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3 touch-and-go power cleans at 60kg today. I love how snappy they look!

I'm still not so adventurous with attempting heavier weights as I was last time, but I just could tell how much power I've gained by how much faster and snappier the lifts are. Two years ago, 60kg was my 1 rep max, and my pull and elbow turnover were so slow that I almost didn't make the lift.

I guess this counts as a 3RM power clean PR as I'm sure I'd need to squat clean 3RM of 65kg. Maybe next time I'll find out!

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So today I hit power cleans for 150# x2. It was awesome. I tried 155# about a million times and just could NOT get it. But this really cool thing happened. I just laughed. Well, not just. I also yelled a lot (sorry Joyce and the new member whose name I forgot and Dan 😂). But you know what I didn't do? Panic. I didn't stop breathing because I was afraid I'd get hurt. I didn't stop trying. I just kept throwing that weight around, trying to GET UNDER IT. And I couldn't. And that's okay. I'll try again next week.

This might seem like no big deal, but it's a huge deal. The last time we did a clean cycle, I didn't sleep the night before any of them. I was anxious and it was awful. And this time, my brain has been almost...anxious that I'm not anxious? Ha. What a world.

So I finished throwing around my weights, then did the WOD and called it a day. Like a normal human with a normal brain.

It was awesome.

When I was stretching, one of our members told me I looked like I lost a bunch of weight. And I laughed because I really haven't. The scale hasn't budged. But I DO feel better, and I DO feel stronger and like my body has changed.

The scale is a fickle bitch, my friends. If you tie your satisfaction or progress to that number, you'll only end up frustrated. I feel better and stronger and I ran 3.1 miles without totally wanting to die, and that matters a whole lot more than the number on the scale.

Anyway. This post is mostly just because I said I was going to keep up with this blog more often. 😂

Drink your water, eat your veggies, wear your mask, and GO VOTE!

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Monday 09/12/19

Partner WOD (30 min cap)

4 Rounds for Time (share the reps)

50 cal bike

40 Toes to bar

30 Power cleans (R1: 30/50, R2: 40/60, R3: 50/70, R4: 60/80kg)

20 Hand release push ups

Completed: 3 Rds + 12 T2B

Partnered with Sam - it was a good one!

Toes to bar were done on our makeshift bar outside - one person held the bar in place while the other did their reps so it wouldn’t spin at the same time. Sweat was a big issue again - the bar got so slippery! Had to keep jumping down to wipe our hands.

Power cleans were good - though the forearms were fatigued having just come off the toes to bar. We split reps into sets of 5 each. Didn’t manage to get into the last round for the 60kg bar.. But DAMN, that 50kg bar felt HEAVY. All my sets of 5 were completed touch & go throughout the rounds, and I was juuust managing to get all 3 of the 50kg bar sets unbroken. The 60kg bar would’ve probably been in sets of 2s and 3s.

Hand release push ups were fine, we split it into sets of 5 as well, and the bike was tough but was good to have Sam push me to keep up the momentum we started with.

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Tuesday 17/09/19

Week 1 / Day 2

Power cleans

3 x 60 kg

3 x 60

Felt a little heavier than I expected. Reps weren’t touch & go, just made sure not to rest too long before getting into the next rep.

Push jerks

3 x 55 kg

3 x 55

Taken off racks, these were fine.

Overhead squats

3 x 55 kg

3 x 55

Taken off the racks and did this EMOM style so it only took 5 minutes. My wrists and shoulders did not like this movement one little bit, even with the lighter weights. It’s as if it’s been years since I’ve done any of these!

WOD - 5 Rounds for Time

20 Dbl DB alternating lunges

200m run

60 Double unders

Completed: 18.25 mins

This was hard! Trained with friends today.

Lunges - 17.5kg DBs. All reps done unbroken, reps felt a little sluggish though.

200m run - The gym we train in doesn’t have easy access to the run (you have to walk about 100m from the entrance to the gym door) - we just ran shuttles inside the gym up to about 200m. They were tough!

Double unders - Happy with these! All rounds were unbroken.

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