Closing out the week..

Crazy end of the week.. Finally now just sitting down to watch the Celtics playoffs..

So Thursday I did something random.

I did some deadlifts just to get back into the strength building world.. I basically went away from any good volume strength training during the marathon stint. I PR'd a bunch of 1 rep stuff during that time.. but not enough 3x5s and 5x3 type stuff.. Back into it today..
I did DLs at:
135x8, 225x5, 275x5, 305x5, 325x3, 335x1.. then went back down the ladder a little.. 275x5, 225x5..

Then I did a mini WOD while everyone did Fran. (I should have done it but my hands were wrecked to be honest and Fran is like almost entirely a grip and wind test for me at this point, so I didn't want an excuse for a bad score, I will do it on a day when I can leave it all out there..)

I did 4 rounds of:

4 Stone to Shoulder 115#

5 Ring Dips

25 Double Unders

Didn't even look at the time, I just went through this to "do a WOD"..



Friday I rested, and then on Saturday

'Morrison'

50-40-30-20-10

Wall Balls 

Box Jumps

KB Swings 1.5pood

Wow.. We did this partner style and this was a crazy burner.. I was smoked by the end of it..

Mike H and I went into this with the strategy to basically do "half of each rep set unbroken, then switch partners".. It worked surprisingly well, even when we were exhausted. I think the drop of reps per segment and our fatigue were perfectly linearly correlated (nerd alert).

I did all the box jumps with a rebound and definitely did not "open up to games standards" at the top on all of them.. I usually just open up at a jump off the box, I get a lot more met-con out of this style than the games way. I will do them that way when I am in a competition, but I think they are sort of annoying in high rep workouts when I can move so much faster the "other way".. Just my opinion. I will continue to preach the "show control at the top" for box jumps, but I do see the merit for just "building your wind" to do it the more bouncy way.

Rested Sunday, I have had a weird rest/work schedule this month. I need to get back to something more concrete like the 3 on 1 off that I used to do religiously. Looking forward to this week though..

And then Tough Mudder Saturday.. (I almost don't even want to do it after the Marathon, but I signed up for it back in November and now it's one of those things I am mostly only doing cuz 20 other friends are going up as well..)