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I’m beginning to prepare to Master The Met 1 March 2008. Decided to do a nice, heart-thumping circuit this morning.

Neighbor/workout partner was there this morning. We started getting the blood flowing with some rowing.

4x “Tail Pipe“

P1: Row 250m

P2: 2 16kg KB Rack Hold until Row is finished

Switch positions, repeat. That’s one round

…a reasonable warm-up.

Then we went downstairs to the weight room for the above-mentioned circuit.

Circuit - one time through

30x (15x ea. arm) 16kg KB Snatch

15x Pull ups / chin ups

10x Deadlift @ 225#

25x Push ups

10x Deadlift @ 225#

15x K2E

30x (15x ea. arm) 16kg KB Snatch

I thought I was going to lose my breakfast somewhere around rep 5 of my second set of deadlifts. Intense.

The pull up were split into 5x pull ups, 5x chin ups, 5x chin ups. I just can’t do 15 straight pull ups yet.

That was a lot harder than I imagined it would be. I didn’t time us, but figured it took me about 12 minutes and neighbor/friend just less than 15. Not bad.

After that, we did a some back/front strength stuff.

5x

3x RDL + 1x Zercher Squat @ 205#

Partner did same, but @ 135#. I think he could have handled more, but he was a little scared of the Zerchers. They were new. I’d say he was being “reasonably cautious”.

Finally, we spent about 10 minutes working on snatch technique at low weights. Drop snatches @ 45#, then hang snatches @ 45, 55, 65, 75, 85#.

I haven’t done actual snatches in a while. My first reps were sloppy - big arcs of the bar, not going low, etc. After a while, though, I got my groove back. I hit some very comfortable, solid, low reps at 75 and 85#.

Today’s snatches were about technique and reviving some of that muscle memory. I’m happy with the result.