Yes, the title is a pun. And, no, I won't apologize for it because it is awesome.
Monday was just a great day, and I want to savor it.
I have been having trouble with my kip since I started at Friendship. As I have written before, my right shoulder is a little unstable, and it will pop out a bit/be a pain. I had a breakthrough on Monday. I crushed the kip. My shoulder didn't pop. It didn't hurt at all. I felt the best I have ever felt practicing that skill. Jay told me that I was coming close to breaking the plane of the bar without even pulling. I'm particularly excited about that because there was a part of me that worried I wouldn't be able to correct those past injuries. I wondered if my shoulder was going to hold me back. It sounds like such a little thing, but to have shaken off that artificial limitation has made me feel great. I feel in control.
We also did some overhead squatting, and that has improved as well. I'm excited to get stronger. I can't wait to be working at 95# overhead squats.
#Pumped
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
A Man and His Workout
I have been taken to task for my lack of consistent posting. So with the looming threat of burpees if I don't post, here is a new one for my fan(s?). Ha!
First, anyone who will look at this post around the time I post it already knows that my ice hockey team won the championship, but I want to record some of the details here so that I can remember them later. The game was extremely exciting. It was back and forth the whole way. Yours truly scored our second goal. Blake took the puck in the zone to do some work in the corner by the far boards. I reported to my office at the front of the net. Blake started as if to go behind the net to the other side, and the goalie reacted by sliding over to cover that side. Instead, Blake sent the puck straight to me, and with the goalie off balance I sent it where he wasn't. I was pumped.
Then it continued back and forth. We were tied 4 to 4 with three minutes left, and they went ahead by a goal with 2:57 on the clock. We struggled until there were around 30 seconds left, and we tied it up 5-5. I thought we were going into overtime. Just as the game was about to end, their D-man had the puck and Blake attacked knocking it loose and almost losing his footing. But he held on and used his wheels to beat their guys and send it through the 5 hole. He struggled to find the net all night, but he turned it on at the right time. As he said, "It was the best miss he ever had." He wanted to go top shelf, but he didn't get enough of it. You might say he was lucky, but I say that chance favors the prepared.
The name of this post came from my workout on Tuesday. I have had a bunch of great workouts between my last post and this one, but Tuesday's workout was fun. We practiced some Olympic lifting by working on our Hang Squat Snatches. Anything involving overhead weight is a weakness for me. I'm just not totally comfortable with it yet. I am gaining confidence in my shoulders though, which is helping. I just have this irrational fear that my shoulder is going to give out or something, and as a result, I'm really tentative when I attempt these movements. It was good to an improvement in my comfort level from the first time I attempted them when compared to Tuesday.
Our WoD was a max effort row on the rowing machine for 2 minutes followed by 70 wall climbs. 70 wall climbs is a lot. I think I might have uttered a curse word when I heard that even though I do love wall climbs. The trick was that you could deduct the total amount of calories burned on the rower (the rower has a calorie counter on it) from your total amount of wall climbs. So, if some intrepid young athlete burned 46 calories on the rower, he or she would have to do 24 wall climbs after. This workout is devious because it actually makes you want to row really hard. Rowing is wonderful. I love it. But nothing gases me like rowing.
We have 2 rowing machines, and we paired up to get started. I was the odd man out this time, so I was on my own. That is where is the name of this post came from. Jeff let me know I was last, and he said it'll just be "a man and his workout." And I told him that would be the name of the post. It is almost like he planned it...
Well, if you haven't guessed, I burned 46 calories with the rower and did 24 wall climbs, which are a lot of fun. Well, the first few are fun anyway. I fell like Spiderman when I do them well. But then you get tired, and it is a fight to keep good form all the way through. They are awesome for your shoulders though, and that really makes me like them.
#Can'twait to see what they have in store for us tonight.
First, anyone who will look at this post around the time I post it already knows that my ice hockey team won the championship, but I want to record some of the details here so that I can remember them later. The game was extremely exciting. It was back and forth the whole way. Yours truly scored our second goal. Blake took the puck in the zone to do some work in the corner by the far boards. I reported to my office at the front of the net. Blake started as if to go behind the net to the other side, and the goalie reacted by sliding over to cover that side. Instead, Blake sent the puck straight to me, and with the goalie off balance I sent it where he wasn't. I was pumped.
Then it continued back and forth. We were tied 4 to 4 with three minutes left, and they went ahead by a goal with 2:57 on the clock. We struggled until there were around 30 seconds left, and we tied it up 5-5. I thought we were going into overtime. Just as the game was about to end, their D-man had the puck and Blake attacked knocking it loose and almost losing his footing. But he held on and used his wheels to beat their guys and send it through the 5 hole. He struggled to find the net all night, but he turned it on at the right time. As he said, "It was the best miss he ever had." He wanted to go top shelf, but he didn't get enough of it. You might say he was lucky, but I say that chance favors the prepared.
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The name of this post came from my workout on Tuesday. I have had a bunch of great workouts between my last post and this one, but Tuesday's workout was fun. We practiced some Olympic lifting by working on our Hang Squat Snatches. Anything involving overhead weight is a weakness for me. I'm just not totally comfortable with it yet. I am gaining confidence in my shoulders though, which is helping. I just have this irrational fear that my shoulder is going to give out or something, and as a result, I'm really tentative when I attempt these movements. It was good to an improvement in my comfort level from the first time I attempted them when compared to Tuesday.
Our WoD was a max effort row on the rowing machine for 2 minutes followed by 70 wall climbs. 70 wall climbs is a lot. I think I might have uttered a curse word when I heard that even though I do love wall climbs. The trick was that you could deduct the total amount of calories burned on the rower (the rower has a calorie counter on it) from your total amount of wall climbs. So, if some intrepid young athlete burned 46 calories on the rower, he or she would have to do 24 wall climbs after. This workout is devious because it actually makes you want to row really hard. Rowing is wonderful. I love it. But nothing gases me like rowing.
We have 2 rowing machines, and we paired up to get started. I was the odd man out this time, so I was on my own. That is where is the name of this post came from. Jeff let me know I was last, and he said it'll just be "a man and his workout." And I told him that would be the name of the post. It is almost like he planned it...
Well, if you haven't guessed, I burned 46 calories with the rower and did 24 wall climbs, which are a lot of fun. Well, the first few are fun anyway. I fell like Spiderman when I do them well. But then you get tired, and it is a fight to keep good form all the way through. They are awesome for your shoulders though, and that really makes me like them.
#Can'twait to see what they have in store for us tonight.
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