7.8.13- Sunburn Sam and Pistol Pete

Today was my first workout back after a 9 day hiatus. During this hiatus, I laid out by the pool, drank beer, ate a copious amount of sumptuous meats and generally celebrated America in the most obnoxiously American way possible. It was awesome.

However, the first of those activities (laying out by the pool, for those of you with short attention spans) left me quite sunburn, as I have no medium setting between ghost white and lobster red. In particular, my left shoulder is burnt to a crisp, meaning that the first part of today's workout, front squat thrusts, hurt like the dickens. Nonetheless, I was still able to do my 5 sets of 2 reps for the front squat, topping out at 185 pounds. 

The second part of our workout was doing a 5 minute AMRAP of 10 pistols and 10 hanging leg lifts. Pistols, in case you are as confused as I was, are one legged squat thrusts. It is tough, and the whole gym struggled. Instead, almost all of us hopped up on a box and stuck one leg off, dipping down as low as we could with the other leg, until we had to give up and touch the ground. It was strange, and I only got through 3 rounds of it. 

That said, whenever we do pistols in the gym, all I can think about is this artist. He went too soon!