Because we aren’t fully staffed at my school, some of us are alternating riding on the bus as a bus aide.  Today was my day which meant that my work day ended a little bit earlier and I wouldn’t have the kids with me.  This meant I could head to the 3:30pm class that is offered on Fridays. That means that the class is over relatively early still on a Friday afternoon which felt great too.

We had a tough “warmup” of Z Press, Dumbbell windmills and bouncing squats.  I definitely felt warm afterwards!

The lift of the day was Snatch.  We were all discussing how we’ve been doing a lot of shoulder work lately and how we are all sore from it!  Every 90 seconds we did 3 snatches for 12 rounds.  The first 3 rounds were at 60%, the second 3 were at 65%, the next 3 at 70%, and the final 3 were back at 60%.  I did 65#, 70#, and 75# through the lifts.  The 3rd lift of each set was hard. Some of the rounds felt better than others and I was able to get full depth.  These were supposed to be full snatches so I tried my best to get to full depth and did for most of them.

The MetCon was an interestingly designed one that involved dumbbells.  It was 10 dumbbell snatches on the right arm followed by 10 overhead squats with the same dumbbell in the right hand and then 10 pullups.  Then… repeat everything using the left hand.  That was 1 round. It was a 10 minute AMRAP. I completed the first round in right around 5 minutes, so I knew it’d be close to finish the second round.  I didn’t quite make it.  I was 6 pullups away! So I finished 1 round and 54 reps.  I was doing 1 pullup at a time for the last few and my arms were toast.

The cut on my hand is still healing so I still wore a glove on it just to be safe.