Sometimes Beezelbump has some words of wisdom that solidifies why he owns the gym and I just workout there.
I had just had a really crap day on Monday. Handstand pushups and power cleans for 21, 15 and 9 reps. Took me 12 minutes to do while everyone else did around 8 minutes.
My back was blasted and today Bump was trying to show me some pointers. Says I have to start receiving the bar a bit lower because I've got a good pull.
Yeah I know, I have to squat a little more. I hate squatting but if it saves my back I'll start trying harder.
Then he said something else that kind of opened my eyes. He said for the WOD's I should be doing lighter weight and concentrate on moving faster.
It made sense. It's not like I'm going to be losing strength if I keep pushing it during the first part of the WOD. Lift lighter and move faster. Sounded very 36 Chambers of Shaolin-like.
Again if you don't get that reference I don't care. This be my blog and you're all just reading it.
So today was as good as any a day to check out that theory. We were doing man-makers today, which consists of a pushup, a row, another pushup, a row, a power clean then a push press with whatever dumbell weight that you choose.
Usually I would have picked like a 40. Today I picked 30 instead.
Concentrate on speed. Did I say we had to do 30 reps? Already I was worried about the first 10.
But it all made sense. Don't worry about weight, worry about moving you ass. Burning off the fat, working on the cardio.
So we start and it's tough. The first 3 were hard but I was trying to move my ass. I got to ten and finally had to rest a bit. But I picked up the weight as soon as I could and continued.
The last 10 were a slow hell. I think I did one rep then stopped. Then two and stopped. Then one rep and stopped again.
I did two more and Bump asked how many reps I had left and I said 26. Then he said to "turn off your mind and just do it."
Brah, I'm Pocho. My mind doesn't listen to me, he just does his own thing. Bruddah just talks and talks and talks and I do my best not to listen but I cannot. That's why I had trouble concentrating and paying attention to my ex wife.
Yeah she didn't buy that excuse either. But seriously I cannot turn this off.
I tried though and my mind said, "What you doing?" I said "manmakers" and he asked back "Why?"
The conversation went back and forth like that for the last four reps and it was hard to concentrate but I powered through. I think my time was just before 8 minutes. Not bad. Faster than I would have done had I gone heavier and I think going faster worked me harder than going heavier.
Okay, so my new strategy is lift heavy during strength and go lighter during WOD's and work on moving faster.
In other words, turn on the Hulk then switch to the Flash.
I'm game. Let's do this. Thanks coach.
Rod
I had just had a really crap day on Monday. Handstand pushups and power cleans for 21, 15 and 9 reps. Took me 12 minutes to do while everyone else did around 8 minutes.
My back was blasted and today Bump was trying to show me some pointers. Says I have to start receiving the bar a bit lower because I've got a good pull.
Yeah I know, I have to squat a little more. I hate squatting but if it saves my back I'll start trying harder.
Then he said something else that kind of opened my eyes. He said for the WOD's I should be doing lighter weight and concentrate on moving faster.
It made sense. It's not like I'm going to be losing strength if I keep pushing it during the first part of the WOD. Lift lighter and move faster. Sounded very 36 Chambers of Shaolin-like.
Again if you don't get that reference I don't care. This be my blog and you're all just reading it.
So today was as good as any a day to check out that theory. We were doing man-makers today, which consists of a pushup, a row, another pushup, a row, a power clean then a push press with whatever dumbell weight that you choose.
Usually I would have picked like a 40. Today I picked 30 instead.
Concentrate on speed. Did I say we had to do 30 reps? Already I was worried about the first 10.
But it all made sense. Don't worry about weight, worry about moving you ass. Burning off the fat, working on the cardio.
So we start and it's tough. The first 3 were hard but I was trying to move my ass. I got to ten and finally had to rest a bit. But I picked up the weight as soon as I could and continued.
The last 10 were a slow hell. I think I did one rep then stopped. Then two and stopped. Then one rep and stopped again.
I did two more and Bump asked how many reps I had left and I said 26. Then he said to "turn off your mind and just do it."
Brah, I'm Pocho. My mind doesn't listen to me, he just does his own thing. Bruddah just talks and talks and talks and I do my best not to listen but I cannot. That's why I had trouble concentrating and paying attention to my ex wife.
Yeah she didn't buy that excuse either. But seriously I cannot turn this off.
I tried though and my mind said, "What you doing?" I said "manmakers" and he asked back "Why?"
The conversation went back and forth like that for the last four reps and it was hard to concentrate but I powered through. I think my time was just before 8 minutes. Not bad. Faster than I would have done had I gone heavier and I think going faster worked me harder than going heavier.
Okay, so my new strategy is lift heavy during strength and go lighter during WOD's and work on moving faster.
In other words, turn on the Hulk then switch to the Flash.
I'm game. Let's do this. Thanks coach.
Rod
