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| It hasn't been a very good past couple weeks. Basically, we had to change offices, build ourselves some new furniture (i.e. from scratch, not IKEA assemblies), move all of our stuff, and still keep up with the usual orders and R&D stuff that we do to stay in business.
So I have made it to the gym only a handful of times since this whole thing started. My strength is basically sapped, my coordination on the high bar is all but nonexistent, and the only thing I could do is start from scratch. So that's what I did. Here were the numbers:
Back Squats:
135 x 5
155 x 5
175 x 5
185 x 5
195 x 5
Handstand Push-ups:
7
6
1
6
3
Pull-ups:
10 x 5
Bench Press:
135 x 5
155 x 5
175 x 2 [FAIL]
155 x 5
135 x 5
Not the best day in the world, but it was a day back in the gym, and that counts for something.
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| So, when I was getting in the van to come to the gym, I slammed my knee right into the protruding steel door latch. This has to be one of the more memorable painful experiences in recent years. By the time I got to the gym, it was swollen and beginning to bruise. I couldn't really walk on it or do anything with any amount of pressure or load, so I did a pyramid of pull-ups and push-ups:
1 pull-up
2 push-ups
2 pull-ups
4 push-ups
3 pull-ups
6 push-ups
etc., all the way up to 7 and 14 and then back down. This gives a total 49 pull-ups and 98 push-ups. I think it took me ten minutes but truthfully I wasn't timing it.
My knee is in pretty bad shape now. Any kind of flexure or load hurts really bad and the swelling is huge. I hope it heals soon.
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| DT goes like this:
12 dead lifts
9 hanging power cleans
6 push jerks
The prescribed weight is 155 lbs, but that's not happening for me. I did 115 lbs instead. Next time, I think I could go as high as 120, but probably not higher until I can get better at hanging power cleans, which right now are my weakness in this workout. Anyway, I finished in 13:30, which is a minute and a half faster that last time, and that is with an increase of weight of 10 lbs. This was a good workout.
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| So I headed down to CFATL since I wasn't in Carrollton at my normal gym. When I showed up, there were a dozen other people there, but only a handful were going to be doing the WOD. The coach made it up on the spot:
50 ft of burpee broad jumps
30 1.5 pood kettlebell swings
30 box jumps
50 ft of burpee broad jumps
15 chest-to-bar pull-ups
15 dead lifts (100 kg)
50 ft of burpee broad jumps
100 ft overhead walking lunge (15 kg)
Ouch. This thing knocked the crap out of me. I finished in 10:55. It's always worth it to work out at CFATL. I would go there every day if I could. But until I'm little richer and have fewer obligations, I don't see that happening. Preparing for DOMS to-morrow.
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| Posting here is something I'd like to get in the habit of doing again, but feel like I need something better to post than my strength stuff. So short of some noteworthy PRs, I think I'm only going to post benchmarks. So to-day, I decided that I hate myself and chose to do Cindy.
I had in mind to get 21 rounds, which would be a PR by a few reps. Well, I finished 23 in the nick of time and then collapsed out in the hallway. It took a while to get back to baseline and my legs have ceased to function correctly since then. But it felt good to get another PR.
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