Sunday 26.4: Another double session

Sunday. AM: Cleans and deadlifts. PM: Run and row

Another double session. This hasn't happened in ages. Felt very good, and my body is also feeling pretyt good now. There were times when I used to hit it 6.5 times a week, with each session having 2-3 pieces. So this kind of volume where I take one workout per day should be tolerable any day.

Power cleans. Link to the cleans

• Build up to a heavy single (60, 70, 80, 90, 100kg)

I carried one piece of gym matt to the home road, outside of our gym / yard. The idea was that I could do some touch'n'go cleans. It's not possible at the gym because I'm training basically always when our little twins are sleeping. So I don't dare to make that noise because that can be heard indoors as well. I figured why haven't I built up a lifting stations at the road. That turned out to ne a great lifting platform by all parameters.

Power cleans. Link to the cleans

• Unbroken sets of:
• 15 @ 60kg
• 10 @ 70kg
• 6 @ 80kg
• 3 @ 90kg

These unbroken barbell cycling sets were nasty. My grip and legs started to heat up. Managed to do all those but those weren't an easy walk in the park for me today. But it sure felt awesome to do power cleans as I almost always do cleans from hang position when training at home.

Deadlift. Link to the pulls

• 4x8 @ 140kg

Didn't plan this beforehand at all. But after cleans I realized the platfrom is perfect, I still have some time left so why not do some pulls. Felt strong on these. Okay, the barbell was only 140kg so that should come up smoothly.

Conditioning.

• 10min run
• 10min row
• 10min run
• 10min row
• 10min run
• 10min row

In the evening after kids went to bed it was dad's time to shine one more time. Alternating between running and rowing. Easy pace. No idea on the running's pace but rowing was at 2:00 so that generated a steady 2.500m per set, so a total of 7.5 kilometers of rowing at least got in the books.

Saturday 25.4: Double session

Saturday. AM: Amrap 20 of row, devils press and burpees. PM. Squats, pistols and 1-legged step-ups.

I had a chance to hit a double session. My oldest daughter joined me in the first session, and then the latter one was in the evening going solo.

Amrap 20. Result 5 rounds

• 500m row
• 7 devils press @ 2x15kg dumbbells
• 10 burpees

This was a pure conditioning workout. Had a steady pace all the way. It was pretty much aroun d4 minutes per rounds. Basically it took 2 minutes on the concept2 rower and another 2 minutes on the burpees and devils presses.

Strength. Link to the session

• Back squat
• 10 @ 106kg
• 8 @ 111kg
• 6 @ 116kg
• 4 @ 121kg 
• 2 @ 126kg

Evening session's main goal was to smash some lower body. First some back squat progression I have done couple of times. This time between 106kg and 126kg. After squats it was time to do more unilateral work in the form of pistols alternatin after each rep. Purpose was to do those 50 reps unbroken. It hurt but I got them. A little shaky in the end. After those, straight into one-legged box step-ups. Ten reps per leg, then change on the fly. I went through those 100 also unbroken that way.

Accessories.

• 50 pistol squats
• 100 1-legged box step-ups

Friday 24.4: squats and bar muscleups

Friday. Wod, 5 rounds of back squats and bar muscleups

Classic 30 minute time slot to hit a workout during lunch break. It's always a bit hurry but I warmee up fast and was able to do this one anyway.

Wod.

5 rounds of:

2 back squats @ 130kg

5 bar muscleups

Back squats were supposed to be heavy

I'm very pleased these came up nicely Every round. Haven't squatted that heavy during korona. Double squats to work on lower body. 

Usually when I do bar muscleups, I go without gloves but wear grips on my hands to prevent from rips. Had no idea how those bar mu's would feel like because I haven't trained on a pullup bar bare hands since last fall. That's why I was a bit nervous how it would feel like and how much I could complete. Very positive signal that I was able to go for 5's all the way. And all without any tears on my palms.

