Fitness-3/20-Visit from Loren, cleans, front squats, "Northern European Chipper"

Saturday

I had the privlage of having my good friend Loren up for a visit Friday night and was stoked to have him with me in the gym the next day for a tough morning session. Loren pushes me hard and I needed it. We went after cleans and front squats to start. My sets looked as follows:

cleans
5 x 160
5 x 185
5 x 205

fronts
5 x 205
7 x 230

The cleans felt pretty light and were a good warm-up to the fronts. Actually, 205 felt heavy but I finished the set easily. Loren made it look like the bar, good Lord. The fronts felt heavy and I barely got that 7th rep up. I'll look to see my strength going back up quickly as this was my first workout under any heavy weight in a couple weeks and the body was hollering a bit. After the lift, we went after the chipper wod from the 2010 CrossFit Games Northern European Sectonal Qualifier. It was a brute:

35 x sdhp, 95#
50 x box jumps, 20"
35 x push press, 95#
50 x air squats
35 x toes to bar
50 x american kb swings, 24kg
30m farmers carry walking lunge, 24kg bells
50 burpees

time=18:24

I was pretty pleased with this output. It was a grinder and I just tried to set a pace and keep moving. The toughest part of this one was the transition from toes to bar on to kb swings, my grip was trashed. I know I wouldn't have done as well as I did if not for Loren getting after it with me. Thanks for the push brother, can't wait to do it again, "Fran" here we come!