Okay, so by now you may have noticed a trend, where I say I'm only doing Open workouts once, then Monday rolls along and we find me taking a second crack at it.
This is the last time, I promise.
I blame my pacing strategy and the fact that my back was not in the least bit sore after Friday's attempt. Clearly I didn't go hard enough.
I went Saturday, to watch the other athletes do the workout and got a few good tips.
One: step up, jump off. Faster than step up step down, less taxing than jump up jump down.
Two: don't drop each rep. Always do at least 2 reps, more if you can.
Three: Break up sets, even the early ones, but take very short breaks.
So I gave it one more go. Much better.
I did the first 10 at 135# very quickly, and started the set up, jump down box jumps. I caught up to Kamil, who was going right beside me.
At 185# I did 3 sets of 5, with very short breaks. Kamil got ahead of me here, but I caught him again on the box jumps. He noticed how quickly I was going, so he started doing them too.
Round 3, 20 reps at 225#, I did 2 sets of 5, and really started to fatigue. Took a longer break, then I did 3 more, then 2, and with coach Alex's encouragement, I got another 3, and finished off quickly with 2 more.
Started to slow on the step ups. Did a couple of step downs, but mostly still jumped off. Finish the box jumps at 6:43, changed the weights to 275# and when I looked up the clock said 7:20, 40 seconds remaining.
I got a quick 2 reps, then one more and with 5 seconds left, somehow managed to get a 4th.
94. Way better than 78. This was my goal on Friday. So I'm happy with this.
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