Right Around the Corner

Feeling well rested from the holiday weekend. Ready to get back in the gym and load up before max week. I got a CF competition about a month away so I'm going to steadily try and raise my weekly volume til then to get ready for it, but going to hold a majority of it back until after maxes next week.

School AM WOD
FT:
 50 DUs
 50 Burpees
 50 Sit Ups
 50 DUs
= 7:12
- In an effort to work on my weaknesses...burpees and sit ups seemed like a good place to start! Pushed my pace as best I could on the burpees. Got to the sit ups and my core was on fire from breathing so hard and the work already done. The DUs were basically a warm up for the burpees.

Later that day...

Strength
Back Squat - 5 x 1 @ 95% (460 1RM)
bar(10)-135(8)-185(5)-225(5)-275(5)-315(3)-365(1)-405(1) --- 440
...10 sec. Walkout @ 495#
- Felt very strong tonight! I had a lot of snap out of the bottom. Getting some good bounce and reengaging the hips well. Missed my depth on the first set so I dropped that set. Made sure I hit bottom on all the rest. Really hoping to break 500# next week or at least close the gap quite a bit. Heard about a this walkout trick a while back on lifting forum I troll, then saw Outlaw mention it again so I figured I would give it a try. Loaded 495# and stepped out of the rack and held it for a 10 sec. count and re-racked. Actually very happy with how my body felt under the load. Excited for next week!

WOD
15-12-9-6
 (squat) Cleans (135#) (5/5/3/2- lots of singles the last 3 rounds w/ a rare dbl)
 Pull Ups (UB-4/4/4-3/3/3-3/3)
= 7:23 
- Saw this the night before and thought of bumping to 155# initially, but stayed at regular weight after the back squat session. Little disappointed in this one...I really should have been sub 7 at least. Cleans are difficult for me to keep my hands on in the rack position. The breaks in the first round came from missing my re-grip. I tried a couple of times in the later rounds, but found it easier to just drop. Should have pushed the pace more here. Got off the UB round of 15 pull ups and just couldn't hang on. Fought hard to have the least amount of breaks in the rest of my pull ups. Would like to do this one again someday.