Kids and I went with some friends to the climbing gym on the 4th snow day in a row and the 8th day since kids were in school! I got a few routes in and then we went to the gym part for a bit to distract the kids. Not really any workout but did some slam balls and pullups. We had a fun few hours!
I’m not completely crazy… I do have limits. Like not running when the actual air temps are -34. I’ve run when the wind chill is -34 before. It was enough just to get bundled up for the quick drive to the gym!
I can’t actually remember the last time I ran on a treadmill. I hate them so much, but I needed to run. I went to the Minneapolis Bouldering Project and did a several routes as a warm-up and then did a 5k on the treadmill. My Garmin has a treadmill function that ended up being about .1 off from what the actual treadmill said. There were a handful of other people at the gym either climbing or lifting, but only 1 other person used any of the cardio equipment while I was there. Pretty unexciting stuff – I listened to my podcasts (they don’t have TV’s) and used a towel to cover up the treadmill screen.
After the run I did a little pull-up complex and then some lunges to round out my morning before heading back out into the cold!
I opted to get up for 5:30am class to make sure I actually went and didn’t drag the kids along!
It was another dosey of a workout. We did 4 rounds of gymnastics as our warmup. First was ring pushups, then ring muscle up transitions, and then slow lowers in the rings. Jeff had lots of good corrections for me and loved my beard!
There was no weightlifting component but a long metcon with 25 minute time cap. The work was
10 rounds for time of:
15 wallballs 20#
10 toes to shoulder
5 power cleans 75#
I listed what I did which is a mixture of 3 different levels! I cant quite rep toes to bar yet. I tried 95# clean and that wasn’t going to happen! The Platinum was 135! About halfway in I thought no problem getting it done. About 3/4 of the way through I wasn’t sure if I was going to make it. I did finish with 10 seconds to spare. 24:50!
My quads are really sore!
Kids and I met some friends at the Bouldering gym to hang out and climb. I didn’t do a ton of climbing but got some routes in. It’s the most climbing I’ve done in quite a while!
Happy Thanksgiving!! The climbing gym was open this morning so I saw that as a good time to finish out testing my Fall Challenge lifts. We ended up going as a family so I climbed a few routes afterwards too. The family climbed around and did some cool climbs through hula-hoops!
My last two lifts were Snatch and Shoulder Press.
I had pretty much done 0 shoulder presses throughout the cycle. I really wanted to improve my deadlift so I made sure to make those lifts up as needed. But not so much the other two and it showed! My pre-test came in at 95# which is actually where I ended today as well. After hitting 95 I tried once at 105 and once at 100. I was able to get both just barely out of front rack but no where else. I really wanted to dip and drive to get it up, but I held back!
I took a little break and watched the kids so my wife could climb a little bit before coming back for the snatch. I drilled a little bit before adding some weight and snatching away! In the pre-test I ended up with 95#. Today I was able to get more and hit 105# which is just under my lifetime max. I tried 2x’s to get 110 up but couldn’t get under the bar!!
Based on these lifts here is my Fall Challenge 2018 data:
| Lift | Beginning | Ending | Improvement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solcana Total | 435 | 500 | 65 |
| Deadlift | 245 | 300 | 55 |
| Snatch | 95 | 105 | 10 |
| Shoulder Press | 95 | 95 | 0 |
| Jackie | 13:45 | 12:06 | 1:39 |
We will have to wait and see what the final results show!!
First workout after my race and it felt pretty good. Still a little tired but good. In continuing with the Deadlift trend today I went back and did Monday’s lifts. It was 7×4 at 74%. I lifted at 195 pounds. I wasn’t sure if I’d finish or not but I was able to do them all. Afterwards was 10 sumo deadlifts at 155. I was glad to only have to 10 as 20 was getting to be a lot.
I didn’t have a ton of time so I did 3×10 sets of hanging shoulder raises working on improving my pullups. I also did 5 minutes on the spin bike to loosen my legs up. I finished up by hitting a few routes on the bouldering wall.
A nice little workout that wasn’t super strenuous!