DT

I'm still in a bit of a hole and trying to dig myself out.  I wonder if I should have a decent break but I worry that if I stop I'll never start up again.  I think I'll have a deload week, dial it back and try to get my mojo back that way because I love the community aspect of the gym, the people there are my second family.  I also think that it's the busyness and stress of my 'normal' life that is bringing me down.

I have been a bit hit and miss this week.  I gave the normal CF session a miss on Monday in favour of going to weightlifting and had a rest day on Wednesday as Missy T has started another orchestra session and has to get to school early.  Tuesday I had a good workout although I went really light and Jardan upped my weights partway through the workout.  It was a fun one.

Last night we had the benchmark WOD DT.  I have done this one before so had some data to compare myself against.  For some reason I was really nervous before doing the workout.  I'm not sure if it's because I have been lacking the mental strength to get through the workouts lately and nothing tests you like a benchmark workout. Despite that I chose to increase the weight and see how I went.

The workout is:

5 rounds of:
12 Deadlifts (70kg/50kg)
9 Hang power cleans (70kg/50kg)
6 Push jerks (70kg/50kg)

The finisher was 3 minutes of bar touching burpees and then 2 minutes of the same after a 2 minute rest.  I got 33 and then 22 but felt I could have done better.

This looks like a massive improvement in time but it's actually only 10 seconds! LOL!

Date	Deadlift,Hang Power Clean, Push Jerk	Time
6/11/2013	20	7:07:00
16/10/2014	25	6:57:00

DT

Today was the hero WOD, 'DT', which consists of:

5 Rounds for time:

12 Deadlifts, 70kg/47.5kg

9 Hang Power Cleans, 70kg/47.5kg

6 Push Jerks, 70kg/47.5kg

 

Prior to this workout we had to warm up to a heavy hang power clean.  The idea of this is to then choose a lighter weight for the actual WOD which will feel easy.  It is a great concept ... for the first 2 rounds and then it's gets tough.

 

We had a cut off time of 15 minutes with the goal time to be within 5 - 10 minutes.  I had in my head that I would scale to 25 kg but as I warmed up I realised that it would be tough going so I dropped back to 20 kg (and was still a little worried how I would go).

 

This WOD really tested my grip and it fried my forearms.  Mind you, it feels like everything smashes my forearms lately ... I'm going to have arms like Popeye soon.  The times I had to rest was to stretch my fingers and roll my wrists.

 

I finished the workout in 7:07 and was fairly happy with that.  I think I went out a little too hard in the first round and then fatigued after that but I find the adrenaline is pumping before a hero WOD and it is easy to get caught up in having to go flat out rather than pacing yourself.

 

I find it amazing at how fatigued I feel after these short workouts.  I'm sitting here a few hours after I trained this morning and I am shattered.  I love it :-)