2 Minute Treadmill Backwards Pushes
Mobility Prep
Titan Fitness Farmer’s Walk
Turns at 50’
110x100’ in 13.79 seconds (right)
110x100’ in 13.57 seconds (left)
No Turns
160x50’ in 6.22 seconds
200x50’ in 7.19 seconds
250x50’ in 7.84 seconds
Mobility Prep
Titan Fitness Farmer’s Walk
Turns at 50’
110x100’ in 13.79 seconds (right)
110x100’ in 13.57 seconds (left)
No Turns
160x50’ in 6.22 seconds
200x50’ in 7.19 seconds
250x50’ in 7.84 seconds
Sandbag Rows (long ways)
175x5
225x5
275x3
175x5
225x5
275x3
Sandbag Loads (62”)
225x1
275x1
313x1
313x1
313x1
313x1
313x1
225x1
275x1
313x1
313x1
313x1
313x1
313x1
Stretching
Comments: Last part of the week with work kicked my ass. My “rest days” of Wednesday and Friday I ended up having to do my walks after work as I didn’t give myself enough of a buffer working through lunch to be able to do my walks before I had to clock back in. I have a feeling next week is going to be similar before Thanksgiving. I’m actually not sure how that is going to go either. I always feel down this time of year with it being the time Mike died and I feel guilty about it as this was my late grandfather’s favorite holiday. Last year had been the first time since Jenkins had died that I didn’t feel that way. Perhaps it was because I was with somebody. I don’t have that this year and I already feel it creeping up on me. Didn’t really get a chance to do soft tissue work or icing last night. I also wore the wrong shoes to go walking in my distraction. Thankfully, this didn’t give me shin splints. I ended up sleeping quite a bit. Weather is back to being warmer. Needs to pick lane. Warming up felt pretty good. A little ache in the knees at the start but it went well. Had to do some sweeping up in the street before training. Training a bit different for this day. Contest has farmer’s walk with turns so I need to start implementing that. I modified the warm-up a little as usually I would just do 50’ lengths and gradually increase the speed with the empty handles to get my knees and hamstrings ready. Since I was doing the start with turns and then passing off to 50’ straight shots, I figured that I should do my warm-ups with the turns. Go down slow and then speed up on the return trip. My thoughts with Mr. Westerling was to start the first half downhill so as to work on accerlating into the turn and then have to work uphill to come back. Make the hard parts harder so that it will be easier at competition. I felt like these sets with the light weight to start went pretty well for not doing this in over a year with any kind of weight. Turn is going to need work (kind of over corrected on the second set). Regular runs after that. I felt like I was going at a decent speed on these today but it appears that like yoke, slower than usual. I’m trying to figure out why after a week of deload. Perhaps the knee health stuff is causing some fatigue? I did try and bring my stance in for the pick as I feel like I can actually get some tension in my hamstrings that way. I might need to play around this that some as I’m not sure if the tradeoff of a faster pick and a slower start helps versus a slower pick and faster start off the block. I could also be overthinking it as the decreases are with acceptable parameters to not be concerned and I’m doing a lot of new movements that I haven’t done in a while. Into the garage after cleaning up the farmer’s walks for sandbags. Reading how I felt doing these a month ago showed a contrast I wasn’t expecting. Reps had been reduced from two sessions prior but I wrote about how good and easy everything felt. That was not the case today. I felt like my rowing and picking up the sandbag was off. Not like I was in pain or had anything limiting me. Just felt heavy. I felt like I was using more biceps then I should on the first set. I then forgot mid set with 225lbs how many reps I was to do. I had done a very easy set of 5 last time I touched the 275lbs bag. This time, it was a harder than I would’ve liked triple. The last rep reminded me of the one tough rep I had with lapping the 313lbs sandbag the last time. Not a good sign if I had that happen on 275lbs. I knew that I’d have to be on guard for the sandbag loading since last time was essentially the easiest this was going to be for some time. The warm up singles didn’t feel too bad but they weren’t as super easy as they should’ve been. The plan today was the 313lbs for 5 singles EMOM style. Last time had been EOMOM and that had been good mostly. I had trouble with lapping the third lift and then with loading the final lift. I felt like this time, I needed to be sure I had a good grip on it in my lap before loading it as I had less time to recover between attempts and missed lifts were going to suck big time. Extension felt good. Second lift I was bit too far away but still got it over. Made sure I was closer for the next two reps. Last lift was a struggle. I think with how wide this bag is that it gets caught on my thin knee sleeves. It was like I hit a sticking point on the lift coming off the floor but I regrouped and pulled through. That took a bit out of me and I couldn’t seem to keep the bag as tight to me as the other reps. Same issue as last time on the last rep. This time however, I didn’t need to do a re-extension to get it high enough to shove over. Would rather I didn’t need to shove it over at all. Stretched and got dinner ready and then iced my knees. I needed to stay up a bit since I slept in to about 1PM so that I could go to sleep. Hopefully I can recover the next two days to put in the work next week.
