315!!!

M and I went off to Becky's garage for a WOD on Saturday morning. It was a play on one that we had done earlier in the week at SPARK:

12 minute AMRAP:
3 power cleans (heavy)
6 push ups
9 tuck jumps / 9 ball slams

The AMRAP we had done earlier in the week was 3 pull ups, 6 KBS @ 35# and 9 tuck jumps. I wanted something different than tuck jumps again, which is where the ball slams came in. M went with tuck jumps.

I did my power cleans at 125 and the ball slams at 20. My push ups were Rx'd (yay). I finished with 8 1/3 rounds. Push ups were my slow down factor. Still working those bodyweight movements! This version was definitely a harder AMRAP than the other one, as I came in at 12 rounds before. But, more exciting than the WOD was messing around afterwards.

Becky's husband had a belt in the garage and unlike Becky's at SPARK, his actually fit me. So I figured, hey, why not try deadlifting with a belt? So try I did and boom, got my 315 DL. It was ugly (just like all my other PRs), but it actually came off the ground easier than when I got 310. I think if we hadn't done heavy deads on Thursday and I wasn't post-WOD, I could probably get to 320. I'll give it another try sometime.

In other PR news, I FINALLY got a 100# press on Friday. I was just messing around before class with some presses and decided I'd try it. 100 went up a lot easier than I thought it would, but I couldn't get 105. Hopefully someday soon.

Took a day off yesterday, back at it tonight. Yesterday was also day one off the diet coke; today is day two. Feeling a little bit tired, which I kind of expected. I imagine this week is not going to be the most pleasant, but it's a necessary evil.

I also need to mention that the room darkening experiment is going well so far. In the three nights that we've closed the roll shutters/blinds/added blackout shades, I feel that I'm sleeping a lot deeper. I am actually dreaming again! We'll see if this continues longer term.