Monday, December 1, 2008

Melanie: Wednesday & Saturday

Wednesday was the big max out night at CrishDome! Many, many thanks to Sam and Chris for coaching me and helping me to do this and to Christine for generally ignoring the whole process whilst singing into a toy microphone. And the totals were:

Squat 125*, didn't quite get parallel. 120 was previous PR. Discovered a technique problem that when corrected should hopefully help with squat moving forward.

Bench 95. This was the most exciting feat for me of the evening, as previous max was 85. Again, corrected technique problem. I was doing these totally wrong (not arching my back).

Dead 185. Tried for 205 and failed. Identified technique issue, but will take more work to solve this one.

And then we put the martini in Iron Martini.

Saturday - went jogging in Philly with Chris, I think about 2 miles. I did not reach nor attempt my T-day goal of an 8 minute mile, but still want to do it.

2 comments:

Sam Crish said...

Excellent job all around! (well, minus that jogging but hey, you're in Rocky-town - did you do the steps?) Once we get those technique problems fixed the sky is the limit!

Melanie said...

Thank you Sam! As for the steps, as a matter of fact I did. And I have video. Stay tuned...