or for me, now known as "what the bleepity bleep bleep just happened??"
I'm not certain if I need a week or two to psych up for this or what, but the last couple times we've done this it's just been sad.
Back Squat - last two previous attempts - got the 235. Today. Tried.....twice.....and never got it up. From what people say, I was going alot lower than I normally go. Well, duh, it's easy to squat lower than low with 200+ on your back!! - it's the getting up that's hard, and apparently out of my reach on Monday.
Shoulder Press - I'm pretty sure I messed myself up on this one. I did a warm up at 95, then went to 105, and couldn't get that up to save my life! Because of that pathetic showing, I did the first lift at 95 again. No problem. 2nd lift I went to 105 - but as I was putting the weights on, I believe I saw what the problem was. I think in my warm up, I grabbed the wrong plates, and was going for 115, not 105. 115 is my 1 rep max - that I hit once, and only once. The reality is, I could be mistaken and this could be some lameass excuse for patheticism (not really a word, but it sounds good), but I believe I screwed up the weights in the warmup, which threw me off completely.
Deadlift - After the awesome successes I'd had in the first two lifts, I started relatively light, at 255. Actually, that didn't feel too bad. 2nd lift - I went for 285, slightly higher than the 275 I've gotten a couple times before, but a tad bit lighter than that one tiny 300 moment from 6 months ago. Well, it didn't really go anywhere. I'll expound a bit moore on this in the Deadlift Functional focus information on Thursday.
Tuesday - Fran 21, 15, 9 reps, 64# Thrusters, Pullups.
Crud - I don't remember what I did timewise on this - I believe it was 8:47 or so. The thrusters actually felt good - first set I broke it up into 15/6, then 8 /7, then the last 9 were unbroken. Naturally, the pullups took the most time, but I did 'em kipping in the red bands. Overall, Fran felt pretty good, but I can't really remember anything special about this day. There have just been too many other highs and lows this week I guess...
I'm not certain if I need a week or two to psych up for this or what, but the last couple times we've done this it's just been sad.
Back Squat - last two previous attempts - got the 235. Today. Tried.....twice.....and never got it up. From what people say, I was going alot lower than I normally go. Well, duh, it's easy to squat lower than low with 200+ on your back!! - it's the getting up that's hard, and apparently out of my reach on Monday.
Shoulder Press - I'm pretty sure I messed myself up on this one. I did a warm up at 95, then went to 105, and couldn't get that up to save my life! Because of that pathetic showing, I did the first lift at 95 again. No problem. 2nd lift I went to 105 - but as I was putting the weights on, I believe I saw what the problem was. I think in my warm up, I grabbed the wrong plates, and was going for 115, not 105. 115 is my 1 rep max - that I hit once, and only once. The reality is, I could be mistaken and this could be some lameass excuse for patheticism (not really a word, but it sounds good), but I believe I screwed up the weights in the warmup, which threw me off completely.
Deadlift - After the awesome successes I'd had in the first two lifts, I started relatively light, at 255. Actually, that didn't feel too bad. 2nd lift - I went for 285, slightly higher than the 275 I've gotten a couple times before, but a tad bit lighter than that one tiny 300 moment from 6 months ago. Well, it didn't really go anywhere. I'll expound a bit moore on this in the Deadlift Functional focus information on Thursday.
Tuesday - Fran 21, 15, 9 reps, 64# Thrusters, Pullups.
Crud - I don't remember what I did timewise on this - I believe it was 8:47 or so. The thrusters actually felt good - first set I broke it up into 15/6, then 8 /7, then the last 9 were unbroken. Naturally, the pullups took the most time, but I did 'em kipping in the red bands. Overall, Fran felt pretty good, but I can't really remember anything special about this day. There have just been too many other highs and lows this week I guess...
Wednesday - Functional Focus: Deadlift
I had a total "AHA!" moment. Now, hopefully, I can keep that going next time we do DL's. In the back of my mind, for quite some time now, I've been thinking that I'm pulling too much with my back on the deadlift. My guess was that it was because I was using the narrow stance, rather than the sumo. However, on Tuesday, I had my first massage with Melissa, and she was working out my lower back kinks and knots. She thought maybe I was doing something wrong, causing me to use my back rather than glutes...which kind of confirmed my thinking. So, it was kind of ironic that the next day we did functional focus on deadlifts. We started with 1 round at light warmup weight (135), just looking for the perfect form. Suddenly, out of nowhere comes the video camera. We do another round, only this time, it's being filmed - and we get the joy of watching. Ok, first of all, let's take a gratuitous moment, and just say - HOLY SCHMITZOID!!!........please tell me I am not that roly-poly in the video!! UGH! I am much cuter and far more buff in my head than on film!!
Ok - gratuitous moment over...other than that, I did notice in the video that my butt was higher up in the air than it felt, and I saw the rocking motion that I have. The next round we added some weight, brought it to 185. This time, I really concentrated more on getting my hips lower, but back staying mostly in one position and putting everything through my legs. I know it sounds strange, but in that set of 5, 4 were closer, and I think 1 of them actually felt the way it was supposed to. Which, is completely different than I'd been doing them. Kind of surprising that a small change, actually made it feel right, the way you know it should. Next we did Deadlift from the hang. Started much higher this time. We did alot of these, last set was at 305 for me. Let me clarify - it was a set of 5 at 305. Jonathan "wanted me to remember what 300 felt like". Shoo-dog did I remember, 300 feels freakin' heavy! I felt pretty darn good on these when I left though, like I've had a break through or something. We'll see when we do 'em again if this is the case, but I'm going with that mantra for now.
Thursday: Annie 50-40-30-20- 10-rep rounds of: double unders/situps.
I like Annie, despite the elusiveness of a good double under run. I sucked 'em up the first two rounds. Took forever. Then my shoe was untied for the 30's so I kicked 'em off. I think the desire to avoid the rope smacking into my toes, made me a bit more agile. Just a bit - not a ton, but that bit helped some. I ended much better than I started. End time was 15:27 - some 30+ seconds longer than last time. I've decided that Annie's time is all dependent on how ya feel doing the DU's.
I like Annie, despite the elusiveness of a good double under run. I sucked 'em up the first two rounds. Took forever. Then my shoe was untied for the 30's so I kicked 'em off. I think the desire to avoid the rope smacking into my toes, made me a bit more agile. Just a bit - not a ton, but that bit helped some. I ended much better than I started. End time was 15:27 - some 30+ seconds longer than last time. I've decided that Annie's time is all dependent on how ya feel doing the DU's.
That's it so far - a week of lows and highs, and everything in between!
AHA moments are good!!
ReplyDeleteMaybe we will work on deadlifts on Saturday, while it is still fresh in your mind.