Muscle Ups are coming?

I am writing this post just a few hours prior to 16.3 announcement. While I am hoping for something fairly doable, the main goal for me is to not to do a repeat of 16.2 (more on this in next paragraph) and accept my limitations at a sufficiently early stage (which would be extremely untypical behaviour) so that if I get a horrible score, I would get it without spending hours stressing out about the 16.3 equivalent of double unders (the likely candidates are pistols and muscle ups) in the box. At the same time muscle ups are coming sooner or later and if they are coming, it would be nice to have them combined with other things I hate like wallballs/rowing/light thrusters (heavy thrusters are a completely different thing)...

Monday morning WOD was a 16.2 variation where we scaled double unders to singles and went with a slightly lower weight. It felt fairly good and now I think I feel mostly comfortable with toes to bar when tired and sweaty. The technique deteriorates, but I can still deliver. On the other hand, I feel that I need to do much more squat training. Most of my heavier "squat cleans" were power clean + front squat. Better technique would waste much less energy.

My original evening plan (well, it started out as morning plan, but I didn't feel like following through with it either) was to try to redo 16.2, but when I showed up in the box and tried double unders it worked horribly and my mind wasn't in it so I decided to visit the evil gymnastics guy instead. The main part (parallel bar work) was a lot of fun and reasonably easy, but the short WOD in the end was a killer. It seemed fairly easy(20-18-... -2 situps and box stepups with 1 legged jump in between),  but then we were told that we had to hold our arms parallel to the floor (making the body resemble a T) which basically killed the shoulders.

Tuesday was a Shoulder to Overhead day with us working up to a max in strict press, push press and jerk. Since it was less than 12 hours after the gymnastics, my shoulders weren't in the best shape so I feel I underperformed by quite a lot. That was followed by an unplanned rest day (work has a tendency to interfere with my training now and then), but that might've been a good thing.

Thursday was a body weight + farmer's walk WOD with us having to do 100 pullups, 200 pushups and 300 squats. Each event was followed by 400 meters farmer's walk. Since we were 3 instead of 2 we had to increase both number of body weight movements and farmer's walk distance. The hardest part was the first one since pullups is not one of my strengths which feels very weird to write. 50 pullups in a couple of minutes is not a huge amount, but considering that I was barely able to do 1 just over a year ago, I think I should be reasonably satisfied.  Farmer's walk wasn't a picnic either(we were doing 32 kg kettlebells), but I see a clear improvement there as well.


The beer situation is mostly depressing. As we wall know, it's almost easter and, since easter is almost the same thing as Christmas, Easter beer was released this Monday. Easter beer can be very different, but usually it's a less fun version of Christmas beer. After going through all of the potentially interesting ones, my verdict is "don't buy any of them".