Day 17 WOD / Reflection from Day 18

Diet is going strong.  I say this as I just finished a monster breakfast.  I'm taking a rest day today so have my meals planned out well.  4 block breakfast.

• 4 eggs
• tons of mushrooms, tomatoes, onions
• 1 avocado

A ton of food so I had to force it down but all in all the diet is working so I will keep at it.

Day 17 WOD

Weighted Pullups
3 x 5

Pullups have always been something I have never been good at.  My goal for last year was to get a pullup and I did meet that goal before the end of the year.  I have been using bands and have progressively gone down in the thickness of band (ie. color...).  I felt that this was a good chance to go all out.  Given that I could not do many pullups I was focusing on really small bands on this WOD.  Did a few sets with the red band then did 2 sets with the super tiny band.  This band is so small it is really as if I am not using a band.  We had a lot of first timers in the class so Rick (shadowing) was spending time down on my end of the bar.  Rick is a good dude and he even pointed out that I should go ahead and drop that band.  Just for fun I moved over a bar to the really high bar where my feet were nowhere near touching the floor and knocked out 5 kipping pullups.  Holy cow, I was excited.  Dropped off of the bar and Rick just smiled and said told you.  Ryan was just finishing up some instruction and I asked him if he saw and he said "no, get back up there."  So, I hopped back up and knocked out 3.  He was almost as excited as I was.  He gave me some good pointers on how to string them together because I am for the most part dropping straight down and having to re-kip.  Essentially, not effiicient.  Definitely some things to work on.

Snatch Grip Deadlift
3x3x5x3

Deadlifts are a strong area for me.  This one was the wide snatch grip which means my hands are all the way to the collars.  Using the hook grip here was tough.  Ended up at 315 because anything higher killed my thumbs.

I put all of my weights away and stretched to cool down then hopped back on the bar for 1.  Got my 10 done.  I need to practice this more often and will take a note to knock out a few per day while working from home in the garage bar.