Wednesday I worked all day, yesterday I took off because my shoulder is still bothering me. Today was

Deadlift

5 @ 135
5 @ 157.5
>5 @ 177.5*

Finished with 7 reps. I'm having a lot of trouble forcing myself to push through to failure on these >5 sets...

Metcon was

150 lunges
800 m run
100 squats

Finished in 12:05. Should have taken fewer rest breaks during squats.

The September 17th St N Challenge

Starting tomorrow (September 1), Alex and I are going head-to-head in a pre-wedding Battle Royale:

Every day he does a Mobility WOD dot com WOD he gets a point.
Every day I stay away from fruit, nuts, and coconut I get a point.

Only one point can be earned per day by each person; at the end of 30 days, we'll tally the scores up and the loser has to deep-clean the sinks and the bathtub once a month for 3 months. Ew. If that isn't incentive to git er done, I don't know what is.

Monday was a work/rest day. Tuesday in the AM I warmed up the still-slightly sore shoulder well and did

Wendler Press

5 @ 52.5
5 @ 60
>5 @70*

*Finished with 8 reps.

Just got back from the 7 PM WOD, which was about 5 minutes of work on the frog position (very early progression of front planche) and then

5 rounds

Row 200 m
5 hang squat cleans (85 lb)
10 burpees
2 minute rest

Finished in 18:43; this included a good 15 seconds stripping down from 95 to 85 lbs after the first rep of the first round (wanted to cycle faster than I knew I would at 95 lb).

Saturday was a work day. Today I started the Wendler 5-3-1 program; I usually work on Mondays, which is squat day at PCF, so Sundays will likely be squat and bench days for me.

Anyhow, after a warmup, my squat sets were

5 @ 105
5 @ 122.5
>5 @ 137.5*

*Finished with 8 reps.

I then did bench sets, which were

5 @ 65
5 @ 75
5 @ 85*

*Finished with 6 reps.

I was disappointed in my numbers for each of the third sets, but it's been a few weeks since I've done either movement and my shoulder is bothering me a little so I won't get too upset about it.

Today was

OHS 2-2-2-2-2-2

I worked up to 115, then failed twice at 120. Shoulders felt tired. I then took a big fat DNF on the metcon.

Wednesday I worked all day. Today we did

Squat Cleans 3-3-2-2-1-1-1

Then

4 rounds

1 Power Cleans
2 Hang Squat Cleans
3 Split Jerks

I worked up to 115 for the squat cleans - not very good considering my PR, but just wanted to get into a good rhythm. The metcon I did with the rx'd weight (95 lbs) and felt pretty good about finishing in 6:57 despite doing 5 split jerks in the first 2 rounds (I always have lots of mental trouble with multiple compound barbell movements), d'oh!

Monday was a work day. Today we did

400 m run
10 power snatches, 65 lb
400 m run
20 push press, 65 lb
400 m run
30 KB swings, 1 pood
400 m run
400 box jumps, 16"

I finished this pack version in 14:17, which I was reasonably happy with because I didn't want another slog of a workout like Sunday. I tried to counteract my not doing the Rx'd number of reps by pushing myself on the runs, and think I succeeded on all but the front half of the last one. Still dropped every snatch from the top, which is taking up too much time.