Three rounds for quality:
Push-ups x 10
Wide push-ups x 10
Lateral push-ups x 10
Narrow push-ups x 10
V-ups x 30
2 minutes rest

Rougher than expected; I was breaking my sets down into smaller chunks by the second round, and was doing those narrow push-ups one at a time by the end of it. My chest and arms feel blasted, which makes this a nice complement to yesterday’s work, I think.

Two-handed swing x 20
One-handed swing x 10, each arm
Clean x 10, each arm
High pull x 10, each arm
Snatch x 10, 9, 8… 2, 1, each arm

Finished in 8:35, and wow: I am sore. Good stuff.

Deadlift
225 x 3
225 x 3
225 x 3

Power snatch
95 x 1
95 x 1
95 x 1

Like yesterday’s lifts, these felt very good. (Except for the lack of socks and long pants, which meant my shins got a bit scratched up during the deadlifts.) The snatches seemed to go especially well, as did yesterday’s clean and jerks. At this point, I’m leaning towards giving the Vibrams some credit for this: I feel like I have much better balance and ankle mobility on those movements, and it’s helping.

Now, a couple of days of travel. We’ll see if I can get any good workouts in on he road.

1. Use a damn barbell for the first time in a month.
2. Do so wearing my Vibrams.

Thus, I went with light weights. Also, I didn’t have much time.

Back squats
135 x 5
135 x 5

Shoulder press
95 x 3
95 x 3

Power clean
115 x 1
115 x 1

Overall, they felt very good. And while I’m sure the light load helped, I felt like I was able to get much deeper into my squat than I was used to. And, my gods, I missed barbell work.

But snow shoveling in unpleasant enough to count, I think. At least once.

This went OK. Nothing sharp or unpleasant, but I definitely felt some different muscles than I usually do while running. I also took a break after each walk to do some pull-ups on Barton’s inexplicably high pull-up bar, which was fun.

I should do more of Vibram’s recommended stretches, though. Don’t want to do myself an injury.

Goblet squats
53 x 5
53 x 5
53 x 5
53 x 5
53 x 5

And, scene.

10, 9, 8… 2, 1 of:
kettlebell sumo deadlift high-pulls, 53lb.
push-ups

Finished up in 4:35, and this one definitely qualified for the “Nasty, brutish, and short” category: I was sucking wind for a few minutes afterwards. Good stuff, and my first SDHPs of any kind in well over a year.

Nothing serious, because I want to get used to running with them an avoid injuring myself. Landing on the front of my foot rather than the heel is… odd, to say the least. I pretty much just ran 200m, walked back, then repeated it four times.

No injuries, but I definitely felt that in my calves. Which was kind of the point.

One-Arm Dumbbell Shoulder Press
30 x 5 (each arm)
30 x 5 (each arm)
30 x 5 (each arm)
30 x 5 (each arm)
30 x 5 (each arm)

The right-handed sets, unsurprisingly, were pretty easy throughout. The left one started tough, felt better for sets 3 and 4, and then felt rough on set 5. Again, this is unsurprising.

I’ll try 35 next time.