Home Sweet Home

Felt every bit of that 19 hour drive this morning when I woke up to get to work. Despite the stiffness, I felt great all day...very rested and relaxed! Enjoyed the first track practice of the season this afternoon and then headed over to Prevail to WOD. Enjoyed seeing everyone and catching up! Time to get to work!

Strength
Press --- 85% x 3 x 5 w/bands
bar(10)-95(8)-135(5) ---
 135+Reds - 145+Reds - 145+Reds - 145+Reds - 145+Reds(1) - 145+Reds - 185
- It's been awhile since I worked Press. I performed better than I thought I would though. I wanted to dabble with some banded resistance to make the lock out tougher. Adding the red bands was a good choice. Never done these before with the Press so I had to play with the weight and band set up a bit. I got to the 5th set and my shoulders just died after the 1st rep. Came and took some breaths and went at it again and had nothing. Dropped the bands and went to 185 straight weight and had nothing. Looking back a better idea would have been to drop the bands and do a rep out at 145. Next time!

WOD
2000m Row (7:33.8)
1000m Run
= 13:08
- This was just the WOD I needed to get back into the swing of things. The row felt extremely uncomfortable. I could not settle in on my pull. I was hovering right around 30-31s/m, which is a lot faster than I wanted it. I had the damper set at 7. I kept my pace right around 1:50-55/500. I slipped a little slower at times while I was trying to figure my stroke out, but never stayed there long. I picked up the pace in the last 500 to catch up a bit, but wanted to make sure that I didn't blow my legs out for the run.
- Felt real good on the run. Tried my best to control my breathing, keep a slight forward lean, stay upright, and keep a faster cadence with a shorter stride. My breathing kept racing away, but I was able to keep it in check for the most part. I was more surprised on how well my stride felt this evening. Felt real smooth and staying upright was a lot easier than it usually is.
Overall a good effort. I could have pushed a little harder in the row maybe.

Cash Out
TGU --- 3/arm@20k - 2/arm@24k - 1/arm@32k
- This was more messing around and making Charlie's post WOD experience a little more miserable than anything else. The 32k was pretty tough though I will say. I do intend to do more of these to help solidify my shoulder stability and midline.