Fran

My back is starting to finally feel normal again. I still get a little sore from certain lifts or it tightens up during certain movements, but it’s far better than what it was. The PT is really helping loosen it up and get me back to normal. Once I’m finished with PT, I decided I’m going to start getting massages from Heather a couple times a month to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

Yesterday was a great day at the gym. Strength was to establish a new 5RM on our deadlift. Now, given that my back has been off and deadlifts were part of the reason it started, I was kind of weary about this. But the PT said it’s ok to do lifts as long as I’m not going max effort and my form is crap. So I took it easy and really concentrated on keeping my back tight with every lift. I got to a new 5RM of 86kg. I can definitely go higher on this, but I want to take it easy so I’m not reinjuring myself and back at square one!

For the metcon, we encountered “Fran”. She’s one of the infamous benchmark girl named WODS. I have to say that I was looking forward to it, because I remembered how awful my pull-ups were the last go at it back in November. My time back in November was 6:58, but I think maybe 10 out of the 45 total pull-ups were chin over the bar.

“Fran”

21-15-9

Thrusters (40/30)

Pull-ups

6:03

This go at it, my goal was to get through all the thrusters unbroken and then start my pull-ups with as many as I could and chip away at it. My first goal of unbroken thrusters was a accomplished. I never put that bar down! I let it sit in the rack position at about rep 17 in the first set for a couple seconds, then chugged away at the last few. The sets of 15 and 9 were unbroken as well!

As far as the pull-ups went, the first set I got 6 in a row…which for me is the most I’ve ever gotten in a row, I was pretty ecstatic. After that it was 3’s, 2’s and 1’s. any way I could get through them and making sure I got my chin over that bar every time. I also made sure that if I jumped down from that bar, I would get right back up and not just sit and stare at it. I can’t explain how happy I am with this performance. I beat my old time by 53 seconds! That’s a lot, especially considering my pull-ups were crap last time! I can’t wait to see what I’ll get once I have some more upper body strength and can really string together my pull-ups!