12/20 (WICC)
Event 3 – Another Pick in the Wall
For time (22 min cap)
100 Wallball – 20lb, 10ft target
80 TTB (adjust to situps if you prefer)
60 Hang Power Cleans – 115lbs
40 Burpee Box Jump Overs – 24in
*Score is total time
For all the wins and personnel excitement from yesterday, today was a very frustrating and discouraging effort. I was so excited about the opportunity to attack a weakness of high rep chippers. I had a plan in place to set myself up for mental and physical success but that fell apart quickly. I feelt super stiff in warm up and just felt like I couldn’t get a groove. Was semi conservative with wall ball because I wanted to attack the TTB with small quick sets. But I had to go to singles pretty quickly and this is where things fell apart. I stayed patient but it just took so much time. I went to singles because I felt like my lats were so tired and sore from yesterday, the shoulder feels good though actually, but the knot in my lat which is appearing to be the largest problem working on getting over. It was just hard to get a rhythm from my kip with the way the discomfort and soreness combined felt and effected my confidence. I did not feel comfortable in the rack position with a closed grip and not releasing my hook, so i had to open my grip and go into a full front rack which not only slowed me down and effected my time under tension and just really got in my head mentally at this point. I tried to get a ton of singles and fight the discouragement. It was very low on the pain scale, like around a 1 by i was so frustrated that it was hard for me to push at this point, but I refused to quit, even if I wasn’t going to finish the barbell I wasn’t going to stop because it didn’t hurt so bad that I couldn’t chip away.