Ah, gotcha. Nope: I never am one for making MORE rules. All about more freedom. Chaos is the plan!
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8/23/23
60 minutes of Clean-and-Jerk.
Roughly: 20 minutes warmup and work up to 165 for 1 or 2, attempt 175 and fail the jerk.
20 minutes EMOM 135lb
20 minutes E2MOM 155lb
@T3hPwnisher i realized that if i had done a single burpee chin every round this would have been epic. Very doable too, still leaves plenty of time for E2MOM pace.
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Hell yeah man! Great way to sneak in some volume. Well worth giving a try.
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That’s a lot of quality work. 30 “backoff” reps is a ton. Nice.
EDIT: I meant that metaphorically, but apparently it actually WAS over 2 tons. 
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8/25/2023
60 minutes of putting dumbbells from the floor to overhead.
Notes:
Began with EMOM DB snatches (several per side EMOM). Moved on to EMOM and E2MOM C&P. The toll of what I’ve been doing for the past couple days (hard physical labor), as well as the barbell C&J session I did Wednesday, as well as the soul-crushing stress I’m under at the moment, was very apparent and I could barely C&P anything. I don’t remember how high I got, like 80 or 85lbs at best? BUT I leaned into it, and decided if my body couldn’t do heavy, I could make it do a lot, and with little rest.
Around minute 30 tried what I’m going to call the Magnolia Get-up, with 5, 10, and then 15lbs. It definitely is worth doing, and worth working up to much heavier weight.
Lay on your back, hold a DB up with one hand, then without touching the floor with either hand, or letting the DB touch your body, GET UP and hold the bell overhead.
I wanted to do TGU’s but I don’t know how and this was a way to just MOVE, and do so explosively, and still take weight from floor to overhead.
After a few minutes of those I went to EMOM snatches, and just went and went and went. Left a freakin pool of sweat on the floor. You can really work HARD doing DB snatches if you do enough reps with little enough rest.
Felt better at the end than at the beginning, but I’ve learned something about recovery - this just wasn’t the day to set a weight PR for sure. I’m ground down near the bone. But I got a good session in.
May be able to get a session Monday, maybe not, lots of moving parts right now in life.
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Good on you for getting after it and adapting to make sure you get something done. Hope the life stuff isn’t too crushing!
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Couple weeks gone by, possibly my longest logging break in years, time for an update!
This isn’t the time or place to go on for pages about the past several months. @atlas13 and @simo74 and possibly one or two others around here know what’s up, and while it’s overwhelmingly POSITIVE, it’s also OVERWHELMING period.
Just wrote and then deleted a long essay about this - writing is therapeutic, I don’t need to have people read it.
I have had a few training sessions in the past several days, nothing like my normal routine given the constraints of location, time, and equipment; training is still top of mind because I need it to stay sane. Will establish a routine again as soon as conditions permit.
Today I took a run.
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Yes sir. Quality
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Caribbean? South pacific?
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Hawaii.
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9/7/2023 Thursday
Whirlwind trip back to TX to finalize some things, went to my old gym which I’ll miss very much.
60 minutes of taking weight from floor to overhead. 20 minutes snatch, 40 minutes clean and jerk.
All EMOM or E2MOM.
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This is all good, but we want to hear about the great new gym you have found and all the beasts and honeys that train there mate.
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Hasn’t happened yet but I’ll be looking.
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I won’t have access to most of my stuff for the next several weeks, and that stuff includes a sled that will be perfect for this environment.
For now, though, $15 got me this - rope and a tote. Straps would be better, and the tote bottom isn’t ideal, but its something!
Will work on finding a gym this week.
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Lookin’ good Brah. Good luck settling in.
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Sled is perfect and definitely wining dad points and creating memories for you family. Love it. Several weeks of less stuff seems like a great time to do some burpees and navy seals. Would love to see you knock out 100 navy seals, just be prepared for a sore chest.
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Is a navy seal a burpee with an extra pushup?
they are like a 3 pump burpee with mountain climbers thrown in.
Here is @ChongLordUno breaking down the movement
Here is it done at pace
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Fine.
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