Fitness-12/24-snatch, deads, bench, hspu/rope/thruster

Christmas Eve

After taking Wednesday off as a rest day and with a few days planned off for Christmas, I went in to the gym this morning to get after it. Started with about an hour of strength work. It went as follows:

Snatch
-3 x 130
-3 x 150
-3 x 165

Deads
-3 x 285
-3 x 305
-15 x 335

Bench
-3 x 175
-3 x 205
-9 x 225

The snatch was sub-max and a great warm-up going into the deads. 15 reps at 335 on the deads felt like death, this was a painful effort. Honestly, after 5 reps I didn't think I'd make it very much further, was having one of those kind of days. But just decided to keep pulling. The reps prob didn't look great but this was a great mental effort if nothing else. I think I had 10 or 11 reps in me at 225 on the bench but I was in the gym by myself and didn't want to be foolish. The 9th went up slow and I decided to rack it. Press strength continues to improve which is promising.

I finished the day with a productive little circuit, un-timed. I did the following work with 30 second timed rests between each exercise and 1 minute timed rest between each round:

Round 1
-max hspu w/1 abmat
-12ft rope climb, no feet
-20 thrusters, 115#
-12ft rope climb, hands and feet

Round 2
-max hspu w/1-2 abmats
-12ft rope climb, no feet
-15 thrusters, 135#
-12ft rope climb, hands and feet

Round 3
-max hspu w/2 abmats
-12ft rope climb, no feet
-10 thrusters, 155#
-12ft rope climb, hands and feet

This little line-up proved more difficult than I'd thought it'd be. Body weight skills continue to improve which is motivating. Still lots of work to do.