Friday night Session went well.

Squats: 3x5 130kg

deadLift: 2x150kg

Bench: 1x4 110kg. Tried to Bench 120kg but failed. Doug managed to press it and it was a new PB for him.

Saturday, did not do the run as scheduled.

Sunday: Another good session but reall strugerling with completing not the weight bu the amount of lifts.

Squat: 2x5 140kg.

Haven't had much to blog about. Last session was the first time since my break that I felt that I did a real workout.

Squats: 3x5 130 way harder than i remember. It is amazing how much you loose in such a short period of time.

Press: Just work in here with others, best set 1x5 of 60

Bench Press: Just worked up in sets of 5 until 110kg.

I am half way through the book "Born to Run" by Christopher McDougall. I highly recommend it. It is that good that if the weather is good on Saturday I am going to try to run to Karate.

Friday night I had a go at the Crossfit Total. At the start of the session I wasn't. But it is just how things went.

Squats: I started off just do sets of 5 until I said stuff it put 170 on the bar. And to be honest the lift felt quite easy like I had a lot more in me. I have not done much squatting lately so I left it there.

Press: This is when the idea for doing the CFT came from. I was feeling strong in the shoulders and went for singles. 80 was quite easy, I went for the 90 but no luck. I then went back to 82.5 to beet Doug's previous days effort but unfortunately the 90 burnt me out.

Deadlift: this is were It all fell apart, 170kg was not easy but comfortable. I knew I had to pull a 190kg to equal Doug's last total, so I put that on the bar and gave it ago. Unfortunately it only moved an inch before I dropped it. As with the press when I lowed the wait back down I still could not lift. Nothing left in the tank. Next time.

The worry was that I almost blanked out after the 180kg attempt. I wonder if my high blood pressure has anything to do with my inability to DL. It has to be something like that, or there is a mental barrier there. Anthony (who pulled 2.25x his weight) said that I wasn't set up properly. Next time I lift I will have him give me some pointers.

Overall I beet my last total even thought my squat was 17.5kg under my previous max. So I should be happy with the 420kg. But i am not, screw you Chuck Norris and screw you Doug V. :)

Next time I am going to break the 1000lb barrier.

Last night was a good session in the Shed.

Squats Started with some squats. Did 5x100, 3x120, 3x130 and finished there as it has been a couple of weeks and I was starting to fold.

Linda (Mod): Last night we continued with our modified linda program. One of the members wanted to sub thrusters for P. Cleans. This was a good idea for the first couple of rounds but, at 6 we changed it back to power cleans. The weight was was to light but we will fis this next week.

The weights were DL: 110kg, BP: 80kg, TH/PC 50kg.

what was amazing was how my arms failed on a couple reps on the bench. I was still able to punch the weight out but even on the last single, I did not concentrate and it dropped to my chest.

For the last hurrah for the final dead lift I tried to clean the weight and got damn close. This Sunday 110kg over head.

Session last night was good.

Warmup

2x
10 Hang Cleans from open hip position PVC
10 OHS Pressing the bar up from behind the neck PVC

2x
10 Hang Cleans from open hip position 20kg
10 OHS Pressing the bar up from behind the neck with 20kg

Workout
C&J going up in 10kg increments. Best lift 100kg, failed on 110kg

2x5 100kg B Press

10 x 40kg Thrusters
5 x 50kg Thrusters
5 x 60kg Thrusters

So I am happy with the 100kg C&J. I think it was mental than physical and I hope that I will start seeing more progress. It was more of a power clean and Jerk, still having problems getting under the bar.

With both the 50kg and 60kg Thrusters, I reckon that I had easyly ten in me exxcept for my wrists.

Last night instead of the usual 3x5 program a couple of us did a light Linda and as a team. taking it in turns. Weights were

DL: 80
BP: 60
PC: 40

Up to about 5reps it was going well but after that it just became a little silly due to the light weight so we finished with another set of ten.

Next Wednesday we will hit Linda again but put the weights up by 10kg

After my success on Wednesday with the 8x140kg I thought I would have a go at a new PB. I tried with 185kg but just could not commit to the second phase and therefore did not get depth.

I am going to change up my strength days from 1x8 to 5,5,3,3,1,1 for the month of august and see how I go.