Wednesday 22.4: Kb + Db

Wednesday. Wod, 5 rounds of: 20 kbs, 20 db snatch

Had a very short Time frame to hit a workout. So I went to the gym with my daughter and we played around with kettlebell and dumbbells. 

Workout.

5 rounds of:

20 kettlebell swings @ 32kg

20 dumbbell snatch @ 25kg

It turned out the next day that this was an effective wod. It felt on my grip and arms the next day. 

Tuesday 21.4

Tuesday. Push press

I felt an overwhelmingly tempting feeling to hit some push presses for strength. It has been more metcons and occasuonal squat sessions lately. This was a great variation in that equation.

squat

Push press. Link to videos

5x10 @ 60kg

5x5 @ 70kg

I haven't done these in a while. To be honest I have no idea when was the last time. Felt good to do these. There have occasuonal been some mobility issues on my shoulders so this was a victory to not have any stiffness that would have prevented me from doing these.

Sent by feeling. Hit the first 60kg set for 10 reps. Then decided to continue that for a while. And finished it with 5x5 rep scheme with a notch heavier barbell. All good! 

Monday 20.4: Deads and box

Monday. Wod, 5 rounds of deadlifts (climbing) and box jumps.

Usually it's difficult for me to complete deadlifts, box jumps and handstand push-ups at home. Not because I wouldn't like to but because I train in those time slots when our twins are sleeping their naps. And these three movements tend to keep more noise than regular training. Today my training session occurred when everybody were awake so it was time to hit these elements.

Wod. Time, 13min. Link to videos

• 10 deadlift @ 110kg
• 20 box jump overs
• 10 deadlift @ 120kg
• 20 box jump overs
• 10 deadlift @ 130kg
• 20 box jump overs
• 10 deadlift @ 140kg
• 20 box jump overs
• 10 deadlift @ 150kg
• 20 box jump overs

Classic combination of movements. It works every time. It's been ages since doing deadlifts because of those reasons I just wrote. This used to be some sort of strength of mine. It has always suited well for me. I got through all these rounds unbroken. I figured after 120kg that maybe next round could still go without letting the barbell drop. But finishing each of those five sets unbroken was well beyond my expectations.

This left me satisfied big time. It's nice to see after all these years that the barbell and man are still moving quite nicely. Even though the training volume has come down quite a bit. It used to be 6.5 times on average per week and 2-3 pieces per training session.

Sunday 19.4: Front squats

Sunday. Front squats 5x5

My body ached the minute I woke up. Pretty much everywhere hurt. Probably 131 pistols had its effect. I also understand that my shoulders were sore because of those ring dips. Somehow also my upper back is feeling sensitive like I had done cleans or something alike.

Front squats

• 5x5 @ 100kg

My training has been much more based on day-to-day feelings rather than systematic strength training. And I'm totally okay with that nowadays. With three little kids there ia always present the element of surprise looming around the corner. That's why I haven't planned my workout session way ahead because I hate to withdraw any training plans that have already been made. 

So let's see if I continue to progress these front squats to heavier weights. I have done some progression on back squats, and hopefully keep on building up on those

Weekend 17-18.4: t2b, burpee, pistols, dips, deadlift, du

During this corona era I pushed through 30 days with only one rest day. Then had two full recovery days on Wed and Thu. Friday was a busy day but I got a chance to sneak in a short metcon. And on Saturday there was a little more time for a workout

Friday 17.4. Link to the wod

5 rounds of

15 toes-to-bar 

15 burpee

It turned out the combination of the two is more challenging on the core than I imagined beforehand. I went ub on t2b for 3 rounds, Then hit it in two parts. It really hurt

Saturday 18.4

La 18.4

Amrap 20

20 pistol squats

10 ring dips

15 deadlift @ 2x25kg db

30 double unders

Result, 6 rounds + 11 pistols

My palms werea bit sore so I figured skipping barbell work for today. I had some cleans on my mind entering this weekend. I am glad those pistols are Rolling quite nicely. I was able to hit the in unbroken style. Pacing my way through them. Ring dips were unbroken as well. Deadlifts added up the fatigue but those were not the toughest on this one. Du's have been non-existing in the past months so somehow it felt like the fatigue hit much harder and faster on those compared to normal workout. I mean when I used to do those more frequently.

