out of the big bag and put in some weights to get to the planned workout weights. Lowered my light yoke as low as it could and still be locked in all three spots (49”) and go to work. I had the yoke turned sideways and the bag to the right of it. Picked it up, ran (more like awkwardly stumbled while the Benny Hill music played) 20’, turned, ran back 20’ and plopped it over the bar from the left side. I then reversed the course to get back to the bag on the right and do it again. The platform will be only 38” and I barely have to extend to put it over 11” above that. I imagine it will be a bit easier with all the bags starting upright since I can knock them over into my hands. I seriously fumbled about trying to get a grip on the bag on the second rep of the first run. I was about ready to puke bending over to pick up the thing by the last set. Heat coming off of me by the end was causing my glasses to fog up. I don’t think I stopped sweating until about an hour after I was done. It was finally done and I ended up having to do a ton of stretching.