Fran and stuff...

Did Fran yesterday, and it was a big example of how I've been treating the workouts for the past two weeks. After getting back from vacation, I felt so out of shape, and took the workouts pretty easy with lots of excuses. Yesterday, it showed in Fran...even though I felt really mentally into the workout, I failed a lot with the thrusters and with just overall recovery. On the very last rep of thrusters, I couldn't lock out my arms, so I dropped the bar and wasted at least 30 sec. trying to clean it back up (which I couldn't even do!).  

It's time to start hitting the workouts back at full force again. Game plan simple: train hard. There are always, of course, weak areas that need to be addressed, one of which is more evident to me than ever before--my explosiveness and ability to extend my hips/use the power of the drive and less my arms. I think that may have been one of the factors yesterday in Fran, since I was told that I was using my arms way too much and less of the drive.

I was really able to slow down my movement in this video and see just how early I bend my arms, seriously almost instantly and nowhere near full extension in my hips. Yuck =(