All in all, a good workout and made me push on those pistol squats. Pace was rather conservative butnsteady throughout the wod. This really bit me through 😊

-Don

Easter wods

Around Easter time much hasn't changed regarding training volume. I have hit it every day lately. Simple one-piece training session. The past week has looked like this. 

Monday 6th April

2 rounds of:

800m run

20 pullups

800m run

20 t2b

Time, 19.30

Very steady pace from beginning to the ens. Sent unbroken on pullups, and cut the t2b's in 15-5 on first round and maybe in three sets on the latter one.

Tuesday 7th April

10 x 15 Overhead lunges @ 40kg

Not a timed version. Just wanted to hit some overhead work on the field and play with my daughter between sets

Wednesday 8th April

Wod, for 8 rounds of:

24 double unders

12 burpees

Time, 11.30

Classic version of one Mainsite workout from years ago. Plus I haven't done any double unders on months so this was a little nerve racking but I completed them unbroken

Thursday 9th April

For 3 rounds of:

30 pullups

30 pistol squats

Thanks for this brain damaged idea. Well okay, it wasn't as bad as I thought. Went pullups ub on the first round. Then something like 20+5+5, and 15 plus something ontä the next ones. Pretty good pace anyway. Pistols were surprisingly smooth. And I didn't have any Time for warmup before this

Friday 10th April

4 rounds of:

1.000m row

30 wall ball

Clock was not running but the main idea was to pace myself on the rowing. It was somewhere around 1:55-1:58 on the concept2, and then hit the wall ball unbroken each round. 

Saturday 11th April

1. E2mom x 20min

3 hang squat clean @ 90kg

Total 10 sets

2. Wod, 5 rounds of:

20 reverse lunges

15 squats @ 25kg db front rack

15 push-ups

Wear a vest @ 9kg

Great to have heavier cleans for a while. Went quite smoothly on those for the entire 10 sets of triples. I took one single 100kg clean before these. The latter piece really bit my legs

Sunday 12th April

Squat proge

10-8-6-4-2

103kg

108kg

113kg

118kg

123kg

Some squats to build up on my squat progression. 

Monday 13th April

For 5 rounds of:

400m run

15 hspu

Went unbroken on these except the 4th round where it was 13+2 reps

Quarantine crossfit

The world has change quite a bit in the past weeks / months as we know it. Not much I can do about it but to stay home with the family, and let the virus fade away. It's been somewhat a hazzle to work at home with 3 little kids. Luckily my wife is still at home with the twins and doesn't have to work from home too.

The positive side is to get a chance to spend enormous amounts of time with family. To be able to go for a bike ride during lunch break with 3.5 year old, go for a stroll with the twins or the entire gang and head for a plauground. They are all possobilities I have trouble finding so much time on workdays because we have such a disciplined daily routine. Now I'm ebracing these moments. 

Plus I have found a rhythm where I can train pretty much every single day. There has been one rest day after staying home instead of office. Good solid couplets / triplets, some emoms and squat session. I am very happy that my home garage gym is well equipped and there's basically nothing I couldn't do here

Squat waves

Thursday 16.1 at StadiFit

Awesome squat session with Toni

1. Squat waves

6-4-2 @ 100, 110, 120kg

6-4-2 @ 110, 120, 130kg

6-4-2 @ 120, 130, 140kg

This must be a personal record for me since I've had kids. We have completed some sort of progression in the past weeks which has built on confidence under bigger weights. And strength of course. I remember having lifted 140kg singles twice in the past years but definitely not a double. Let's see how we continue to build lower body strength

2. Wod

30-20-10

Pullups

Wall ball

Time, 4.37

My lungs hurt big time still in the evening

Week 46

This far I've been able to hit 4 workout. Hopefully Sunday witnesses fifth one.

