Sat, 4 Mar 17
Block 10, Wave 3 - Events
First off, congratulations to Gregg and his wife on the birth of their second son yesterday! One down and two to go in terms of my training partners having babies in the near future. Secondly, Mike Inman was in town from his busy schedule strengthening and conditioning his athletes at Temple and joined us at the Unit for a goode olde fashioned training hootenanny. We worked on 3 of the events that will be featured in the competition I am running at the end of May (Salisbury Summer Strongman Slam) and everyone had a good day on at least one event, if not all of them.
Weight Over Bar
1ea x 28 to 12'
1ea x 28 to 15'
1ea x 56 to 8'
1ea x 56 to 10'
3x1ea x 56 to 11' - This was a PR for my left arm (which I didn't hit until the 3rd set).
1x56 to 12' - Right arm only, just wanted to make sure I could still do this easily and Inman did it so I had to do it too.
Everyone PRed on WOB today despite being out in the freezing cold.
Axle C&J (clean each rep)
complex x 70
complex x 120
4x160
2x210
2x250
2x270
I haven't done axle overhead or continental cleans in many months so I kept it pretty low key today, especially because pressing/jerking the axle only felt mildly ok on my shoulders for whatever reason. All reps were continental cleans except for the first rep of 270 which was a double overhand power clean, which ties my all time DO axle PC record. I felt like I was good for more, but going for a new world record on something I haven't trained in a long time has been disastrous in the recent past (i.e. McGruffing my knee back in August) so I'll try for a new PR in a couple weeks or so.
Atlas Stone Carry and Load (over 49" bar)
2x{40' x 200, 30' x 240, 20' x 280}
I took it slow and steady the first time through and did 3 stones in right around 60 seconds. The second run I kicked it up a notch or three and finished in 32 seconds and change. I had the 300 lb stone setup to finish the series with a 10' carry and load, but the cold, the fatigue, and the lack of tacky made this a no go today. I'll run through this again with these weights when it warms up a little bit and using tacky isn't entirely too difficult and post video to the FB event page for the Salisbury Summer Strongman Slam. For now though, here is the man, the myth, the legend, Michael St. Cloud, demoing the first 2 stones.
Prowler Hi/Lo
8x {50' x prowler + 140 high handles/50' x prowler + 140 low handles} - 3 man to 2 man rotation with much lung butter being produced.