Yesterday

Saturday was spent doing yard work and attending a friends jiu jitsu competition, oh yea and recovering because I was sore as funk. Sunday, before football and my weekly double whopper (don't judge me), I was able to get some lifting in.

I hadn't done heavy power clean and jerks outside of a met-con in quite some time. I decided that even though I didn't feel 90% (90% is the new 100%), I would give them a shot. I worked up to 225#. On this last attempt I was able to get the weight up but as I caught the bar in in my rack position, my body resembled that of a Torrey Pine Tree, bending and curving in places it shouldn't. My stance was wide, weight on the inside of my feet an my back arched to the extreme. I was so ashamed of this that I couldn't help but laugh at myself with 225# racked on my shoulders. Jerking 225# is not that difficult for me but with the clean as it was, one might say I wasn't entirely focused. I jerked the weight, got it overhead, locked my arms out, but a the bar was too out in front of my face. I am pretty confident I could have stepped under it but that would have caused me to trip over the "oh so important" leg press machine (1 of 2 of them in the gym), so I dropped the weight "no lift."

1x3 95# p clean and press
1x3 135# p clean and p press
1x3 185# p clean and p press
1x3 205# p clean and s jerk
1x1 215# p clean and s jerk
1x1 225# p clean and s jerk (fail)

*15 minutes after

5 rounds:
10 GHD sit ups
10 pull ups
20 double unders

8:23

This was a good one because even at a fat 215# I was able to go non-stop. Nearly everything was unbroken, missing only a couple double unders. Pull ups were easy and GHD were not. My met-con speed has decreased but thats what comes with my current strength bias program, the fact that things take less out of me then before is comforting.