5/24/2015

Team Event 6
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Team Event 7

24:36? or something around there
females finished in 13:36
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complete


Eeeeeesh. The first event was rough. We were all tired today. GHDs were pretty quick, Brandie flew through hers. I got off the GHD machine and started walking over to the rings, and in my disoriented state I totally forgot I was supposed to run over there. I heard Alex yell, "RUN OVER THERE CHELSEA" oops. Sorry Brandie. Muscle ups felt pretty bad today. I don't know if it's because we were doing MUs on the rings from the rafters or if we were all just tired, but we were struggling. Last week I was doing sets of 3, this week it was sets of 2. I tried for a third muscle up a few times and failed it both times. I had no energy, it was pretty frustrating. I thought we did a good job of boosting each other up on the rings but our transitions still need to be faster. There were a few times where one of us would be standing under the rings but the other two would be bent over chalking their hands. We just need to make sure we're constantly helping each other. Hang cleans were faster than last week, we broke them up 7/5/3 until the end, and I did the last 10. Our time was 6 seconds slower than last week, and for the muscle ups fails we had and time we spent on the rings I thought that was actually pretty good. I really think it was the difference of using the rings from the rafters, now that we've done the workout on those rings it should be better at regionals. 

The second workout went pretty well, as a team we did much better than last week. Stephen told us to just row until the person holding the deadlift drops it instead of taking breaks after a specific number of calories. The deadlift hold just hurts my hands so much, it's not even the weight. The bar on my hands was pretty painful, my hands were feeling very raw. My strict HSPU were SO terrible today. Oh my. They were awful. I did the first set of 3 and thought "oh no" because I knew it was going downhill fast. I was down to doubles around 15 and then singles at 21. Last week I didn't have to go to singles until 26 or 27, and I was resting way more between sets this week. My arms had nothing, it was awful. I felt bad for Jessie, she was being really encouraging and probably wondering why it was taking me so long to do the strict HSPU. Sorry buddy. I just had nothing, it was really frustrating. I did the hold for Brandie and hers were really fast, which was nice because my shoulders were pretty dead at this point. As a team we did a lot better, for me personally I felt like I did much worse. 

5/23/2015

Team event 3
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Team event 4

16:30?
800m run done in 3:20
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complete
145 snatch
HS walk 50/40/10


I think I went out a bit hot on the run, I felt pretty bad when I came back into the gym, but then again I'm going to feel bad after I run on the treadmill so really it doesn't matter. My wall balls weren't great today, I broke them up way too much. I think I broke them up 14/9/13/10/4. That's way too many sets. I was just smoked from the run. I also know a few of them were a bit too low on the target, so I need to make sure I'm very careful about that at regionals. I was getting pretty panicked during the wall balls, I thought Conner was going to come in before I was done. I was able to finish the wall balls, move the men's ball over, and jog to the door right as Conner ran up to the gym. 

Snatches felt really easy today, I had no misses while warming up. The actual event was a bit stressful since I had to put on my own weights, but it was also a good simulation of a possible scenario that could occur at regionals. It's good to be prepared for everything. I loaded my weight and was able to hit 145 on the first try. I was able to load the bar for Conner but didn't have time to put the clip on, and I know at regionals I probably wouldn't have been able to load that much for Conner since the weights are so far away from the bar. 

Handstand walk felt really hard today. I'm not sure if it was lack of shoulder warm up (probably) or the fact that I wearing my lifting shoes and knee sleeves, but I felt really slow today and my shoulders were extremely tight. I was able to make it the first 50 feet without breaking, I turned around and made it about 40 feet before I fell over. My arms felt like they were covered in cement. 

5/22/2015

AM (with Conner)
20 partner deadlifts, 410
20 synchro CTB pull ups
10 deadlifts
10 pull ups

PM
Team event 2 w/Jessie and Brandie

AM
5:38

PM
complete, can't remember our time


Well, the good news is Conner and I have really improved our deadlifts. They felt great today and were much more synchronized than last Friday. I think we have finally found a good rhythm. We also weren't resting nearly as long between each set. Our pull ups were definitely what slowed us down today. When we did this last week, I was jumping to the short bar. This time we were both using the tall bar and Conner had to help me up each time. I held us back on the pull ups, I don't think I warmed up my forearms enough because my grip was completely shot after 12 pull ups. By the end it was a struggle to do just three pull ups. I also think hanging there a few extra seconds while Conner jumped up to the bar had an effect on my grip as well. We also had an incident where Conner boosted me up to the bar and I just completely missed it, which wasted some time. I really don't think I'll have to jump to the bar at regionals, I was watching the other regions today and none of the females were having the male partner boost them up. I'm hoping the bar is a bit shorter than ours because that will save a lot of time and grip. 

The PM session was really fun, I thought we did really well on this. We kept the snatches in sets of 10, rope climbs were fast singles, thrusters were 8/7/5. The thrusters hurt a lot more than last week, probably because we did all the snatches and all the rope climbs today. I thought our transitions were good and we were pretty fast, especially on the rope climbs. I'm looking forward to this event! 

5/21/2015

24 sets:
:30 airdyne @90% aerobic
:30 airdyne @50%

complete
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800m on the treadmill @UC rec center
4:25