Barista Bears

Lynette's collection is growing.
Patrick sent one from Dallas and here's the set so far.

Photo was taken with my cellphone, so it's less than perfect.

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Lynette Michael

Lynette did buttercup Michael in 17:21.

She runs well, doesn't throw her feet out like some women. Excellent good mornings.
Abmat sit-ups; Nothing fantastic, but no rests.

First time running in 10 years?

Proud is not the word!
Mildly worried that after a couple of weeks of GD and BBoJ and their team's tutelage I won't be able to keep up.

Cindy 080515, Fran

Pack - 20 minute version
20 rounds plus 3 pull-ups

I made 20! Yip-frigging-pee!

Big dawgs next time!
Woohoo!

I didn't expect to do well as I wasn't feeling particularly energetic.
Splits were:
0:35, 0:37, 0:43, 0:39, 0:46, 0:59, 0:53, 1:03, 1:05, 1:07, 1:02, 1:06, 1:03, 1:03, 1:11, 1:11, 1:02, 1:07, 1:06, 1:05
Push-ups were the limiting factor.
Pull-ups slowed down a bit and ROM decreased, from chest-to-"bar", to chin over bar.
Squats got a bit faster as I settled into it and then may have slowed slightly.
But push-ups! Oy vey!
Broken into doubles toward the end. All good though, well, good by a self-adjudicating Satellite Brand-X'er's standard.

Afterward I sponged off and got a chicken roasting and Lynette warmed up for her first Fran.
15-12-9
20kg thrusters
Beginners pull-ups/body rows

6:19

She wanted to try it since seeing me do it last week.
I wasn't too keen on her doing this because we haven't gone over thrusters yet or even front squats. I made sure she wasn't at obvious risk of hurting herself and let her get away with depth and ROM issues.

I need to be around people teaching these movements to know how to teach her properly. I figured it out for myself, so I haven't thought through how to teach people yet. And yes, I could of course, but I want to be lazy and pinch someone else' good ideas.

"Picnic". Oh, and a server migration

I had to work in Hamilton on Saturday swapping a site server over.

Lynette and I drove down and she looked over my shoulder while I did it. It took much longer than I'd planned and she was very patient.

Then we grabbed lunch at the foodcourt in Centreplace. I recently realised that if you go to one of those smorgasboard style asian places you can pass the rice or noodles and load up on stir-fried veges and variations on chicken for a reasonably zone friendly meal.

The picnic part was us taking a blanket to a park and Lynette reading and my going to sleep. After a late lunch we didn't really want any of the snacks Lynette had packed. It was extremely nice to just sit and be with her and let my head start to empty out.

Fran 080510

9x5 version
30kg thrusters
Pull-ups

9:45

I chose the 9x5 as that's roughly where my pull-ups break when I'm fresh.

Thrusters were light because since I injured my back I've found my mastery of basic squat movements is non-existent. I wasn't keen on even doing them as I'm only just beginning to work back into slow back squats after finally getting the butt-wink out of my air squats. It still takes an enormous amount of conscious control to keep the curve in my lower back with air squats and I can only just do it with 20kg back squats, so I don't see me as ready for thrusters at speed yet. Not that there was much speed! LOL

Pull-ups were a surprise. Sets of 3 and 2 for about half the rounds. Kipping well, but not continuously, so each one started from a dead-hang, but I didn't need to get off the bar for each rep. Previously kipping pull-ups were singles with my feet having to go down to reset my grip on the stupid rafter. With that getting stronger I can maybe(?) work in the push away and get a rhythm going. Maybe

I don't believe I will ever break 5 minutes for this.

Lynette did:
Diane
Butterpuppies
15-12-9
40kg deadlift
HSPU piked on knees
7:52

Only the 12rep HSPUs were broken.
Her deadlift is good, the weight was very conservative for her, but she's not practised the movement and I didn't want to overload her first time out of the gate.

Fight Gone Bad - Lynette

My wife Lynette tried FGB

Wall ball 6kg	16	14	13
SDHP 20kg	15	15	17
Step ups 20"	17	15	14
Push press 20kg	13	12	12
Row	2.6	3.4	3.4

182.4

• 6kg wallball?, stupid scales don't weigh that low very well
• Wallball was wobbly.
• Push presses she was dipping too low.
• SDHP were really good, better than mine and we had the same coach, me. LOL
  

Very proud of her.