In order to get more strength work in, but not lose our metabolic work, Jerry has been slating two wods on certain days. He's giving us a 20 minute time limit to work up to a heavy single, double, triple of whatever movement we're focusing on that day, and also still leave time to get a metcon in. Yesterday we started off by focusing on a 1 RM in the push press. I like doing overhead work, but for some reason the push press just doesn't light my fire. Neither does the strict press really. I understand that both of them are important and necessary for getting stronger etc, but neither one of them really make me go wow! That was fun!
But, since I get to lift heavy things over my head, I really shouldn't complain. We worked up pretty fast to a heavy single, and I was able to increase my previous PR of 135 to 140. I think I may have had 145 in me, but of course that time limit gets you every time! After that we moved into a short but pretty brutal metcon. It was
4 rounds of
1 minute on each station for max reps
Record total reps of
Pull-ups
Box jumps
Sit-ups
Melissa encouraged anyone who was trying for a pull-up PR to start with pull-ups. Now, I know I just got done having myself a push press PR and that's a lot of shoulders and what have you, but I thought what the hey. I haven't actually tried for a pull-up PR in awhile, so I'll give it a whirl. So I started with pull-ups and increased by 1. Not a big pull-up PR, but it's still a PR. My current pull-ups stand at 27. I def think I have 30, but on 25 I adjusted my grip and totally lost my rhythm. Next time I need to wait until I absolutely have to to adjust my grip so I don't lose the momentum. I really sucked wind on the box jumps and didn't do well with them at all, but did ok on the sit-ups. My total numbers were 70, 50, and 117. Not great, but not bad. Clearly more metcon work is still needed. I'm getting very frustrated by that, but if I use the word "frustrated" one more time in a blog this week, I may have to flag myself for overusage of the word. As a side note, this made 4 wods this week, and I plan on going in today, which means I'm going to hit 5 this week. This will be the first 5 wod week in a long time.
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Tuesday's WOD: Max push press
Look at me.... school's got me turning into such a freakin' hot mess that I can't even remember that CFOT was closed Monday and that we did push presses on Tuesday! Oi vey! Tragic.... :P LOL... anyway...
Tuesday was a good day back from a much needed long weekend. Even though I didn't get in as many wod's as I wanted to last week, I was spent dude. 12 hour days everyday plus work at the restaurant and all that jazz... I was done. So I enjoyed my time off, but I enjoyed getting back to the box.
It was great to come back on a strength day because, well... DUH! We all know that I love throwing heavy things over my head. :) I'm a fan on Facebook, well not really a fan on Facebook, but you get the idea.... :P
The last time we did max push presses I believe was a Monday in July. We did strict/push/jerk, and I was able to hit 125X1 as my new PR on my max push press. That was a great set of lifting that day. I loved it. So going into this lifting day I was sort of feeling like an eager beaver. It's been a hot minute since I hit a PR so I was sort of itching for one.
Once I got 120 up I knew I had 125 but I wasn't sure about any higher. I jumped by 10 up to 135 and failed. Actually it was a successful lift, but it wasn't a push press... it was a flat out jerk. LOL. Jerry took some film of this day and added the bloopers. You can go to the CFOT page and watch the vid, and see me start to laugh as soon as I hit the lift knowing full well I'd just screwed up. Not to mention you can hear my teammates laughing at me in the background and my trainer... Nice guys they are... :P
Anyway, after the miss at 135, I decided to drop down, and I went for a new PR of 130. That went up pretty solid and felt pretty good. It wasn't a huge PR but sometimes, it's all about the baby steps... :P I'll take over the rest of the world soon enough... mwah mwah mwah (um... that was my evil laughter folks... be afraid... be very afraid.... ;) )
Tuesday was a good day back from a much needed long weekend. Even though I didn't get in as many wod's as I wanted to last week, I was spent dude. 12 hour days everyday plus work at the restaurant and all that jazz... I was done. So I enjoyed my time off, but I enjoyed getting back to the box.
It was great to come back on a strength day because, well... DUH! We all know that I love throwing heavy things over my head. :) I'm a fan on Facebook, well not really a fan on Facebook, but you get the idea.... :P
The last time we did max push presses I believe was a Monday in July. We did strict/push/jerk, and I was able to hit 125X1 as my new PR on my max push press. That was a great set of lifting that day. I loved it. So going into this lifting day I was sort of feeling like an eager beaver. It's been a hot minute since I hit a PR so I was sort of itching for one.
Once I got 120 up I knew I had 125 but I wasn't sure about any higher. I jumped by 10 up to 135 and failed. Actually it was a successful lift, but it wasn't a push press... it was a flat out jerk. LOL. Jerry took some film of this day and added the bloopers. You can go to the CFOT page and watch the vid, and see me start to laugh as soon as I hit the lift knowing full well I'd just screwed up. Not to mention you can hear my teammates laughing at me in the background and my trainer... Nice guys they are... :P
Anyway, after the miss at 135, I decided to drop down, and I went for a new PR of 130. That went up pretty solid and felt pretty good. It wasn't a huge PR but sometimes, it's all about the baby steps... :P I'll take over the rest of the world soon enough... mwah mwah mwah (um... that was my evil laughter folks... be afraid... be very afraid.... ;) )
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