“When Was The Last Time I Overdid Anything?”

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Training’s been going pretty well lately. The shoulder still bothers me but has been feeling a lot better and is coming along. Now I have a new injury to deal with. I’m a big fan of overdoing things. Well, lemme rephrase that actually… I am not so much a fan of it as I am someone who routinely overdoes things. It’s one of the many things I have in common with Clark Griswold.

I’ve been doing a lot of running lately. Hill sprints, flat ground sprints, sled sprints and cone/agility drills. Because I have a habit of getting overzealous and pushing too hard, too fast I added in too much volume when I knew I shouldn’t have.

We’d been getting seemingly endless streaks of rain here in NJ (somewhere my friend, Chad Waterbury is smiling) which were driving me insane and causing me to restart my search for a place to live in Southern Cali. So when the sun finally started shining and the ground dried up I couldn’t get outside often enough.

My calf started bothering me and tightening up from the excessive volume that I wasn’t ready for. I should have listened and taken another day off but since the forecast called for ANOTHER entire weekend of rain I decided to get my sprints in a day early. That was two weeks ago and I haven’t been able to run since, much to my chagrin.

It’s not a major injury, just something that we all deal with. It’s frustrating as hell, though because sprinting and jumping are two of my favorite things in the world, and I can’t do either. Ah well, hopefully I’ll get some treatment on it and be back next week sometime. If not, I’m gonna have to cut down on my eating schedule. And the prospect of doing that really doesn’t excite me.

Last week my buddy Craig Ballantyne was in town from Toronto and we had a couple great workouts together. Of course I jumped on the bad calf during one of our workouts and hit a 50+ inch box jump, which wasn’t bad. We also did a whole bunch of other fun stuff.

Our last workout wasn’t anything to write home about, however, since we were on four hours sleep from a night out

at the Jersey Shore the night before where we partied with Einstein (“E=MC2, motherf*ckers”) and drank fifty cent beers, while I hobbled around like a gimp.

Craig had never been to the shore before so I took him down to show him it wasn’t just a place filled with ass clowns from Long Island, like the MTV show made it out to be.

On Thursday my bother, Jonny Hinds rolled into town and we had a great session of bodyweight training, Eischens yoga, alignment work, handstands and, yes… quite a few bananas.

Last night was the first time I was able to do a barbell snatch in over two years. And today my shoulder actually feels pretty good. Due to the fact that I have broken my right wrist three times (Pop Warner football, basketball, snowboarding) and torn my right trap, labrum and rotator cuff my form will always be a bit odd/off on Olympic lifts but I do what I gotta do to protect myself while still being able to perform them.

Why do I even bother doing them and risk another injury? That’s a good question that can only be answered by someone much smarter that me. See the title of this post…

The workout consisted of military presses (worked up to 195), pull ups, med ball pushups, farmers walks, fat bar curls, neck and some barbell complexes as a finisher. Here’s the video of the complex below. I did clean grip snatches to protect the shoulder.

Again, the Olympic lifting form is not perfect, but it gets the job done.

I meant to do six reps on every exercise but I only ended up doing five on the first one.

Story of my life- always coming up a bit short when it comes to the snatch…

(Turn your speakers down if you’re at work)