Monday, May 22, 2017
Sword!
I had an unusual opportunity to handle a rather ornate two-handed sword of sorts. I'm willing to bet it's actually a bastard sword, or hand-and-a-half sword, but I'm so little that it may as well be a greatsword or two-handed sword.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Phoenix Games 2/n: Deep in the Bowels...
It was hot and humid!
Fifty reps of front rack lunges at 65 lbs were bloody murder, especially when the weather conditions are about par with Satan's bowels after a pound of ghost chilies.
Burpees are usually not my friend, but on that final WOD, burpees onto the plate were merciful after the front rack lunges. The easiest part of the WOD were the 100 yard overhead walk with the said 65 lb barbell.
Thought bubble: !$%!@#$ - This was during the WOD known as Suicide Squat, which was a mixture of short shuttle runs and high rep air squats.
You know it's a brutal day when the easiest activities were full squat snatches, hand-release push-ups, burpees, and 65 lb overhead walks!
Farrrrrrt!!! Air squats got a little brutal and the first WOD did give me some intestinal cramping, so I did the best thing, which was releasing gas!
Fifty reps of front rack lunges at 65 lbs were bloody murder, especially when the weather conditions are about par with Satan's bowels after a pound of ghost chilies.
Burpees are usually not my friend, but on that final WOD, burpees onto the plate were merciful after the front rack lunges. The easiest part of the WOD were the 100 yard overhead walk with the said 65 lb barbell.
Thought bubble: !$%!@#$ - This was during the WOD known as Suicide Squat, which was a mixture of short shuttle runs and high rep air squats.
You know it's a brutal day when the easiest activities were full squat snatches, hand-release push-ups, burpees, and 65 lb overhead walks!
Farrrrrrt!!! Air squats got a little brutal and the first WOD did give me some intestinal cramping, so I did the best thing, which was releasing gas!
Friday, May 05, 2017
Phoenix Games 2017 1/n: Double Trouble!
This was from WOD 2, known as Double Trouble, which consisted of an 8 minute time cap of jump rope and snatches. This also provided me with some excellent troubleshooting opportunities on my snatch form. Pictures courtesy of 904 Fitness.
Right before the action begins... I just have to flex! I got this!
Jump ropes and I don't always get along. I'm still working on handling single unders, much less double unders.
And then there's the snatches. I enjoy snatches much more than jump ropes. I struggled quite a bit with my form, as I have a tendency to catch really high and not dropping under fast enough to do trur squat snatches.
And then there's my upper body asymmetry. I had a coach work with me today, and we were able to deduce that my asymmetry is due to my tendency to shrug my right shoulder up as a habit from archery. What I'm supposed to do is engage my lats, pulling both shoulders down. It's natural on my left side. My right side, not so much...
Ok for Crossfit, but a HUGE no-no in Olympic weight lifting. I pressed the weight up a bit and didn't quite catch with my elbows locked out. Part of the problem is also me not dropping down under the bar fast or far enough. I definitely get a pretty decent high pull when I don't do too much of the hitching "giddy-up" motion.
My form looks all right up to here - explosive triple extension and a nice, high pull.
Unfortunately I don't drop under the bar fast enough, forcing me to press it up. Again, in CrossFit, this is usually ok. Weightlifting, this would have gotten me the red flag.
Triple extension is there, but I think I broke my elbows a little too early, typically something that happens when I go "giddy-up" on the second pull instead of exploding with a pure upward vector.
I didn't get under the bar fast enough to salvage this lift... and I went splat!
Right before the action begins... I just have to flex! I got this!
Jump ropes and I don't always get along. I'm still working on handling single unders, much less double unders.
And then there's the snatches. I enjoy snatches much more than jump ropes. I struggled quite a bit with my form, as I have a tendency to catch really high and not dropping under fast enough to do trur squat snatches.
And then there's my upper body asymmetry. I had a coach work with me today, and we were able to deduce that my asymmetry is due to my tendency to shrug my right shoulder up as a habit from archery. What I'm supposed to do is engage my lats, pulling both shoulders down. It's natural on my left side. My right side, not so much...
Ok for Crossfit, but a HUGE no-no in Olympic weight lifting. I pressed the weight up a bit and didn't quite catch with my elbows locked out. Part of the problem is also me not dropping down under the bar fast or far enough. I definitely get a pretty decent high pull when I don't do too much of the hitching "giddy-up" motion.
My form looks all right up to here - explosive triple extension and a nice, high pull.
Unfortunately I don't drop under the bar fast enough, forcing me to press it up. Again, in CrossFit, this is usually ok. Weightlifting, this would have gotten me the red flag.
Triple extension is there, but I think I broke my elbows a little too early, typically something that happens when I go "giddy-up" on the second pull instead of exploding with a pure upward vector.
I didn't get under the bar fast enough to salvage this lift... and I went splat!
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