First round of each, go for max reps in the minute, remaining rounds match half. Got 10 on the log viper and 17 on the KB swing, so went for 5s and 9s.
Conan Curls
Breakfast
Walk w/dog
Notes:
Didn’t log it yesterday, but family got in a 3 mile walk outside in the sun. Heat index is nuts now, as you can most likely tell from the video.
Got to bed after midnight last night, so slept an hour later than usual and shaved off time where possible to compensate. Cut the workout on the short side but made up for it in sheer brutality, because that conditioning workout was absolutely nuts. Completely came up with it on the spot. Sometimes the greatest ideas come while sleep deprived in a state of delirium.
The program is definitely working given that I came in so poorly rested and underfed and was able to smash the overhead work so well. Still focusing on moving faster where I can. Continental is really getting strong.
Named the conditioning workout after the classic 90s Nicktoon, mainly because “It’s log it’s log it’s big it’s heavy it’s wood”, and just like the series, the first season was the strongest, but the follow-ons are still worthwhile.
Cool! Just a note: these don’t have the bell flip backwards at the top, but instead the bell points to the sky directly overhead before descending down. They also remain closer to the body than a Russian KB swing; almost like a swing/snatch hybrid. At first I didn’t like these, but I’ve done them so much this past year I love seeing them in a WOD or at a CF competition.
Appreciate it man. In truth, what I’m doing is practicing my throwing for an upcoming bag over bar: I just call it an American KB swing because that’s faster to type, haah.
@antiquity Any time we can flex our nerd knowledge is a good time, haha.
@LoRez I don’t imagine we will ever see eye to eye on the deadlift, haha. Appreciate the nod to the Zeno squats, and that’s cool to hear. Nebraska has treated me well.
Got in my squats and push ups, and about to take in a lovely evening of entertainment. Great start to some time off.
At least we’re a bit closer. I think I can say “the way I deadlift, more bodyweight probably wouldn’t help”. And simultaneously “the way some people deadlift [using the body as a literal ramp for the bar], bodyweight could help”.
Enjoy your night out. I’m looking forward to my next.
If I had no more muscle than I have now, no, I genuinely don’t think so.
Kind of a weird caveat though. My basic premise was: with an equal amount of muscle mass, additional fat mass does not add to the deadlift. Now, it’s, “there are some conditions where it might, if the body is used as a ramp”.
Yeah. I believe it. I don’t understand why, but I can believe it.
This has been so drawn out, lol. It’s just one of those truisms (weight moves weight) I’ve just been trying to understand. It’s all made sense… except for the deadlift.
But I also spent an inordinate amount of time studying crane and derrick designs a few years back, so I’m already asking from a very weird completely-unrelatable mental space.
Its all good conversation sir. Sometimes though with the human body the best thing to do is just try it. I know for me that when I really eat and my clothes start to get tighter (at the end of supersquats I had to wear stretchy pants and polo’s to work) then I am the strongest I have been. No idea what the weight did to alter my leverages but it did make me stronger. If you want to get stronger at the cost of all other goals then just start eating BIG.
