The gym followed their regular template today with a combination strength workout followed by a MetCon WOD.

Today’s strength workout was 5×5 shoulder presses. We did 15 rep sets last week, so this would give me a chance to boost my numbers up a little more. I’ve never tried for my 1RM, so I’m using this strength workouts to help me get a feeling for what that number probably is. I did warm-up sets at 35# and 45#, then started with my max 15RM of 67#. Since that was pretty easy, I added on 10# and did that for two sets. Now that I was half way though, I tried pushing up a little more to try to find my failure point. I did a 82# set with a little struggle on the last rep, and pushed to 89# for the last set, only getting 4 reps before failure.

On to the WOD.

3 Rounds of:

10 Burpees
20 KB Swings (45#/35#)

I did a few 45# KB swings before the WOD, to see if I thought I could handle that weight.  I figured I could get through one round, then switch to 35# for the remainder.  By the 10th rep into the WOD, I wasn’t able to keep my elbows straight, so I switched to 35# at that point.  In the middle of the second set of burpees, I suddenly felt all my energy drain.  I was surprised by the suddenness of it.  The rest of the workout was a trial.  I was having a hard time with the burpee jump.  I remember feeling like I had a pained expression while doing the last 20 KB swings with no break (Thanks Landon and Dave).  I didn’t beat many people, but I felt like I gave it my all.  That’s all I try for.

Time: 4:28