Pushups, Snatches and Pull-ups

Warmup: 25 Squats, 10 Pushups, 50 Situps, 24 Burpees

WOD:

45 pound Dumbbell squat snatch, left arm, 21 reps (12kg KB)
45 pound Dumbbell squat snatch, right arm, 21 reps (15# DB)
42 Pull-ups (80 points BIW gravitron)
45 pound Dumbbell squat snatch, left arm, 15 reps (12kg KB)
45 pound Dumbbell squat snatch, right arm, 15 reps (15# DB)
30 Pull-ups (80 points BIW gravitron)
45 pound Dumbbell squat snatch, left arm, 9 reps (12kg KB)
45 pound Dumbbell squat snatch, right arm, 9 reps (15# DB)
18 Pull-ups (70 points BIW gravitron)

Results:
Just under 27:00 ... I messed up the timing of my watch, so i don't know the 100% real time, and I don't know the splits :(

Comments:
FIRST: in the warm-up - i did 10, consecutive, full ROM pushups (no knees!) !!!! up until about a week ago I wasn't even sure i could do any full ROM pushups. That's a Level I accomplishment. Woo-hoo!

Now to the WOD - ... hrm. I couldn't do squat snatches. My right knee will not stay straight on the way down and collapses inwards. The only way i could have done squat snatches was with no weight and just practice the movement of jumping into a squat. Max suggested I do muscle snatches instead. So that's what I did.

I know that my first set of snatches took 4:46 - and then I don't have any split information after that - Apparently I switched to a different screen somehow, so when i thought i was hitting my lap timer, i was really stopping and staring the count-down timer :-p For the snatches I got most of the way through the sets before having to take a break to finish them out.

My Pull-ups actually felt pretty good. Since there were a lot of them I set the gravitron on 80 instead of the 70 I had used for Helen (last week?) The first set of 42 was 10 then mostly sets of 5 except a couple occasions when i only got 2 or 3. My last set of pullups i set the gravitron back down to 70, and got 6 + 2 + 4 + 4 +2. I stopped to chalk up between the two sets of four and didn't do a thorough enough job of it - and had to go back to get more before the last two. that was super frustrating.


I was glad Max added burpees to the warmup. I had 30 left to go heading into class, and i finished off my remaining 6 after the workout.

One of my classmates, Franklin, actually remarked to me afterwards that he could tell i was getting a lot stronger "It's like this stuff really works or something ;-)'