20060826:
The workout with my buddy McKenna was a good one. He showed me a little trick he learned when he used to train with Steve MacD. We set up my yoke to a decent height, then you would pick up the Atlas stone and "load" it over the yoke. Then you'd run around the yoke as quick as you can, pick it up again, "load", and repeat. They would do this a lot for endurance with a lighter stone. McKenna's about 4" taller than me so the yoke was a little high for me, so I didn't always get them over the yoke but I did get it right up against it several times, enough to load a smaller barrel.
Atlas Stones:
We did that for three sets each, though on the last set I only managed to do one as I felt a weird pinch in my right bicep. Feels better today, but still a bit sore.
Farmer's Walks:
Warmed up with 115 per hand for 100ft with one turn, then tossed on 165. McKenna's back is still healing a bit so the turns were messing him up a little bit, so he decided to just walk as far as he could up the street then I'd walk it back. He walked it about 150', then I walked it about 110' back (without chalk, as we left it by the starting line :P). He then took it the remaning 40'. We then tossed on 185 per hand and did the same. He got 120', I walked it back about 100'. We then put all the stuff away.
Plate Crushers: Three 5lb plates crushed together for about 28 sec.
Tried Mike's idea out, I like these. 5lb plates did seem kind of easy though, haven't tried 10's yet but we'll see.
Not a bad day at all, especially for doing farmer's the day right before. Only crappy part was when we were putting all the stuff away in my shed and found out the hard way there's a wasp nest in there. I got stung square on the nose so when I went out later on that night I looked like W.C. Fields until the swelling went down. I need to hit it up with a can of Raid sometime this week, zap all those little mofos. Luckily I still have my mosquito netting from the Marine Corps
