Barbells and Bikes: March 2015

...same as before but just a bit faster.
I'm definitely leaning where my weakness are during this year's Open!

I again hit 425 reps (made it through 54 Double Unders on the 3rd round). My tie break dropped to 9:20. The MUs felt solid, I went 7, 2-2-2-1, 2-2-2-1. i would like to get where I can hit 4-3 consistently when fatigued. The wall balls went in sets of 10 on the first 2 rounds, and a 10 and mostly 5s on the third round. These still wear me down, I'm not comfortable pushing the high reps on these right now. I need to refine the technique a bit, too much of the ball hitting and skipping up instead of bouncing and returning. I was able to get back to the DUs with about 40s left, but couldn't run the table to finish out. Tough one, I feel I left a bunch of reps on the table, but I need to realize that's where I am right now.

Some recovery later and then back to it tomorrow to keep pushing forward! 15.4 is coming!

15.2 went pretty well for me. I hit 244 reps which is a 49 rep improvement form my 195 a year ago. Mainly by hitting 13 more reps and getting out of the round of 16 I was able to get through 1 set of 18 in each of the movements. Currently (as of 9:00 PM on 3-9-2015) I have made it back inside the top 200 scores.

The workout:

Workout 15.2

For as long as possible:

From 0:00-3:00
2 rounds of:
10 overhead squats (95 / 65 lb.)
10 chest-to-bar pull-ups

From 3:00-6:00
2 rounds of:
12 overhead squats (95 / 65 lb.)
12 chest-to-bar pull-ups

From 6:00-9:00
2 rounds of:
14 overhead squats (95 / 65 lb.)
14 chest-to-bar pull-ups

Etc., following same pattern

I was able to go unbroken on all of the OHS through the round of 16. I was so spent from the pull-ups, I broke and went 5-5-4-4 for the 18 OHS. The CTB pull-ups are always a challenging movement for me, I have yet to develop a solid rhythm on them. I was able to string 5s together early in the rounds of 14 and 16 which helped put me over the hump to get to the next round. I am very pleased with the 244 reps and decided not to try to get a higher score, as I'm not sure that I would have been able to do that today.

Overall:

I have been able to get back into the top 200 (188ish), just by the barest of margins. 15.1A continues to haunt me. I was buried in the 1000s on that piece, while the best score (205) I had on 15.1 would have put me inside the top 15, to go along with a top 50 placing on 15.2. The is the test of fitness, which I was found lacking in the strength component. Strength takes time to build, and it will be a continued investment as the off-season come.

Training today was affected by some fatigue from the weekend. I'm not sure I earned it today, but tomorrow I will make sure that happens!