Sat, 1 Apr 17
Block 11, Wave 1 - Events @ Iron Strong CF
Trained a little of this and a little of that today. My primary focus was to do what I can to get ready for Brute's Highlander at the Virginia International Tattoo coming up on 30 April. After that I was trying to hit some strongman events I have been neglecting. I checked off all boxes and finished up with some quad-rending conditioning.
Weight Over Bar
2x1ea x 28 over 12'
1ea x 28 over 14'
1ea x 56 over 8'
1ea x 56 over 10'
1ea x 56 over 11'
3x1ea x 56 over 12'
My reps for 12 feet were:
R good, L miss
L good, R miss
R good, L miss
The 12 foot throw with my left arm was a PR up from 11 feet, but this is relatively meaningless as I throw righty. Throws felt pretty good overall today though.
Atlas Stone Clean & Press (clean each rep)
5x135 - This set was just one clean and 5 presses.
6x135
5x135/1x175
4x135/2x175
Pressing atlas stones is risky business at best, much better to press rocks. Maybe if I used tacky it might feel less death-defying, but as I can't use tacky on the rocks in my comp, I feel like that would be less helpful.
Yoke
80' x 250
80' x 340
80' x 430
80' x 520
2x80' x 610 - First run was trash, second run felt good.
90' x 700
The extra 10' was from moving the yoke back to make way for other athletes. This sucked today, but that's what usually happens when I haven't done yoke in a while.
Backward Drags
80' x prowler + 90 - Way too easy.
2x80' x prowler + 140 - Still too easy.
8x100' x prowler + 180
These got so bad I considered dropping the weight back down to 140, but then reminded myself not to be a poop stain. Probably shouldn't have increased both weight and distance by 25% at the same time. This conditioning gave me the worst strongman low I've had in many moons and doing anything that involved getting up off the couch was pretty much out of the question for most of the rest of the day.