Fitness - Press & Row WOD 8/14

Today's WOD was really quick, but super painfull. I felt really tired this morning. I was out until about 1am last night celebrating a good friend's birthday. I got very little sleep last night and my body was feeling it.

I got there early and spent a lot of time stretching out and trying to work through the stiffness. Our focus was on strict military press (still waiting for a push press workout) and then we hit up a short rowing WOD.

Focus: 21-15-9 (two minutes rest between sets) of
strict press - 45 Kg (99.2#)

WOD: 500m row for time, x2
1st 500m row - 1:32
3 minutes rest
2nd 500m row - 1:44

Calories burned (including press work and WOD): 319

I felt good about my strict press work today. I honestly could not have gotten any heavier. I got to rep 16 before I had to rest the bar on my shoulders and the last 3 reps I had to break into singles. On the second set I got to 12 reps before I had to complete the last three individually. On the last set I got through all 9 without stopping but it was a challenge. My entire body had the vibrations going.

I'm not that stoked on my row times. I forget exactly what my PR is but I know it's sub 1:30. Everything just felt extremely fatigued. It felt like there was lactic acid pumping through my legs and back instead of blood, I was pretty drained. I started off well on the second row but died with about 200m left to go. I tried to push through it but felt that each pull was getting weaker and weaker.

If I had gotten at least a descent amount of sleep last night, or felt somewhat fresh, I'm confident I could have gotten this under 1:30.

I still consider rowing to be one of my weeknesses. My form is solid and I do well to maximize my effort and get the most out of each pull. But my endurance on the row machine is what needs to improve. Certainly something to work on. My goal for the 500m row is 1:23.