Wednesday, March 12, 2014

1800

Morning weight: 275.8

Warmup
5 minute AMRAP 
- burpees

Result: 70
Limiting factor(s): body weight, not warmed up, low anaerobic capacity

- wow...what a great way to start a session haha. This wasn't by choice. I made a promise to a trainer that I would do this for him for his 5 minute burpee challenge. I don't plan on repeating this haha. Sad part is that this is only 3 reps off my PR for 7 minutes of burpees.

Specific Development
A
10 minutes to find 1RM Power Snatch

Result: 155, 175, 195, 215, 235PR, 240x
Limiting factor(s): technique, explosiveness

- I'm happy I was able to PR on this after the ridiculousness of yesterday's aerobic capacity WOD. I just really need to work on the "pop" and "drop" rather than "pop" and "spread-my-feet-as-far-as-they-can-go-in-a-Jean Claude Van Dam-split". Tonight I only did it on the 240# attempt, however, I only went a little bit outside of shoulder width, therefore, I've made some pretty good progress on this.

B
Push Jerk 3x3; rest 2 minutes between sets; all 3 sets need to be working sets

Result: 235, 235, 235
Limiting factor(s): shoulders were hurting, felt very lethargic, technique was a little off

- I haven't done any type of press for a while so I didn't feel like my nervous system was prepped well enough to go super heavy. My PR on this is 295# so this was close to 80% of my 1RM. Looking at it realistically, I probably could have done 255#, maybe even 260#.

Gen WOD
3 sets
Row 1 minute @ "all out" pace for calories
Row 2 minutes ez

Result (calories by round): 32, 27, 23
Limiting factor(s): low anaerobic capacity

- I felt like I hit a very high level of fatigue early on. I achieved 20 calories within the first half of the first row and just died. From then on it was a rough showing. Overall, I enjoyed this. Sadly, I enjoyed feeling like I hit the brick wall soon into the workout. I was still fatigued from yesterday going into today and starting the workout off with 5 minutes of burpees wasn't much fun, however, I'm pretty happy with all of the result. I look forward to being more consistent on this particular WOD in the future!