Showing posts with label slam balls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slam balls. Show all posts

Friday, January 18, 2013

Light jerks



Strength: jerk... worked up to 95# (I think, no heavier)
4 rounds of 8 DB single arm snatch (35#) / 16 slam balls (20#) / 16 slam ball sit ups (10#)
13:36

Situps with the heavier slam ball caused some discomfort with the stretching in the belly so grabbed a lighter weight.

Friday, October 12, 2012

4 this week

Strength: BS 3-3-3-3-3-3 (95-115-125-135-145-155)
Metcon: 21-15-9 of DL (165#, rx) / pull up / slam ball (20#, rx)
11:32

I hit a BS 3RM PR at 155# at the beginning of December during the Wendler but regressed a little two weeks later due to lack of squatting. Today, I planned to finish at 155# and made it. Used too much quads on my last rep but felt ok overall.
If I remember correctly, my DLs went 9-6-4-1-1/7-3-3-1-1/5-4. In retrospect, I probably could have gotten rid of those singles at the end but I could feel my back arching a bit and my hands hurt from gripping. May have felt better than the last WOD with 165# DL but I can't be sure.
Pull ups went 7-5-4-3-2/5-4-3-3/3-2-1-1-1-1. Didn't resort to singles until later which is an improvement for me. Still got those blood blisters.
Broke up slam balls once in first two rounds, unbroken in last round.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Another 12:30ish



Metcon: 5 rounds of 40 DU / 6 Power Snatch (65#, rx) / 12 slam balls (20#, rx)
12:29

Post: 20 x 1 20# WB
Post-post: ME sets to failure: HSPU to 1 ab mat (2-2-1-1) and rx ring dip (3-2-1)

The 65# power snatches are feeling better. Slam balls unbroken. Got some nasty misses on the DUs. Pushed for less rest in between.
Pretty happy with my ME efforts today. Thinking about doing more max effort sets for upper body as post.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Slam!



WOD:
200 double unders
50-40-30-20-10 of slam balls (20#, rx) / KBS (1 pood, rx)
200 double unders
21:59

Post: 3-3-4-3 butterfly pullups

It was more of a cardio for me. Cleared 137 DUs at 2 min mark. I want to say I finished out the 200 before 3 min was up but I can't recall. Slam balls went better than expected, pretty much clean and pressed them out. I even caught it off the bounce at the bottom. Turned into sets of 10. KBS same deal. Tried to keep the breaks short by walking to the wall and back. I think that worked out.
I almost tweaked my right bicep doing these but I managed to stretch it out a bit before it got too bad. I need to learn to breathe through these.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

V-up


Day 3 at Sasquatch CF

70 DUs
60 v-ups
50 burpees
40 box jumps (Rx 20")
30 mountain climbers
20 KB SDHP (Rx 1 pood)
10 ball slams (Rx 20#)
400m run
18:12

Post-WOD: Kipping TTB work (strung 3), kipping pull up work (strung 9), some ring work for shoulder stability, testing out kipping HSPUs (don't arch back too much)

The two boxes I've tried so far don't have GHDs so v-ups are the subs for GHDs. Limiting factor was the v-ups as I spent most of my time laying on the ground (I have bad core strength). GHDs would have hurt a lot more I'm sure.
Other than the v-ups, everything would have been just fine but because of where the v-ups showed up in this WOD, everything that came after it sucked.