The Vortex of Sadness

Slept like crap. Boss is in town. BP is a little higher than normal. I tried to jump rope today...long story. Managed 10 minutes, and I fear I'll have sore knees tomorrow. Snatch work: Snatch 20kg 4 x 5/5 Snatch 16kg 4 x 10/10 Total 60/60 Is all I could eek out.

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OK. Time for an update. It seems with me it's either sink or swim, but mainly sink. Last fall I was doing complexes at the recommendation of my trainer...and then I crashed. We suspected adrenal fatigue. No energy, poor sleep, work like a dog and not lose weight (I was even keeping a food journal averageing <2000 cals a day). So around Christmas we cut waaayy down. Mainly it was a stop and smell the roses program. In January I began to do some light snatch work which was new for me. Usually I ‘m working cleans and presses, but now we switched focus to slowly make progress on stamina. And I was. But then work got in the way. My current prescription for training is more of a tabata knockoff (See what Dan John has to say here, here, here, and here). However, since I haven’t done much in the past two weeks, I decided to just go easy and take one step back into the January program which was kind of a drop set format: 5 snatches right and left with the 20kg, immediately followed by 10/10 with the 16kg for 1 round. Normally I would do seven rounds for 105/105 total, but went with only five rounds today.

Snatch 20kg 5 x 5/5
Snatch 16kg 5 x 10/10
Total 75/75

The get-ups are partials. Mainly just time under tension, doing kalos stenos type circles and pry’s.

Partial TGUs 16kg; 2x1/1x5/5

Then I took the dog for a walk.

I just got a pedometer for grins and giggles. The walk was just shy of a mile. Today’s total so far is 2.58 miles.

I will also put in about 10 minutes of club bell work just to loosen up the shoulder’s.

Light and easy. Easy peezy.

Monday, February 06, 2012

.....Time to get back up.


Snatch 16kg; 7 x 10/10
TGU 24kg; 2x2/2
Janda Sit-ups 45lbs; 5x5
Planks 5 x 30s
Swings 44kg; 3 x 10

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results.”

– Attributed to Ben Franklin, Mark Twain, Albert Einstein and Rita Mae Brown. No one knows for sure.

Regardless…..


Me in 2012:

Fiber

July 17, 2011

Back to Plus.
Grind Day

C&P
16kg; 5/5
20kg; 5/5
24kg; 5/5
28kg; 5/5
32kg; 5/5

36kg
9 minutes
4 x 3/3

Goblet Squats
24kg
7 minutes
7 x 3
21

Double C&P
28kg/28kg
8 minutes
7 x 3

July 10th, 2011

First foray into Return of the Kettlebell.

I can not do double snatches so I did 5 double swings to a single snatch and then did the presses

Double Swings to
Double Snatch to
Double Press Ladders
Then Double Front Snatches on the last ladder. I only did two ladders, but five rungs, with the 24kg’s

Double Swings 24kg/24kg;10 x 5
Double Snatches 24kg/24kg; 10 x 1
Double Press Ladders 24kg/24kg; (2*(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
Then Double Front Snatches 24kg/24kg; 2 x 5

The presses were easy. I was way out of wind from the double swings.