Blergh. I missed two days of training due to work. Might have been for the best though, as my traps were for some reason comically sore after Monday? I forgot to log where I did some high-hang snatches with the coach yelling "Shrug!" at me; this might have been what did me in.
Today:
Coach caught a cold from his wife and spent the whole time huddled in the corner of the gym bundled under his hoodie pouting and complaining about the draft in the room, so not as many comments, unfortunately.
Rack jerks:
40kgx3x2
60x3x2
70x3x5
Snatch push press + OHS 1+3
20kg x many
40x1x2
50x1x2
60x1x2
70x1x2
80kg: lost my balance at the bottom of the 2nd OHS and dumped the bar forward
80 again: elbow lockout failed at the top between OHS reps 2 and 3
Edit: This might be an incidental PR: I don't think I've ever attempted to OHS anything heavier than 75kg before. So there you go then.
Back to 60kg: two sets of 1+5
"Hell yes you going to do 5 overhead squats. I don't give a fuck if 5 is a lot to you! You must get strong!"
Some good news for a change: My knee's miraculous healing continued and for the first time in forever, I was able to OHS without any weird asymmetry or pain. I've finally been actively addressing the issue and others (left shoulder, right hip) instead of ignoring them, so: lots of stretching/mobbing as well as megadoses of fish oil and, and this is going to sound stupid, that Olympus Helios product from Chaos and Pain. Yes, Jamie Lewis is a weirdo who makes gay porn, gleefully posts pictures of himself banging his fiance, and panders to obnoxious teenage boys, but hey, if the product works, it ain't stupid, right? Initial data suggests it indeed works. The "CherryLime Chimera" flavor tastes okay too, though it certainly smells funky and reminded me of Indian food.
Abs + back crap
Prowler: 40m trips x 4, 210lb load, 20m low handles 20m high handles, one minute breaks
Fatal error: I went to a Brazilian BBQ place for a late lunch. I was stuck in a meeting all morning and my co-workers screwed something up that got us all in trouble, so I was in a bad mood and answered with about 5lbs of medium rare deliciousness + chicken, rice, that cinnamon banana thing, salad, etc. Exactly NONE of it was digested by the time I started prowling. After the 4th trip, I decided to omit the 5th/6th.
Gym owner: "If you have to puke, do it outside or in the bathroom. You ruin my floor and I'm going to kill you and bury you out back with an Indian headdress and a tomahawk and let future archaeologists try to figure out the forensics of what really happened." Awesome.
For idlehands: I cut it off here to go to board game night. Unfortunately only Settlers and Ticket to Ride hit the table, when I usually prefer something heavier. On the bright side, this was because there were many new people (normals who think Monopoly is a real game) and we wanted to convert them. Bonus: Cancergirl brought her co-worker, who chugged a bottle of wine while we taught her the rules to Settlers and then spent the rest of the night drunkenly hitting on me. I'll take it, I guess.
Oh, speaking of Cancergirl:
Meet Scott Hisaka. He's a national level Olympic lifter who showed up on the scene as an 85 and who has since moved up to 105.
Cancergirl: "Mmmmmm I want some of that."
SuperNotJacked: "Eh? Some of what."
Cancergirl: "The bread. And the nog. And the man-meat. I am hungry for all of it."
See also:
We all have some catching up to do.