Wednesday, September 4, 2013

9/4/13 Wednesday September 4, 2013 (TK PR, Sq)

6:45am - Original Strength, Primal Move drills - 45 minutes (some extra time to work the lacrosse ball on the lats, glutes, and forearm particularly the R forearm from Monday's training accident)

7:30am - Kettlebell warm up ("Standard")

1/2K halos - 12kg, 4X each side / each leg (total 16X)
1/2K pullover - 12 kg, 5X each leg

1/2K halos - 12kg, 4X each side / each leg (total 16X)
1/2K pullover - 16 kg, 5X each leg
Roll to press (TGU start) - shoulder cam shafts, each arm 16 kg
12kg armbars - 1 L, 1 R

So after completing the warm ups I was feeling good.  So I decided to go with a couple of simple, highly controlled movements that were not ballistic in nature at all.

7:45am - Training session - TK PR 20 kg, Sq 20 kg

Warm up -
TGU 16kg, 4+4 (only to the elbow)
GSq 16 kg, 5
DL 20 kg, 5, 5 L, 5 R (felt totally fine no issues which was good - I can probably go heavier and do a double bell DL as per normal)

TK PR 16 kg, 5/5
Sq 16 kg, 5/5

These were light, I knew I could move up a bell size without an issue.

4X the following, done in circuits.

TK PR 20 kg, 5/5
Sq 20 kg, 5/5

8:15am - Complete

Notes -  All movements were highly controlled and I used the "cheat clean" (2 hand clean on 1 bell) to get the bell into the rack for all reps.  No cleans, did not want to see what those felt like on the wrist / forearm - no reason to push anything at all here.  This felt great.  I knew I could have gone heavier, easily a 24 kg, but that was not the point today.  This was a good example of me actually listening to the feedback from my body and training intelligently.  This is progress.