It Has Been Awhile, Glad to WOD with the 40s Again

It has been quite a while since I have done heavier WODs other than a few with the heavy kettlebell. I have been wanting to get back to it, but this past month or so has been far too chaotic to focus on intensity. I have been doing a lot of just-do-something workouts. That is just fine, especially in cases like this. I won’t go into details about that here, but at least I was able to hit a workout hard today.

Many of the WODs that have been programmed have been rubbish. Weird stuff, weird scores, and overly complicated. That doesn’t help me get back on board, but they do have older workouts available to log and, more importantly, find. I don’t care so much about logging them, but doing them is what I am here for.

I settled for an on-ramp one. Go figure! The movements were simple with not too bad of a rep scheme. Sure, I despise the hop-overs that they oh so love, but they make ok filler for when I want to be heavier than I have been.

I knew from the start I wanted to use the 40-pound dumbbell for snatches today. I have not so much as touched them in months. It has been on my mind that I have been wanting to break them out, but the dry air had my hands angry, plus I had tweaked my shoulder slightly a few weeks back clearing ice.

It felt great to be using that dumbbell for the hang snatches. Even being six on a side at times, they felt pretty easy throughout the WOD. The dumb hopping over the sandbag was a bit of a recovery, but it worked for this workout so I could push it with the snatches. I thought they would feel more challenging, but it felt great.

We don’t have much going on for the foreseeable future, so I would like to try to push the intensity of WODs during this downtime. It will be good for me to help burn off steam too!

Music for the WOD was Gorod.