What you do here, men, makes you extraordinary.

Today I went to the rec center gym to 1) get my deload lift in, and 2) go swimming because I'm tired of having my balls sit in a swamp of disgusting.

I had a plan going in that I would do 30 BB thrusters at 95, 115, and 135 each, going for time. Started out alright, but quickly found that I don't have the wrist flexibility to rack the weight on my shoulders for the front squat if I want them in close enough for the press. I tried to gut it out and got about halfway through with all my weights, but my wrist started feeling pretty shitty so I cut that short and spent the rest of the time dicking around.

Did some DB thrusters but by then my wrist was having some trouble stabilizing the weight so after a couple sets cut that out. Switched to seated DB overhead press which worked alright, got 3 sets of 10x65.

Mixing in with that I did some dips, and a little wrist stretching and rehab. Prob. most effective was grabbing a small 2 pound medball with my fingertips and rotating my wrist.

I'm also planning on submitting an entry for this month's Now You Try competition, so I did 4 or 5 sets of 10-12 pull-ups. I focused on dropping all the way down while trying to keep my shoulders tight, hoping to avoid bringing back my old shoulder injury which was mostly successful. Right now the number to beat is 21 in 2 minutes, which I think I should be able to do.

Clayton and I were talking the other day about how slow our squats were, and I've been doing some plyo coaching at St. X so I decided to go to the pool and throw together a little plyo leg workout.

Started with 3 sets of 10 underwater pushes against the wall, trying to max distance. That's a little high volume for plyo work, but I got ok rest swimming back between and getting reset, and my distances were pretty consistent through the sets. Also some old asshole with long hair and a bald spot kept walking/pushing his ugly wife in circles around the section with their faces uncomfortably close the whole time, so I'd have to wait for them to get out of my way.

I moved to the 4 1/2' section (to get away from the ugg couple and decrease resistance) and did a few sets of vertical jumps (though I stayed in the pool). I really want to try to jump out of a pool now, I'm p. sure I can do it.

After that I did a set of alternating single leg squat jumps, then went back and did another set of underwater pushes.

I probably looked like an idiot for most of this, but I give zero fucks. My legs actually feel pretty tired now, so I'll count it as a successful experiment.

While in the pool I also stretched a bit and relaxed, then hit the whirlpool and sauna.

Title is from the speech the head football coach gave the players the other day. Holy shit I wish I would've not been a bitch, got huge, and played football when in high school.