Too much rest is dangerous

Last week contained 4 rest days. All of them for travel reasons. I am surprised I was actually able to train normally this week.

Last week also contained 3 training days:

Monday started with deadlifts + Diane. I managed to tie my PRs for both which should be viewed as OK results since I haven't done much deadlifting this spring. Also, the quality of my HSPU has improved. Last time I did Diane I had a fairly wide stance, but this time I was much narrower.

Tuesday's WOD was strength work followed by a heavy Bring Sally Up. Front Squats worked fairly well and were only slightly more complicated with the pause, but push presses felt almost impossible which felt really weird. Bring Sally Up was horrible, pretty much as expected.

In the evening we did a fun swimwod with slamball GTOH and walking lunges. Lunges suck. A lot. Everything else was fun (including burpees. Weird....)

On Wednesday we tabataed (a fun feature of English language is that it's perfectly acceptable to turn a noun into a verb) with row, slamball GTOH, burpees and pullups. Stupidly enough I opted to do pullups last which resulted in me barely able to do any due to complete lack of grip (really sweaty hands). Will try not to make that mistake next time...

When I woke up this Monday and saw this week's Masters qualifier I was really happy that I am too young for that. Imagine my dismay when I got into the box and saw that we were supposed to do the same, but with higher jumps and heavier clusters... So Monday's WOD was 12-9-6-3 of burpee box(70) jump overs and 60 kilo (I did 55) clusters. I suck at box jumps, especially when they are that high and I am not fast at clusters leading to me hitting the time cap.

In the evening I went for gymnastics which was much scarier than usual. Most gymnastics WODs are very technique heavy with some strength/conditioning work in the end. This time we worked almost all the time leading to all muscles being really really tired by the end of the WOD.

Tuesday started with a combination of Cindy, heavyish Clean and Jerks and some running. Everything mostly worked and I am very happy with my 75 pullups within a WOD. I finished in 34:14 without scaling any of the movements or weights....

Tuesday evenings are for swimming, weather permitting. This evening we did a variant of the Beach event from 2014 Games with shorter swim and, in my case, lighter kettlebells(12x2). I lost huge amounts of time on thrusters and a little on burpees but I managed to do some catching up on the swim....