"And in those simple beautiful movements I remembered what was really important in training; that consistency trumps intensity; all the time. That intensity is born from consistency. That one cannot force it, one has to lay in wait for it, patiently, instinctively, calmly and be ready to grab it when Grace lays it down in front of you."
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Mission Accomplished 200 One Arm Swings with the Beast.
Pretty stinkin' proud of myself and my training partner Glenn today. We jumped ahead of schedule and went from a pr of 180 one arms with the 48 in 10 sets of 9/9 to 200 reps, the all time goal, in 10 sets of 10/10 no problem
Wasn't sure at all if skipping last Saturday's training would help me or hurt me and I knew I wouldn't know until hand touched bell.
Slept well, woke up well and stretched out easy. Took a hot bath too, for the first time in forever( damn drought!) to pre warmup as well. Mind was solid but I was expecting 3 sets of 10 as baseline. 5 sets if all went well but did NOT expect to go all the way at all .
Wasn't even in the long range plan
But I just felt good. Damn good.
It's been a long road here, almost three years; starting in May of 2013 when I stopped snatching to see if that would help my aching shoulder and decided to re focus on the one arm swings and getting up to here, what we did today.
First Pr with the Beast one set of 5/5
First 100 rep total right before my TKR
50 reps with the Beast 8 weeks after TKR
Back to 100 rep total, 4 months after TKR
Nice chronology. at least to mean. It's taken a long time but I am nothing if not patient.At least in regards to training :)
Win lose or draw , next day it's back to the gym anyway. No hurry to anywhere,except to keep training.
One arm swings
16 kg x 5/5 x2
20 kg x 5/5
24 kg x 5/5
28 kg x 4/4
32 kg x 4/4
40 kg x 4/4
48 kg x 10/10 x 10
200 reps PR !!
21,200 lbs
TEN TONS
Rest of the workout
Hack squats
55 x 10
75 x 10
95 x 8
legs were surprisingly fatigued already
Horiz pushups sandbag
3 sets of 10 with 30 lbs
Side delts
3 sets of 12 with 15's
NICE!!!
BW 162.4
BF 11.5
W 57.8 ( pre training bath always does this)
ok real ruck tomorrow
datsit
NEVERQUIT.
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5 comments:
Congratulations, Mark! :o)
Badass. Very cool!
thanks guys! very very happy and proud :)
Congratulations!
thanks Diana!
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