OPT Training Day - New Years Eve

I've been having a great time using my KB in the mornings to do some stretching and mobility movements to help wake this body of mine up. It's been surprisingly helpful and has really helped to "wake" me up. Afterward I feel revived, energetic and even better than if I had just woken up from a 9 hour sleep.

It's amazing what a little exercise can do to help you feel so much better.

Training:

A. Build quickly to a tough but not 1RM in the Power Clean - take no more than 7 minutes; rest 60 sec ONLY after last set before B

B. 1-10 CTB chin up ladder for time; rest 60 sec before C

C. AMRAP DB Burpees in 2 minutes - 25/15#/h

Results:

a. 185, 205, 215, 225 & 235#
All were done within the 7 min time frame. As soon as I started to get up to 225 & 235 I found that my technique was starting to slip, my feet were not landing in the proper position and I was losing that quick explosive drive from the knee's to open hip. I must work on that explosion!

b. CTB chin-ups were easy for about the first 7 sets considering I was doing them static but after that it got tough. I think I may have kipped a bit in the later rounds but I was really trying to go for all static.

c. I only have a 30# DB so that's what I used for the burpee's, it worked well and I managed to get pretty much what I thought I was going to but they were harder than I thought it was going to be.

New Years Eve tonight. This marks then end of an interesting decade for me, who knows what will happen in the next 10?