Goals--"Doing Strong" and June 21, 22 workouts

Marmot here, it's late and I'm kind of jazzed up from watching an amazing action movie ( specifically Commando, it's streaming on Netflix and the whole thing seems to just be a set up for Arnold Schwarzenegger to say bad puns after killing literally hundreds of people).  Not being able to sleep I've decided to be productive and write about one of my physical goals.  I've already written about functional fitness so tonight I'll move on to the second of my three goals, strength. 


In abstract, strength doesn't seem to be that important, it is of course how one uses strength that matters (hence the functional fitness ideal), but there is more here than simply moving relatively big things.   Functional fitness necessarily involves in "being strong" which refers to potential ability in a large number of everyday or extreme situations, but I'm also interested in "doing strong" or fully enacting that potential to its very limit.  The mental, physical, and emotional, harmonizing and complete engagement that comes from lifting something (relatively) very heavy is, quite frankly, beautiful, almost sublime.  Every nerve, every, strand of muscle, every bit of attention is forced to pay attention, because it's so  much damn weight; at the edges is always a bit of panic, because something in your brain is saying "ahhh, you could die!"  When I fail, it is epic, I know that everything I have is trying, and it simply won't happen.  While disappointing, I absolutely know I gave everything. 
Thinking about it, that is what "doing strong" is for me, giving everything to a moment, a single powerful bit of time full of panic, exhilaration, and clarity.  

Below is our upper body day workout for June 21 followed by leg day

Warm ups:
20 arm swings
20 Marmot/20 Pancho scapular push ups

Pull ups:
Marmot: 20; 6; 10 (I used my legs too much here, I need to work on that)
Pancho: 5; -; 1 held 10 secs (new grip)

Bench Press:
Marmot: 135x5; 155x5; 165x5
Pancho: 65x5; 75x5; 80x4

DB Row:
Marmot:  50x15; 50x15; 50x15
Pancho: 25x15; 25x15; 25x15

Knee Lift: (alternating with DB Row):
Marmot: 25; 30; 30
Pancho: 15; 15; 15

Clean and Jerk:
Marmot: 50x5; 50x5; 50x5;
Pancho: 50x5; 50x5; 50x3

Leg day: Jun 22
Pancho was feeling a little under the weather this day, but she work super hard.  She's getting back into the grove of things


Marmot:
Warm up: 15 toe-touch squats, 20 spiderman lunges

Dead lift:
135lbs x 5; 225lbs x 3; 315lbs x 1; 325lbs x 1 (over twice body weight)

Squat:
45lbs x 5; 205lbs x 5, 225lbs x 3; 225lbs x 2


Front squat: 
85lbs x 5; 95 x 5; 105 x 5


Static holds 380 lbs 15 sec/20 box jumps; 380 lbs 10 sec/20 box jumps; 380 lbs 7 sec/20 box jumps

Pancho:
Warm up: 15 toe-touch squats

Dead lift:
135lbs x 5; 155 x 1; 175 x 1; 185 x 0

Squat:
45 x 5; 105 x 5; 115 x 4; 95 x 5

Front squat: 
45lbs x 5; 45lbs x 5; 45lbs x 5 (too much sweat)

Power Cleans/Hang Clean--trial runs (figuring out form).