12:00pm – CrossFit, Advanced
My body was feeling SO beat up today. My chest is actually swollen from the power cleans yesterday and soreness from all the push ups between Cindy and yesterday. Catching the power cleans too low on my chest left me bruised—my ribs are tender, the muscles hurt, and there’s visible swelling. Not cool! Before the class today I had to practice hanging from the pull up bar to stretch out and make sure I could do it!
Front Squat
3-3-3-3
1. 135
2. 135
3. 135
4. 140
I have definitely gone heavier than this in the past, but my left quad was burning in something other than a sore way so I didn’t want to push it too much. Figured I’d just let the weights be what they wanted to be and not hurt myself.
As many rounds as possible in 5 minutes:
5 thrusters (65#)
5 pull ups
Score: 8 rounds
As much as I am not a fan of the Fran, I actually do pretty decent at it performance wise. This variation on it was good in that the thruster sets were so short there was no sense ever stopping on anything. Definitely slower rhythm than Fran though since there were so many more transitions between sets.
6:20pm – Fencing Lesson
Normally I don’t have fencing today, but moved it to today since we have meetings galore on Friday for the SoCal Sectional planning. I learned a couple new movements tonight, worked a lot on explosiveness, and also on a jump that’s part of the footwork. My coach is really good with metaphors—he talked to me about a cat pouncing on a mouse, for how the speed of a fencer works. You go slowly, sizing things up, and then EXPLODE in your attack. And I kept getting the jump wrong when we worked on it, until he explained it was like jumping for a shot in basketball and suddenly, even though I never really played basketball, since I’ve SEEN it I totally got it. Pretty cool.
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