Went in to CFO for the power clean/pushup ladder.
1 Power clean and 1 pushup on the first minute, 2 and 2 on the 2nd minute, etc., until you can't finish in the minute, up to 10 minutes.
I was unsure of what weight I should use, and waited until enough people bugged Amanda so that she would write up some weight suggestions. The highest weight she wrote for women was 143, so that's what I did. Big. Mistake. Had I been paying attention, I would have noticed the highest mens' weight was 176... do the math... 143 is a lot. More importantly, had I been thinking AT ALL about what I know to be my own abilities, I would have realized that I can not rep out 10 143# power cleans in any reasonable amount of time. Fairly quickly? Sure. Quickly enough to leave enough time for 10 pushups (generally a weakness of mine) while fatigued? Uh no. Dumb.
That being said, it could (and probably should) have gone a lot worse than it did. I made it through the 7th round with no problems - 20 seconds to spare. I was getting tired, and I realized I probably wasn't going to make 10, but thought I'd be able to squeak out 8. No go. I just barely got the 8 power cleans done, with no time to even drop to begin a pushup. So, I rested a minute, dropped to 132#, and in the last minute redid the round of 7.
Overall, I guess it wasn't a disaster. My pushups felt better than ever (thank you, barbell classes!!), and my power cleans, while sloppy, weren't a total train wreck until that 8th round. And even then, I was present enough to slow it way down and avoid injury (to my body, if not my ego). While it would have been smart to use 120# and knock out all 10 rounds, it was probably useful to get in over my head and hold strong.
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