Squats

Don't want to talk about it.

Dizzy

Woke up in the night and rolled over and the room started spinning. When I went to the toilet a bit later it felt like the floor was tilted to the left.

Lynette drove me to work and I'm OK to walk now but waves of dizziness come over me. Ears don't feel sore. Slight sniffle and feel a little sinusy but nothing like a cold. Slight nausea, more like something I ate than motion sickness I'd have thought an inner ear problem would cause.
It's like being drunk or more like being really really tired after a couple of all nighters. My head feels light and wobbly.
Wondering if I did something in my neck craning my head to much in the deadlifts?

Weird and rather worrying.

Deadlifts

Really only ticking the box.

3 x 125kg
12ish x 100kg

Got home late and nearly skipped it, but Jeff said to fight to keep the deadlifts and squats going so I figured even half-arsed at least I'd have done more then I would if I missed it.

Lynette ran the kids through Annie round the front of the house and I kept hopping back and forth to help out, or probably just interfere, there.

I am pleased that I held on through the triple even though it felt hard. My back didn't round discernibly in the video and bar speed was good, so I need to reset my measure of "hard". I've gotten soft.
Other than that it had little to commend it. Bar was too far away from me, hips rising early, pulling with my shoulders instead of driving with my hips.
I'm considering swapping deadlifts and squats in the week so that I can get my head into them more.

Mash-up

Mixed some stuff I can do reasonably well with some stuff I need to work on and some stuff I suck at.

30 x 10kg dbell power snatches (15 each arm and swap)
Run around the block (1 mile), doing 10 push-up[s at each corner
(ie 4 Rounds
400m
10 push-ups)
30 x 10kg dbell power snatches (15 each arm and swap)

14:15
Forgot to start the watch until after the first dbell power snatches.

Got some butt kicking (Pose) in on the run, but can't hold it consistently. My quads are tight I think, slowing down the pull.

After, took a small portion of yesterday's mobility WOD from Dr KStarr's new Mobility Blog.
5 minutes in the bottom of the squat.
Not hard to sit in a squat, but I kept trying to work the position Kelly taught me, toes forward, knees out and held in place with my butt. Left side was easy, the side I've been focusing on because "it's the tightest", right side I kept winding up my quads and had to take breaks. After 4 minutes I got the right side locked in and had an easy run until the last 15 seconds when I lost it again.
Just shows I need to do the hip capsule stretches on both sides equally and not focus on the "worst" side.

Jeff's Birthday WOD

51 x 20kg thrusters
51 heavily scaled pull-ups
52 x 20kg thrusters
52 heavily scaled pull-ups

24:16

52 the second time around so I have a headstart for next year.

Now to try and persuade my knees I still like them. And it's squat day tomorrow, that's not going to go well.

Happy effing 51st birthday Jeff.

Jury service next week.

Deadlifts

3 x 120kg
1.5 x 125kg

12ish x 100kg

Only got 120kg off the ground for a single last week, so I'm happy I've improved.

Didn't quite peg this one correctly, but had fun anyway

Adapted a WOD I liked doing at BX

3RFT
15 x 20kg HPS
5 ring push-ups
200m

12 something?

Hang power snatches were too light, I think I used 30kg at BX as a conservative measure there. I'll try it again with 30 soon.
Reduced the push-ups and increased the run distance to balance it out.
Push-ups bog me down every time and so does running, but in a metcon running still has value as training stimulus, while sitting on my knees waiting for enough strength to return to do another push-up doesn't.
Got some serious butt-kicking on the runs, which is a good thing. I couldn't get my heels to flick up at all at BX and I managed it for significant portions of the run. My speed didn't warrant that degree of pull but I kept it up to practise it. When I felt I had it I leaned into the run and moved along quite satisfactorily. Still cost me way too much in discomfort, but that's to be expected.

Good fun.

My new PC is running and has the OS on, but my USB WiFi adapter won't fire up. I should have got them to install a PCI one when I bought it, now I'll have to go back again and buy one. PITA.
For now I have my Really Long Patch Lead TM running to the router. It's long enough to go the length of the house, amazing the number of times that thing has bailed me out when more sophisticated networking has failed over the years. Brute force and ignorance have their place.

Offline all weekend and WOD

My home PC died sometime Friday night so I headed off to QMB and bought a replacement. I couldn't be bothered building my own again, evaluating components, assessing compatibility etc. There may be better options but compared to what I had, this will perform so much better there's no comparison. Pick it up today and install the OS and transfer stuff this week.

Installed the new HD I bought into my work laptop. Now I can stop having to tidy up constantly and it will no doubt degenerate into a mess of downloads that I don't keep track of until the new drive also fills up.

On Sunday very scaled old BX WOD.
6 or 7RFT (lost count)
10 Pull-ups
10 Dips
10 Sit-ups
10 Squats

20 minutes and change.

Pull-ups and dips although increasingly heavily scaled were the bottle neck. Took squats slowly trying to do the stuff Dr KStar talked about.

From San_Francisco_CF

I got it right some of the time I think.

Actually enjoyed working my way steadily through that. Nice to blow the cobwebs out.

Cash-out
5 minutes free-standing handstand practise.

Coming along.