Good luck back in your senior year Colby
Check out these photos of Colby on his final day of a summer’s Starting Strength programming with me. Colby came in unable to deadlift more than 85lb for 5 rep and yesterday he did 175lb for a single! He benched 115 which is only about 5lb under his bodyweight, and he back squatted 165. Big improvements. Nice work Colby.
A little bit later I’ll post a remarkable video of the hip bridge action…I’m not sure it can be considered work/family safe.
You all did a great job with this week’s third workout. There are movements that I often do not include in the conditioning portion of the programming because it is too easy to “sand bag” them (to start to perform the movement incorrectly, slowly and thus more easily). Hip bridges and hand stand pushup variations are two of these things. It is really easy to slip into an inclined pushup instead of a snazzy L-position and really easy to not fully complete the hip bridge, but that is not what we saw yesterday. It is really rewarding and impressive to watch all of you perform your movements conscientiously and correctly.
Aaron and his grip-strength/strong man posse will be in the gym tomorrow for Open Gym. Come and check in with him so you are prepared to compete on Saturday Aug 14!!
Don’t forget to be thinking about what CrossFit benchmark “Girl” workout you will attack at the end of next week. Talk to your trainers about it.
