So much crossfit in that video. Does it bother you when people walk in front of you? I always look down before a lift, and sometimes when I look up before starting like 4 people will be standing directly in front of me just chillin.

Lady in yellow has great technique

I do.

Too many comments on the background, not enough focusing on the lifts.

It used to bug me more when I first started lifting in the bigger room, but I'm slowly getting used to it.


7/14
AM

2 mile walk

LBS

PM

HBBS
10x45,5x135,4x225,2x275,315
5x5x340

Pretty tough. After first set I didn't think I wasn't going to get it.

Snatch
5x45,2x95,2x135,2x155
12x1x185


Clean & Jerk
2x135,2x185
10x1x235

A lot of ****ing reps today. I guess that's why they call it the "Accumulation" phase.

what are you doing to fix the heels off the ground thing?

Post workout I've been doing some narrow grip OHS, 2 or 3 rounds of sitting in the bottom of the snatch for 30s, and BTN Sotts presses. I think there's some improvement, but still need to continue doing those things and maybe even doing some more.

Sounds like a solid protocol, but why post instead of pre?

When I would to them pre I would usually end up feeling pretty tight oddly enough. It's also easy for me to just go home and finish these up in the comfort of my air conditioning, instead of having to listen to trap music and sweating even more at the gym.

7/15

Skipped morning walk due to terrible sleep and very sore when waking up. I'm a bitch.

LBS

PM

Power Snatch + Hang Snatch + High Hang Snatch
45,95,115,135

Power Snatch + Hang Snatch
4x1x155

High Hang Clean + Jerk
2x1x135,155,185
4x1x195

I think these were just supposed to be hang cleans, but high hang actually made it a challenge...

Front Squat
3x195,2x225,275
315,320,330,335,340

BTN Push Press
5x135,5x155
3x5x185
225,245,275x

BTN is way easier to recover from on a set of 5, so I'm going that way. Next time I'm going to work up to a 1RM before I do my work sets.

225+ BTN Push Presses from yesterday

http://youtu.be/WTYilE_-E0c

7/16

AM

3 mile walk, didn't pay attention to time.

Today is rest from lifting the weights, but I may do some bar work and mobility later.

What do you do on these morning dadwalks? listen to podcasts? music?

When's the gf coming back? Will dadwalks continue?

Podcasts every time. Unfortunately I'm completely caught up on the Rogan podcast. I'll usually listen to The Weightlifting Scoop (http://www.spreaker.com/user/theweightliftingscoop) but I'm almost caught up on them as well, so I'll need to find some new **** soon.

August 22nd, which is 2 weeks before the meet. Dad walks will continue because I'll almost certainly be consuming more calories once she gets back, but they will probably drop off after the meet. She has mentioned wanting to go swimming in the morning and I'd be up for that as well but I'm not motivated enough to go do it alone.

Are you still looking for fulltime employment? It would be nice to get morning dadwalks/swims in and lift all day. But money is also nice.

I have a full time job now, but I am still looking for a better full time job (i.e. better pay and location that != Florida). Wish I could get away with no job, but I have almost no liquid savings and no other streams of income.

7/17

LBS

PM

HBBS
10x45,5x135,3x225,2x275,315
3x5x330

Each set got better.

Snatch
5x45,3x11,3x135,2x155
10x1x187.5

Missed the 2nd rep for some reason, but made sure not to fail any others. I think I just wasn't focusing because it seemed so light.

Clean
2x2x135,2x185,225
8x1x235

Was supposed to be Clean + Jerk, but I was having some real issues with getting a solid rack position. I did jerk some of the warmups, but didn't for any of the top singles. No misses.

RDL
5x3x235

Pretty easy but I had to do on short rest as gym was closing and I needed to get to a beer tasting. Probably try 255 next time.


7/18

Resting, but will probably do some mobility work later. Going to watch a CrossFits competition tomorrow so I can yell at people exercising. I'm probably going to lift while I'm at the competition.

How's the wrist? (wait, you hurt your wrist at one point right? Just asking if that was the problem with the clean, or something else.)

My favorite thing to yell at CFers is, "Do a pullup!" "Do a double under!" is also a good one.

Ya, left wrist still hurts some and I have issues with the front rack. I think it's actually a shoulder mobility issue which is causing extra stress on my wrist since it's the weakest joint in the area. Been doing the 5 way shoulder mob as part of my warmup, no clue if it's really working.

Interesting. My right wrist has been hurting recently and always exacerbated when I do front rack stuff as well. I hadn't thought it would be shoulder related but maybe it is!

Ya, this is kinda with Starrett's general talk about upstream mobility issues causing downstream pain. It makes a lot of sense and had Monte not viewed my video I probably wouldn't even be doing anything more for my shoulders.

"Come on man, inspire me!" Or "some 48k Chinese woman is warming up with this somewhere"

7/19

Watched CrossFitters doing CrossFit most of the day.

LBS

3 PM

Snatch
5x45,2x135,2x165,2x1x195
215,225,235,245xxx

235 was a nice post wrist injury PR and I absolutely smoked it. Got 245 up over my head twice, but just a little out front.

Clean
2x225,245,255,265
275,285,295,305xx

Gotta get more consistent with these. Oh well.

Front SOTTS Press
5x45,135,155,170,185

We started messing around and someone said they could do a front SOTTS press of 165, so we got to work. Smoked 170 and 185 was a grind to get above my head, but as soon as it was there it was easy to lockout. Bodyweight front SOTTS press coming soon?

hahahaha jfc short limbs on sotts press must be god mode. I can't do this exercise with even 50% of my regular strict press and I have near perfection squat mobility.

It is true. It's funny because I've never tried the SOTTS as a "strength" movement and have literally never tried it from the front. I'll probably mess around with this again this week and get some video.

how onto your toes were you?

Are you mad that I can press more in the bottom of the squat than you can while standing up?