30 muscle ups for time rx'd = 5.55

After the anticipation of yesterdays snatch workout and the fear/anxiety I had about testing my new shoulder reconstruction I totally forgot about the 30muscle ups programmed today until about midday yesterday. After lunch I started to think about today's workout. 1- if my shoulder would even hold up to 30. 2- how I was going to approach the workout.

I have seen to many times athletes getting pumped up for a WOD and then crash and burn. One of our best make athletes Kerron (Kez) has done that on this very workout. If I am correct I believe he pumped out close to 21 in 6 or 7 minutes and was still trying to finish of the last 5 or so reps 25 minutes later!! It happened just this morning with Dane DNF-ing at 16 in 33.23 minutes

My strategy was to break it up into 5's regarless if I was tired or not. My overall goal was to just finish the workout with out injury. This meant not getting caught up in the time but more just staying steady. After all slow is smooth and smooth is fast right?

I got 2 sets of 5 and then 2 sets of 4 so 18 total in around 2 mins. From there I broke if down further to 3's. I failed 2 attempts throught out the 30 which meant I did nit stick to my game plan as I wanted to remain fresh and not fatigue to weaken the shoulder. I took a good 45sec break before attempting the final 3 unbroken only because I was held back by John Sewerle. I'm glad he restrained me in the end as some of those dips were deep.

Although not a PR (3.43) 5.55 is still a great time for me. More than anything I am glad to have 2 half decent shoulders again.

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