2015-01-14 - Craig - Deadlifts - Conventional

6 x 5 x 60kg

2015-01-09 - Craig - Deadlifts - Conventional

5 x 50kg
4 x 5 x 55kg

2014-06-17 - Craig - Sumo Deadlift, Hang power clean, Press

AMRAP in 3:00
5 Deadlifts (technically correct throughout)
5 Hang power cleans
5 Push presses
Rest 2:00
Repeat 2x

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Recycled an old one.

http://youtu.be/TrzGv2bHzvQ

AMRAP 3
5 x 20kg Deadlifts
5 x 20kg Hang power cleans
5 x 20kg Presses
Rest 2:00
Repeat 2x

1. Deadlifts
• Feeling more comfortable
2. HPC
• I have no idea what these look like. IT was mostly a case of "do something that remotely resembles the movement" and hope it wasn't to far off.
3. Press
• Getting better. Guess I need practise.

Overall

• Slow as, but whatever.

2014-05-23 - Craig - Deadlift, Squat, Hops

WOD
3 x 3:00 AMRAP/2:00 rest
5 Light deadlift
10 Air squat to bench (no settling)
15 side to side hops over a rope or line

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Recycling an old one

http://youtu.be/9ulFCi2RTuE

WOD
3 x 3:00 AMRAP/2:00 rest
5 Light deadlift (20kg)
10 20" Air box squats
15 side to side hops over a rope or line

1. Deadlift
• Not as solid as I'd like, but OK.
2. Air squat
• Pretty good.
  I have the settling thing mostly licked for now.
3. Hops
• Knees and ankles weren't bothered by them

Overall

• Happy with that.
• Onward and upward.
  Hopefully.

2014-02-28 - Craig - Deadlifts

Deadlift
2 sets of 10

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http://youtu.be/cqDbW7Fg7CI

Deadlift
10 x 70kg
10 x 72.5kg

Comments

• The last two reps of the second set, I don't know what exactly I did, but I got my upper back to straighten out.
• I know I can, with some effort I can get that damned hump to flatten, which is why seeing it in front squat videos annoys me, but I can't do it on cue.
• I was thinking of pulling my neck back, then I sort of sat my shoulders back and down and my back just felt different. Compact and solid. I was hoping this is what I'd done so I watched the video and there you go, normal spinal curvature.
• Remember this, because I bet I can never do it again.
• Deadlifts were still a bit naff, but today I don't care. That's a cool thing to have pulled off.

2014-02-26 - Craig - Deadlifts, Hanging Leg Raises

12-15-9
Hanging knee raises
Deadlifts

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Borrowed one from Lynette. And reversed it. And accidentally scaled it up.

http://youtu.be/Vwq7_k4HK1U

12-15-9
60kg Deadlifts
Hanging leg raises

1. Deaelifts
   • Despite my yelling at him, the doofus in the video refused to open his hips properly.
   • I don't know, some people.
2. Hanging leg raises
   • Interesting to watch from a better angle.
     The shoulder hurty ones seem to be where I send my hips back behind the bar.
   • Not a bad thing to do, but the way I do it seems to tweak whatever I've injured in my shoulder in the past.

Overall

• Mis-remembered the workout and got things in the wrong order, sorry.

2014-02-17 - Craig - Pull-ups, Deadlifts

3 Rds Not for Time
5 pull ups (Strict Bands)
10 Deadlift

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http://youtu.be/WBF24BPzlBY

3RNFT
5 pull ups green band
10 x 60kg Deadlift

1. Pull ups
   • First time I've videoed myself doing pull-ups in a while.
   • I thought I was getting my shoulders back better than that. A bit disappointing.
2. Deadlift
   • My hamstrings have been lit up all day from this (it's the evening now). I'm not sure if that's good or bad.

Overall

• I rushed it a bit, this one was presumably supposed to be about making the technique as perfect as possible

2014-02-10 - Craig - Deadlifts

Deadlift
2 sets of 10

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http://youtu.be/FErtlWK8hRg

Deadlift
10 x 67.5kg
10 x 70kg

Comments

• Lynette was right, the second set was better.
• Trying to avoid that curling over thing I do whenever my hips bend.
  "Oooh, look, shoeses! Must get my face as close as possible to them!"
• Also got my hamstrings into the second set a bit more.

2014-01-21 - Craig - Skill/Strength - Deadlifts

Deadlift
2 sets of 10

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http://youtu.be/l38aMTbmx5M


Deadlift
10 x 65kg
10 x 67.5kg

Comments

• Some odd movement patterns, but getting more solid.
• Just what I needed. Often I can't cope with the whole rounds and reps and counting and timing thing, I just want to move something.
  I've often thought that sometimes I just want to set a timer for 10 minutes, load up a bar and deadlift it until the beeper goes. Or if I could do that lovely bouncy clean and press thing everyone else seems to master, do that. No thinking, I do that all day, just lift stuff and put it down.

2014-01-03 - Craig - Skill/Strength - Deadlifts

Deadlift
2 sets of 10

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http://youtu.be/OamJ9DdeDSc

Deadlift
10 x 62.5kg
10 x 65kg

Comments

• I was positive I'd done these before and finished on 62.5kg, now I can'r find a record or video of it.
• Well I went up by 2.5kg from my imagined last workout.
• I should have stretched my back more before the first one, I got straightened out, as much as I do, by the second set and I'm happier with them.

