UGH! with a bit of pain and frustration thrown in

Again, I fall behind.    So, here's a plethora of days.

Thursday - Back Squats - 5/5/5/5/5

I feel like I haven't done back squats in forever.  My knees aren't achey at all, they haven't snap, crackled or popped in weeks.  So, I was kind of looking forward to these, but also wondering how they would feel.  Silly question.  Heavy.   That's the answer.

165 - was ok

175 - ok - but my knees were going wonky, yes, that is a technical term!

185 - heavy - I banded my knees to try to stop the wonkiness.  Not sure if it worked or not...

195 - really heavy....super heavy...uber heavy..still had the banded knees. 

195 - ok this set - was really heavy - but not as heavy as set 4....not sure how that happened.

Overall - not bad.  Not fantastic, but not too bad.

Friday - a new one:  21-15-9-rep rounds of:

Dips -  I did with the red band assist.   I did learn - do not stop, keep on dipping until you can't dip anymore. Once you stop, the next one is 12 times harder, even if you pause before complete depletion.

Box Jumps 20" box - I jumped up, but stepped down - my ankle has been feeling good, and I didn't have the best bouncing shoes on, so I didn't want to risk aggravating it again.  But stepping down is completely legit - not as fast, but still counts.

Pullups - Again - red band assist.  Someday I'll be able to do these freakin' things!

Deadlift - 155# - These were fine - no problemo.

I ended up finishing with a sad, sad time of 21:36 or so.  Primarily because of the dips.  Once you stop to refresh your arms a bit - it's a slow progression of one or two at a time.  

The time didn't make me happy.  Definitely not as good as I wanted.

Saturday - another new one - timed stations, based on the person doing the plate push.

I started with Ring Rows.   I think the most I got in was about 8 or 9 because Rich flew through the plate push.

I then moved to the plate push.  This is where you have to push a weight across the floor.  Hands on the weight (35#), feet on the ground...ass in the air.  Although if your ass is too high, the plate doesn't move.  Sounds simple enough.  but I personally ended up on my knees a couple times. I never stopped. Just dropped.  Then hoisted back up again!

Supermans - after the plate pushes, it took me a bit to get my breath and work the supermans, but got in quite a few.

Kettlebell swings 12kg - I could have cranked these out, but Jimmy flew up and down on the plate drag so I had a mere 30-45 seconds to get in as many as I could.

Pop presses - weird jumping jack things.  Fortunately I was able to get quite a few in, despite Lisa moving swiftly on the plate push.

Overall - I scored about ..306???  I think I broke 300....barely.   Not stellar - but not horrible.

Tonight was frustration central.  3 attempts at a 1 rep max Snatch and Clean and Jerk - for an Oly Lift total.

My snatches were wretched.  I seem to be only able to do them, and do them well if we have to do 75 of them.  When it comes to singles - form goes to hell.  

On  the snatches I did:

75 - pulled too soon

85 - pulled too soon -moved too slow

back down to 65 - still pulled a bit too soon.

Can you say "ARGHH!!!!!!"

Onto Clean and Jerks.  For me - the easy part of these is the jerk. I can jerk a whole lot more weight than I can effectively clean.  Because I've been "greasing the groove" this week with 95 lbs.  I started there.  I should, in theory, be able to clean the 95 lbs, as I've been doing and jerk it on up.  Not sure how that first round looked, but it went.  Next round went up to 105.  This was a mess.   No other way to describe it.  I got the bar up on both, but to say it wasn't pretty would be a vast understatement.  I knew this, and didn't even have to see it!  Third round I stayed at 105.   Apparently, this was my best clean of the night.  So, I guess my scor would be.....190?  I completely forgot to write up the clean and jerk score.  

Like the pullup, someday, I'll get these suckers.