Comments: Last part of the week with work kicked my ass. My “rest days” of Wednesday and Friday I ended up having to do my walks after work as I didn’t give myself enough of a buffer working through lunch to be able to do my walks before I had to clock back in. I have a feeling next week is going to be similar before Thanksgiving. I’m actually not sure how that is going to go either. I always feel down this time of year with it being the time Mike died and I feel guilty about it as this was my late grandfather’s favorite holiday. Last year had been the first time since Jenkins had died that I didn’t feel that way. Perhaps it was because I was with somebody. I don’t have that this year and I already feel it creeping up on me. Didn’t really get a chance to do soft tissue work or icing last night. I also wore the wrong shoes to go walking in my distraction. Thankfully, this didn’t give me shin splints. I ended up sleeping quite a bit. Weather is back to being warmer. Needs to pick lane. Warming up felt pretty good. A little ache in the knees at the start but it went well. Had to do some sweeping up in the street before training. Training a bit different for this day. Contest has farmer’s walk with turns so I need to start implementing that. I modified the warm-up a little as usually I would just do 50’ lengths and gradually increase the speed with the empty handles to get my knees and hamstrings ready. Since I was doing the start with turns and then passing off to 50’ straight shots, I figured that I should do my warm-ups with the turns. Go down slow and then speed up on the return trip. My thoughts with Mr. Westerling was to start the first half downhill so as to work on accerlating into the turn and then have to work uphill to come back. Make the hard parts harder so that it will be easier at competition. I felt like these sets with the light weight to start went pretty well for not doing this in over a year with any kind of weight. Turn is going to need work (kind of over corrected on the second set). Regular runs after that. I felt like I was going at a decent speed on these today but it appears that like yoke, slower than usual. I’m trying to figure out why after a week of deload. Perhaps the knee health stuff is causing some fatigue? I did try and bring my stance in for the pick as I feel like I can actually get some tension in my hamstrings that way. I might need to play around this that some as I’m not sure if the tradeoff of a faster pick and a slower start helps versus a slower pick and faster start off the block. I could also be overthinking it as the decreases are with acceptable parameters to not be concerned and I’m doing a lot of new movements that I haven’t done in a while. Into the garage after cleaning up the farmer’s walks for sandbags. Reading how I felt doing these a month ago showed a contrast I wasn’t expecting. Reps had been reduced from two sessions prior but I wrote about how good and easy everything felt. That was not the case today. I felt like my rowing and picking up the sandbag was off. Not like I was in pain or had anything limiting me. Just felt heavy. I felt like I was using more biceps then I should on the first set. I then forgot mid set with 225lbs how many reps I was to do. I had done a very easy set of 5 last time I touched the 275lbs bag. This time, it was a harder than I would’ve liked triple. The last rep reminded me of the one tough rep I had with lapping the 313lbs sandbag the last time. Not a good sign if I had that happen on 275lbs. I knew that I’d have to be on guard for the sandbag loading since last time was essentially the easiest this was going to be for some time. The warm up singles didn’t feel too bad but they weren’t as super easy as they should’ve been. The plan today was the 313lbs for 5 singles EMOM style. Last time had been EOMOM and that had been good mostly. I had trouble with lapping the third lift and then with loading the final lift. I felt like this time, I needed to be sure I had a good grip on it in my lap before loading it as I had less time to recover between attempts and missed lifts were going to suck big time. Extension felt good. Second lift I was bit too far away but still got it over. Made sure I was closer for the next two reps. Last lift was a struggle. I think with how wide this bag is that it gets caught on my thin knee sleeves. It was like I hit a sticking point on the lift coming off the floor but I regrouped and pulled through. That took a bit out of me and I couldn’t seem to keep the bag as tight to me as the other reps. Same issue as last time on the last rep. This time however, I didn’t need to do a re-extension to get it high enough to shove over. Would rather I didn’t need to shove it over at all. Stretched and got dinner ready and then iced my knees. I needed to stay up a bit since I slept in to about 1PM so that I could go to sleep. Hopefully I can recover the next two days to put in the work next week.
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