So Close!

I know I haven't been keeping up with this blog very well this summer, but since I've recorded previous Crossfit Totals here it seemed the best place.  I've been using the Wendler 5-3-1 strength training program since February, and I thought I'd try a Total and see where I ended up.

Deadlift: 205

This is not quite a personal record - I've hit 215 before, and attempted it today, but didn't get it all the way up.  (That I was able to break it off the ground was heartening, though!) But it's pretty respectable, since it's thirty pounds more than I could pull at the beginning of the year, and twenty more than immediately before starting the program.

Squat: 195

Respectable, since my best recorded number is 205, and I strongly suspect that was at a wildly inadequate depth. Also forty pounds up since the beginning of the year.  I suspect I can get a lot more mileage out of this movement in the next couple months.

Press: 95

AAAARGH. I got 100 pounds up to my FOREHEAD and couldn't get it all the way up.  I am going to add some tricep assist work to try to get this in better shape. Not that 95 isn't fifteen pounds up from the beginning of the year (and that's a significant jump for a movement involving relatively small muscles, unlike the other two) but dammit I wanted to hit triple digits.

Overall, some very satisfying progress. I'm going to continue this program through the end of the year at least, since I haven't topped out on anything yet. I'll do another Total at the new year and see where I am.