Monday, August 18, 2008 - Strength Day

Today we revisited a strength workout that was one of my first workouts at CFOT in July.

Repetition Max - 5 rounds
Strict Press (50% bodyweight)
Pullup
2:30 for each exercise once you drop the bar or are off the bar your done and can rest until the 2:30 expires to start the next

Jerry posted the results from the last time we did this, I had 92 reps on strict press with 85#. I asked Jerry if I should increase to 95# even though I weighed in at 175# and he said that would be a good challenge. I totally even forgot about my shoulder until Jerry asked if my shoulder would be ok. I thought about it for a second and it felt great, especially since I didn't even have a concern regarding the workout. I did have a concern about my hands from Saturday's workout. The rips/cuts were just healing and I wanted to avoid any more damage so I decided to do pullups with a finger tip grip. Basically, the bar did not rest in my hand but at the bottom of my fingers with my fingertips wrapped around the bar. I knew my grip may not last that long but really was focused on my strict press so it didn't really bother me.

I ended up with 85 strict press and 71 pullups. I was pretty happy with this, and until the 5:00 class my 85 strict press was the highest reps. Andrea got 96 with 55#! A lot of people got PRs on consecutive pullups. The most I got in a round was 17 but I have done at least 20 before. I have never done pullups for a PR, but need to set a benchmark and will once my hands heal. Here is my reps per round

Strict Press 21 19 17 15 13 85
Pullups 17 17 14 12 11 71

Oh yeah the 36 burpees were tough! My shoulders were done so that made my burpees not too fun or smooth!