Tuesdays are better than Mondays

While shitty training days can make you feel super shitty, amazing training days can make you feel amazing. Today was amazing.

I warmed up with a few sets of four pullups, just trying to feel out my elbow and see what it would do. Nothing tweaked, good.

Few sets of thirty pushups. Still feeling good.

Decided to press the 16kg a couple times, see what that was like. Felt good.

I've been pressing the 20kg and was about ready to move up to ladders with the 24kg, but I decided to stay with the 16kg today and work on my form. Concentrate on engaging my lats with every press and crushing the handle with my grip.

I also decided not to clean between every rep, which I have never done before. Even two years ago when I was ripping off ladders with the 28kg I would still clean between every rep, today I didn't for some reason. Dunno.

Holy shit, have I been cheating myself. Paying attention to my lats, visualizing pushing myself down and away from the kettlebell, it was like a completely new lift. I'd been so obsessed with progression and getting my strength back to where it used to be that I'd stopped paying close attention to my form, which is not like me. Generally I am a surgeon, a nitpicker, and a perfectionist.

C&P 16kg (not cleaning between every rep) 3(1,2,3,4,5) The first rep of the fourth ladder I felt a TINY TINY twinge in my elbow and decided I had made a ton of progress today and I wasn't going to push it.

Then I went outside and did manmakers.

I don't time my manmakers. I jogged 35 second lines several times to get a good average of what my 35 second footprint is, marked it with flags and use those two points to swing. (I have a big field to accomodate this.) I just push myself a tad beyond a "comfortable jog" between swings to make sure its only 30 seconds. So I swing 21 times (thirty and one half seconds for me) jog to the other kettlebell, swing 21 times, repeat. Ten rounds today, goal is 15 before replacing one of the 16kg bells with a 20kg.