2013-12-29 - Craig - Deadlifts, Push-ups

5 Rds
5 Deadlifts
5 Push ups

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Stole this one from Lynette, partly because it's a variant on one of  my favourite WODs. Not, I hasten to add, because it plays to my strengths, as the video shows.

Surprise guest WOD appearance at the end.

http://youtu.be/hLbwdRz2-cg

5 Rds
5 x 60kg Deadlifts
5 Push ups

1. Deadlifts
   • Pulling faces again.
     What the heck is going on there?
2. Push-ups
   • Just straight hard.
   • Now interestingly the first few in each set, where I felt I was doing it wrong, look better than the later sections where I'm trying very hard to pull it together.
     That's interesting.

Overall

• Fun if a bit ugly.

2013-12-10 - Craig - Skill/Strength - Deadlifts

Deadlift
2 sets of 10

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Deadlift
2 x 10 x 60kg

Comments

• I only had a few minutes to fit something in ands this fit the bill.
• Lack of time meant that I didn't video them. That felt OK, hip wasn't grinding, everything felt coordinated for a change.
• I'm not sure what position I was in of course.

2013-11-13 - Craig - Skill/Strength - Deadlifts

Deadlift
3 x 5

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Deadlift
3 x 5 x 60kg

Overall

• OK. Neither good or bad.
• I'll video these and send them through even though they're not a WOD day. I need your feedback and I need the discipline of taking and watching the videos.
  I know I can get strong enough to do damage fairly quickly even lifting badly and I need to keep tabs on how I'm lifting even more than what I'm lifting.

2013-10-03 - Craig - Deadlift, HPC, Push-press

AMRAP in 3:00
5 Deadlifts (technically correct throughout)
5 Hang power cleans
5 Push presses
Rest 2:00
Repeat 2x

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AMRAP 3
5 x 20kg Deadlifts
5 x 20kg Hang power cleans
5 x 20kg Push presses
Rest 2:00
Repeat 2x

1. Deadlifts
• I wasn't sure whether to load up the deadlift and strip it back for the other movements so went with the lightest option.
• Not the perfect form you asked for, sorry,
2. HPC
• Umm, "I've seen worse".
  Admittedly not on anyone who could move any actual weight.
3. Push press
• From not being able to push jerk at all, now I can't stop myself.
• Shoulders were still tight and it was a struggle to hit the corner at the top.

Overall

• Logistics of the shed obviously worked against me.
  Probably should have faced the camera in the push-presses.

2013-09-05 Deadlifts, Step-ups

15 - 12 - 9
Box step ups
Deadlift (Very light please)

Step ups should be no more than 15" high

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15-12-9
40kg Deadlifts
12" Box step ups

1. Deadlifts
• Not lifting properly.
  Yes, I know that's vague, and obvious, but I can't summarise it better.
  It's all bits and pieces, hips first or shoulders first or hips not through.
• Alright, maybe a couple of reps were OK.
2. Step-ups
• I stepped up.
• I stepped down.
• I still can't count.

Overall

• Got the order wrong, sorry.
• Camera battery died in the second round of step-ups

2013-07-01 Deadlifts, Squats, Hops

WOD
3 x 3:00 AMRAP/2:00 rest
5 Light deadlift ( 40kg)
10 Air squat to bench (no settling)
15 side to side hops over a rope or line

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1. Deadlift
• Haven't done them in a while ands it shows.
2. Air squat
• OK
• Where OK= pretty sloppy.
3. Hops
• I re-injured my achilles a week and a bit ago so I was a bit worried about these.
• Achilles held up, couldn't get my big feet over the strap on the ground.

Overall

• A bit annoyed I faffed around and couldn't get at least 3 rounds each time.

Gentle as

3RNFT
10 x 65kg deadlifts
5 x 15kg "thrusters" - without much thrust

That was harder than I expected

20 free standing leg swings - front and back, side
30 air squats
Couch stretch
T-spine roller work
40 odd dowel HPS

5RNFT
15 x 60kg deadlift
5 Push-ups - slingshot

10kg plate OH carry - length of driveway and back

Deadlifts were the hard bit. Should have gone with lower reps to set the better hip position I've been getting lately. It feels all jammed up again now.

Another go at deadlifts

20 free standing leg swings - front and back, side
30 air squats
30 cossack squats
30 frog abmat sit-ups
Couch stretch
40 odd dowel HPS
Band shoulder stretch

5?RNFT
12 x 60kg deadlifts
12 x 5 kg dumbbell press

Yoke sandbag carry around the house

Called due to rain

Leg swings
30 air squats
30 cossack squats
30 frog abmat sit-ups
40+ dowel HPS
4 x 10 x 5kg single arm dbell press

12 x 60kg deadlift
Yoke sandbag carry -path around back of house and back
12 x 60kg deadlift

Rain started back up during the first deadlifts.
Sandbag carry worked well, that's getting another go. Left hip is definitely tight when walk under load, it didn't rotate smoothly at al.

Forgot the hip flexor stretch. It might go better with that in the warm-up.