Saturday 26.9: Mu's, Hspu, Kb, Du's

Saturday. Metcon, 10rds of: 2 mu, 4 hspu, 8 kb swing (28kg). Time, 14.14. Skills, du's.

Didn't have time to write this post yesterday as we went to celebrate birthdays to the town with family. What a night, good times! At Saturday noon we went to the gym with Pauliina and Jasper. We hadn't even matched our schedules with Jazz but he entered the space when we were going through our warm-ups. Muscle-ups were the name of the game.

1.000g ribs for evening snack

Metcon. Time 14.14. Compare to 12.4.2015

• 10 rounds of:
• 2 ring muscle-up
• 4 handstand push-up
• 8 kettlebell swing, 28kg

My back was sore as hell from the deadlifts on Thursday. That was the reason I thought about postponing this Nate-type workout to later days. I took couple of swing with the bell and it felt alright so I decided to take a shot at it.

This workout is definitely all about muscle-ups normally. Hspu's are at a certain level so completing 4 reps per round is not that bad. Those were the easiest part of the workout. It's always exciting to do muscle-ups, especially in a metcon. It's totally different to do mu's fresh compared to when you're tired from all the workload.

Today those muscle-ups went great. Had no issues with them in any of the rounds. Surely, they needed to be addressed with severity. I didn't just jump on the rings right away after swings and knocked them through. My plan was to do each round as fast as possible. 2 mu's, then straight at the wall for hspu's, and then couple of meters walk to the kettlebell, and started swinging right away. After kb's I took a break to release the tension in my shoulders because I was going to do all the mu's unbroken. No other option in this one.

I'm very happy on how the muscle-ups went. Solid reps. They got a lot tougher towards the end, no doubt. Hspu's were easy in the beginning, then the latter half got to breathing and kept the intensity high. Kettlebell swings were nightmarish. Normally I would consider them a lot lighter than they were this time.

The pain in my back was infernal. It was okay for couple of rounds but somewhere around 4th round it got bad. Round by round it was nastier, and I'm telling you I could not have continued for another round. Lower back was burning, and it took 10 minutes after workout to get rid of the pain. It didn't matter if I was walking or bending my back or anything else, it hurt. I'm very happy on how I performed on this workout. Plan was strict and I stuck to it. Getting through 10 rounds at 14 minutes creates faith to knock a PR on benchmark workout Nate when doing an amrap of 20 minutes of the same rep scheme!

Skills.

• Double unders

Got to practice this one. I'm not on the level of skills I used to be, so I'll make a comeback to dominating double unders. There was a time I went through 100 unbroken reps and then little by little cut off the training of du's so currently there are too much tripping over the jump rope. We went you go I go style with Pauliina who has created some sick skills on the jump rope! Very proud of my wife's ability to learn new skills just like that.

Sunday 13.4: Nate, Squat / Kb workout

Sunday. Hero workout Nate, 20min amrap of: 2 muscle-ups, 4 hspu, 8 kb swing (32kg). Result 8rds. Workout, emom for 14min. Odd min 6 back squat (100kg), even min 12 kb swing (32kg).

What a weekend, two hero workouts in two days. Nate has been teasing me for some time because it would be a workout with muscle-ups included. Completed another workout too, inspired by The Champ Mikko Salo who posted his workout on Instagram yesterday. That one included back squats and kb swings with 2-pood bell. Mikko is a CF Games champ from 2009 so I had to modify my workout a little compared to him.

Nate. Result 8 rounds

• 20 min amrap of:
• 2 ring muscle-ups
• 4 handstand push-ups
• 8 kettlebell swings, 32kg

I'm extremely happy on that Nate was within my reach. I've been working on my muscle-ups the past couple of months since I got the first one in December. For a long time it looked like the progression stays slow and nothing happens. Singles every now and then. Little by little I got them rolling better and the future started looking brighter.

Next development step was to being able to do muscle-ups without false grip. I do both style mu's. Today the workout anticipated lots of reps so I turned to false grip after the first one. The greatest number of ring mu's I've done during one day was 10 reps prior to this day. So I was looking to complete something like 5-6 rounds at most. Those 2 other movements were not gonna be an issue but I thought muscle-ups would turn out too challenging after couple of rounds. Got the muscle-ups done without misses almost completely. Only on one  round I had one miss as my tapes failed me. Okay, maybe an excuse but I lost concentration once those tapes started coming off.

Handstand push-ups were easy, same with the kettlebell swings. I tried to nail those reps right away and then rest for a while to save some energy for the muscle-ups because this workout is definitely mu-oriented. All three movements put pressure on upper body so considering that, I'm even more satisfied how well this one went.

And now there's a starting point from which to improve on. Once I get those mu's rolling better I'll do them unbroken and don't have to rest that much between kb swings and mu's. There was a total of 16 mu's, 32 hspu's and 64 kb swings. I tried to nail one more rep in the last seconds but failed to shoot my head through the rings fast enough. Very happy on the result though!

Recap of Nate

Workout.

• Every minute on the minute
• Odd minutes, 6 back squats, 100kg
• Even minutes, 12 kettlebell swings, 32kg

Mikko completed a workout like this. On the minute, complete 10 back squats (100kg) and 10 kb swings. Then rest for one minute. Total of 10 rounds… That is some heavy shit!!! My version of the workout was also emom but I changed between squats and swings. Thought 6 squats and 12 swings would make the deal. And they certainly did. My focus on the squats was to do them without stopping at any point of the set to catch a breath. Just force the body move back down immediately after coming up.

This was a great end to the training session. The combination of squats and swings made me gasp for air and my legs burn. Excellent training for this Sunday!!!

Recap