There was a STRICT penalty during yesterday's WOD - if you set the barbell down you had to do burpees! ACK! NOT BURPEES! As Mike Koehler pointed out, setting the bar down was such a relief that the burpees didn't seem so bad.

Our workout was - 75 overhead squats for time. Every time you set down the barbell, you must do 5 burpees.

This workout was a real shoulder burner, and a killer on the wrists. One thing that I have found that helps my aching wrists is to change up my grip. If you are flexible enough to bring your hands a little closer together, it might save your wrists some agony.

Know what I like about this picture?

I like that I can actually SEE Tommy Mo pulling his toes up in his shoes. He is driving his knees out, and trying to keep all the weight on the outside edge of his foot. If you let your knees drift forward at the bottom of the squat, you'll end up with a case of tendonitis in your hip area. This nagging tendonitis usually happens to squatters with a relatively mature squat, and it can take weeks to heal. So don't do it. If you have to drop the weight down so that you can focus on form, PERFECT. Let's do it.