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From the weekend.

Sat 9/29
Beat Your Face, x3 rounds

Sun 9/30
DL 445 1x5
Squat 405 3x5
OHP 165 3x5

It should have been 3 sets, 5 sets, 5 sets instead of 1, 3, 3, but I cut things short because I had a bunch of work to do yesterday.

Welcome! Good luck with your TB journey!

Monday 10/1
E Session, 60 minutes on the stairmaster, 140 stories

Barkadion wrote:Welcome! Good luck with your TB journey!

Thanks!

So yesterday I did "KB Resets." I saw in another thread that KB had said that you could take 600m Resets and sub in an equivalently intense activity with the same time parameters, so I thought I'd try out these new kettlebells I'd bought to start Operator. Plus, I'd mowed the yard and didn't feel like driving to the park to run.

So I ended up doing 5 rounds.
Rounds 1 and 2: 88lb KB x 45 secs, 52lb KB x 45 secs
Rounds 3, 4, 5: 52lbs x 45 secs

So doing the weighted hinge movement "under time" really, really killed my lower back. It felt like someone was running current through it. I was gassed pretty good after the rounds too, but it was the back pain that made me change up the plan halfway through. I plan to come back and try again to see if it gets better with practice and/or I'll change up the times and weights to see if that helps. But man, it was rough.

VenomousCoffee wrote:So yesterday I did "KB Resets." I saw in another thread that KB had said that you could take 600m Resets and sub in an equivalently intense activity with the same time parameters, so I thought I'd try out these new kettlebells I'd bought to start Operator. Plus, I'd mowed the yard and didn't feel like driving to the park to run.

So I ended up doing 5 rounds.
Rounds 1 and 2: 88lb KB x 45 secs, 52lb KB x 45 secs
Rounds 3, 4, 5: 52lbs x 45 secs

So doing the weighted hinge movement "under time" really, really killed my lower back. It felt like someone was running current through it. I was gassed pretty good after the rounds too, but it was the back pain that made me change up the plan halfway through. I plan to come back and try again to see if it gets better with practice and/or I'll change up the times and weights to see if that helps. But man, it was rough.

Do you mean KB swings?

^^ Yes I did, sorry for not specifying.

I was pretty worried about whether my back would hold up after the ... unpleasantness with the KB swings, but it did okay. Taking today off, will probably do some 600m Resets tomorrow and hope the back is ready to deadlift Saturday.

For whatever reason, the overhead presses last night felt really easy, so I did some 'extra' sets. Maybe I should have used a higher 1RM for my calculations for this block, but 175 felt lighter than 165 had. *shrug*

Wednesday 10/3 (first 85% day on Op I/A)
Squats 425 5x3
OH Press 175 8x3
Pull-Ups 5 sets of 5, bodyweight

Thursday 10/4
Off

Friday 10/5
Beat Your Face, x3 rounds

Saturday 10/6
DL 475 3x3
Squats 425 5x3
OH Press 175 5x3

Sunday, 10/7
E session on the rowing machine, 40 minutes