UB: Conditioning Week 6. Press, Hammer & Tire

Defranco Shoulder Mobility

Press -
BarX12
95X2
115X1
125X1X5

Inverted Rows (45 degrees at top) - BWX10, 10

Hammer Curls - 15sX20, 20, 15, 12

Push-ups - BWX26, 6 (50% set)

Tabata (30:10) Hammer Swings - 15 minutes

Press felt hea-vy.  Every rep with 125 was so slow...I don't think I've ever lifted anything so slowly before.  After each one I felt it a wonder that I made the lift, and thought for sure I'd fail on the next.  Got them all though, and that's pretty cool.

Hammer & Tire session was a steaming pile of bullshit.  All the tires at the gym are fucked up because they're mostly used to rest strongman equipment (atlas stones, and logs and farmer's handles that are ALWAYS left with the load on).  Also the tire scoots around all over the place, making you readjust your stance.  None of this is new, but today it was really causing me problems.  The tire I grabbed was particularly dead; no bounce back at all.  And I tried some different strategies for setting plates or DB's in it to hold it in place.  Nothing worked very well, and I ended up switching out tires 2/3's of the way through.  Bottom line:  I worked for 15 minutes which is by bar the longest sledge hammer session I've ever done, and that was my goal for this final session.  Ultimately, I don't know how much work I got done.  I may have gotten less work done per minute than usual, or I might have gotten MORE done with all the fucking around with the set-up during my 10 second rests.  By the end, I was sweating rivers, though.


Inverted rows were a little easier than normal, and I think it's because I just had the set-up locked in finally.  Which is awesome since I'm not doing them again in this program, lol.  I hindsight, I wish I had just done two all out sets, but I went until I had trouble touching the bar on each set, so not too bad.

I did some hammer curls.  Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

For the push-ups, I wanted to beat my best recorded set, and also do a 50% set with only 30 seconds rest.  So I didn't have anything more than 25 on the books, I got 26 for a new "best," and then crapped the bed on the 50% set.  Those are usually supposed to be 60 second rests, but for push-ups I thought I should cut it down.  Guess not.