Tuesday 21.7: Pull-ups, Push-ups, Jumping lunges

Tuesday. Wod, 50-35-20 reps of: pull-ups, push-ups on parallettes and jumping lunges.

Today's main focus was purely on one thing. Breaking the current record of unbroken pull-ups. It stood at 41 reps from some years ago. I wasn't in a war zone mentality but managed to pull out a personal record anyway.

Wod. Compare to 26.2.2014

• 50-35-20 reps of:
• Pull-ups
• Push-ups on parallettes
• Jumping lunges

So I took some warm-up and mobility the same way I do every day before jumping on the pull-up bar. Nowadays the actual warm-up basically happens during the workout. For example today I didn't do a single pull-up prior to the workout itself. Well anyway, I jumped up and started moving. It took me sub one minute to complete those reps. It went pretty smoothly all the way up to 39 reps. Then I had to complete the remaining amount of reps as singles with a little pause in the bottom. My left hand's grip started to fail me and it was hard to hold on to the bar.

I'm very happy over this accomplishment. It was like hitting a wall once I came down. I mean it was tough to get those 7 more reps to finish the first round. Following with 50 push-ups on parallettes, and my upper body was blown. Finished the round with 50 jumping lunges, which by the way seems to be a bit underrated movement. That bit my quads a lot.

After the first set of push-ups I thought I ain't gonna do another pull-up / push-up. But lunges took the focus from upper body to lower body and somehow that recovery from upstairs gave me more energy to hit more pull/push movements. Did the set of 35 pull-ups as 20 - 10 - 5. And the last set was 20 unbroken pull-ups.

Monday 8.6: Loredo

Monday. Benchmark workout Loredo. Time, 20.10 (PR)

My lower body felt stiff as f*ck entering this week. Well, maybe entire body was somehow in off-mode, and definitely not ready for a workout. I went outdoors with the twins, kicked some football with my wife at the same time, and started to get my joints feeling better and better. Still, first air squats felt like I had a weight vest on.

Loredo. Time, 20.10 (PR)

• 6 rounds of:
• 24 air squats
• 24 push-ups
• 24 lunges
• 400m run

I saw Toni post a teaser in Instagram that he's about to hit this one in the near future so maybe that had stayed ringing in my head and this morning it felt like an okay idea. I just started moving and decided to see what happens. First round of bodyweight movements felt a bit stiff but after coming from the first run and entering second round od bodyweight stuff the feeling was much different.

I went unbroken on squats, push-ups and lunges without having to slow down at any point. Same with running. This workout felt like I was the captain all along. I remember having to pause those bw elements occasionally before but this time those were not an issue. Felt great about it. That run is quite precisely 400 meters but there's some incline on the road so that makes the return part of the run feel like I'm running uphill. Even though it's not that radical elevation for sure.

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