Started with back squats, yes, the same thing I did yesterday, yay! Thankfully not so heavy. We did 4 sets of 8, so I worked at 70% of max: 185#. Went well.
Then we alternated straight leg dead lifts and bench press. Did 115# on the dead lifts which are taxing on my hams regardless of weight and 145# on the bench.
We ran low on time so we did 3 sets instead of 4, which might have been a good thing, the last rep on the bench press was getting hard. I'm not sure how the 4th set would've gone.
Then it was time for the WOD: Grace. 30 clean and jerks for time. Rx is 135#, I've been doing 115# (I may be due to go up to 125# perhaps.
Last real Grace attempt was a year ago on May 14th
"Grace" (30 clean and jerks for time). Scaled weight was 115# with an 8:00 cap.
Made it to 28 reps. Spent the time between WOD 1 and WOD 2 berating myself for not finding the drive to get 2 lousy reps.
When I got home and looked up my "Grace" times, today's effort was by far my best performance, I'd done 27 reps in 10:00 @ 105#. Last year I did 7:57 but at 95#, so this was heavier than ever and close to a best time.
Going in I decide to use the 1 lift every 10 seconds strategy. It worked really well, I was on pace at 2:30 with 15 reps done. Took a break for 30 seconds hoping to repeat that, but I was getting winded, I did 1 every 10 seconds for another minute, taking me to 4:00, and another 30 second rest, leaving 9 reps to go. I just hammered them as fast as I could and finished and finished in 6:01.
PR by 2 minutes, plus 2 reps! Gotta be happy with that, especially given the amount of work we did before.
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