Squats

Worked til 11:15pm last night, ate out 2 meals yesterday (lunch of baked salmon with potential clients and dinner with the team of eye fillet and salad), and was seriously doubting whether I would get up this morning. I'm glad I did.

I had decided to do Tuesday's mainsite WOD, which involves:
1-1-1-1-1 Overhead squat
1-1-1-1-1 Front squat
1-1-1-1-1 Back squat
Increasing the weight each time (i.e. for each of the 15 rounds).

Given how shite I am at overhead squats, I started light at 30kg. I increased the weight in 5kg increments, and actually survived! i.e. Worked up to 50kg overhead squat (my one rep max by 20kg!), 75kg front squat (again, my new one rep max) and 100kg back squat.

The weight started to get heavy by the end. I think I could have managed heavier but was tentative as I couldn't drop the weight to fail (as there are apartments below the gym). I'm really happy with my OHS and front squat maximums though - showing much more flexibility and range of motion than 2 months ago!

I then did Tabata ring pushups and Tabata pullups. Results as follows (from memory as I didn't write them down) ...
Ring pushups: 10-10-10-10-9-8-8-8
Pullups: 10-10-8-8-7-6-6-6

Pretty happy with that start to the day! The guy from a few apartments down, who has run 17 Boston Marathons and 5 marathons this year alone, had a pacemaker put in this week! Crazy - he was walking down the street and just blacked out. Just shows how careful you have to be, regardless of how fit you think you are.