More downs than ups...

Last week was a rough week for me in the gym. It sucks that I feel like I've been making some great progress and then 1RM week comes and shit hits the fan.  My back wasn't feeling all that great, so that didn't help either! Along with my mind being in 50 different places at  once...it wasn't exactly an ideal week to max out.

Monday started with Back squat.  Old 1RM is 190, I was hoping for 200. All day I was thinking about that 200, but never felt the confidence to get it. So really I just shoudl've stayed home and not even tried. I got 195 half way up, but couldn't finish the lift. Called it quits and did the wod in a bad mood. Never a good combination.

Tuesday was press. I find this to be THE hardest movement to PR on. It's pure strength, no technique involved. It sucks.  I got 95# last October. I couldn't even get that on Tuesday. At least I was laughing about it that day and wasn't pissed. One of these days I'll get to 100#....I think I'm going to add in some Press strength on my own in hopes of that helping...(Bear any suggestions?)

Thursday was supposed to be weighted dead hang pull-up and max effort unbroken kipping. But since I missed Wednesday's Front Squat 1RM becuase of school, I did that instead. Was determined to get a PR since the week was off to a bad start. I wanted to at least end it on a good note. Old PR was 155 and got 160. I probably could've gotten 165, but was happy with a PR and didn't want to end on a fail if I couldn't get it. So I was happy, but it was short lived once Jer came over and made note of how he destroyed me and with Bear making note of it on FB. My efforts felt pretty worthless.  Then I did the wod which was all legs, 200m sprint, box jumps and thrusters. The first rounds of bj's were awful, my legs felt like they weighed 300# each! But it was a good one nonetheless.

Sunday I went in to open hour to work on DL that I missed on Friday. I was worried about my back so I knew this wasn't going to go as well as I wanted. I wanted 250, old 1RM is 243. But once I got to 235 and it was an ugly lift, I knew 250 was far away. I tried it though, basically stood next to the bar attempted, got like a cm off the ground and was like not worth. Did the same with 245. So I called it quits before I did anything stupid. And moved onto Grace!

Last time I did Grace was after the Life AsRX competition in October and my back was roasted then so it took me nearly 6 min, i think it was 5:43 or something. And prior to that I had never done the actual 95#, it's always been 40kg which is 88#. and that 7# difference is quite the difference. But this time I went through it RX'd in 3:35. I was happy with that. My quads were on fire. I did the first 7 tap and go, then 3, then it was a mix of singles. just dropping the bar and following it down and picking it right back up.

Then Kelly and I decided to do Josh's Hero/Suicide Wod as a team s ince we both wanted to do a little more but not smoke ourselves. took us like 17:06,

Yesterday I went to the gym after school. Only 4 more classes left and the semester is over. I can't wait!
Strength Power Snatch + OHS 1+1x7 @65-75%, I used 85# and actually did 8 rounds.

Really focused on a deadlift than a quick pull from the pockets. I tend to rush the bottom of the lift which makes me jump forward. I'm glad it was power today since I have to drop to the bottom of the squat for this lift all the time. This really made me focus on a quick turnover and landing above parallel. OHS was full depth, I was shortening it before Bear told me to go lower. Which makes sense, since that's where I catch everything and need to work from the hole!

WOD:
4 rounds FT:
20 walking lunges  (I added a womens bar over head)
10 C2D push ups
5 Ring dips  (purple band)
8:46

Saw Hannah add the bar over head in the class before me and I thought that was a good idea to add some core work into it. Sheesh that smoke my shoulders though.  Made the push ups and ring dips much harder than they already are.  Ring dips were by far the hardest part for me on these. Really need to start working on these more....I need more time in my life.