9/5/15 Saturday September 5, 2015 (weighted pull-ups, push-ups, DB 32kg carries)

Writing this on Saturday night.  Got training done in the afternoon with the kids.  Had a huge day - took several hours in the morning cleaning up the outside of the house, had a picnic at the lake and kicked a soccer ball with the kids, did training, took them bowling, then out to dinner, then bed. Sheesh.

Hanging from rings

2 pull-ups (rings)
3 pull-ups
5 pull-ups

Weighted pull-ups, with an 8kg KB, 3

Weighted pull-ups with a 12kg KB, 2, x 5 (last reps on the last two sets were damn tough to get my chin over the rings)

13 reps total for weighted pull-ups, up from 10 last week

10 push-ups, normal width on legs
10 push-ups, legs and feet together
10 push-ups, lizard

Break for an hour

DB 32kg farmer carries, 3 sets, about 90 seconds or more for each set (up from DB 28 kgs last week)

This was pretty tough in some ways.  Very little rest on the pull-ups because we were at a busy station at Greenlake and I just didn't want to deal with a bunch of people that were around, so I hogged the equipment and went pretty much fast as hell, which is tough with this type of work.  Ideally I could take a walk between sets, take the belt off, etc. etc. but it is what it is.  I will say this, the body weight pull-ups to warm up were such a piece of cake I was almost laughing.  Doing a few weeks of weighted pull-ups has made my starting position for bodyweight so much easier - its like I am shooting up out of a canon.  So that's pretty dam cool.  Also to close today the DB 32kg farmers were excellent, felt like I had a really strong grip on the bells and this was really solid.  As I write this, I really feel the fatigue kicking in.  The last couple of reps on some of the weighted sets were way harder than I would like, and I probably had to dip into an energy reserve a bit to eke those out.  There's no reason at this point in my mind to increase reps or weight any further.  I need to spend a bit of time here with the 12kg and really getting this nailed down.