04.02.2012 Training - Life's Unexpected Sad Face/Happy Face

Things don't always go your way.  Shocker.  Pretty sure I learned that in kindergarten when I realized that My Little Pony didn't equal a real life pony.  You can't ride a frickin plastic toy...the fact that Santa needs that clarified makes me wonder if all people in charge are required to fail a common sense test (including myself sometimes according to my 6am class).  Today was starting out as a great day.  Things weren't going as planned but every slip up was followed by something awesome.

Examples:

Sad Face: Enter a gym at 5:30 am to find left out equipment from the night before.

Happy Face:  6am Beast Club going killer hard on the WOD in a way that leaves you giddy clapping (someday there will be a video of me doing this - but until then picture a 5 year old who ACTUALLY got the pony)

Sad Face: The Lulu jacket I LOVE was finally on sale....when it's 90 degrees outside (also an example of when the blatantly obvious frustrates me)

Happy Face: Needed the money for vet bill anyway AND Lulu is next to Zoe's which I haven't had since leaving Tuscaloosa, and so I treated myself to an awesome protein power plate.

Sad Face:  The short ribs I planned to make for dinner to feed a serious good eats craving take 3 1/2 hours to make when I had planned on only an hr and a half (for some reason my short ribs in a pressure cooker recipe was stuck in my head instead of the low and slow method that produces the below results). 

Happy Face:  Still have great wine to go with ....well I'm still waiting to see how these shorter at a high heat ones turn out.

Sad Face:  Didn't get in my metcon b/c I needed to get on these short ribs - leaving for Chicago in the am and still have to pack, eat, do more work, etc.

 Happy Face: Strength session went pretty damn well....AND I counted my weight correctly.

So yes......there are ups and downs to training and life and work that you just have to take.  But here's the training I got in anyway.

6:00 pm Training

Opal's Shoulders Are Still Special Warm-Up This was a bit frantic and scattered because the gym was packed so I had to do things all over the place.

Skill:

-Negative Pullups: 4x2, 2 min rest Ughhhh - haven't done these in over a month, but had hoped that the scapular depressions I'd been doing in my warmup every day would magically make them easy.  Not so much, because as I've noted...my shoulders are special - as in they don't like to move at the same time nor at the same pace nor to the degrees that I want them.

-Split Jerk Ladder: 2x10, 2 min rest (85#)

Strength:

-Hang Clean (Hip) focusing on catching tight right above parallel @ 85% 1RM, 2 min rest

Warm-up: 3x45 - 2x75 - 2x90

Work Set: [95 - 95 - 95] Forgot about the focus on right above parallel so I actually did 2 full rounds of 3 sets.  Genius I tell you - well that's what my parents always said.

-Hang Squat Clean (Knee) @ 80% 1RM, 2 min rest

Work Set: [3x90 - 3x90 - 3x90]

-Front Squat @ 85% 1RM, 2 min rest

Warm-up: 3x65 - 3x95 - 3x105

Work Set: [3x115 - 3x115 - 3x115]