Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Heavy Back squats and 21-15-9

Woke up again with lingering soreness in my quads. Stuck around ALL day. I warmed up with the 5:30 class I was coaching just to get loose. And then obivously did my warm up before working out at 6:30. Still felt tight. But it's mainly in the hips again. ugh.

Strength: Back Squat 6-6-3-2 (70%-80%-90%-95%)
133-153-171-181

Holy heavy!! I did quite a few warm up sets because my hips are still super tight. All this squatting is getting to me! I warmed up with the bar, then 85# and then 107#. Warm up sets and 133 felt great. 153 was good, but started to feel the tightness hinder my squat. 171 just felt like 500, especially the last rep. I had Alex spot me on the last set at 181 since the set before felt super heavy. Somehow, I made it through those 2 reps, but it was definitely a struggle. Going to have to find some new mobility for my hips in order to do somewhat well with maxing out in a few weeks.

WOD:
21-15-9
Hang Power Snatch (55# - scaled up to 65#)
Row (calories)
Sit-ups (used the GHD)
9:12

Wanted to make this one a little more challenging. I felt as though I would fly through the 55# and the ab mat sit-ups, so I upped it a little. I felt like the weight was perfect at 65#. I did the sets like this: 15-6, 8-7, 9. The rows I felt were a little slow, had a hard time finding a rhythm. Was trying to get a calorie per pull, but I fell just short a lot of the time. GHD felt great, I believe the sets were the same as the HPS. Really liked this one.

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