Training Week in Review

Work Summary

Monday: Convict Conditioning New Fish: Wall Pushups (3x20) & Knee Pulls (4x10), Swings 1x15, C&P 1x(1;2;3) & Swings again 1x20. Cycling: 10.8 miles.

Tuesday: Pumps, Halos, C&P 3x(1;2;3).

Wednesday: Rest, though cycled about 8 miles

Thursday: Halos, C&P 4x(1;2;3), Swings 2x20, Snatches 5 each hand, Swings 1x10. Grip work: 3 attempts to close my CoC "Trainer". none successful. Dangit.

Friday: CC New Fish: Vertical Pulls 5x20, Shoulder-stand Squats: 1x10.

Saturday: TGUs 5 minutes. Snatches 10 each hand. C&P 5x(1;2;3) (maybe 6 sets, I wasn't sure), Swings 3x25.

Sunday: Rest. Cycled 12.4 miles at a fairly lazy 11 mph pace.

Salient Commentary

Halos are fun, but I like TGUs to warm up my shoulders better. I can't always get to them though, so when I can't, I can just do 4 per side, since that's about how many I can get in within 5 minutes.

Shoulder-stand squats will be the bane of my existence. I know this because I have to hold my gut up in the air, and it sucks. I'll work on it better next week, damnit.

Working out later in the day means that I sleep better, but I think that working out first thing in the morning means that I feel better throughout the day. Not sure which is better.

Kelly pointed out that my feet were more splayed out than I thought (closer to a 60° angle than <45° like it should be). Will have to work on that.

I thought early in the week that I'd lost a lot of the conditioning & strength that I had built up in the past. By the end of the week I think I didn't quite loose as much as I thought I had, but sure as shit my Snatches needed work early in the week. We'll see how it feels next week. I plan to Grease the Groove those pesky Snatches until they feel better. Goes back to something that Dan John said: "If it's important: do it every day." Snatches are important to my progress, so I'll be continuing to work on them. Plan on earning a new Kettlebell within the next 4 weeks, and getting up to the standard 24kg (probably going to order it the first week of February, if not before...