HC Triplet VI

Took place in Crossfit Tallinn at 8.11.2019. Three workout with my bro Sipa and friend Toni. Gross action

End of September

Latter part of September. It hasn't been the easiest of times. I've been super tired with this little kiddo of ours. My training hours have been around 20.30 - 22.30 and night sleep has been short so it's pretty natural. I've taken much more rest and recovery days than normally. I'm okay with that anyway. gotta listen to the body.

Sunday 17.9

Workout.

• Every minute on the minute x 20 minutes
• Odd min, 3 bar muscle-ups
• Even min, 3 push jerk @ 70kg

Very good combination of movements. Positively surprised this wasn't a huge physical battle to get these completed.

Workout. Result, 8 rounds

• Amrap 15 minutes
• 300m row
• 8 push jerk @ 60kg

Heavy breathing

Tuesday 19.9

Pulls.

• Deadlift 5x5
• Weights: 160, 165, 165, 165, 165kg

Pulls are feeling great currently. I've been deadlifting once a week lately.

Workout.

• Every minute on the minute x 15 minutes
• 1st min: 18-22 push-ups on parallettes
• 2nd min: 20-25 sandbag squats
• 3rd min: 14 one-hand overhead squats with a dumbbell

Wednesday 20.9

Oly.

• Hang power clean 5x5 @ 80kg

Workout.

• 5 rounds of:
• 300m row
• 12 ring dips

Dips were tough from the beginning. Felt tight in the upper body.

Friday 22.9

Workout.

• 12-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 jump squats
• 10-20-30-40-50-60-70-80-90-100 skipping

Wife came up with this one from somewhere. She'd seen it been done fast.

Workout. Result, 9 rounds + 10 reps

• Amrap 10min
• 5 snatch @ 25kg dumbbell, right hand
• 5 push jerk @ 25kg dumbbell, right hand
• 5 snatch @ 25kg dumbbell, left hand
• 5 push jerk @ 25kg dumbbell, left hand

This was a modification of Jason Khalipa's emom workout. Same movements, completed in emom style. I changed it to an amrap. Felt awful on this one, in a very good way, if that makes any sense.

Saturday 23.9

Gymnastics.

• 5 rounds of:
• 15 pull-ups
• 10 handstand push-ups

For completion.

Workout.

• 5 rounds of:
• Run up and down the street
• 10 hang power clean @ 50kg
• 10 push jerk @ 50kg

Went unbroken on all barbell movements. That means to say 20 reps in one set.

Sunday 24.9

AM

Strength.

• Bench press triples @ 80, 82, 83, 84, 85kg

Benching after a longer break. Kept that in the metcon too.

Workout.

• 5 rounds of:
• 10 bench press @ 70kg
• 20 kettlebell swings @ 32kg
• 15 toes-to-bar's

PM

Strength.

• Shoulder press 10x1 (60, 60, 60, 61, 62, 62, 62, 62, 62, 62kg)

It's been ages since doing shoulder press.

Accessory.

• 4 rounds of:
• Kneeling presses with dumbbells
• Ab wheel

Finished shoulders with those kneeling presses.

Monday 25.9

Pulls.

• Deadlift 5x5 @ 170kg

More heavy pulls from the ground. Clean grip. Dead stop at the floor after every repetition.

Gymnastics.

• Every minute on the minute x 12 minutes
• 1-4min: 8 handstand push-ups
• 5-8min: 7 handstand push-ups
• 9-12min: 6 handstand push-ups

Great way to get volume on this gymnastics movement

Tuesday 26.9

Overhead.

• Push press 5x3 @ 70kg

Light weight but shoulders felt tight.

Workout. Result, 26-18-16-24 wall balls

• Partner workout, 4 rounds of:
• Run / Row
• 25 pull-ups
• Wall ball amrap

I did this with Antti. The idea was that the other one was running up and down the street all the time. Both made that journey 4 times during the workout. Once Antti was running I did 25 pull-ups, and the rest of time it was amrap of wall balls. The result was the number of web's per set.

