So I had a great PR day on Saturday. I completed five ladders of five with the 24 kg kettlebell, after only being able to do 3 ladders of 3 just four weeks ago. My body has been making dramatic progress and I couldn't be happier.

Then a Mr. Philip Davis had to come along and put up a video of him completing 202 snatches with the 32 kg, and all of a sudden my new focus became the snatch side of ROP. On Sunday night I thought, "Well, since I'm doing so well and breezed through the ladder side, the snatch side should be no problem. I'll do it tomorrow." There's mistake number 1. Monday was supposed to be a 50% day. A take-it-easy day. But if Mr. Davis can make it through with the 32, surely I can do the 24, right? Two days after completing the ROOP ladder challenge (followed by a heavy swing session for 10 minutes), right?

If you still don't know where all the foreshadowing is leading, you are probably a bigger idiot than I was this morning. I was doing 10/10 snatches on the minute, which gave me a 15 second rest. Going along until minute six when I start seeing stars and coughing. So instead of stopping, like a wise person would do, I just lowered to 5/5. So I got 150.

Not bad, but not great. And here's where I plunge off the cliff of stupid: because I missed my goal, I thought, "Well, I guess I'll just go ahead and do what I was supposed to do for my ladders today." And I thought, "Yeah, and my rest periods were too long on Saturday, so I should probably shorten those, too." So I went from four minutes of rest between down to two.

I got through four ladders and realized that Pavel's advice to do presses BEFORE swings/snatches is a GREAT idea, and that having a test day TWO DAYS after a test day is a BAD IDEA.

I'm stiff and I feel like I just played two hours of no-pads tackle football.

So, kids, listen to Pavel and STAY ANCHORED TO THE APPROVED PARTY PROGRAM!