10/25/11

Today was a great session. I trained in the afternoon with my most consistent training partner and we went hard. I had a different squat routine written out, but decided to switch it up. It ended up being a great leg workout.

Overhead Squat 5 x 5 - ended up being 5,4,5,4,3 - 175,185,195,205,205 - I reached failure on some of the sets. I really didn't feel good. I was getting up on my toes, losing the bar forward and my right shoulder was giving me trouble on most of the sets. These felt heavy and challenging. This was discouraging. I thought I was going to do crappy for the rest of the workout because I wasn't recovered, but ended up feeling great. I think these were just tough because of my 205 x 3 for a snatch grip push press on Sunday. I don't know, for whatever reason these felt extremely hard, more-so than I thought they would. I'm really glad my training partner was there, he definitely helped motivate me through the session.

Front Squat 5 x 5 - 215,235,245,245,260 - Challenging but 260 was a new 5 rep PR.

Back Squat 5 x 5 - 275,275,285,295,300 - Challenging, but awesome.

Rest 15 minutes then...

With a #20 Vest, for time:

10-8-6-4-2 #135 Thrusters

6-9-12-15-18 Chest-to-bar Pull-ups

Followed by an 800m Sand Bag Run at #40.

My time was 15.36. This was a very fast time. I heavily modified the workout, added the vest and the C2B pull-ups. This was a great session, I went very hard. Overall a great day, I love these Tuesday afternoon workouts. Excited for tomorrow.