Workout
20 min AMRAP
400m row
15 Overhead squats (95/65)
9 Chest to bar pull ups
**Mid week long workout — just in time, right?! We had a couple heavy days to start off the week – back squats on Monday can be a bit of a challenge, and overhead work yesterday with push press and push jerks. Ooph!! We’ll be going overhead again today, but this time in the form of overhead squats. These don’t show up that often, so today is a perfect time to work on your overhead squats. Before focusing on the movement itself and how much weight you want to put on the bar, consider your technique. Do you have the ankle, tspine, and shoulder flexibility to get the barbell overhead and move your body (and the bar) up and down? Is the bar over the middle of your foot throughout the movement, chest up, heels down, and crease of your hips breaking parallel? Work on your air squat, work with a PVC pipe, work with an empty barbell, and THEN start thinking about how much weight to put on the bar for today’s workout. I’d take excellent form with a PVC pipe over short ROM and chest falling forward Rx weight on the bar any day.