Had a hell of a workout on Wednesday.
First we started out with power cleans.
Something really really really weird happened while I was doing them.
I think I may have actually gotten the movement right.
But if it is right then it feels so wrong.
Let me explain. So I guess the way you're supposed to do a power clean is pull it up from the floor to your waist and then explode up with a jump.
I always jump too early because it feels weird to not pull. It's like you are forcing your body not to lift weights while you're getting ready to lift weights.
That doesn't make sense, I know. Anyway.
And if you do it right, the bar just flips over and pow, it's on your shoulders. You don't feel like you used your muscles at all sorta.
And that feels wrong too.
Power cleans are weird but I got up to 195 yesterday. It was ugly but I did it. Guess I gotta go for 200 next time.
Really not looking forward to that.
And then . . . came the WOD.
Thrusters then box jumps for rounds of 21, 15 and 9 reps.
Bruce, Kats and I all used 95 pounds as our weight, which we all knew would suck. Bump suggested we all use the 24 inch boxes for our jumps too.
So the clock starts and we start thrusting. The first 10 go surprisingly well and even though I started bogging a little I hit all 21 reps without resting.
But then I tried to jump. Holy crap I almost killed myself. My legs barely made it to the top of the box.
I was like no way, what the hell. I jumped again and again barely made it to the top. I made one more jump and then Bump came with the smaller box for me to use. Either he sensed the danger or got tired of me saying "No effin way brah, this ain't happening."
That was round one. The second round was worse, much worse. I broke up the reps into groups of five so I could rest 3 times while completing 15 reps. Jumping almost as bad.
The last 9 reps were terrible, I think I could only do two thrusters at a time. The jumps seemed to last forever and I thought it would never end.
Of course after the WOD we had the cashout to do. Grab dumbbells and hold one high and the other low and walk for the fence about 100 yards away. I grabbed 25 pound weights. Yeah I was being a wuss but I DON'T CARE . . . at least not at that point I didn't.
Thrusters man, I hate 'em and I'm tired of being a wuss when it comes to squat workouts. I'm going to have to get serious about improving my leg strength because I can't just continue on like this where I push myself during upper body and just get by during lower body workout days.
Not. Happenen.
Late,
Rod
First we started out with power cleans.
Something really really really weird happened while I was doing them.
I think I may have actually gotten the movement right.
But if it is right then it feels so wrong.
Let me explain. So I guess the way you're supposed to do a power clean is pull it up from the floor to your waist and then explode up with a jump.
I always jump too early because it feels weird to not pull. It's like you are forcing your body not to lift weights while you're getting ready to lift weights.
That doesn't make sense, I know. Anyway.
And if you do it right, the bar just flips over and pow, it's on your shoulders. You don't feel like you used your muscles at all sorta.
And that feels wrong too.
Power cleans are weird but I got up to 195 yesterday. It was ugly but I did it. Guess I gotta go for 200 next time.
Really not looking forward to that.
And then . . . came the WOD.
Thrusters then box jumps for rounds of 21, 15 and 9 reps.
Bruce, Kats and I all used 95 pounds as our weight, which we all knew would suck. Bump suggested we all use the 24 inch boxes for our jumps too.
So the clock starts and we start thrusting. The first 10 go surprisingly well and even though I started bogging a little I hit all 21 reps without resting.
But then I tried to jump. Holy crap I almost killed myself. My legs barely made it to the top of the box.
I was like no way, what the hell. I jumped again and again barely made it to the top. I made one more jump and then Bump came with the smaller box for me to use. Either he sensed the danger or got tired of me saying "No effin way brah, this ain't happening."
That was round one. The second round was worse, much worse. I broke up the reps into groups of five so I could rest 3 times while completing 15 reps. Jumping almost as bad.
The last 9 reps were terrible, I think I could only do two thrusters at a time. The jumps seemed to last forever and I thought it would never end.
Of course after the WOD we had the cashout to do. Grab dumbbells and hold one high and the other low and walk for the fence about 100 yards away. I grabbed 25 pound weights. Yeah I was being a wuss but I DON'T CARE . . . at least not at that point I didn't.
Thrusters man, I hate 'em and I'm tired of being a wuss when it comes to squat workouts. I'm going to have to get serious about improving my leg strength because I can't just continue on like this where I push myself during upper body and just get by during lower body workout days.
Not. Happenen.
Late,
Rod
