Usually our group does Wendler for 12 weeks a couple of times a year. This time around we’re doing a new strength training cycle, that’s all about squats (front squats and back squats). In the pic immediately below you can see how it kicked off. For the couple of weeks prior, we all did 1RMs for our front squat. I did mine after coming back from a week of not lifting much at all. I was feeling cruddy that day, was running out of time before doing the WOD and didn’t want to rush, so I stopped at around 100# and called it a day. When this first day of lifting came around, well, I wasn’t struggling very much which made coach Danielle look at me with her stern look:

“Did you sandbag your 1 rep max???”

“No!”

<continued stern look>

“I might have”

So now I’m basing my numbers on Rina’s 1RM, which is 120#. It’s going ok. We are about 5 weeks in and have another 5 or so weeks to go. Let’s just say heavy is heavy, and at this point I’m getting tired of squatting. On the other hand, my squatting is looking pretty good these days. They call me textbook. That’s a good thing, at least when it comes to squatting.

All of this heavy lifting means that many of our WODs are more cardio-intensive, which for some reason translates into double-unders. Which continue to be the bane of my existence.

I’m posting this late into the month, so I’m leaving most of these without comment, unless there is something that really sticks out there.

I didn’t take too many pics this month.