Snow and deadlifts!

Anyone else as excited for snow as I am?! LOVE it! The first snow fall is so pretty and relaxing! Just hope everyone is safe out there!


Strength: Deadlift 1-1-1-1-1
173-193-213-233PR-243PR (12#)

This week has been a bit of a roller coaster at the gym. I've been able to make small PR's, which is I guess is to be expected since I'm still at that year and a half mark. So I won't be making HUGE gains. I was a little nervous for setting a SRM today on the deadlift. Given that I've had a few back issues this year and haven't gone for a heavy single since January last year. But nonetheless, I was ready to tackle it but be cautious at the same time.

Mom and I shared a bar. I love watching mom lift, it's so great to see how far she's come in the gym and that she's not afraid to lift heavy weights. I believe she finished at 233# which was like a 30+ lb PR! So proud of her!

I warmed up with a few light sets just to get my back settled in and loose and ready to go. My first heavy single was at 173 and I slowly went up from there. 231 was my old SRM so I wanted to make sure that my fourth heavy single was over my old PR. 233 felt great going up, so I went up to 243. My lower back felt great through all the reps, which is where I've been having my problems. However, at 243, my upper back kind of rounded. It didn't feel terrible, but I know it wasn't the best. I decided to try and add 10 more pounds. I set up and went to pull, but could tell my upper back was going to start rounding again and decided not to follow through with the lift and just leave the bar happy with my 243 PR. I'm ready to tackle it again in the future. Maybe one day I'll make 300 :-P

WOD:
10:00 Amrap of:
10 Power cleans (115/75#)
20 wall ball sit ups (20/14#)
30 Double Unders
4 rounds +40 reps

I loved this wod! I was ready to get after this one since it was all movements I really like. My rounds of cleans were unbroken, unbroken, 9-1, 6-4, 6-4. These felt a lot better than the ones on Sunday during the hero wod. I think the additional 10# helped me keep better form. All wall ball sit ups were unbroken, and sheesh I forgot how much of a shoulder burner these are! My double unders went unbroken, 29-1 ugh!!, unbroken, 22-5-3, 10. I'm pretty sure that is the absolute most frustrating thing when you trip up on the last rep. ugh. I was shooting to beat 4 rounds and was ideally hoping I could stretch it to 5 full rounds, but fell just short of that. If I didn't trip up on the du's, I probably could've gotten all 5 rounds.

I finished off with 4 rounds of box dips to work on my triceps and keeping my arms close to my body, so I can get those ring dips. I did 4 rounds of 8 reps.

Overall, great day in the gym. Can't wait to get after the cleans tomorrow!