Open Workout 17.5 (with DBL DB’s @ 50/hand)
12:58 – Except with DB’s – brought my DB’s with me and figured this would be a good and easy one to do. Doing this with DB’s was a huge game changer for this workout. A couple of outliers here, warming up without any additional equipment takes tons of discipline. DU were a bigger limiter due to shoulder fatigue and grip of DB’s, would go unbroken in a few rounds then would break once or twice in a round, then would go another 2-3 rounds unbroken. One thing that I tried to do, that I didn’t always used to do is speed up my DU and this is where I would miss. I started each round for my first 10 slow and controlled and would say, oh i’m good push it and speed up. I approached this workout with a goal of being 85% effort and it came at me with 110% intensity. My lats were a little sore so holding the db’s in good rack position got tiring as the rounds started adding up. When my lats were working hard to hold good position my shoulder pressing endurance felt tested. This was extremely tough and could be a number of other factors involed but regardless it was a great challenge and felt some of my “alleged” strengths tested by using db’s and how that changed the game.