The Avengers - Best Line

You’re going to lose. It’s in your nature… You lack conviction.


— Agent Phil Coulson

Some people call it motivation.  I call it energy.  Agent Phil calls it conviction. 

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Just now getting over a cold. Based on today’s performance I would say that I must have already been coming down with a cold during my last session. I was still a little light headed after my training and I have a little tickle in my chest so still not 100%, but I had the itch.

Superset snatch work
Snatch 20kg 5/5
Snatch 16kg 10/10
for 8 rounds

120/120 total

Walked the dog for @ mile.

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.

Backfill

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:

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