Fitness - Two-A-Days, Power Jerk Technique & HEAVY Farmer's Walk/Thruster WOD # 1 - 1/28

Focus: Jerk technique, working with light weight, 5 sets of a few reps. I think the heaviest I went was 60 Kg. Mainly focused on the dip drop and footwork.

WOD: One round AFAP
200m farmers walk - 100 Kg, 220.5# (50kg, 110.2# in each hand)
10 kettle bell thrusters - 24 Kg kettle bell (53#) in each hand
100m farmers walk - 100 Kg
20 kettle bell thrusters - 24 Kg
50m farmers walk - 100 Kg
30 kettle bell thrusters - 24 Kg

Score/Time: 13:11
Calories burned (focus & WOD): 635

100 Kg, that's more than 20# over my body weight that I was carrying. Over 100# in each hand, and it wore me down. I spent a lot of time trying to get my hands back into the kettle bells (a 32Kg and 18Kg bell on each side) after I had set them down to rest my grip. It was really awkward and it started to crush my wrists and knuckles. Dead lifting 4 kettle bells off the concrete sucked too. My traps, and all the muscles in the middle of my back were rocking.

The thrusters were alright, my grip started to get pretty suspect early on, which made holding onto the bells pretty tough. 24 kilo's felt heavy, it's so much easier when using the bar because you can rest it in the rack position. When using kettle or dumbbells, your shoulders are always engaged trying to stabilize the weight.

I only did 10 thrusters at a time all the way through. So, the first set was unbroken, second was two sets of ten, and the final set of 30 was three sets of ten.

I've got another workout tonight, hopefully it won't involve my grip.