Thursday 28.9

Active recovery.

• Hang power cleans
• Push-ups on parallettes

Saturday 30.9

AM

Workout. Result, 6 rounds + 5 snatch

• Amrap 5 minutes
• 10 dumbbell snatch @ 25kg
• 5 handstand push-ups

Intense workout!

Rest 5min

Workout. Result, 8 rounds + 1 burpee

• Amrap 15 minutes
• 250m row
• 10 burpees

Another intense piece for this day.

PM

Oly.

• Every minute on the minute x 15 minutes
• 1-5min: 80kg hang squat clean
• 6-10min: 85kg hang squat clean
• 11-15min: 90kg hang squat clean

I tweaked my knee in kitchen one day, and I've had to be careful with squatting ever since. It was great to do some below parallel stuff!

Strength.

• Pull-ups with added weight
• 7x3 rep sets @ 10, 15, 17.5, 20, 22.5, 22.5, 22.5, 22.5kg

Accessory.

• 4 sets of:
• Dumbbell row @ 25kg db
• 10 rep per hand, both hands per set

First half of September

First half of September



Saturday 2.9

Workout. Time, 32.54

• 5 rounds of:
• 600m run
• 25 pull-ups
• 25 wall ball shots

This was completed with a moderate heart beat. Definitely didn't run the fastest I could. But it turned miserable anyway due to the big sets of pull-ups and wall balls. Took the first set of pull-ups unbroken, then it was 20-5 for the following three rounds. Last set was 21-4 reps. I'm very happy on the performance on pull-ups. It was a total of 125 reps anyway.

Wall balls followed pretty much the same logic. Went unbroken on first and last set, and 18-7 in the rounds between. After the first round of work I realized it's gonna be a gross wod. That feeling got stronger on after the second round. From there on it was a mental battle.

Accessory. 

• Core work

Wife wrote us some stuff to work on. Good work.

Sunday 3.9

Barbell cycling. Result, 16 reps

• Complete as many unbroken complexes of the following sequence in 12 minutes:
• 1 squat clean @ 70kg
• 2 front squat @ 70kg
• 3 push jerk @ 70kg

Oh man! The point was that these need to be unbroken, otherwise it's a no rep. So I just started chipping away the reps. For the first half of the workout I was able to do one set every 40 seconds. Tried to maintain that same pace from the beginning. That's because gassing out in the first reps would have had catastrophical results. From mid-wod on it turned to 50sec sets.

Emom x 15 minutes.

• 1st min: push-ups
• 2nd min: v-ups
• 3rd min: dumbbell jerks @ 25 reps

Wife's idea. I was kind of done after the first piece but she had a good call. Went 40-35-25-25-25 on the push-ups, 23 reps on the V-ups, and 20 jerks every time. Burned the shoulders nicely.

Wednesday 6.9

Pulls.

• Deadlift @ 5x5 @ 150kg

Plan has been lately to do pulls once a week so my body would somewhat get used to it. If it's more rare, it feels like lower back is smashed for 3 days. Now it's been much better even though the weights have been at alright level.

Strength.

• Back squat 5x5 @ 100kg
• Complete sets of:15 pull-ups between reps

I'm starting to build the squats up from light weight on. Completed the pull-ups between sets because I needed to get those in the bank, and the squats weren't that bad.

Thursday 7.9

Intervals.

• Every 3 minutes, for a total of 21 minutes (7 sets)
• 5 hang power cleans @ 70kg
• 5 push jerks @ 70kg
• 10 burpees
• It took sub 50sec every set, steady pace

This was quite horrible to be honest. It's not like this 70kg bar is light weight for me to cycle. But it was definitely the burpees that made it worse. Obviously because they were the last element of it all. I'm very happy on how consistent the effort was every round. They were completed within about one second from each other. Just below 50 sec, mostly 48 seconds.

Thrusters.

