Backwork and Hangboard #8

Interesting evening of it yesterday (5/14/15). Weighed in at 199.4 clothed, but pre-shoes and harness. Several variables were different, which seemed to affect things--mostly negatively. Honestly not bad workouts, but i felt way tired and the ten or so degrees' heat diff did bad things to friction. And stacking the hangboarding atop the deads really didn't work out well. Gunna hafta nix that idea for future workouts. Different hand muscles being taxed notwithstanding, my hands were not crisp or fresh. Also my skin is wearing thin-- this played heavily into the hangboard workout. 'S getting painful, and on some of these i really expected to fillet me a flapper 'fore the timer went off. No flappers yet. One more to go.

Enough whining. Progressive overload was achieved even if i didn't get any spectacular new highs. In fact, i ended up kinda sandbagging on the iron so's not to be overly trashed for hangs. And i increased the weight on hangs on almost every grip-- just ended up failing a lot. Which is generally the goal.

Deficit Deads:
21 floor touches
21 x the bar
12 x 145
8 x 245
5 x 345 (chalked here)
2 x 395 (No belt)
1 x 445 (Fairly easy)
Try with 495 (Stalled below my knees. Really not a great effort. Distracted)

G'Mornings:
2 x 12 x 135, 12 x 155, 12 x 175

P'lups;
26 x BW
2 x 8ish x +25 (think i got 9 on the 1st set)
2 x 5 x +45 (got 6 on the 2nd set. Don't feel like i've made gains here, but i prolly have, and no injuries or tendonitis so far. Hoping to go into Campusing a bit stronger than last time 'round.)

DB Rows:
10 x 95 (Stopped here 'cuz my hand were getting tired)

Later that day...

Warmup Jug:  -15. Great.

Large Open:
1:  +17.5.  Ugh. No fail. 2.5# incr.
2:  +27.5.  'Nother 2.5# incr. Failed at the end of the last rep. Feelin' those deads here.

F 3,4 Pocket:
1:  -10:  5# incr. Not exactly a fail, but painful.
2:  BW: Also a 5# incr. Failed very end of last rep! Not bad! But very painful. maybe tape f4? This cam mighty close to tearing my skin.

SemiClosed Crimp:
1:  -20:  5# incr. Failed on last rep cuz f1 skin was peeling.
2:  -10:  Another 5# incr. Failed on last 2 reps. Definitely hotter and skin was failing. But this put me within 5# of where i was on the much larger part of the hold. Li'l bit amped about this.

F 2,3,4 Pocket:
1:  +10:  5# incr. Still pretty easy.
2:  +20:  5# incr. Rad! No fail! :))

Wide Pinch:
1:  -45:  5# incr. Failed last second of last rep. Feelin' those deads on this un.
2;  -35:  2.5# incr. Failed last 2 reps with a massive fail on the last. :)
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Sloper:
1:  BW: i think this is the only grip i didn't bump weight on. Failed on the last rep. That's an improvement!
2:  +10: Same again. Failed last rep about 1/2way through. Ok.

Narrow Pinch:
1:  -70:  5# incr. Failed ind of last rep.
2:  -55:  5# incr. Big fail on the last 3 reps. Yeah...hands were not whole, and it was a li'l bit warmer. Bad combo for this grip.

Right: so mixed feelings after that un. But no denyin' i've made some solid gains this season. Goal for the next sesh is to not tear my skin. Also gunna start dieting again this week.