Deth

I woke up feeling good. I slept surprisingly well after drinking at Joy’s last night. After finishing my coffee, I headed off to the garage gym to do my strict presses fairly early, and they went as well as presses will go for me. I was hesitant a bit with my knee bugging me, so I wasn’t overly aggressive, but they felt good.

After we got the grocery store over with and some other things, we decided to get our bro shit done. Today I was aggressive with those weights as I’ve felt I have been in my comfort zone for too long with these lifts.

I knew it was going to be a good day for me when the dumbbell bench press felt good, and dare I say fairly easy for my for sets of ten using the sixty pound dumbbells? I finished them out, feeling like there’s more in the tank. Out of laziness, I used the same dumbbells for shrugs, and it’s light for them. I just didn’t feel like getting heavier weights out.

Another thing I did today to push out my comfort zone was tried using the 45 pound dumbbells for the shoulder presses. They felt great to me for the first three sets of ten. The last set was pretty tough, and I made only eight of them I think, but I’ll take it. Shoulder presses are always the lift for me that feel good until they don’t. It’s just like a switch is flipped. They’re also one of those lifts that I am simply far less likely to push myself of that extra weight or rep.

I stuck with the forty pound dumbbells for the curls, as I recently moved up to that weight. They felt good. A little tougher than normal, but that was from pushing all the other weights.

A bit later after much searching for an appropriate WOD to do for me to do today I settled on a death by clean and jerk’s one. I wanted to avoid overdoing it with the fact that my knee’s been bugging me after tripping. I continued with the theme for today and went with what I was least comfortable with. I used the forty pound dumbbells. Those I can’t really drop like the bar or sandbag so that alone makes it more challenging. Another thing is I have not ever been able to get comfortable with the dumbbells for cleans and I still have some hesitation with jerks. The muscle memory really isn’t built up enough, yet.

I finished the round of eight with a good 30 seconds to rest before the round of nine. I was feeling really great with them. That’s when it happened. Around the sixth rep or so of that minute, I caught the edge of my toe with the dumbbell. My feet want to naturally turn out, and I guess it was just enough to pinch the edge of my foot. That didn’t feel good. I stopped then to walk it off and knew I was done but I had a good run and what I’d call a very successful WOD. The videos that I took of some minutes actually looked great and easy. They never felt hard either, though.

Maybe I can consider this dumbbell clean and jerk option for more complex WODs now. More variety is never a bad thing.

Music today was Alice In Chains.