• Every 2:30, for a total of 4 sets (10min)
• 15 thrusters @ 40kg

That first piece murdered my legs totally. I took some rest between that and thrusters. Completed 20 reps on the first set, then 15 reps per set. They hurt my legs so bad that it was difficult to stand. It was definitely because of those intervals.

Friday 8.9

Overhead.

• 5x5 push jerk @ 80kg

Felt great for being able to put that barbell overhead with 80kg on the bar. Very happy actually.

Amrap 20. Result, 5 rounds + 7 db snatch

• 20 cal row
• 16 dumbbell snatch @ 25kg
• 12 burpee box overs, don't touch the box

Vow, nasty one for sho'. Burpee box jumps are something I'm not looking forward to that eagerly. My bench is not as high as a regular box so my solution has been jumping over the box without touching it. The leap is thus longer, to create similar stimulus.

Saturday 9.9

Pair wod.

• 100 hang power snatch @ 45kg

Had one friend to throw down with me. Antti worked through both of these workouts. Plan was to hit 8's throughout the wod.

Amrap 12. Result, 6 rounds + 2 squat

• 8 front squat @ 50kg
• 12 kettlebell swings @ 32kg
• 14 dumbbell jerk (7/7) @ 25kg

This was quite a workout. Worked very well. This was written so that everything's gonna be done unbroken. Okay, had to change hand on the jerks. Overall fatigue is what this resulted in.



Sunday 10.9

For completion.

• 5 rounds of:
• 500m row
• 20 overhead squats @ 40kg

Just doing the work, no stress, no clock. Unbroken sets on the ohs.

Monday 11.9

Strength.

• Back squat 5x5 @ 104kg

Meathead day. Just squats and deads. Squats came up by 4kg from last squat session.

Pulls.

• Deadlift 5x5 @ 160kg
• Clean grip
• Deadstop after every rep

Went heavier this time. It was 150kg last time I did deads about a week ago. I'm a bit ashamed to tell I bought lifting straps for deadlifts. The reason why I did that is that basically the only reason why deadlifting doesn't feel good most of the times, is how it makes my hands feel like. They are way too sensitive for some reason. It's not even the grip strength, it's just my palms and fingers that hurt on those pulls.

By using the straps I was able to focus on the actual lift. I did clean grip for some reason on the first set, and decided to finish it that way too.

Wednesday 13.9

Workout.

• Every minute on the minute x 20 minutes
• 5 pull-ups
• 10 push-ups
• 15 air squats

Cindy'ish. I found my spot to train at 9.30 pm. That was so late that I needed to hit it right away, without warm-up. So this was a good choice to hit it.

Thursday 14.9

Workout.

• With a running clock, for 30 minutes

• 0-10min. Result, 6 rounds + 8 burpees
• Amrap of: 8 burpees + 16 dumbbell snatch @ 25kg

• 10-20min. Result, 40, 50, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90kg
• Build up to a heavy hang power clean triple

• 20-30min. Result, 7 rounds + 1 box
• Amrap of: 12 kettlebell swings @ 32kg + 12 box jump overs

Excellent choice. It was a 30min drill. Two 10min amraps, in the beginning and in the end. The middle portion was reserved for barbell action. Both amraps were heavy breathing, and well built amraps. I'm happy that I was able to build up to 90kg on the cleans too. I did this together with Antti. We had one barbell on the cleans, and we did the sets in turns.

Saturday 16.9

Strength.

• Front squat 5x5 @ 90kg

Rather easy actually. Same ideology as with the back squats lately. Building up from the bottom.

Amrap 20. Result, 6 rounds sharp

• 14 wall ball shots
• 7 hang power clean @ 60kg
• 7 handstand push-ups
• 14 toes-to-bar

Felt awful on this. Don't even know what hurt the most. Had to break the t2b's on every round except the first and last. The rest of them were 9-5 or 10-4. Other movements were unbroken. It was some sort of overall nasty feeling that took place for pretty much the entire 20 minutes. Good metcon.