I don’t want to give up my Friday time at Solcana, the PSE Pro training plan has Friday as a Sport Specific Strength and Conditioning Workout. I need to do a better job at the beginning of the week in mapping out the plan for the week so I can move workouts around better. I also need to do a better job of getting up and out in the mornings for a workout too! Solcana doesn’t publish the workouts until 8pm the night before, but I do now know the strength schedule will be squats on Friday and Power Snatches on Saturday.

The warm-up was Kettlebell windmills, swings, and jumping lunges.

Strength was Back Squats and Pause Back Squats. We slowly worked our way up to the working weight and then did 4×4 it was supposed to be around 80%. I got to 155#’s and felt that was weight for the day. Then we dropped a bunch of weight and did squats with a 2 second pause at bottom and a 2 second pause just above parallel each rep. I did these at 115#’s. It was supposed to be around 60%. 80% for me is 165 and 60% is 123. I haven’t squatted since January and nothing consistent since last summer so that isn’t too surprising.

We then did a partner workout which was simple, but was a 14 minute AMRAP of waiter walk and weighted lunges with the same kettle bell. I used the 35# one. I can get the 53#’s up and locked out but would have struggled to maintain it throughout. I ended with 5 complete rounds and Rica finished us out with a few lengths on the waiter walk and she started first so we had a total of 10 rounds and a few reps.