Mobility Prep
Rogue Farmer’s Walk (16” pick)
135x50’ in 6.53 seconds
185x50’ in 7.70 seconds
225x50’ in 8.18 seconds
275x197’ in 40.27 seconds
Stone of Steel Loads (57”)
138x5
182x3
225.5x1
275x5
Prowler Pushes
305x100’ in 20.32 seconds
395x100’ in 25.66 seconds
485x100’ in 30.22 seconds
Stretching
Comments: Kind of a rollercoaster of emotions this week
going into the weekend. Thankfully ending on a high. This workout wasn’t too be
too much compared to last week’s event training. Right knee a little sore.
Warming up felt good. It was a decent breeze so not nearly as brutal in the
sun. Farmer’s walk to start this session off. Plan being doing 50’ runs up to
the top weight that I’d do for a max distance run. I deviated a little in that
I just added 20lbs to the empty handles rather than doing a set too close to
the top weight before going. Farmer’s walk is much easier to reset so I have
options. I know I was little slower off the block on these compared to last
time I did these. My legs were feeling a little heavy and lower back was
feeling the rack pulls earlier in the week. Just thankful that my hands weren’t
nearly as sweaty. Probably being out in the fresh air kept sweat from sticking
to my skin. Last time, I did these downhill as my plan was work the foot speed
and then since the working weight was going to be two trips so that I prepped a
bit. This time just one max distance set so I figured it was best to just do
them all with the slight uphill instead to get used to that. The top weight was
to be max distance. Kind of. A weight I could comfortably do 150-200’ with and
stopping at 200’. My best with 270lbs was 196’7” so I figured that I’d be close
to that with 275lbs. I really wanted to get 200’. I wasn’t entirely sure if I
would when I did my last warm-up set with how that felt in my grip. I had to
move my setup a bit further back as 200’ was going to be clipping a vehicle. I
was nervous but I went. Slow pick up and I felt ok to start but I was feeling
like my legs were heavy. I was getting close and I thought I had it but my gait
was slowing down and I could feel my grip slipping. So damn close but my left
hand went. Walking with the weight is definitely harder than just holding it as
I’ve held this kind of weight for about double this time. So next up was stone
of steel stuff. A bit heavier than my sandbag stuff. I was very cautious with
these. Plan was work up to around 275lbs for a set of five reps. Or whatever I
felt comfortable with. Doing whatever I need to warm-up. I raised the height a
little compared to what I was doing and to what I did last time. Still got
stuff in the right biceps but it felt like it was the lower part as opposed to
the middle or top part. This might be tendonitis. I’m not lacking in strength.
The discomfort was enough to make me hesitate. I had to think if I wanted to
just do singles or if I needed to do reps to prep for the top weight. No grip
support right now. Feel like I might as well work this while the weight is lightish.
Even with the hesitation from discomfort, I think most of it was just me not
wanting to have this darn thing slip out of my grip while trying to lap it and
waste energy and stress things even more. I ended up having to towel off after
missing my first attempt at the fourth rep. Load part was easy. I felt secure
when I went for the load and like I said last time, like I could fold this
thing if I tried hard enough to crush it. Obviously, I have to keep monitoring
my right biceps and do my best to keep recovery stuff on point. Last time was pushing.
My options had been a car for 60 seconds or do three sets of prowler. Again, I
elected to go with the sled stuff over the vehicle. Idea was to work up to a
little bit more than what I did for my sets last time. So 335lbs. But honestly,
that is only difficult if I’m doing timed sets and I wasn’t here. The degree of
difficulty in switching from uphill to downhill is marked so I figured that
like the drags, I’d reset it each time. So really, my first set was near where
I was on paper supposed to end. Like the drags, I did 90lbs jumps. Had to talk
myself down from going bigger jumps. These felt slower than the drags but these
were actually faster. Like, a lot
faster, in that my last set was still faster than my lightest set of drags from
last week. Had a bunch of neighbors watching on that last set so I couldn’t
allow to break stride or get halted by rough patches haha. Finished up with
stretching and cooling off before getting on with the rest of the weekend.
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