5 Minute Walk (.25 miles)
Mobility Prep
Titan Fitness Farmer’s Walk
100x50’ in 5.59 seconds
150x50’ in 6.05 seconds
200x50’ in 7.00 seconds
200x50’ in 7.01 seconds
200x50’ in 7.02 seconds
Sandbag Rows (long ways)
175x5
225x5
Sandbag Loads (62”)
175x1
225x1
275x1
275x1
275x1
275x1
275x1
Stretching
Comments: Body aches but I feel that I’m mentally, emotionally and physically in a better state than I was two weeks prior. Even a week prior. I forgot to mention that earlier in the week I had gone with my father to get stuff out of the Y for the garage gym. Only took the expensive stuff out of there. I felt bad about taking stuff as I know at least one other person uses the stuff. Took about $1,500 work of equipment home while still leaving about $1,000 there. I left the stuff that I know a lot of people use as I don’t need that stuff and I can easily replace it if necessary. The other stuff too costly honestly. It gave me a chance to actually weigh stuff I’ve never weighed like my log and the jack stands. Turns out my log was about 3.5lbs lighter than I thought and the jack stands were 4lbs lighter each than I thought. Good to know going forward. Today was another day in 2020. I felt rested at least. I got more sand so I can finish up the sandbags (fill up the 180kgs one and top off the 160kgs one). Walking felt good despite my knees feeling achy. My right side lower back was stiff during my warm-ups. I think from the banded deadlifts. I had that odd 4th pull. So today was farmer’s walk. Alternating with yoke. I had purchased new farmer’s walks. Main reason being convenience of having upright handles. The style I have work well but it is a pain to load them up and I have to secure them with collars and wrenches to keep the weights on. I have to re-secure them every set too. Since they are the same height empty, I can do some additional warming up. I needed that today as my calves and hamstrings were sore. I was a bit hesitant with things as I’ve only really used this brand of handles for “casual walks” when I was recovering from the latest injury relapse many months ago. The grip doesn’t feel right to me. The handle part is secured by a pin and not part of the implement as the intention is to be able to lower it standard barbell height and connect into a frame. Also knurling on the handles. I hate that for farmer’s walk as can tear calluses and taping around them makes that even worse. Thankfully, not knurled the entire length. I was not sure what today would bring. I was hopeful I could get the farmer’s walk done before it rained and that it wouldn’t feel so damn heavy like last time. It was starting to drizzle before I got ready so I had wash clothes ready to cover the handles in case. But the rain went away pretty quickly. Just beastly hot and humid for a good portion of the session. I felt like I was moving pretty well. Some trial and error. Had the handles too close together on the second set when I switched to 45lbs plates. I need to get used to that as that will be what dictates the space I have for my stance and will be the width when it comes to turns at Nats. I kind of found a way to lessen the alienness of the handles moving by locking my wrists against the back of them so that most of my hand is off the knurling too. I was sweating like crazy with the humidity and heat so even though light weights, I chalked up my hands good for the working weight sets. I stumbled a bit at the start getting off balance on my first run with the working weight. These weights thankfully didn’t feel like 90% today. I learned I needed to control the drop as I shattered one of my 2.5lbs plates on that first set. I fixed it with duct tape. I felt like my first run was my slowest and my second run was my fastest. Turns out I was wrong as each run was essentially the same time. Literally .001 seconds difference with my first run being my fastest. Cleaned up the stuff and moved into the garage to finish out the session with sandbag work. Like last week, plan being sandbag rows into loading. The loading this time being sandbags. I load sandbags differently than stones so I figured that the style of row should mimic that rather than how I’ve been doing it for stones. I had told myself I was going to treat these seriously after last week’s being sloppy. It has been a long time since I’ve done this style of sandbag row and I didn’t think it would feel so different. I was wrong. This felt more biceps and lower back with it being out in front of me. I wasn’t prepared for that. So I treated it with disdain. Last rep of the 225lbs was garbage. I will do better next time. I have to. So next was loads. Plan being EMOM with the 275lbs bag. I wanted to do some warm-ups to get the extension feeling ok. I don’t feel I have the same issue as I do with the stone with breathing because the bag can squish but the extension might feel off with the heavy band deadlifts and having to grip differently. The floppy bag was the worst as I really had to squeeze that one and I could feel my right biceps not liking that one bit. Thankfully the 225lbs was firmer and felt fine with that. 5 singles was pretty chill and I felt okay after the initial pick and lapping of the bag. It has been a while since I’ve done sandbag loads and picks like this. Probably good to be training both styles for options and training effect. I was getting some reps to clear the bar without touching so that is good. Finished up everything just before it started a torrential downpour. Stretched out and had a relaxing evening.
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