July 31 - August 13

July 31
Rest Day, Hammies were remarkably sore from deadlifts Tuesday..

August 1
The Chief!!

One of my all time favorite workouts..
wheels came off in the 3rd and 4th rounds.. oh well..
6+2, 6, 5+1, 5+1, 5+5

I think this was the first time doing this workout where I could sustain over 5 rounds the entire time. Like it.


August 2nd
Wait.. Lifting

3 position snatches and cleans..

Worked up bit by bit trying to focus on speed and form to a degree.
Got up to 150ish on the snatches, mostly worked around 135 for the majority of the time.

Cleans got up around 195 by the end which was excruciating, squat cleans knock me on my ass every time. Oh well. Something to work on..


August 3rd
WOD, Interrupted
Partnered with Brad
14 minutes and change.. split reps pretty evenly..
Tried to push the runs pretty hard to get back to business on the reps, but we traded back and forth at a really good clip so I always felt like we were moving. Good WOD, harder than expected.

August 4th
 Played golf.. shot 85 at Green Hill.. Good, not great.


August 5th
Strict Pull Ups on the 2 min.. 15-10-8-7.. super tough by the end to keep with it..

The barbell and I
10:40something.. this was sneaky terrible.. I need to work on front squats more.. The rest felt fine with little chunks here and there, but the 25 front squats at 115 should not be as hard as they were for me. I did sets of 5 when realistically I should be able to do this almost unbroken.. Not a great showing there.


August 6th
Chocolate Chips
This was a good workout for me. I was able to push the pedal really hard the whole time and finished in about 6:20.. Very little breaks throughout.. Almost unbroken on the DUs, one dumb trip early on.

Cash Out Kb Swings - 37 reps with the 2 pooder, wanted 40.. oh well, next time.


August 7th
The Burden Run
This was horrendously terrible..
135 lb bar for a mile was one of the most mentally defeating workouts I have done in a year.. Just beat me up in the core and shoulders by the end.

Loved it.. 18:40ish.. recorded it on the blog..


August 8th
Rest Day


August 9th
Double Rest Day, ended up painting and doing a whole lot of nothing.. Did some push ups at home to take out some energy, but nothing notable..

August 10th
Cash In
500m Row 1:26.2 = PR baby. .Love it

Took me legitimately 15 minutes for my heart rate to come down from this.. It hurt so much.

"Brenton" 12:40
Rough Hero WOD with the vest.. broad jumps sucked to get a rhythm. Bear Crawls unbroken which I am happy about.


August 11th
Made up a WOD.. I wanted to do some strongman stuff so I made this thing up..
4 Rounds
Minute 1 - sled push high handles, 50 feet, sled push back, low handles.. loaded with 150 lbs
Minute 2 - 5 axle bar clean and jerks 160#
Minute 3 - 5 Tire flips

This ended up being about 30 or 40 seconds of work each time, with 20 seconds rest. Liked it a lot. But the sled kicked my ass sideways..

August 12
Back Squat
1RM
Got up to 300# ass-to-grass in non-OLY shoes. very happy with this. Best I have squatted since hurting my knee..

Back Off
5:30ish RXd. This hurt like a bitch. Damn.

Went unbroken on everything as best as possible. Small breaks on the box jumps to focus and not miss, but my legs and ass were fried afterward.


Tuesday
August 13
Rest Day


August 14th
"Angie"
18:46 Rx'd

I have done this in 18:05 (or so) before, but I think that was 2 years ago with questionable squat depth. Today I hit everything perfectly to standard and was moving at a good clip the whole way.
Love this workout. I need to improve pull ups if I want a better time on this, but the rest of it sort of is what it is effort wise. Hard to go too much faster on the push ups, sit ups and squats when you barely rest and have a good plan rep scheme wise.