At Least I Didn't Double Fault

Took a real rest day yesterday. Probably should have rolled and stretched. Proud of myself for taking the day off.

Had my first 7.0 mixed doubles match today.

So, so frustrating. I seem to remember being mentally tough, especially at the end of matches. However, I've fallen into a vat of meh lately. We got the first set 7-5, then went on a vacation in the second and were down 5-1 until we pulled it together and got at least a couple of games (3-6). Third set tiebreak and we're down 4-1. We keep going for it and get it to 8-8. Awesome, right? We lose the next point 8-9, and then it's my serve. I get the serve in, am given an easy return and then I COMPLETELY FLUB THE BALL. On match point. How embarrassing. I don't even know what I did, but it was a totally lame frame shot that went straight in the air. Pretty distraught over that. I don't mind if I'm beat, but to frame an easy ball on match point is terrible. Ugh. I'm not enjoying tennis of late.

Would really like to get a solid workout in this evening, but with two more matches tomorrow, should probably take it easy. Might do some bodyweight stuff, jump rope, light KB work.

MEH.

Double-Faulting is Easy

7/6
Afternoon
Trainer ~1hr
-crunches on the ball
-bent over rows
-romanian deads
-deads
-db presses
-squats

Finally got under the bar for squats. I could immediately tell when my feet were starting to track out. Wasn't watching my knees, but one of them started to cave. Didn't push the depth, and took a break to foam roll and do hydrants on the side that was caving. Went back to the rack and saw immediate improvement. I was getting about 3/4 depth with the correct form. *sigh* I should probably roll, stretch and do the activation exercises for my calves every. single. day. Who knew?

He gave me 15lb DBs to press and I was thinking "are you serious"? Turns out incline pressing using correct form to engage your back correctly is hard.

Deads were also really, really hard when doing them correctly. Part of it is that I have so much in my head (butt back but stay up, arch arch ARCH the back, eyes up, etc) that I have to think through each movement. It's like learning a complicated technique in BJJ...thinking while you are moving usually leads to some herky jerky.

Evening
3.5 Doubles Match
We won! The drought is over! 6-4, 6-3. I had another round of three double-faults in a row. Distressing. I don't know what happened to my serve, but sometimes it is a disaster. I played ok, but I know that I can play much better. Hopefully my game will improve in the mixed doubles tournament this weekend. Otherwise it's going to be a loooooong weekend for my partners.

Sandbag Chipper

To celebrate the 4th, I did a sandbag chipper that I borrowed from Blair Morrison.  I had about 30lb in the bag, but it felt much heavier.  I have two mini bags in the canvas bag and had to pull one of those out for the OH work.  Either my scale lied or I'm terrible at lifting objects over my head.  When I used both weights in the canvas bag it was awkward because the bag is meant to hold 80lb+ worth of weight and I had...well...30lb.

200m carry
30 zercher squat
30 chest to overhead
200m carry
30 ground to shoulder
30 OH lunge
200m carry
30 wrap around
30 thruster
100m throw

Total time was 26:15. 

Since I was at the track, I decided to run some 100m repeats for fun.  Did 5 x 100m with about 10 seconds rest between sprints.  Times were something like 23, 22, 22, 21, 19.