Halted at 90kgs

This last week of training started off with one of my most dreaded workouts…. Murph. Long running and a ridiculous amount of body weight movements are not exactly my strong suites. I was planning on going through the workout at a mediocre pace until I started to get caught by a 40 year old dentist that looks like a skinny Kimbo Slice. Tuesday was our 5th 20 rep squat attempt at Koda. I made it through a painful 19 reps with 335 only to fail on rep 20. I would like to blame Murph but I am going to attribute 50% of the loss to mental weakness. Even though I missed 335 I am going to keep going up and shoot for 345 on Wednesday. This will be the final week of the 20 squat challenge at Koda. I have not released what the next cycle’s heavy mover will be but I can tell you that Jared and I found our 1RM thruster this week and are testing out EMOM percentages.

So after 3 months of training with Steve Miller he has finally allowed me to start snatching from the floor. I was pretty pumped. Steve’s professional coaching style allows no deviations in efficiency and since my form was extremely inefficient it took FORVER for me to move through his snatch progressions. We started at the very top of the second pull and have slowly been working backwards toward a full snatch. I thought that, now that I was going from the floor, I would be able to go all out on my efforts and see what my true max was. Well I reluctantly report that Steve is not letting me get anywhere near my true max. This week he found issues with my form at 90 kilos. Now I DRILLED this weight at least 10 times with not a single miss but I was not allowed to increase the weight. I was either pulling my head into the clouds at the end of the second pull or I was leading the first pull with my hips instead of my chest. He was not going to let me go up until I was able to get both of those things correct on a single lift. At the time I was a little frustrated. Obviously I could handle more weight than this but I know that drilling technique now will pay dividends in the future. If I can’t get 90kgs perfect I will never get 110 at all. These are the times that help me remember that everyone needs a trainer.

Here is a link to sign up for Steve’s Oly Lifting Seminar at Koda on 6 Oct. Since we are in the creation process of his Olympic Lifting for CrossFit Seminars it is only $150 per person ($700 for CF Oly). I highly recommend signing up!

http://www.kodacrossfit.com/class-rates

-Brice